The Big Wind Day: Chapel Street Festival of Music

The Big Wind Day will take place on Saturday April 27th 2024, as part of the third Chapel Street Festival of Music, in Penzance. It will provide a county-wide focus and celebration of the pleasures and challenges of playing wind instruments, and playing them together, in different combinations and styles, especially for young people.

We are encouraging new youth chamber music wind groups to form, and will give them, together with groups that already exist - whether it be in quintets, quartets, trios or duos - an opportunity to be coached, and to perform in a lunchtime concert as part of the Festival. There will also be an opportunity to participate in the evening concert, which will contain a newly commissioned piece.

Jacqueline Kershaw (CMST Teacher)

Participants will receive coaching from, and work alongside, members of Chapel Street Winds: Karen Green (flute), Tamsin Robinson (oboe), Jacob Perry (clarinet), Sally Bartholomew (bassoon) and Jacqueline Kershaw (French horn).

Players or groups interested in participating and taking advantage of this unique opportunity should either let their teacher know, inform one of the players mentioned above, or send an email to music@chapelstreetmusic.co.uk to register an interest, or make an enquiry.

For younger, enthusiastic players who are not yet ready to perform in a soloistic capacity, but have reached the level of Grade 3, or equivalent, there will be an exciting opportunity to attend, observe, rehearse and participate in a newly commissioned piece being written for the evening concert by Cornish composer, Paul Saggers.

Apart from French horns, other brass instruments need not apply on this occasion, but we are open to applications from saxophone and recorder groups.

The day will run from 11.00am until approximately 7.00pm. Players wishing to take part should be available for the whole day, which will take place in the magnificent surroundings and beautiful, warm acoustic of the Methodist Church on historic Chapel Street.

The Big Wind Day is generously supported by FEAST, and there is therefore no charge for taking part.

Bournemouth Symphony in Saltash

Members of one of the country’s best-loved orchestras will perform two exciting concerts in Saltash this March.

A 14-member ensemble from the orchestra will be coming to Saltash Wesley Methodist Church on Thursday 7 March, 7.30pm. They will perform a new concert of film-inspired music, journeying from London’s historic West End to the glittering lights of Hollywood. The concert is presented and will include well-known favourites alongside lesser-known cinematic works. The programme is designed for families of all ages, new audiences, and seasoned concert goers alike. Tickets cost £6-£12.

On Friday 8 March, 2pm the orchestra’s ‘Teatime Trio’ will host a special dementia-friendly Cake Concert at Saltash Social Club. They will be performing well-known classics for all to enjoy with a piece of cake, a hot drink and good company. The afternoon is presented by the musicians who will give insights into their instruments and guide the audience through a mixed programme of classical repertoire and special arrangements of popular music from Bach to Joni Mitchell. Tickets cost £10 and include the tea and cake.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has an international reputation for their superb performances. Their world-class musicians include some of the finest players in the UK and they are renowned for taking music out of the concert halls and into the hearts of local communities.

Tickets for both events are available at www.saltarts.org or from Piglets Haberdashery Shop on Fore Street, Saltash.

This is the orchestra’s first ever visit to Saltash and has been organised in partnership with local cultural producers Salt Arts CIC and the Carn to Cove rural touring scheme for Cornwall.

CELLO & PIANO MASTERCLASS OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND AUDITORS IN CORNWALL

MASTERCLASS given by Geithrudur Guðmundsdóttir (cello) & Antoine Préat (piano)

Saturday, 3rd February 2024, from 10am till 13.00 at Truro School Chapel, Trennick Lane, Truro, TR1 1TH

Two of the leading young generation soloists on the international concert stage. Icelandic-American cellist Geithrudur Guðmundsdóttir and Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine Préat. Are visiting Cornwall in February 2024 to give a series of Concerts Truro (2nd), Mylor 3rd and 4th February Penzance.

Musicians (cellists and pianists) are invited to an Open Class to share with Antoine and Geithrudur the music they are working on for coaching and advice. Cellists can bring their accompanists or Antoine or another may accompany (with notice of work). We suggest the standard of players should be Grade V and above. It is also an opportunity to play before an audience in a relaxed environment.

For those who wish to take part as players in the Masterclass (Piano or cello or both or chamber group). Please register burrelltheatre.com/whatson Fee for young students £5 or contact events@truroschool.com

All playing participants will be offered free tickets available to the concert on Friday 2nd February or 4th February in Penzance. Auditors are welcome to the Masterclass (£5 which will be discounted from concert ticket on 2nd and 4th February).

We thank Truro School for offering the use of their facilities and Cornwall Music Services Trust for supporting the Masterclass.

Truro Concert - Truro School Chapel, Trennick Lane, Truro, TR1 1TH Friday 2nd February at 1900

Beethoven - Seven Variations on a theme from The Magic Flute

Janacek Pohadaka

Adès Lieux Retrouvés I. Les eaux, IV. La ville, Cancan macabre

Brahms Intermezzo and Scherzo from FAE sonata

Shostakovich Cello Sonata

Truro Tickets:

Box Office www.burrelltheatre.com/whatson tel. 01872 246050

Mylor Concert – Tremayne Hall, Mylor Bridge, TR11 5NA

Saturday 3 rd February at 7.30.p.m.

Tickets carrickconcerts1.wixsite.com tel. 01326 374237

Penzance Concert – The Methodist Chapel, Chapel Street, Penzance TR18 4AW

Sunday 4 th February at 1500

Tickets 01726 63513. www.crbo.co.uk/metronome.

Mylor and Penzance Concert programmes

Beethoven - Seven Variations on a theme from The Magic Flute

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor

Adès Lieux Retrouvés I. Les eaux, IV. La ville, Cancan macabre

Brahms Intermezzo and Scherzo from FAE sonata

Prokofiev Cello Sonata

Please do book tickets in advance to assist in concert/ seating planning!

Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir.

Praised for her “agile and passionate” and “exceedingly lively” playing (Fréttablaðið, Reykjavik), Icelandic-American cellist Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir has performed internationally at venues like Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Southbank Centre and appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO), the Iceland Youth Orchestra, and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. Her recent concert tour of Iceland featuring the six Bach Cello Suites was hailed as “an awe-inspiring experience” (Jónas Sen, Fréttablaðið).

Born into a musical family in Reykjavík in 1994, she made her debut in 2013 with the ISO and graduated with a soloist diploma from the Reykjavík College of Music the same year. She went on to study with Hans Jensen at Northwestern University and completed her bachelor’s degree in 2017. She served as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago during their 2017-18 season and recently graduated with a master's degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied Natasha Brofsky. She is currently an Advanced Diploma candidate at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Geirþrúður has been a prize winner at numerous competitions, including the Anton Rubinstein International Cello Competition, the Hellam Young Artist Competition, the New York International Artists Association Competition, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition, the Philharmonic Society of Arlington Young Artist Competition, and the Thaviu String Competition. Additionally, she has received fellowships from the Jean-Pierre Jaquillat Memorial Foundation, the Valitor Foundation in Reykjavík, the Rotary Foundation in Iceland, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Society, and the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals across the United States, and Canada, as well as in Iceland, Denmark, Holland, France, and the UK.

A passionate chamber musician, Geirþrúður was the Gold Medal and Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition with the Terra String Quartet. Her festival appearances include Ecole d'Art Américains de Fontainebleau, where she was awarded the top prize for chamber music, the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, the Holland International Music Sessions, Banff Masterclasses, and the National Arts Centre Young Artist Program. She has also appeared as artist-in-residence at the Harpa International Music Academy, the Young Icelandic Chamber Musicians Festival, and the Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival. Geirþrúður plays on a Pierre Silvestre cello from 1857.

In addition to music, Geirþrúður enjoys photography, reading, running, and playing chess.

Antoine Preat

Antoine has been invited to perform in prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Paris Beaux Arts Museum, Frederyk Chopin Insitute, as well as festivals such as the Nohant Chopin Festival, Lisztomanias, Chopin à Bagatelle, Les Nuits du Piano in Paris, IMS Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove and Encuentro de Santander. He has appeared on BBC Radio 3, France Musique, Scala Radio and RTBF Musiq3.

Antoine has performed alongside leading artists and orchestras, including Maté Szücs, Miclen LaiPang, Margarita Balanas, Manuel Blanco, Sinfonietta Lausanne, Lesley Hatfield, Robin Ireland, the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris, Sainsbury Soloists, Academy Festival Orchestra, University Orchestra of Alicante and London Student Orchestra.

Throughout his career, Antoine has also been fortunate to receive guidance from Philippe Cassard, Cedric Pescia, Thomas Adès, Boris Berman, Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal, Richard Goode, Imogen Cooper and Stephen Hough. 

After graduating with honours from the Ecole Normale de Paris where he studied with Liudmila Berlinskaia and Guigla Katsarava, Antoine furthered his studies at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School of Music under the tutelage of Tatiana Sarkissova and Ronan O’Hora, while studying harpsichord and fortepiano under the guidance of Carole Cerasi.

