Workshop: Blow the Dust off your Instrument!

Booking for this event is now open!

Orchestral Playing Day: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Albert Hall, North Circus St,
Nottingham NG1 5AA

Blow the Dust off your Instrument – Orchestral Playing Day

Did you learn to play an instrument at school but haven’t got it out of the case for a long while? Have you taken up playing an instrument in adult life just for fun? Do you like playing orchestral music?

If the answer is YES to any of these questions then come to Blow the Dust off your Instrument Summer 2024.

Music for Everyone invites you to a friendly, relaxed playing day at Nottingham’s Albert Hall.

Workshop Day Timetable

9.40 am Registration opens

10.00 am Morning rehearsals (to include coffee break)

12.30 pm Meal break

1.30 pm Afternoon rehearsals for all players (to include tea break)

4.15 pm Break

4.30pm Informal performance for friends and family

5.30pm End of course

Informal Performance This performance is designed to be part of the workshop experience for participants to enjoy. Friends and family will be welcome to attend. There will be no tickets but voluntary contributions in support of MfE will be much appreciated via a retiring collection.

Workshop Day Fee

The fee includes all music, optional online rehearsals, the workshop experience and coffee or tea at the morning and afternoon breaks.

Orchestra players

Members of Music for Everyone £40

Non Members £50

Benefit Claimants/Students £25

How to Enrol

Online – pay by card here:

Booking is now open! Click the link below to book online or call the office on 0115 9589312.

For any further information, email admin@music-for-everyone.org or telephone 0115 958 9312 (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm)

Family Festival Day

1pm – 5.30pm at Middle Street Resource Centre, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 2AR

From World Drumming workshops to singing sessions for the whole family to take part in and music to enjoy in the garden, there is something for everyone. We’ll also have a cake stall, drinks and games/activities in and around the venue.

Have a go at world drumming with Jude from BeatFeet on djembe drums and rainforest-themed props. Join Rachel in the Family Sing workshop, where all ages are welcome, from 5 – 105!

The Lullaby Bank is a group designed especially for new mothers and babies aged 0 – 9 months to address the specific post-partum experience. This includes well-being, bonding, emotional and physical concerns. Open Voices are MfE’s health initiative designed to suit adults with learning disabilities, come and try a session with Helen to see how it works! More information about the Lullaby Bank and Open Voices regular sessions can be found on the MfE website: www.music-for-everyone.org/health-well-being/

WORLD DRUMMING WORKSHOPS
Workshop 1: 1pm – 1.30pm
Workshop 2: 1.40pm – 2.10pm
We are offering the opportunity to join one of two workshops with Jude from BeatFeet, open to the whole family to join in on djembe drums! There will also be rainforest-themed props for younger children. Advance booking essential as places are limited.

FAMILY SING WORKSHOP
3pm – 4pm
Come and enjoy a fun afternoon of singing together. Children aged 5+ with their mums, dads, grandparents, carers, aunts and uncles – the whole family, friends too! Singing is great for health, togetherness, confidence and fun.

No preparation is needed, we will send all details out by email before the day – all you need is your best singing voice!

LULLABY BANK
2.15pm – 3pm
A chance to relax and bond with your baby to melodies from around the world… in our calm space.

The Lullaby Bank is your chance to relax and bond with your baby in a calm space. Sing and listen to melodies from around the world to soothe and uplift. Bring a blanket or towel for baby to lie on.

FREE session for babies aged 0-9months. Booking essential, places are limited. Please email kirstie@music-for-everyone.org to reserve a place for you and your baby.

FESTIVAL VISITORS
Entry from 1pm – 4.30pm. Festival finishes at 5.30pm
If a workshop isn’t for you, come along and enjoy an afternoon of relaxed music from the Family Sing participants, MfE youth bands and other ensembles in the garden with a piece of cake and a cup of summer punch. £2 entry for festival visitors.

Enrolment and Price

NB Please note, all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Workshop price – £7 per adult, £5 per child (between the ages of 5 and 15)

Online – pay through PayPal or by card

Complete the form and payment here to sign up. Payment can be made via PayPal or debit/credit card.

