Wirksworth Community Orchestra

Wirksworth Community Orchestra Wirksworth Community Orchestra is an amateur orchestra rehearsing fortnightly in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Come and join us!

We play a varied range of music, perform once or twice a year in our local area, and welcome new players.

No rehearsal this week (half term) so here’s a few shots of our last outing - Handel’s mighty Messiah, performed last Ch...
28/05/2026

No rehearsal this week (half term) so here’s a few shots of our last outing - Handel’s mighty Messiah, performed last Christmas with mixed choirs from Wirksworth and Chesterfield. Absolute blinder of a night.

If you’re from the Wirksworth area (or further afield), play an orchestral instrument* to Grade 5 (ish) standard and fancy trying us out, get in touch and come along to a rehearsal or two. We always welcome new players!

*currently particularly seeking violins, violas, trombones and tubas.

Rehearsal last night - just one of the pieces we’ll be playing at our concert in July, at The Link Centre AshbourneWe h...
22/05/2026

Rehearsal last night - just one of the pieces we’ll be playing at our concert in July, at The Link Centre Ashbourne
We hope they’ll thank us for the music… 😬

Delighted to share details of our summer concert, at the fantastic Link Centre in Ashbourne on Sunday 12 July. We’re reh...
13/05/2026

Delighted to share details of our summer concert, at the fantastic Link Centre in Ashbourne on Sunday 12 July. We’re rehearsing hard, can’t wait to share it all with you!

Come along and enjoy an afternoon of pop classics, iconic film scores - and a very famous picnic… 🧸

Tickets at the following link:
www.ashbournelink.org.uk/whats-on/
See you there!

Thursday 8 January 2026: due to weather warnings across Derbyshire and the expected snowfall and high winds brought by S...
08/01/2026

Thursday 8 January 2026: due to weather warnings across Derbyshire and the expected snowfall and high winds brought by Storm Goretti, we have decided to cancel tonight’s rehearsal.
Stay safe and warm, everyone - see you next week.



Picture of Wirksworth in the snow, by the mighty Phil Richards . Creative Commons licence via Flickr.

We had such an amazing time performing Handel’s mighty Messiah a couple of weeks ago. The soloists were amazing, our fri...
03/12/2025

We had such an amazing time performing Handel’s mighty Messiah a couple of weeks ago. The soloists were amazing, our friends in Wirksworth Community Choir and Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society were brilliant, and St John’s Church in Walton, Chesterfield was warm, welcoming and a grand venue.

We worked hard all day, and then played and sang our hearts out in the evening - if you joined us in the audience, we hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did.

Photos by Stephen Connor Sports Photography

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The Maltings, Street Mary's Gate
Wirksworth
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