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The City of Fremantle Symphony Orchestra is an amateur orchestra and one of Perth’s most vibrant community groups. The group originated in 1961 with the formation of the Melville Orchestral Society. In 1993 following an agreement with the City of Fremantle the orchestra took on its current name. The orchestra is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion and enjoyment of music in the cultural life of Perth. With a regular membership of over 60 musicians we present about 5 concerts each year including a subscription series of concerts at the Fremantle Town Hall and performances in other venues around Perth. In recent years the orchestra has toured to Albany, Busselton and Margaret River. The orchestra takes great pride in presenting orchestral music from the baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century periods at a high standard. We regularly work with prominent local conductors, soloists and composers. Highlights of recent years include Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 and major symphonic works by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Bruckner and Rachmaninov. In September 2006 the orchestra assembled more than 100 players for a full-scale performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
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	Join our mailing list and receive our newsletter FreoNotes. Email your name, address and phone number to Elaine Ledgerwood on email e.ledgerwood@ecu.edu.au We will add you to our mailing list and send you a copy of our newsletter FreoNotes prior to every concert.
> Contact us
For info about …		contact …
Concerts, tickets and season tickets		Michael Hodgkins Email: michael@fremantleorchestra.com.au Phone: 9220 4455 – business hours After hours: 0418 933 870
Joining the orchestra, hiring the orchestra		Jeremy Hall Email: orthoboe@iinet.net.au Phone: 9384 6671
Joining our mailing list and receive FreoNotes		Elaine Ledgerwood Email: e.ledgerwood@ecu.edu.au
All correspondence to		The Secretary City of Fremantle Symphony Orchestra Inc 19 Alderbury Street Floreat WA 6014
> Musical Director – David Pye
David Pye is one of WA’s most experienced musicians, working as a composer, percussionist and conductor for the past twenty-five years. As musical director of various organisations, his programming reflects a policy of encouraging local composers combined with a practical acknowledgement of the importance of audience and musicians’ enjoyment of their music-making. In 1983 David founded Nova Ensemble to perform the classical music of the twentieth century and has overseen the development of the group into Western Australia's leading contemporary music ensemble, commissioning, writing, performing and recording music primarily by local composers. In 2002 he formed pi to specifically focus on the use of strings, reeds and percussion in an improvisational context. In 1985 David was first invited to conduct for the West Australian Ballet Company, and in the following year joined the company as Resident Conductor. From 1988 to 1996, David was Musical Director of the West Australian Mandolin Orchestra. David conducted his first program with the Fremantle Symphony Orchestra in 1997, presenting the world premieres of his own Symphony no. 1 and also Fremantle Fanfare, a work commissioned by the orchestra from local composer, Robert Schulz. As a result of the success of this concert, David was appointed Musical Director of the FSO for 1998. Since then he has conducted many programs for the orchestra, highlights including symphonies by Mahler, Shostakovitch, Bruckner and Sibelius
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