For its first orchestral event of the year the St. Helens Sinfonietta had lined up an all-Mozart programme, for which Alan Free came to the podium bearing proudly aloft the orchestra’s trophy from the St. Helens Cultural Awards 2010 – the “Creative Arts Award (professional practice)”. Mozart is always a sure-fire winner, and the orchestra had played most of the programmed items before, but the concert well displayed the steadily rising standards that have made the Sinfonietta eminently award-worthy.