Antoine was awarded the first prize of the Concours international d’Ile de France and the Los Angeles Colburn Piano Festival Competition, the honour prize at the New York Début Piano   Competition and most recently, was a semifinalist at the Clara Haskil Competition 2021.

Antoine is generously supported by Talent Unlimited, the Munster Derek Butler Award, Hattori Foundation and the Winifred Christie Trust Award.

Genesis Sixteen: Empowering Young Artists in the World of Choral Singing

Calling all choral singers!

Genesis Sixteen, the UK's leading FREE choral training programme for young singers aged 18-23 is recruiting now.

With group tuition from The Sixteen's conductors, singing lessons and workshops from top industry experts, and exciting performance opportunities, this is a unique and rewarding opportunity for those wanting to take their choral singing to the next level.

The closing date for applications is Friday 26 January 2024, 12pm.

For more information and how to apply visit thesixteen.com

This free program offers a year-long journey comprising week-long and weekend courses across the UK. Led by eminent figures like founder Harry Christophers and associate conductor Eamonn Dougan, the curriculum includes group sessions, individual mentoring, and masterclasses conducted by top vocal experts. Participants are also supported by The Sixteen members, who offer holistic guidance on vocal health and nutrition.

The Genesis Foundation's close partnership has made this fully funded program a pioneering venture in the UK. Alums from the previous twelve cohorts have achieved notable success in their musical endeavours, including performing, recording, and touring with professional groups like The Sixteen. Moreover, many graduates have established their choirs, charitable organisations, and music businesses, showcasing their entrepreneurial spirit and solidifying their presence in the music industry.

To learn more about Genesis Sixteen and access the online application form, visit https://thesixteen.com/genesis-sixteen/.

Join the movement to foster the next generation of talented ensemble singers and support the evolution of choral music among young artists! 

Join Enys Chamber Music Festival for an Unforgettable Weekend of Performances Introduction

Welcome to the enchanting world of chamber music, where timeless melodies and passionate performances come together in harmony. Join us at the prestigious Enys Chamber Music Festival, featuring some of the most talented chamber ensembles from the Royal Northern College of Music. Get ready to immerse yourself in a weekend filled with classical masterpieces, contemporary gems, and the joy of music.

Schedule of Events

Friday, August 4th

Music in the Gardens at Enys Gardens (12:00-14:30)

As the sun paints the gardens with its warm hues, let the soothing sounds of chamber music embrace your senses. Experience the ethereal combination of music and nature at the heart of Enys Gardens.

Talland Quartet at King Charles the Martyr Falmouth (19:30)

The Talland Quartet takes the stage to showcase their exceptional talent. Their artistic expression and refined interpretations will transport you into the world of classical elegance.

Saturday, August 5th:

Franco-Mendes Quartet at Penryn Town Hall (13:30)

Aestus Quartet at Tremayne Hall (19:30)

The Aestus Quartet ignites the stage with their fiery energy and profound musicality. Be captivated by their innovative renditions of classic and contemporary chamber pieces.

Sunday, August 6th:

Grand Finale at Enys House (17:00)

The grand finale awaits you at the historic Enys House. Bask in the rich melodies of renowned chamber ensembles, creating a memorable and fitting conclusion to the festival.

Featured Chamber Music

Throughout the festival, you'll have the pleasure of experiencing some of the world's greatest chamber music. Classics like Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Samuel Barber's Adagio, and Mendelssohn's Octet will enrapture your soul with their timeless beauty. Additionally, the festival will introduce you to new and rarely performed works, expanding your musical horizons.

Embracing the Unforgettable

As the melodies resonate in your heart, you'll realise that the Enys Chamber Music Festival celebrates the human spirit and the universal language of music. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to witness exceptional performances, forge unforgettable memories, and participate in this enchanting musical journey. Join the Enys Chamber Music Festival for an experience that will leave you captivated and inspired.

Mark your calendars and be part of this remarkable celebration of chamber music. Prepare for a weekend filled with artistry, emotion, and pure musical brilliance.

Cornwall Music Service Trust Newsletter Summer 2023

Get ready to dive into a sensational musical journey as we look at what the CMST students have been doing for the summer term of 2023!

Experience the past term filled with harmonious melodies and thrilling musical updates, all in the Cornwall Music Service Trust Newsletter for the Summer 2023.

Three Spires Singers "Young Artists" Concert, 8th July

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR OUR SUMMER CONCERT FEATURING A GREAT LINE-UP OF YOUNG ARTISTS

There’s something particularly appealing about a concert featuring young artists, it feels like being given a privileged early insight into the careers of rising stars who are really going places!