By post – pay by cheque

Please download and complete this pdf form and post it, together with your enrolment cheque (made payable to Music for Everyone) to Music for Everyone, 10 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FF

For any further information, email admin@music-for-everyone.org or telephone 0115 9589312

NCS June Concert

A Choral Garland

Nottingham Chamber Singers
Angela Kay conductor

Saturday 8 June 2024 at 7.30pm

St Mary’s Church, Bunny

An entertaining concert of classics, folk and jazz to herald the coming of summer.

Programme to include: Cecilia McDowall A Fancy of Folksongs, John Rutter The Sprig of Thyme and works by Pearsall, Holst, Elgar and Chilcott.

Ticket prices Full £12, Conc. £11, Child/Student £5 On the door

Tickets are available to buy online, or by calling the office on 01159589312. Tickets will also be available to buy on the door.

BYME – Stringwise 2024

Workshop and performance day open to all young players aged 8 – 21

Come and experience the joy of string playing at the Big Youth Music Experience for young violin, viola, cello and double bass players.

Workshop: Sunday 21st April 2024 – South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Concert: Sunday 28th April – Albert Hall, Nottingham

Come to Stringwise 2024 – an instrumental workshop day and concert for all young violin, viola, cello and double bass players from beginners to grade 5+. (For wind, brass and percussion players – check out BANDWISE!)

Rehearsals are led by experienced conductors and a team of specialist instrumentalists on the workshop day. Family and friends are invited to watch the informal concert the following weekend at Nottingham’s Albert Hall!

There will be three groups

Stringwise 1 (grade 0 – 1)
Stringwise 2 (grade 2 – 4)
Stringwise 3 (grade 5+)

A music pack, including rehearsal tracks, will be sent out approximately 4 weeks before the course. These tracks take you through the music and the workshop day rehearsals carry on from where they leave off.

Timetable

Sunday 21 April 2024 – Workshop Day
South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Stringwise 3: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Stringwise 1 & 2: 1.00pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 28 April – Concert Day
Albert Hall, Nottingham

Stringwise 3: 11.00am – 3.00pm
Stringwise 1 & 2: 12.30pm – 3.00pm
Concert: 3.30pm – 5.30pm
NB Children will be supervised in between the rehearsal and concert.

How to sign up

The cost for the course is £18 for Stringwise 1 & 2, £22 for Stringwise 3. MfE runs a subsidised scheme for all courses. Telephone the MfE office for more details 0115 9589312.

10% FAMILY DISCOUNT AVAILABLE! If 2 or more players from the same family are signing up, use code 10BYME24 to receive 10% off.

You can sign up online via PayPal, debit or credit card (no additional fees) via the form below

By cheque – download and complete this form and post to the MfE office at 10 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FF. Or you can phone 0115 9589312 and enrol over the phone.

Booking is now closed for this course. For information and queries on future events, please email kirstie@music-for-everyone.org

BYME – Bandwise 2024

Workshop and performance day open to all young players aged 8 – 21

Come and experience the joy of wind band playing at the Big Youth Music Experience for young woodwind, brass and percussion players.

Workshop: Saturday 20th April 2024 – South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Concert: Sunday 28th April – Albert Hall, Nottingham

Come to BANDWISE 2024 – an instrumental workshop day & informal concert for all young woodwind, brass and percussion players of grade 2 standard and above. (For string players – check out STRINGWISE!)

There will be two bands:

Bandwise 1: grade 2-4
Bandwise 2: grade 5+

A music pack (including rehearsal tracks which are accessible via digital download or a CD) will be sent out approximately 4 weeks before the course. These tracks take you through the music and the workshop day rehearsals carry on from where they leave off.

Timetable

Saturday 20 April 2024 – Workshop Day
South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Bandwise 2: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Bandwise 1: 1.00pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 28 April 2024 – Concert Day
Albert Hall, Nottingham

Bandwise 2: 11.00am – 3.00pm
Bandwise 1: 12.15pm – 3.00pm
Concert: 3.30pm – 5.30pm
NB Children will be supervised in between the rehearsal and concert.

How to sign up

The cost for the course is £18 for Bandwise 1, £22 for Bandwise 2. MfE runs a subsidised scheme for all courses. Telephone the MfE office for more details 0115 9589312.

10% FAMILY DISCOUNT AVAILABLE! If 2 or more players from the same family are signing up, use code 10BYME24 to receive 10% off.

