Royal Wootton Bassett Orchestra are returning to Malmesbury Abbey for their Spring Concert – A Tale of Two cities: Music from Vienna and Berlin on March 15 th at 7.30pm The programme will feature Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Brahms Hungarian Dance No 5, the Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 together with music by Beethoven. As with all our concerts, we will be playing music by a female composer and opening our concert with
Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C.
Soloist – Alexander Harris is a London based freelance horn player, currently on trial as 4th Horn of the English National Ballet Philharmonic. He also plays as a guest horn player with the BBC Symphony, Philharmonic, and National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed at the BBC Proms and Helsinki Festival as Principal Horn, and has toured European concert halls in countries including Germany, Switzerland and Croatia.
As a composer and arranger, Alexander has received commissions from the Royal College of Music and Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has been Principal Horn. He has also worked on productions for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
Having attended Royal Wootton Bassett Academy for seven years, Alexander went on to study at the RCM Junior Department, receiving the Anthony Gray Horn Prize in 2019. He was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Hons) with First Class from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, receiving the Lord Mayor’s Prize in 2023, and is currently a Musicians’ Company Lambert Scholar at the Royal College of Music, completing his Masters of Performance.