Following the Secondary Music Network Meeting today, relevant files and information will be in the Secondary Subject Leader area within ‘Music’ in the Shropshire Learning Gateway.
The next meetings will be on February 29th 2012 (1:15 – 4:00) when the main focus will be the National Music Education Plan. The summer network meeting with take place on July 12th 2012 (1:15 – 4:00).
This link will take you to the EMI Music Sound Foundation website which offers music grants for a range of applicants as follows:
1. schools to fund music education (not statutory national curriculum music teaching)
2. Individuals students under the age of 25 and in full-time education to fund instruments and equipment
3. Music teachers working in schools to fund courses and training
The closing date is Sept 16th 2011 and grants of up to £2000 are available. If you make a bid as a result of this posting and are successful then please let me know.
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday July 13th (9:15, coffee from 9:00) at the Shrewsbury Training and Development Centre, at Monkmoor. Reminders have been sent out to colleagues, please reply to confirm your attendance to ensure I have sufficient resources available for the practical sessions.
The CD of the Festival Anthem is now available for schools taking part in this festival and can be downloaded from the resource area of the Shropshire Learning Gateway.
Shropshire Music Service continues to provide opportunities for music performance tours in Europe each summer. This year the Shropshire Youth Orchestra will tour to Salzburg from 22 – 30 July. The 80+ members and staff will perform 4 concerts, and the folk-fiddle group, Fiddlesticks, will tour to Lo in Belgium from 22 – 26 July with 3 performances.
CONGRATULATIONS to the four musicians who are through to the final of The Shropshire Concerto Competition. The final will be held on Wednesday 6 April at Theatre Severn at 7.30pm. when the young musicians will be accompanied by The Shropshire Sinfonia
Holly Scutt Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
James Carter Gordon Jacobs Trombone Concerto
Freya Little Weber Bassoon Concerto
Rosie Powell-Davies Lalo Cello Concerto
On Monday 11 July ’Cellobration’ will be in concert at Christchurch, Bayston Hill at 7.30pm
Shropshire Music Service young violin students will be performing in ‘Class Act’ on Friday 1 July at 6.45pm at Theatre Severn
Thursday 30 June ‘Wind Exultation’ at 6.30pm at Theatre Severn including students learning in the ‘Whole Class Woodwind’ initiative and including the Saxophone Ensemble
In the Walker Theatre, in Concert at 5.30pm – Shropshire Training Youth Brass Ensemble, Krazy Keys, Shropshire Training Woodwind Ensemble
In the Theatre Severn at 7.00pm – Shropshire Training Youth Wind Orchestra, Shropshire Youth Percussion Ensemble and Shropshire Youth Orchestra
Tickets for Theatre Severn events
contact Theatre Box Office at:
Frankwell Quay
Shrewsbury Shropshire,
SY3 8FT
Tel: 01743 281281
