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The Hanover Band in Residence

The Hanover Band are resident orchestra at the following:


STATIONERS’ HALL, CITY OF LONDON

We are delighted to be resident orchestra at Stationers’ Hall, bringing culture to the heart of The City of London, since 2008. In this unique and fittingly historic setting, the orchestra performs regularly, with projects involving school workshops and seasonal concerts.


UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX

The Hanover Band was appointed ‘Orchestra in Residence’ at the University of Chichester in 2019, formalising its ongoing educational work with the University.

As part of the Beethoven 250 celebrations, The Hanover Band and the University of Chichester announced a ground-breaking module in historic performance delivered by The Band as part of the University’s BA(Hons)/BMus Music degrees.


ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, ARUNDEL, WEST SUSSEX

The orchestra is resident at St Nicholas’ Church, Arundel in the heart of West Sussex, a centre of music and culture.

The Hanover Band first performed in Arundel in 1986 and Arundel has been their home for the last ten years. The Band is proud to play a part in this town’s cultural heritage, both during the Arundel Festival and throughout the year at different events.


The Hanover Band

HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790’s.

BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
‘An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the ’24 violins’ of Louis XIV were called ‘la grande bande’ to distinguish them from Lully’s ‘petits violons’, and Charles II’s similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.

THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.

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