Tours
The NCO has been on tour, to Italy in 2008 when Lady Susanna Walton (widow of Sir William Walton) invited Main Orchestra to play in the Walton's open-air theatre within the famous botanical gardens of La Mortella on the island of Ischia. They also played an outstanding concert to a packed audience literally standing in the aisles in the Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.
In 2006 Main Orchestra toured to China where they took part in the International Festival of Music in Beijing. They performed in the Forbidden City Concert Hall and at the University of Beijing.
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