Chi-chi Nwanoku’s Russian Video Tour Diary
Fri 11 Jan 2013
Our Principal Double Bassist, Chi-Chi Nwanoku MBE, took some footage when our Messiah Tour took us all the way to Moscow, Russia, for our first ever performance there.
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Messiah on tour
Tue 18 Dec 2012
The Orchestra are currently on a festive tour- taking Handel’s Messiah to Las Palmas, Alicante and Moscow with director and OAE Principal Keyboard player, Robert Howarth.
Read MoreNot all tours are the same…
Mon 3 Dec 2012
Not all tours are the same… …so we found out when OAE violinist Susie Carpenter-Jacobs went behind the scenes for us back in May, when we took our Bostridge sings Bach concert on tour to Warsaw, Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Innsbruck. Her video postcard gives a snapshot of what our musicians get up to whilst away…
Read MoreThe Tea Challenge (aka cake-related post #3567)
Fri 22 Jun 2012
On our recent tour with Sir Simon Rattle, three brave members of the OAE set themselves a tough challenge. They would aim to have tea and cake in every city of the tour. Here’s how Tanya (harp), Jane (flute) and Rebecca (bassoon) got on…
Read MoreOn the road with the OAE, Sir Simon Rattle and the Labèque Sisters
Thu 31 May 2012
As we’re about to hit the road with Sir Simon again we thought it was a good time to post this video from last year’s tour with him, when we visited Luxembourg, Paris, Dublin and of course, London.
Read MoreRattle tour – Megan's pics
Mon 4 Jul 2011
OAE Projects Manager Megan Russell is a keen photographer and took some great pictures from the Luxembourg and Paris legs of the tour – here are a selection:
Read MoreTo Paris with the OAE: a video diary
Thu 31 Mar 2011
Here’s a little video diary from our trip to Paris back in January, when we took a supersized OAE there for a concert of Wagner, Liszt and Mahler with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly. We armed Communications Director William Norris with a video camera, and here are the results:
Read MoreNetty's tour diary. Part 2 (singing-bowls, lost keys and officious ladies)
Fri 25 Mar 2011
Viola player Annette Isserliss concludes her US tour diary: Thurs 17th Awoke wondering how on earth the OAE homeward travellers (the players who weren’t staying on for the Heiner Goebbel’s concert) had managed to rouse themselves to leave at 6.00 am! Took the subway (with viola in tow) to meet cousin Judy in Chelsea, and…
Read MoreNetty's tour diary. Part 1 (CPE Bach, Birthdays and Viagra)
Mon 21 Mar 2011
Viola player Annette (known to many in the OAE as ‘Netty’) Isserlis made a diary of our recent tour to the US. Here’s days 1-3 with the rest following tomrorow. We hope to post some pics up soon too… A few additions from the blog editor in the brackets! Mon Mar 14 Scene: Carluccio’s, outside…
Read MoreParisien Pictures
Thu 3 Feb 2011
Projects Manager Megan Russell got snapping when we were in Paris with Vladimir Jurowski and our Symphonic Enlightenment programme a couple of weeks ago:
Read MoreCoaches, motorways and more motorways…
Thu 23 Dec 2010
Projects Director Ceri Jones took a video camera with her on our most recent tour to France and Spain. Here’s the (condensed) video diary:
Read MoreDie Entfuhrung aus dem Serail – Concerts in France, Spain and London. A Summary in Numbers
Thu 25 Nov 2010
1 Conductor, Opera 2 Types of currency 3 Flights, Acts, narrators, countries, languages (4, if you include the Catalan translation in the Valencia programme) 4 Concert halls (5 if you include a rehearsal in the RFH), hotels 5 Singers, Cities visited 6 Pieces of outsized luggage 7 hours from Toulouse to Tarragona (including lunch and…
Read More“I can’t speak French”
Mon 7 Jun 2010
Yes, the words of a Girls Aloud song and also something I re-discovered on our trip to Poissy last week. We were in Poissy for a concert performance of Cosi fan Tutte, under the baton of James Gaffigan. I kind of knew already that my French wasn’t entirely up to scratch and had been palming…
Read MoreTwin cities: Ceri sums up
Mon 2 Feb 2009
Sorry to have cut short the end of my St Paul story. I’ve now been back a week and a half and it’s taken me this long to get over the jet lag. (Sorry I promised my colleagues at the end of last week that I would moan about jet lag no longer, but here…
Read MoreThe twin cities, day 2
Fri 16 Jan 2009
We had our first Goebbels rehearsal yesterday evening. Here is the orchestra rehearsing on the vast stage at the Ordway Center. It seems Americans do everything on a much vaster scale than us Brits. Not only breakfast (which today included muffins, bagels, waffles, fruit, omelette, French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, yoghurt, cereal, coffee, fruit juice…..) but…
Read MoreJourney to the twin cities
Thu 15 Jan 2009
Yesterday was a day of firsts for me. First long haul plane journey, first time experiencing jet lag, first trip out of Europe, first trip to the USA, first Visa, first time visiting a place where it’s normal for the temperature to be less than 0 degrees! So as you can imagine I was quite…
Read MoreA memorable moment, for the wrong reasons…
Tue 13 Jan 2009
As mentioned in our top moments post below, Chi-chi Nwanoku had a memorable, if rather stressfull moment from 2008… ‘As far as OAE stories go I think the best I can offer was the time neither my bass or stool arrived at Schipol airport, Amsterdam, for a concert the same evening at the Concertgebouw as…
Read MoreOn tour with Sir Simon: Birmingham
Sun 21 Dec 2008
On arrival in Birmingham we were greeted by a lively and colourful German Christmas Market, scenting the air with wurst and glühwein as we made our way to Symphony Hall. Pre-rehearsal saw a flurry of Christmas cards exchanged: the result of an afternoon and evening at home! Simon must have felt himself in a time-warp…
Read MoreSpain in Pictures
Fri 19 Dec 2008
Here’s a photogallery from our 2 days in Spain, thanks to Megan for being our resident paparazzi! Yesterday the OAE flew back to the UK for a days break and today they are off to Birmingham for a concert in the fabulous acoustic of Symphony Hall. Then tomorrow they fly to Germany for the final…
Read MoreOn tour with Sir Simon: Spain
Thu 18 Dec 2008
So after three chilly days in Vienna, we set sail for sunnier climes, aboard our own chartered Airbus. As there were far more seats than people we were able to spread out and relax on the flight; however, our arrival at Madrid airport was somewhat chaotic as we were delivered to the wrong terminal by the shuttle…
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