You can sign up online via PayPal, debit or credit card (no additional fees) via the form below

By cheque – download and complete this form and post to the MfE office at 10 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FF. Or you can phone 0115 9589312 and enrol over the phone.

Booking is now closed for this course. For information and queries on future events, please email kirstie@music-for-everyone.org

Concert: From West End to Broadway

From West End to Broadway

Saturday 23 March

Rushcliffe Spencer Academy, West Bridgford NG2 7BW

4.30pm – Pre Concert Drinks

5pm -6.30 pm – Concert*

*Please note – times printed on the tickets have been amended, the time above is correct*

Music for Everyone invites you to come and hear well known hits from the musicals and West End.

Enjoy the glitz and glam of the theatre with our special guest compere and baritone soloist Simon Theobald, conducted by MfE’s Assistant Artistic Director, Rachel Parkes, and accompanied by Angela Foan.

The programme will include foot tapping numbers from Oliver and Guys and Dolls, unforgettable melodies from West Side Story and Chess, and moving songs from hit musical Blood Brothers.

Tickets – £8 to include a glass of wine or soft drink

Available to buy online via the form below or contact our Box Office on 0115 9589312. In person – 10 Goose Gate, Hockley. The office is open Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm.

Online booking is now closed. Tickets are available to buy on the door from 4.30pm. The concert takes place in the A Hall at Rushcliffe Spencer Academy

Tickets will also be for sale on the door, subject to availability.

Workshop Day: NCM From West End to Broadway

Musicals workshop day and concert: From West End to Broadway!

Music for Everyone invites you to come and sing in an entertaining workshop of well known hits from the musicals and West End. Enjoy the glitz and glam of the theatre with our special guest compere and baritone soloist Simon Theobald, conducted by MfE’s Assistant Artistic Director, Rachel Parkes, and accompanied by Angela Foan.

The programme will include foot tapping numbers from Oliver and Guys and Dolls, unforgettable melodies from West Side Story and Chess, and moving songs from hit musical Blood Brothers.

The day will finish with an informal cabaret-style concert including a performance from MfE’s Open Voices choir.

Tickets include a free pre-concert glass of wine or soft drink from 4pm.

All music will be provided on the workshop day.

Timetable:

Saturday 23 March
Rushcliffe Spencer Academy, NG2 7BW

10.00am – 6.30pm

Registration: 10am

Singing sessions: 10.30am – 4pm

To include tea, coffee and lunch breaks

Pre-concert drinks: 4.30pm-5pm

Performance: 5pm – 6.30pm

The course fee for this event is £27. Book online via the button below or contact the office at Music for Everyone, 10 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FF. Please make cheques payable to Music for Everyone.

Booking for this event is now closed.

If you’d like to come and watch the concert, book tickets here: Concert: From West End to Broadway (music-for-everyone.org)

Spring into Music Concert

East Midlands Youth String Orchestra
East Midlands Youth Band
Nottingham Youth Band
Nottingham Strictly Strings
Round Hill School Orchestra

Sunday 17th March, 3.30pm
Chilwell Arts Theatre, Chilwell School, Queens Road West, Nottingham NG9 5AL

Music for Everyone Youth Groups and Round Hill School Orchestra present a springtime concert. Come and listen to the exuberant talent of youth in an exciting and varied programme.

Available from the MfE Box Office at 0115 9589312, online via the form below, or on the door, subject to availability.

Tickets: Adult £7, Child/Student £4

Online booking is now closed as the office is not manned at the weekends. Tickets will be available to buy on the door from 3pm on Sunday.

NCS March Concert

7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Clifton, Saturday 16th March 2024

Nottingham Chamber Singers present:

Angels, Dreams and Flying Machines

Join NCS for an evening of flight, fantasy and winged creatures, featuring poetry and musical works by Whitacre, Panufnik, Mendelssohn, Vaughan-Williams and many more!

Prepare to take flight with the Nottingham Chamber Singers as they soar,

wheel and glide through a constellation of madrigals, motets and part-songs

all on a theme of flying, wings and dreams. Hear the ravishing angels of Aleotti and Mendelssohn, drift away over hill and dale to the cloud capp’d towers

with Vaughan–Williams, and take a daring leap with the ingenious inventor

Leonardo da Vinci in Eric Whitacre’s epic choral poem Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine. This programme, interspersed with words from some of Great

Britain’s most celebrated poets, promises to enthral and delight, so book early to avoid disappointment!

