An orchestra re-invented: Chromatica Orchestra’s new season with Emerging Conductor Fellowships for Charlotte Politi and Tess Jackson.

The Bath Festival Orchestra is reinventing itself as Chromatica Orchestra, and the new ensemble debuts at Battersea Arts Centre on Tuesday 8 October 2024. The ensemble focuses on gifted early-career musicians under the direction of emerging conductors and the 2024/25 season features two Emerging Conductor Fellowships for Charlotte Politi and Tess Jackson.

On 8 October, Charlotte Politi conducts a programme that includes Barber’s Violin Concerto with soloist Kristine Balanas, Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo with Georgian mezzo-soprano Natalia Kutateladze and music by Copland and Prokofiev. For Armistice Day, Tess Jackson conducts Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 with soloist Ben Goldscheider, plus Butterworth and Shostakovich at Cadogan Hall (11/11/2024).

Further ahead, Peter Manning, fouding artistic director, conducts Britten’s Les illuminations with tenor Robin Tritschler at Wilton’s Music Hall on 11 February 2025. And also in February 2025, Tess Jackson conducts Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals with a new narration, in an interactive, immersive performance for primary school children that will include Music in Secondary Schools’Academy Orchestra.

The Saint-Saens’ performance is several where school-age musicians from across the country will play side by side with the orchestra on the professional stage, and the orchestra is working with the David Ross Education Trust and Music in Secondary Schools Trust.

Full details from the orchestra’s website.