The Hanover Band

Founded by Caroline Brown in 1980, The Hanover Band has an international reputation for the excellence of its performances and recordings of 18th and 19th century music; its players are some of the best in their field. The orchestra performs, records and undertakes education work regularly in the UK. It has toured throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico and Beijing, appearing at prestigious festivals and in venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms) London; Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New York.

The Hanover Band Chorus regularly works with The Band and is composed of leading choral specialists who are actively working in the early music world.

The Hanover Band is committed to education and has undertaken extensive work with schools, colleges, youth orchestras and universities. To celebrate the Battle of Waterloo 1815, Band members coached over 250 young players from Brighton, West Sussex, Chichester, Hampshire, Eltham and Enfield to play Beethoven`s Battle Symphony. They performed at St Pancras Station, London together with the full Hanover Band, to mark the anniversary.

During lockdown, The Hanover Band was the only UK orchestra recording. Lockdown coincided with the 250^th anniversary of Beethoven`s birth and The Band recorded all nine Beethoven Symphonies from Stationer`s Hall in The City of London, broadcast on You Tube to an audience of 72,000 people.

The orchestra has an impressive discography of over 200 commercial CDs including an award-winning Beethoven cycle (Nimbus, Goodman/Huggett and, most recently, J S Bach’s Harpsichord Concertos (Signum, Arthur).

The Hanover Band is delighted to be joining Twickenham Choral for tonight’s performance.