Soloists
Daniel Hibbert played Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto no 1 in E flat major in March 2025.
Liz Lock is the orchestra’s principal clarinettist. She played Richard Strauss’s Romanze with K3AO in June 2024.
Joshua Hugo Gustav von Bohlen is the leader of the orchestra. He played the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with K3AO in March 2024.
Julie Peat played Vivaldi’s D major Concerto and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei with K3AO in December 2023.
Lizzie Chilcott has been the orchestdra’s First Oboe since January 2018, performing the first movement of the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the orchestra at their May 2022 Awayday and subsequently invited to perform the whole work at the Spring 2023 concert.
Alicia Dine plays violin in the orchestra but flute is her first instrument. She played the Vivaldi Flute concerto in G minor La Notte with K3AO in December 2022.
Anthea Fry played the first movement of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in June 2017 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no 4 in March 2022. She is a regular member of the orchestra in which she plays the viola.
Peter Bullett is a member of the orchestra in which he plays cello. In 2013 Peter played Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor K491 and in 2019 Handel’s Organ Concerto in F major HWV 295 The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.
Clara Falkowska played Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E flat major with the orchestra in March 2019.
James Quilligan first sang with K3AO in Haydn’s Harmoniemesse in May 2013. He returned to sing with the orchestra in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols in December 2018.
Felix Stephens played Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo theme with the orchestra in June 2018.
Bryony Prior played Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 3 with the orchestra in March 2018.
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adeleine Easton
The orchestra was fortunate to have Maddy as leader from 2014 the end of 2018 when she moved back to Australia. She played with us as a soloist on three occasions: 2015 – Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, 2016 – Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, 2018 – Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
Pierre Frapier played the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saens with the orchestra in April 2017.
Helen Pierce played Weber’s Concertino in Eb Major, Op26 in our 2016 summer concert.
Peter Nall has appeared twice as a soloist with Kingston Third Age Orchestra: he played Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor (with the leader John Kitchen) at the orchestra’s inaugural concert in 2010, and came back in 2014 to play Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64.
Belén Barnus (soprano), Emily Kyte (mezzo soprano), Jorge Navarro-Colorado (tenor) and James Quilligan (bass), all students at or recent graduates of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, were the soloists in the orchestra’s performance in May 2013 of Haydn’s Mass in Bb major, Hob.XX:14 – Harmoniemesse.