Welcome

The City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (CCSO), formerly known as the Cambridge String Players, performs about six orchestral concerts a year, usually at the University Concert Hall in West Road, Cambridge. The repertoire is based on music from the 18th Century to the present day, with occasional works for strings only and others for winds and percussion.

Comments from recent audience members include: “the concert was fabulous… many thanks for the wonderful music”; “Leon’s conducting was masterly”; “the concert was absolutely brilliant” and “my daughter is inspired to do her clarinet practice!”

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Next Concert

11 February 2012, 7.30
Violincello: Guy Johnston
Horn: Anna Douglass
Tenor: Stuart Jackson

Wagner, Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations
Britten, Serenade for tenor, horn & strings
Schumann, Symphony no 3 (Rhenish)
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Tickets can now be purchased:

- online from ADC Theatre Ticketing
- by phone (01223 300085 – 12.30-7.00pm Tues, Fri & Sat, 3.00-7.00pm Wed & Thurs)
- in person from ADC Box Office, Park St, Cambridge, CB5 8AS

Ticket prices range from £5 to £18.

For details of all upcoming concerts click here.

History of CCSO


The City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra started life in 1973 as the Harston String Orchestra. Later, as a result of a change in venue, it became the Barton String Orchestra. In 2000 Leon Lovett took over as conductor and shortly afterwards, the orchestra changed its name to the Cambridge String Players. Under his baton, the orchestra has appeared regularly in West Road Concert Hall and in other venues around Cambridge. In addition to playing works for strings, the orchestra increasingly invited wind players to join it to perform works from the symphonic repertoire. Recognising this change of emphasis, the musicians decided that the orchestra needed a new name and in September 2008, it became the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra.