Welcome to our website. Here you’ll find information about our forthcoming concerts, how to get in touch, where we rehearse and how you can become a member.
Since the orchestra was formed in 1982, we have gone from strength to strength. We pride ourselves as being a friendly, fully inclusive orchestra welcoming members from all walks of life, of all ages. Several of our members have been with the Orchestra for more than 30 years! Younger players often come and go, joining from school, leaving when they enter higher education, but rejoining us as guests or full time players when they return to the area.
We play a range of music centred around three major concerts a year and an open rehearsal. The music we play covers everything from Baroque, classical, and romantic era, concertos and symphonies, to popular show pieces, film music and brand new contemporary music.
We regularly perform with other musicians and musical groups and proceeds from our concerts are often donated to local charities.
We are well known as being a fun, friendly orchestra, welcoming members of any age. If you’d like to join, please see our Join us page.
Join us for a Christmas celebration – a matinée concert for all the family
Royal Wootton Bassett Orchestra are holding their popular Christmas Concert on Sunday December 8th at 4pm in St. Bartholomew’s and All Saints Church, Royal Wootton Bassett. This year we will be joined by local choir, Baker’s Dozen.The concert includes a mixture of Christmas classical, popular and traditional music and features a special musical narration of T’was the night before Christmas.
Mulled wine and mince pies will be served at the end of the concert. Tickets are £10 for adults (under 16’s free) and are available through our website: http://www.rwbo.org.uk/
Baker’s Dozen is a friendly group of local singers from Royal Wootton Bassett and the surrounding area who love performing choral music spanning the centuries, including early polyphonic works, traditional folk and contemporary pieces.
RWB Orchestra was founded in 1982 and is now one of the longest established amateur orchestras in the area. We perform three concerts a year and a charity concert.
Looking ahead the orchestra will be performing an exciting programme entitled A Tale of 2 cities with music from Vienna and Berlin and a R.Strauss horn concerto with soloist in Malmesbury Abbey on March 15, 2025.