Cardiff Chamber Orchestra

WELCOME
We are the Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, an amateur orchestra based in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. We perform three concerts a year and play varied, challenging and exciting programmes.
Our next concert
Amplified
22 March 2026
Llandaff Cathedral
7:30 pm
Mendelssohn - Die Hebriden
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Oliver Manning, guitar)
McGregor-Graham - Emergence (world premiere)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Georgia Steel, Music Director
Oliver Manning, Soloist
Join the Cardiff Chamber Orchestra for a landmark concert celebrating disabled leadership and creativity at the heart of orchestral music and marking a series of important firsts. It connects the experiences of Joaquín Rodrigo, a blind composer, with Georgia Steel, a sight-impaired musician; this concert will be the first time Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez has been conducted by a sight-impaired musician. The performance also features home-grown Welsh talent in guitarist Oliver Manning and the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by disabled composer Charlotte McGregor-Graham, alongside music by historical composers who lived and worked with disabilities. Together, the programme reframes the orchestral canon through the lens of disabled excellence, past and present.
