Creating & Presenting

Chris Bradley has been creating & presenting concerts since his time at the Royal Northern College of Music.

His first ensemble, The Elastic Band, a wind & percussion group regularly presented family concerts in the during the 1980's.

In 1988 he formed a percussion trio, Bradley's Hitmen, who still perform today. However, one of Chris's ambitions was to encourage young children from an early age to experience the sound of a live orchestra. The opportunity arose in 1998 and at the request of the Sinfonia of Leeds he devised & presented, in his own inimitable style, a "hands-on" orchestral concert called Rhythms my mother taught me.

It was so successful that Leeds Leisure Services asked Chris to repeat this concert in their series at the Town Hall, Leeds, which then led onto a series of 3 concerts devised & presented by Chris, entitled Orchestral Adventures.

2003 saw the third series & to date there are 10 different shows with titles as diverse as Heroes R Here, Cold Jelly & Custard, The World is a Circle, Aloha and Made in Britain.

Chris has narrated Peter & the Wolf with Carl Davis & the Orchestra of Opera North at Buxton Opera House. He has presented & narrated Bear Necessities for the National Trust at Polesden Lacey, Surrey.

Recent engagements include narrating Howard Blake's The Snowman for the East Riding Youth Orchestra and in May 2004 Chris Bradley's Orchestral Adventures with the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra as part of an audience development programme.

June 2004