The GCO is always on the look-out for new players. We currently have vacancies for cellos and double basses. Details on how to join the orchestra can be found by clicking the link below.
Details have now been released on our NEW Support the GCO programme! Click on the button below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!

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The  The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra is a charity registered in Scotland No SC022256 The Orchestra is affiliated to Making Music Scotland - Supporting and Championing Voluntary Music
The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra is an amateur orchestra based in Glasgow, and has been making music here for over 50 years. We give 3 main concerts each year, usually in March, May and November. You can find out lots more about the orchestra and its music in the pages of this web-site. Hopefully, you will be encouraged to come along to a concert, or if you are a musician, you may be interested in joining us. We invite you to browse through the site, and if you need more information, there is a Contacts Page so that you can get in touch.
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Rehearsal Update

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Brilliant performance by the GCO at the Coats Choral concert in Paisley Abbey on Sunday night. Very appreciative audience and choir, with many plaudits for our soloists. Well done! Tuesday is our next normal rehearsal night for our summer concert, while Thursday (26/3) brings an additional rehearsal for the Greenock Philharmonic Choir concert. This will start at 7.30pm as usual in Sherbrooke, with their conductor Nick Wilks. The Greenock concert itself is on SATURDAY 28 March in Greenock Town Hall. rehearsal times will be confirmed on Thursday, but please note the concert itself starts at 7.00pm.

Rehearsal Schedule
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GCO on the Road !

On Saturday 28 March, we travel down to Greenock for our annual concert with the Greenock Philharmonic Choir. This year, the choir will be performing Vivaldi’s Gloria and Benjamin Britten’s St Nicholas. This latter work includes the Voices of Inverclyde Senior Schools and St Mary’s Primary School.
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Summer Concert

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Our final concert for the 2025-26 season sees the return of one of our popular past soloists in the shape of Iona McDonald, this time with her partner Jonathan Fong, to play the formidable Brahms Double concerto for violin and cello. Bookending this momentous work are two Beethoven favourites, the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and the mighty Eroica Symphony A concert not be missed! We are back to our traditional concert venue of Sherbrooke Mosspark Church for this concert, which takes place on Sunday 31 May at 7.30pm. Tickets are now available from our ticketing agent Trybooking. Simply click on the button below to go to their web site.
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The GCO is always on the look-out for new players. We currently have vacancies for cellos and double basses. Details on how to join the orchestra can be found by clicking the link below.
Details have now been released on our NEW Support the GCO programme! Click on the button below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!
Welcome !
Join the GCO !   Support the GCO !  
Glasgow Chamber Orchestra
The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra is an amateur orchestra based in Glasgow, and has been making music here for over 50 years. We give 3 main concerts each year, usually in March, May and November. You can find out lots more about the orchestra and its music in the pages of this web-site. Hopefully, you will be encouraged to come along to a concert, or if you are a musician, you may be interested in joining us. We invite you to browse through the site, and if you need more information, there is a Contacts Page so that you can get in touch.
Photo courtesy of Neil Stuchbury (@what_stuch_saw)
Brilliant performance by the GCO at the Coats Choral concert in Paisley Abbey on Sunday night. Very appreciative audience and choir, with many plaudits for our soloists. Well done! Tuesday is our next normal rehearsal night for our summer concert, while Thursday (26/3) brings an additional rehearsal for the Greenock Philharmonic Choir concert. This will start at 7.30pm as usual in Sherbrooke, with their conductor Nick Wilks. The Greenock concert itself is on SATURDAY 28 March in Greenock Town Hall. rehearsal times will be confirmed on Thursday, but please note the concert itself starts at 7.00pm.

Rehearsal Update

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Follow the GCO on Facebook and Instagram !
The GCO is a charity registered in Scotland No SC022256
Concert Sponsored by
On Saturday 28 March, we travel down to Greenock for our annual concert with the Greenock Philharmonic Choir. This year, the choir will be performing Vivaldi’s Gloria and Benjamin Britten’s St Nicholas. This latter work includes the Voices of Inverclyde Senior Schools and St Mary’s Primary School.
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GCO on the Road

Summer Concert

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Our final concert for the 2025-26 season sees the return of one of our popular past soloists in the shape of Iona McDonald, this time with her partner Jonathan Fong, to play the formidable Brahms Double concerto for violin and cello. Bookending this momentous work are two Beethoven favourites, the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and the mighty Eroica Symphony A concert not be missed! We are back to our traditional concert venue of Sherbrooke Mosspark Church for this concert, which takes place on Sunday 31 May at 7.30pm. Tickets are now available from our ticketing agent Trybooking. Simply click on the button below to go to their web site.
Trybooking
Glasgow Chamber Orchestra