Up coming Events &
Opportunities
Events Coming Up...
April 2004
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Sunday 4 April Birmingham Contemporary Music Group are holding a workshop with a concert at 5.30pm on Sunday 4 April at Longmeadow School conducted by Peter Weigold. Some of our students have been invited to work on the piece "Manivelles" by Tansy Davies who will be present. This concert is FREE.
May 2004
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Monday 24th May 2004 Free Grace Notes Workshop at St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch with Graham Eccles – Director of Music at St. Aspah’s Cathedral at 7-30pm. Contact Phone Number 01244 372822 (Ray Harper)
July 2004
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Saturday 10th July 2004 Choral Echoes – a concert of music for a Shropshire Summer’s Evening at 7-30pm in St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch, Contact phone number 01948 665413 Music by Haydn, Karl Jenkins, Mozart, Purcell, Byrd and Herbert Howells.
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HELP NEEDED
The International Music Festival organisers are looking for Host Families from 24th June to 2 July. A payment of £10.50 per person per night is available If you can help contact Nichola Stokes on 01606 872633
Training....
Professional
Development Course for Animateurs.
Working as an artist in school settings requires specific knowledge and skills.
This course helps give artists the practical and theoretical information
required for delivering arts education workshops. Contact
details The Education Team Cultural Co-operation Toynbee Studios 28
Commercial
Street London E1 6AB 020 74560406
mailto:'education@culturalco-operation.org'
The Shropshire Concerto Competition The annual Shropshire Concerto Competition provides the most talented young performers in schools in the county to perform before a series of experienced adjudicators to win a place in the final of the competition. The final provides a rare opportunity to play a concerto with a full and live orchestral accompaniment. This year's winner was Matthew Glossop playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
This Year's Final:
31 March 2004.
Competitors through to the final:
William Blythe - Violin (Shrewsbury School)
Katie Grivell - Flute (New College)
Yu Gao - Piano (Moreton Hall
http://www.shropshiremusicservice.com/concertocompetition.htm
The
Organists’ Training Scheme is
for individuals who would like to improve their organ playing skills or start
from scratch. Weekly sessions and performance opportunities are available. For
further details please contact Ian Thomas at MrIanThomas@Netscape.Net or phone
01244 378537.
Grace
Notes Young Persons Vocal Training Scheme as
been launched and is based at St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. The scheme provides:
Specialist
Vocal Training, Welcome Pack, web based resources and access as discounted
prices to RSCM events and courses. For further details please contact Ian Thomas
at MrIanThomas@Netscape.Net or
phone 01244 378537.
Audience
for Tomorrow Roadshow
CBSO
ensemble visits to schools have become incredibly popular. Several ensembles are
now undertaking this programme and we are grateful to our sponsors for making
this happen. Currently there are vacancies on our HSBC Roadshow, but we suggest
that you contact us to discuss your needs. The Roadshow programme is often
linked to other projects including coaching opportunities with school bands and
orchestras or area ensembles. Again, please contact us if you are interested in
these links. This is an opportunity for secondary teachers to bring parties of
any size to any concert in the CBSO season at Symphony Hall (subject to
availability). The tickets, at £3.00 each, are subsidised and bookable directly
through the Education Department at the CBSO. We acknowledge the generous
support of Carlton, The Prince of Wales Arts and Kids Foundation, The Millennium
Commission and George Henry Collins Charity. Last season nearly 1,000 young
people took advantage of this offer and we expect to exceed these numbers in
2003-2004. Schools that have been involved with other aspects of our programme
frequently take advantage of this scheme, but if you want to know more please
telephone
or visit http://www.cbso.co.uk/
Grace Notes Resource Packs
Over
the coming months we aim to make available our education resource packs
online.
Ø
Resource
Pack No. 1 ‘Allegri’s Miserere and the Renaissance’
Ø Resource Pack No. 2 Grace Notes Funding Resource Pack
Music Libraries in Shropshire:
Featured Musical Organizations in our
area
St. Alkmund’s Choir, Whitchurch, Shropshire, meets on a Wednesday evening at 7-00pm. A semi-professional choir of 25 singers which sings for concerts, services in other churches and in cathedrals. The choir has a repertoire from Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ and Byrd through Mozart and Haydn to Herbert Howells and Britten. New members always warmly welcome. For further details please contact Ian Thomas on 01244 37853 or email MrIanThomas@Netscape.Net
St. Alkmund's Choir, Whitchurch Website
Go Online, Interact and Experience
· Artists and Learning Information and Support Services for the West Midlands (Aliss) http://www.aliss.org.uk/
. Art Outside http://www.art-outside.com/ Specializing in sourcing, promoting and selling outdoor sculpture, the ARt OUTSiDE gallery lists works of fine art, functional art and craft, all designed to live permanently out-of-doors.
·
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, http://www.cbso.co.uk/ book
concerts online and music education work.
·
Classic FM http://www.classicfm.com/ Classic
FM Radio station website includes a online concert database
·
Choral
Timeline which traces - selectively
- a path from some of the earliest sacred music for unaccompanied voices to the
choral repertoire of the present day. Specially recorded by the BBC Singers www.bbc.co.uk/singers/timeline/
·
Download
your own personal free copy of a
wide range of choral music http://www.cpdl.snaptel.com/
·
A Quick Guide To
Classical Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classical/guide.shtml
(The
BBC)
·
Incorporated Society of
Musicians http://www.ism.org/
music facts sheets, courses,
workshops, training and legal advice for musicians.
·
Royal School of Church
Music http://www.rscm.com/ choral training, organist
training workshops and courses.
·
Shropshire Music School
Services Website: http://www.shropshiremusicservice.com/
·
St. Alkmund’s Church Choir
Website:
http://www.gracenotes.esmartmusic.com/choir.htm
·
Youth Music http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/
Updated:
3rd April 2004