The Lake Macquarie Philharmonic Orchestra
The Lake Macquarie Philharmonic Orchestra is a professional regional orchestra dedicated to performing orchestral and operatic repertoire. It performs concerts regularly and accompanies the main productions of Opera Hunter.
Formed in 2000, the orchestra played its first concert at the then Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, now the Warners Bay Theater. The conductor was David Banney and a special guest was famous Australian composer Ross Edwards.
Over the following years, it has played many concerts. Conductors have been John Kellaway, Rod Barnes, Wilfred Lehmann OAM and Christopher Bearman OAM. The Warners Bay Theatre remains the orchestra’s home.
Repertoire of the orchestra has always been very wide ranging including symphonies of Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, major works of Elgar, Rossini, Wagner, Verdi , Bizet, Strauss and much more.
Thanks to all our Sponsors
Newcastle Music Teachers association
Federated Music Clubs of Australia
The prosperity and development of the Lake Macquarie Music Society, the Lake Macquarie Philharmonic Orchestra and our annual Eisteddfods have, in no small part, been assisted by the generous contributions from all our sponsors which we thank individually below.
- LAKE MACQUARIE CITY COUNCIL
- JOAN LAMBERT
- MARJORY LAMBERT ESTATE
- LIONS CLUB OF WARNERS BAY
- THE HAWKINS FAMILY
- NEWCASTLE MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
- MICHAEL SAUNDERS
- FEDERATED MUSIC CLUBS OF AUSTRALIA
- PHILIP SKETCHLEY OAM
- SPEECH & DRAMA ASSOCIATION OF NSW
- DR JENNIFER BARNES
- VOCAL COMPASS ( Alex Sefton & Kyla Allan)
- NEWCASTLE THEATRE COMPANY
- JOHN & LIBBY DICKESON
- ANNETTE PHILLIS
- GWENDA JONES
- DON MITCHELL
- CHRIS & MERI BIRD
- BERNARD & DORIS GRIFFIN
- HOWARD & DIANA BRIDGMAN
- PAM CORKE & MERT LEEMBRUGGEN
- MICHAEL NOLAN
- ROSEMARY HUDSON
- LUBA TOTOEVA
- VINA CHUBB
- NANCE ADAMS OAM ESTATE
The Orchestra