Performers

Formerly known as the East of England Singers, the Nottingham Chamber Singers have a busy concert schedule performing works across the full choral range, from William Byrd to Judith Weir. The choir’s refreshingly dynamic and committed performances continue to receive critical and public acclaim, led by Assistant conductor and Music for Everyone’s Assistant Artistic Director, Rachel Parkes.

Rachel Parkes was born and raised in Northamptonshire. She received her early musical education through the Royal School of Church Music and Northamptonshire County Performing Arts Service, and went on to gain a first class Honours degree in Music, and later a Masters in Music and Performance, from Royal Holloway, University of London. During her studies Rachel studied singing with Margaret Cable and Jessica Cash, she now receives coaching from Lynne Wayman.

Tickets

Full £14, Concession £13, Child/Student £5

Tickets are available to buy online, or by calling the office on 01159589312. Tickets will also be available to buy on the door.

Online booking is now closed as the office is not manned at the weekends. Tickets will be available to buy on the door from 7pm on Saturday.

Gloria! Concert

Nottingham Festival Chorus, Nottingham Chamber Singers
Nottingham Concert Orchestra

Saturday 3rd February, 7.30pm
Albert Hall, Nottingham

Clara Orif soprano

Alex Robinson conductor

Online booking has now closed. TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE TO BUY ON THE DOOR. Doors open from 7pm.

The Music:

Experience a programme of thrilling repertoire by a 100+ strong choir and full symphony orchestra as they perform Glorias in all shapes and sizes by Poulenc, Rutter and others!

From the delicate to the extreme, from the bombastic to the intimate, this fantastic concert featuring over 200 musicians has it all! After the stage is set in Debussy’s La Cathedrale Engloutie, fanfares rain down from on high in the first half with music by Rutter and Weir before French Soprano, Clara Orif, lends her sweet lyricism to Poulenc’s breath-taking setting and the Chamber Singers take our breaths away in the second.

The Performers:

The Nottingham Festival Chorus is Music for Everyone’s flag-ship choir, a large-scale four-part chorus performing major classical and twentieth-century works, with the Nottingham Concert Orchestra. There are three intensive and highly enjoyable events per year, from a one day workshop to a full weekend course and concert. The concert will be conducted by Artistic Director Alex Robinson.

Soprano Clara Orif currently performs with Royal Academy Opera and is an Oxford Lieder Emerging Artist. Born in Paris into a Scottish family and based in London, Clara started out her singing career at a very early age at the renowned Maîtrise de Radio France, under the direction of Sofi Jeannin. Clara is a winner of the Richard Lewis / Jean Shanks Award and the Isabel Jay prize (2022). She was a semifinalist in the 2023 Marmande International Singing Competition. Clara is generously supported by the London Women’s Clinic Foundation Award.

The Venue: Nottingham’s historic and elegant Albert Hall is a comfortable concert venue located in Nottingham’s Castle Zone, next to the Nottingham Playhouse (follow signs for the Playhouse)

Parking is available on neighbouring streets and in multi-storey car parks nearby – Mount Street and Talbot Street – all within easy walking distance. Discounted parking rates, capped at £9.95, are available from NCP Mount Street, collect a validation ticket from the Albert Hall staff before you leave the event to pay on exiting the car park.

Public transport: The Nottingham Tram service runs every 7 – 15 minutes, with free car parking facilities around Nottinghamshire. The nearest tram stops are Royal Centre and Old Market Square, both 5 – 10 minute walk away. Being in the centre of Nottingham has the advantage of many bus services, with the main bus stations nearby. 5 Minute walk from Old Market Square, 15 minute walk from Victoria and Broadmarsh Bus Station.

Download the flyer here (pdf)

Tickets: Full £18 – £14, Conc. £17-13, Child/Student £5

Tickets are available to book online via the ‘Book Tickets’ button below, or you can book over the phone by calling our Box Office on 0115 9589312. We are happy to reserve your tickets whilst awaiting the arrival of your cheque, or you can pay when you collect at the venue.