A youthful line-up of soloists will join the Three Spires Singers and Orchestra to perform Scarlatti’s St Cecilia Mass, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and J.S.Bach’s Cantata No 80 “Eine Feste Burg”. Soloists include Jacob Perry (clarinet), Katherine Gregory (soprano), Hannah Dienes-Williams (soprano), Tom Lilburn (alto), Louis Watkins (tenor) and Simon Grant (bass).
 
Four of this wonderful team of young singers are returning to their Cornish roots: Tom, Louis and Simon were all choral scholars at Truro Cathedral and Katherine is a former member of the cathedral’s Girls’ Choir (making her second appearance as soloist with Three Spires). The conductor will be Patrick Bailey.
 
To get your tickets:

https://www.minack.com/whats-on/three-spires-singers-summer-concert

or ring them on 01736 810181.
  
If you are looking at the Minack website at any other time, you will find Three Spires Singers concerts in the Other Venues section, which you will find by scrolling down on the Minack Theatre website front page.
 
Ticket prices are as before:
 
Nave £25 - Gallery £20 - Side Aisles: £18 - Age 25 or under £1.
The ticket price includes the cost of a concert programme.

Girls Rock - Workshop with The Eyelids

Calling all young female rockers! Get ready for the ultimate rock extravaganza designed exclusively for you. Join Livewire Youth Project and Saltash Song & Shanties Festival for the Girls Rock workshop and concert featuring Cornwall's powerhouse, The Eyelids! The workshop will be held from 3-5 pm, where The Eyelids, an all-female, double-bass driven, garage rock band, will guide you through the thrilling world of rock music. Explore guitar riffs, killer drum beats, mesmerising bass lines, and powerful vocals in this amazing workshop. Book your spot now and learn to embrace your inner rock goddess!

After the workshop, from 7-11 pm, prepare for an unforgettable night of rock! The Eyelids, along with The Other Woman and other sensational support acts, will ignite the stage with their raw energy and mind-blowing performances. Witness the intoxicating blend of garage, blues, and punk from The Eyelids and be captivated by their double-bass-driven rhythms and fierce vocals. This celebration of women who rock is not to be missed! Tickets are only £5 (pay what you can from £1), so gather your friends and prepare for an unforgettable night. Get ready to rock out and show the world what you're made of!

Cornwall Music Summer Camp

Welcome to the Cornwall Music Summer Camp, where melodies float through the air like the gentle breeze off the coast, and harmonies harmonise with the crashing waves. Get ready to turn up the volume on your musical adventure as you dive into a symphony of sun-soaked days. Whether you're a virtuoso violinist, a rock 'n' roll drummer, or a budding Beethoven, this camp is your stage to shine. So pack your instrument, tune up your vocal cords, and prepare for a summer that hits all the right notes!

Songs, Shanties & Surprises in South East Cornwall

A small music festival in a quiet corner of the West Country is ripping up the rule-book on shanty festivals and putting the community and genuine local culture centre-stage. Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival launched in 2022 as part of a project to help bring joy and culture back to five Cornish towns that were recovering from the Covid pandemic. Determined to improve on the increasingly samey, tourist-orientated model of music Festivals in other Cornish seaside towns, the Saltash Songs & Shanties programme takes risks with contemporary music, includes workshops and opportunities to join in and collaborates with organisations from the community. Superb professional performers share stages equally with musicians from the region’s rich amateur music scene. The result is a festival truly inspired by the local people, culture and environment, that defies expectations and both challenges and entertains audiences.

Festival producer Lindsay Endean says “Music in this region is diverse and constantly changing. Even sea shanties have developed from pirates and fishing to celebrating feminism and local LGBTQ+ communities. The modern shanty scene is full of surprises. There is also a huge tradition of local music making in towns and villages across the county and an equal appetite from audiences to hear home-grown talent as much as visiting artists. We are constantly surprised by the fearless nature of our audiences – one of our most popular events last year was a concert of contemporary music inspired by local horse riders.

Highlights of this year’s programme (18-25 June) include a performance of handpan music for swimmers at the recently-saved-from-closure local pool, an evening celebrating women in the Cornish rock scene, and a programme of music by Cornish composer Judy Whitlock which is inspired by the night sky and features brass players from internationally renowned orchestras.

Having fun with friends and family is also central to the Festival’s ethos and there will be opportunities to have a go on the award-winning Town Band’s instruments, a street piano to play on the waterfront and an invasion of renaissance Spanish music into a house once lived in by Sir Francis Drake’s wife.

