This Could be the Best FCO Concert of the Year!

Book quickly for 7 December. Seats won’t last!

In collaboration with Rotary Attadale, Fremantle Chamber Orchestra presents a Festive Season Concert to help the homeless.

***Hans Hug, Director, Fremantle Chamber Orchestra***

FCO Director, Hans Hug explains that all profits from the concert ‘go towards the cause’. Rotary Attadale and the Sponsors mentioned in the flyer that follows have ensured these charities will substantially benefit from the concerts profits: St Pats (starter kits to help people just entering housing); PortCare (to assist with buying a new delivery van); New Mobile Dental Van Service; and other Rotary projects in the area.

HANS’ NOTES ON THE CONCERT

Mozart’s “Salzburg Symphony” K136 features a brilliant and energetic opening, a warm and elegant slow movement, and a spirited finale. It is the perfect festive opener.

Venetian Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto is a Baroque masterpiece with an expressive Adagio and energetic outer movements featuring oboist Niamh Dell – about whom you see more below – in her soloist debut with FCO.

Niamh Dell

Niamh Dell will also play the magic Adagio from Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto 2.

Giovanni Bottesini, the “Paganini of the Double Bass” was a virtuoso supreme who astonished with effects previously unimaginable. The amazing John Keene, who will also conduct, is soloist in Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto 2, a romantic master piece.

John Keene

The absolutely gorgeous Meditation for violin from Thaïs by Jules Massenet is “florid, tender, sorrowful, dramatic, and ultimately divine” featuring fabulous violinist Rebecca Glorie who has played with FCO since its inaugural concert in 2005.

Rebecca Glorie

Britten’s powerful Sarabande from his Simple Symphony and Brahm’s fiery Hungarian Dance 5 complement the program beautifully.

This fundraiser for the homeless will be a brilliant end to FCO’s 20th anniversary celebrations!

MORE ABOUT NIAMH DELL

Niamh is an oboist who has recently returned to Perth after several years abroad. She completed her Bachelor’s at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before coming back to Perth for an honours year at the University of Western Australia, graduating with first class honours and several university prizes.

She then undertook her Masters with Christian Hommel at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, followed by a PhD in solo contemporary oboe performance at the University of York in the UK.

Niamh is a member of the Strasbourg-based new music collective lovemusic, 2025 joint winners of the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize, and has performed with them and with other ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in a range of festivals and venues across Australia, the UK, and Europe.

Welcome to Freo, Niamh!

DETAILS

Where and When: 7 December 2025 at 3pm at Fremantle Town Hall

How to book: Trybooking

Or easier still, call Natalie on 0438 933 250

Cost: Adult: $50, concession: $40 under 18: $20