Leys Orchestra

28/11/2025

Family Concert. Come along to our final concert for 2025, featuring a controversial overture, folk dances from Romania, an anthem for Ukraine, some Renaissance ingenuity, some old folks at home & abroad, and a snappy march. Mt Albert War Memorial Hall, Sunday 3oth November 2:30pm. Free admission.
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17/09/2025

From DIY to Radio. Come along to our Auckland Heritage Festival concert 2:30pm Sunday 21st September, Freemans Bay Community Hall.

In the pioneering households of early Auckland, warmed by coal fires and lit by kerosene lamps, families had to make much of their own entertainment. Our concert highlights imaginative musical and theatrical entertainment that families turned to in place of diversions such as movies, the internet, radio and television that we take for granted today.

The programme features A.A. Milne's 'The King's Breakfast' – a theatrical number with a narrator who tells and sings the tale of a grumpy king who's upset with his morning meal – along with evocative music of faraway lands, fantastical pieces conjuring enchanted places, and cheeky song-and-dance numbers.

Free admission.

Leys Orchestra, community orchestra based at Leys Institute Ponsonby, serving the community of Ponsonby and wider Auckland for over a century.

29/07/2025

Come along to our Family Concert Sunday 3rd August 2:30pm, Mt Albert War Memorial Hall. Featuring 'Andante and Rondo for Two Flutes' by Franz Doppler with soloists Emily Rendall and Briar English, the programme also includes music by Schubert, Dvorak, Kabalevsky, and a March by Archie Don resurrected from the original manuscript parts discovered in our heritage collection.
Free admission.

Leys Orchestra is proud to welcome back flute soloist Emily Rendall, who is a recent recipient of the Daphne Gretta Mary Stevens Community Music Scholarship. Emily is joined in this concert by Briar English with Andante and Rondo for Two Flutes and Strings by the flute virtuoso and early romantic Hu...

25/05/2025

Looking for String Players

Leys Orchestra is seeking dedicated string players. If you want to perform a diverse range of repertoire, enrich our community and experience the joy of ensemble playing, then we welcome you to join our friendly community orchestra.

Weekly rehearsals take place in Pt Chevalier on Thursday evenings.

To find out more, please go to our Contact page at:

03/04/2025

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17/01/2025

An archive of Arnold Schoenberg’s scores, letters, and photographs has been destroyed in the wildfires sweeping across California, in what the composer’s son has called ‘a profound cultural loss’.

04/11/2024

"Mysteries, Mistakes and Mischief"

* 'Unbegun' Symphony by the late Peter Schickele, (better known by his alter ego PDQ Bach); a musical treasure hunt with tunes from the lofty to the mundane.
* 'Oboe Concerto in Bb' by the mysterious Madam Laschanzky (soloist, Kate Rendall).
* Music not written by Mozart and Beethoven!!
* 'Children's Symphony' by Carl Reinecke
* A 'Galop' by Holst – but which Holst?

Leys Orchestra Family Concert, Sunday 2:30pm Mt Albert War Memorial Hall. Free admission.

Engraving: Mozart's 'A Musical Joke' was nicknamed the "Farmers' Symphony" and the "Village Musicians' Sextet".

28/10/2024

Our final concert for 2024 is only a couple of weeks away. Come along and enjoy some Mysteries, Mistakes and Mischief in the Mt Albert War Memorial Hall on 10 November.

Our final concert for 2024 features soloist Kate Rendall performing 'Oboe Concerto in B flat' by the mysterious Madam Laschanzky, whose dates, first name and life story remain lost to history. This attractive three-movement work was recently restored from late eighteenth century manuscript parts dis...