Eleven concerts…. Great music… with diverse musical themes ranging from Opera, the Classics and Shakespeare before finishing the summer in spectacular style with a traditional Last Night of the Proms. This summer you can enjoy the sights and sounds of the South Coast Symphonia as it plays to audiences at Titchfield Abbey, Fort Brockhurst and Titchfield Festival Theatre.

Kevin Fraser is Titchfield Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director and Chair of the Trustees:

“This year will be the best summer yet for our 40 strong professional orchestra. With our first ever  promenade season of music from South Coast Symphonia. The 2023 programme reflects the astonishing diversity of music that we all enjoy, including selections from the greatest classics, well known operas and beautiful harmonies from the world’s leading composers.”

Summer concert highlights

Friday 26 May is the opening Concert at the Abbey . Joined by the Festival Theatre Chorus and invited soloists, this will be a wonderful evening of Operatic favourites from Bizet to Sullivan and Delibes to Verdi. Soaring arias, grand marches and Toreadors await you in this night of wonderful music to open our Proms Season. All the World’s a Stage…the following evening (Saturday 27 May) you can experience the music inspired by William Shakespeare, who spent his early career teaching at the old grammar school house nearby to Titchfield Abbey. To finish the start of the Proms season, we are rolling out the red carpet for A Night at the Oscars on Sunday 28 May.

In July we will listen to superb music from both sides of the Atlantic. On 1 July, the South Coast Symphonia celebrates our friends from across the Pond with Stars & Stripes Forever. Enjoy everything American, with music from Souza to Gershwin and Copeland to Bernstein. Truly a night of stars and star spangled banners! Then on 29 July and 4 August we return home for two Best of British concerts, from the triumphal marches of Elgar to Holst’s Planets and traditional music from around the four nations that make up this United Kingdom.

In August and September, there will be range of different musical themes to suit various tastes, including Militaria (5 August) and On the Crest of the Wave (6 August) celebrating our military and naval connections in the atmospheric setting of Fort Brockhurst. The season in early September approaches its climax with a Classical Classics concert, A Night at the Musicals before the grand finale, the Last Night at The Proms.

Why not join us for a fabulous summer of musical concerts? Find out more on our website.