Caroline Dale (cello)

Caroline Dale brings her cello to the Wyvern Theatre on Wednesday 31 March 2027, starting at 1:05 pm. It's a solo recital that closes the 2026-27 Swindon Recital Series, which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

If Dale's name doesn't ring a bell, you've almost certainly heard her playing. She's a cellist whose work has appeared on numerous soundtracks, and she's often the one whose hands you see on screen when an actor is pretending to play the cello — in films like Hilary and Jackie, Pride and Prejudice, and Truly, Madly, Deeply. Composer Dario Marianelli even wrote the Oscar-winning score for Atonement specifically for her. When she's not working solo, she's one half of the Miranda Dale Trio with Miranda Dale, and both are leading players from the Britten Sinfonia.

This recital is the final stop of the 2026-27 Swindon Recital Series, which has run under the theme 'Classic Film Music', with a programme stretching from silent film to Bollywood. The series is run by founder and artistic director Paul Turner as a registered charity, focusing on professionally performed chamber music with a strong outreach and public-education side to it — they bill the whole thing as an exclusive backstage pass into the world of film scoring. Dale, given her history with the cinema, is a fitting way to wrap it up.

It's a Wednesday afternoon slot, so it's one of those mid-week things rather than a night out. The recital starts at 1:05 pm at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, and it's the closing performance of the 25th Anniversary Recitals.