Classics Galore! "Exeter's very own last night of the proms"

Classics Galore! is back for 2022. Exeter's very own Last Night of the Proms will be held at the University of Exeter Great Hall on Saturday 12 November raising money for FORCE Cancer Charity.

Classics was established in 2007 and held every two years until the pandemic forced the postponement of last year's event. The team has been working hard for the return this autumn.

Billed as one of Exeter's biggest and best-loved indoor musical extravaganzas, the previous seven concerts have raised more than £110,000 for FORCE.

Around 200 top musicians and singers - a full orchestra, a brass band and two choral societies and their friends - will perform a variety of light classical favourites and rousing singalongs under musical director Malcolm Matthews and orchestra leader, Sarah Greinig.

The programme includes: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Williams), Zadok the Priest (Handel), Radetzky March (J Strauss I), The Sound of Music medley (Rodgers arr. Hazell) and a Proms Style Finale.

We are delighted to welcome two new faces to the concert this year, our soloist for the evening will be soprano Cheryl Enever, who has worked with the BBC singers, the Royal Opera House and sung for royalty. Cheryl will be joined on stage by our compère, the popular local broadcaster Justin Leigh, who cannot wait to be Master of Ceremonies and to make his Classics debut.