South West Youth Orchestra & South West Music School - time is running out for late applications - full details from Programmes Manager Sophie Brewer

So modest on air . . .
South West Music School's Programmes Manager
and accomplished musician
Sophie Brewer
playing her flute at the East Devon Choral Society's
performance of Peter Milmer's 'Requiem'
at Exeter Cathedral (Saturday 8th October 2012)

There was a very special guest on this morning's 'Classical Journey'. Sophie Brewer telephoned the studio from the South West Music School offices in Exeter.

Sophie is a very accomplished flute player and music teacher. (See Sophie in action with young students, in the photo-post 'Great Fun at the EMG Open Rehearsal'.) She also manages the teaching programmes of the South West Music School.

She had news about opportunities for young people in Devon and the South West to join the School and/or the South West Youth Orchestra - and to encourage people to look into the possibility quickly before the cut-off dates.

Full details below - and at the South West Music School Website

SOUTH WEST YOUTH ORCHESTRA APPLICATIONS

FOR ALL TALENTED YOUNG

ORCHESTRAL MUSICIANS TO WORK WITH

BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FOR A SUMMER RESIDENTIAL COURSE
DEADLINE 25TH APRIL 2012

South West Youth Orchestra is an orchestra for exceptionally talented young musicians
in the South West region, rehearsing and performing under the direction of exciting
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor, Rui Pinheiro,
playing alongside a team of world-class orchestral professionals,
who will direct sectional rehearsals and also coach chamber music sessions.

The following challenging repertoire will be studied:
Shostakovich Symphony Number 10

(for full orchestra)

Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments

(for wind and brass) 

Mozart Serenata Notturna (for strings)

Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood

(for percussion) 

The course will culminate in a public performance in
The Coade Hall, Bryanston School, Dorset.

Applications are currently open

with a deadline of 25th April.

SOUTH WEST MUSIC SCHOOL APPLICATIONS

FOR ALL TALENTED YOUNG MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS:

VISIT WWW.SWMS.ORG.UK

DEADLINE 11TH MAY 2012

South West Music School is a music charity working
with talented young instrumentalists, singers and composers
aged 8-18yrs in the South West.

Owing to the geographical nature of the South West
we are not building based but are a 'virtual' school
working with young people on an individual basis in their local area.

For singers and instrumentalists of any instrument or genre,
the programme is in two parts.

Students start on the Feeder Scheme,

a year-long programme consisting of 6 workshops

in different venues across the South West.

The Feeder Scheme then ‘feeds’ into the Core Programme,
the main instrumental and vocal part of South West Music School,
consisting of mentoring, individual tuition and residential projects.

Performing musicians can audition to join South West Music School
from age 8-16yrs and can stay on the programme until they are 18yrs old.  

For Composers, South West Music School has formed a partnership
with ‘Sound and Music’ to provide a package of specialist mentoring,
individual tuition and residential projects for talented young composers.
This training and education will be led and guided by composers
from the professional music world who have a proven record
of successful work in music training.

Composition students can apply to join South West Music School
from age 13 - 17 years and can stay on the programme until they are 18yrs old.  

Applications are currently open

with a deadline of 11th May.

HAVE A LOOK AT CURRENT STUDENTS - PLAYING AT DARTINGTON
- Young Artists Performance Series
- Dartington Ship Studio Sunday 22nd May 2011
 

Pianist Benjamin Comeau played Maurice Ravel's 'Ondine'

Violinists Freya Hicks and Annabel Lainchbury
and 'Cellist Indigo Hicks
played Joseph Haydn's 'Divertimento in D'

- Workshop with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Studio 31, Dartington, Sunday 9th January 2011

South West Music School students are joined by six members of
the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a concert in Studio 31

Young musicians of the future
Alfie (double bass) Annabel (violin)
with OAE Education Manager
Cherry Forbes