Latvia's Lelde steps up as the PPO leader 

Gosport violinist Lelde Katsakina has just been appointed leader of the Portsmouth Philharmonic Orchestra and will perform her first concert in the role this weekend.

She will even have a small solo – as part of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sherezade – in the concert which will also feature soprano Jennifer Parker Lummis and the premiere of a piece by Barbadian composer, and orchestra timpanist, Nathan R. Whitney.

Entitled a ‘A Journey Beyond Imagination’, the concert is on Saturday June 27 (7pm) at the Stubbington…

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