Scroll down for this season's concert dates
Oadby and Wigston
Civic Orchestra
Conductor: Keith Smith
About the Orchestra
The Civic Orchestra was founded in 1966 to provide a series of instrumental concerts each season within the community. Since its inception it has been under the musical direction and conductorship of Keith Smith. In addition to a wide range of ‘Classical’ music the programmes for each season also include light-hearted, popular events, such as a ‘Summer Prom’ and the annual ‘New Year Viennese Night’. For many years the orchestra has followed a policy of inviting soloists from leading colleges of music. These young instrumentalists and singers have relished the opportunity to perform with an orchestra, and several of them have progressed to have an international career. These have included Dame Sally Matthews - soprano, John Mills – violinist – and the cellist David Cohen. The Civic Orchestra has often performed compositions by Leicestershire composers, and several works have been written specially for the ensemble. These composers have included Terence Dwyer and Geoffrey Tomlinson.
2025 Concerts
Shuwei Zuo
Future concert dates:
March 29th 2025 at 7.30pm
Conductor - Keith Smith
Violin Soloist - Shuwei ZuoProgramme includes:
Violin Concerto in A K219 - Mozart
Overture 'The Caliph of Bagdad' - Boieldieu
Symphony No. 99 in Eb - HaydnCross St. Methodist Church
Wigston Magna
£12.00, with concessions.
School students free.
Tickets available at the door.We will be delighted to welcome the Chinese violinist Shuwei Zuo who is currently playing with the Southbank Sinfonia in London. She began to play at the age of five and attended a specialist music school. She was a member of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra and toured in Taiwan in 2012. From 2014 Shuwei studied at the Central Conservatory of Music with Jia Zhang, Liwei Tan and Wei Zue. That same year, she participated in the Summit Festival in New York, being highly commended by the legendary violinist Aaron Rosand, from whom she received some lessons.
In 2018 Shuwei came to the UK to take a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music and received excellent reviews for her performances, likewise with her trio she won the Hummingbird Chamber-music Competition and was then invited to give chamber concerts at Peking University and in many other cities.
In the UK Shuwei greatly enjoys her life as an orchestral player but also continues solo and chamber music performances, giving concerts all over the country. She has already worked with some of the world’s top conductors and orchestras including at the Royal Opera House and with the Britten Symphonia, Manchester Camerata and the orchestra of St Martin in the Fields. She received a scholarship to study for the Artist Diploma at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire after having already graduated with distinction at the Royal Northern College of Music.
We look forward to her performance of Mozart's best known Violin Concerto.
Contact Us
To contact us please complete and submit the form below.
The Civic Orchestra was founded in 1966 to provide a series of instrumental concerts each season within the community.
© 2025 Oadby and Wigston Civic Orchestra. All rights reserved.