The Penrith Symphony Orchestra, and guests, will perform their first outdoor concert at the Sydney International Regatta Centre on Sunday 31st August 2008. The concert is scheduled to start at 2pm and will run for approximately 90 minutes, including intermission.

The programme for Symphony at the Lakes is:

Conductor: George Ellis
Soloist Soprano: Penny Mills
Compere: Ken Healey

Rossini: William Tell Overture
Arias and Songs from Opera and Musical Theatre
Don Gilles: Symphony 5 1/2
Sculthorpe: Kakadu
Khachaturian: Gayana Suite No. 3
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

Tickets are on sale from the Venue (02 4730 0000). There are a maximum of 990 seats available. Seating will be allocated on a first-come-first served basis. For ticketing information please see the attached flyer. Unfortunately, the package deal combining lunch at the Regatta Kitchen and Bar with the concert has sold out. There is the opportunity to bring your own picnic lunch and have this at the Venue prior to the Concert.

The stage will be located in front of the grandstand with the competition lake as the back drop. The venue will open at 1200 for entry to the event. Lunch will be served from 1200 to 1400. The concert will start at 1400. The rest of the venue will be closed for casual recreation from 1200 until after the event has concluded.

For bookings or enquiries please Contact Us.

Click on the following link for directions on How to Get Here.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event please contact Michelle Whitmore on 4730 0000.

We would like to thank our sponsors for this event - Penrith City Council, Penrith Press, In Nepean Magazine, St Paul's Grammar School and the Chifley Hotel Penrith.

Chauffered transfers are being provided by Panthers Limousines. For enquiries phone 4736 3028.

The Penrith Symphony Orchestra, typically based at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, are celebrating their 20th Birthday in 2008. For more information on their subscription series and other performances throughout the year please call 1300 789 118 or visit their website.

Ken Healey - MC

Ken Healey’s professional life divides almost equally between classical music and live theatre. For more than 20 years he has been pre-concert speaker for the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s subscription concerts. For even longer he has been writing and broadcasting about play performances, orchestral and chamber music concerts and opera. Ken has been teaching History of Theatre at NIDA since 1987, and feels even busier since he retired from full-time teaching there at the end of 2006. His daughter is a member of the Sydney Symphony, and his son is a free-lance theatre director, based in Melbourne.