Several acclaimed shanty and folk-music groups also feature, including the hugely popular Barrett’s Privateers, Femmes de la Mer, who celebrate the stories of Cornwall’s women and Plymouth/Saltash group Windjammer who have recently released a highly original and beautiful album produced by Sean Lakeman.

Tickets are sold with pay-what-you-feel options, keeping events accessible to all. All events take place in historic buildings around Saltash. The Festival has been made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England through its open access National Lottery Project Grants, FEAST Cornwall, Cornwall County Council and Saltash Town Council.

Full events listings and tickets for Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival are available at:

www.songsandshanties.co.uk

Events and Musicians Performing:

Sunday 18 June, 3pm

Livewire Youth Music

Girls Rock workshop

Join The Eyelids, a 4 piece all female, double-bass driven, garage rock band from Cornwall, for a fun workshop in all things rock.

Sunday 18 June, 7pm

Livewire Youth Music

The Eyelids + support

The queens of the burgeoning Cornish rock scene bring their potent brew of garage, blues and punk to

Saltash for a night celebrating women who rock.

Wednesday 21 June, 6.30pm

Isambard House

Blow Your Own Trumpet

Saltash Town Band invite you to have a go on their brass instruments.

Wednesday 21 June, 8pm

Isambard House

Film: Son of Cornwall

The moving biopic of John Treleaven, who left his home in Cornwall to become an international opera

star.

Thursday 22 June, 7pm

Saltash Swimming Pool

Water Music

Take a relaxing dip accompanied by lovely handpan music combining West African technique with Celtic

rhythms.

Friday 23 June, 10.15 & 11.15am

Saltash Library

Tipil: Music for little people

Family band Tipil perform a session of Cornish traditional and contemporary tunes, with opportunities

for mini-musicians to sing, dance and join in.

Friday 23 June, 7.30pm

Isambard House

Sea Shanty Workshop

Come an learn traditional and contemporary sea shanties.

Saturday 24 June, 11am & 12.15pm

Mary Newman’s Cottage

Temps Clar Ensemble

Music from medieval and renaissance Europe performed in full period costume.

Saturday 24 June, 1.30pm

Church of St Nicholas & St Faith

Barrett’s Privateers

Local shanty stars who blend male and female voices in lively and hugely entertaining performances.

Saturday 24 June, 3pm

Victoria Gardens

Saltash Town Band

The award-winning Saltash Town Band entertain with classics, jazz and contemporary favourites.

Saturday 24 June, 6pm

Church of St Nicholas & St Faith

Sirinu’s Songs for Saltash

A concert of beautiful ballads and tunes of the Tamar Valley and moors of East Cornwall, written in the

1960s an 70s and celebrating local stories, landmarks and characters.

Saturday 24 June, 8pm

Church of St Nicholas & St Faith

Music for the Night Sky

Abbey Brass Quintet are joined by Cornish musicians to perform music inspired by the night sky and

written by Judy Whitlock.

Sunday 25 June, 3pm

Saltash Waterfront

Pop-Up Piano Session

Local pianists take centre stage with the Festival’s street piano.

Sunday 25 June, 6pm

Saltash Social Club

Femmes de la Mer

A 15 strong group of women+, hailing from across Cornwall who share stories of inspirational Cornish

women and are passionate about singing traditional shanties and folk songs of the sea.

Sunday 25 June, 7.30pm

Saltash Social Club

Windjammer

An up-and-coming trio who blend self-penned songs and instrumentals with original versions of music

drawn from the best traditions of British folk. Their creative approach blends vocals, guitar, whistles,

accordion, synthesiser and percussion into beautiful and adventurous musical arrangements.

CMST SPRING NEWSLETTER 2023

We are pleased to present the spring newsletter, which highlights our activities and accomplishments during the previous term.

Let's Play Concert at St Endellion Church

Are you looking for a fantastic way to spend your Sunday afternoon? If so, then you are in luck! On Sunday, the 26th of March, St Endellion Church is hosting a free ticketed concert between 3-5pm. This is your chance to experience a wonderful show of talented performers. 

At this concert, you will be able to see a variety of performers ranging from amateurs to professionals. All of them will be showcasing their favourite pieces. It’s a great opportunity to discover some new music and to enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of St Endellion Church. 

So why not grab some friends and come along to this fantastic free concert? This is the perfect opportunity to spend time with friends while listening to amazing music. Not to mention, you will be able to experience the beauty of St Endellion Church. 

Don’t miss out on this unique experience! Please get your tickets now and join us for a beautiful afternoon of music and fun.