Ready to take centre stage

THE COUNTDOWN is on to the 2025 Limestone Coast Symphony Orchestra annual performance with a 2pm matinee event at Mount Gambier’s Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre at 2pm.

The orchestra will also be joined by the Limestone Coast Symphonic Chorus, who perform under the directorship of Meg Tucker.

The 2025 program includes plenty of works the orchestra has never performed, including music from Strauss, Handel, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Villoldo and Cundy. And as the orchestra always does, it throws in some guest artists and special performances.

Guest soprano Leah Oswin looms as a highlight, while the Limestone Coast Symphony Orchestra concert master Cathy Foster will also feature as guest artist on violin, while there will be a magical flute trio performance including Penny Marshall, Kinta Wilson and Lauren Smith.

That flute trip is bringing to life a work by David Cundy – a locally based composer who has provided his original works for the orchestra over the journey and this year it is the flute composition ‘Canadian Folk Songs’.

The orchestra continues to attract musicians across the demographic with high school students right through to veterans who have been performing for decades.

The orchestra has been rehearsing weekly since the start of May.

TICKETS – Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre box office, (08) 87 23 8700 or online at www.countryarts.org.au or follow the link in www.lcso.org.au Box office hours for phone and counter sales are Wed, Thurs and Fri, 12.30-4.00pm Also 1 hour prior to the concert. (Box office is closed on Monday & Tuesday) Transaction fees apply: $2.50 online, $3.50 phone and counter sales