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Who is Borders Chamber Orchestra?

 

A new chamber orchestra, created in July 2023, to enable experienced amateur and semi-professional musicians, from the Scottish Borders, Lothian and Northumberland to play classical orchestral music together in the beautiful Borders.

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OUR CONCERTS

 

We aim to perform 3 or 4 concerts each year and these will normally take place in Melrose Parish Church. For concerts that we run ourselves, entry is ticketed, adults £10, 18 and under free. Concert programmes and refreshments during the interval are included in the ticket price. We are a not-for-profit organisation raising money at our concerts for charities with local connections.

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Upcoming Events

 
  • Winter Concert 2026

    Winter Concert 2026

    7:00pm, Sat, 14 Feb 2026
    Winter Concert Conductor: Robert Dick Leader: Cath Cormie Soloist: Jill Morton - Piano PROGRAMME Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 Interval Beethoven: Symphony No.5 more

  • Summer Concert 2026

    7:00pm, Sat, 27 Jun 2026
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  • Autumn Concert

    Autumn Concert

    Wed, 29 Oct 2025
    Saturday 8th November at 7pm Melrose Parish Church Tickets: Adults £10, Under 18's free. Click here to purchase Conductor: Alison Rushworth Leader: Cath Cormie Soloist: Mike Hardy - Trumpet PROGRAMME ... more
  • Mike Hardy

    Mike Hardy

    Wed, 29 Oct 2025
    Mike Hardy began playing the trumpet at the age of 7, having already begun playing the piano and recorder aged 6 at Lowerplace Primary School in his home town of ... more
  • Lymphoma Action

    Lymphoma Action

    Wed, 29 Oct 2025
    Our Chosen Charity – Lymphoma Action UK Lymphoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK and Lymphoma Action UK make it their mission to support both those affected ... more
  • Donation Scottish Donkey Sanctuary

    Donation Scottish Donkey Sanctuary

    Sun, 6 Jul 2025
    The Borders Chamber Orchestra is pleased to have donated £161.11 to the Scottish Donkey Sanctuary following our concert on 28th June 2025. Our audience numbers were slightly below our usual, ... more

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DONATE TO OUR CHOSEN CHARITY

We are a not-for-profit organisation - all donations will be passed on to our current chosen charity. From February 2024 we introduced ticketing for our concerts at a cost of £10 per adult (18 or under free) which includes our programme booklet and tea, coffee and biscuits at the interval. The ticket fee is to cover our necessary expenses such as hire of the concert venue, public liability insurance, conductor's fee, publicity and programmes.
 
Each member of our committee and all our orchestral musicians give their time freely and are not paid any fee or expenses so any ticket income in excess of our necessary expenses, and all donations, are paid to the individual charity associated with that concert. Our previous chosen charities and our donations to them can be accessed in our Charities drop down menu. 

To make a donation click on the link below which will take you to our donation page on Sumup. We will inform everyone who has joined our mailing list of the sum raised for our chosen charity following our concert.

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