Review: TPS May 2025 Concert

The audience was eagerly looking forward to a lively programme of some well-known classics for a warm early-summer evening. It is always a delight to enjoy music of this calibre and the Tonbridge Philharmonic never disappoints. The more concerts I attend the more I...

Review: TPS April 2025 Concert

This was the first time I have had the pleasure of hearing the Tonbridge Philharmonic orchestra and choir perform under Conductor Olivia Tait’s hugely talented hands, and I was not disappointed. The orchestra and choir were on top form, providing us with a hugely...

Review: TPS February 2025 Concert

This was the first concert for the Tonbridge Philharmonic Orchestra under their interim musical director Oliver Cope, in the position while current incumbent Naomi Butcher is on maternity leave. On this evidence he has quickly built a rapport with the orchestra,...

Review: TPS November 2024 Concert

REQUIEM – GABRIEL FAURE  The elegant setting of The Chapel of St Augustine at Tonbridge School was the venue for the first concert of the season. Sadly, the seats were not all taken, perhaps the music of Michael Tippett is less familiar to audiences, although Fauré’s...

Tony Gould – TPS Vice President obituary

Robin Morrish, TPS President, writes: Tony Gould was a man of exceptional integrity, both as a person and a musician. On my arrival in Tonbridge in 1970 he straightway invited me to lead the Tonbridge Philharmonic Orchestra, which thus began my long-lasting...
A Child of our Time Workshop – October 12th 2024

A Child of our Time Workshop – October 12th 2024

  This will be on Saturday, 12th October 2024 from 2.00 to 6.00 pm at  St Saviours’s Church, Tonbridge. Our conductor will be Naomi Butcher, who has been resident at Tonbridge Philharmonic Society since September 2021 and has already led the choir and...