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What’s Next Wind Band

WHAT’S NEXT WIND BAND

A new musical experience for ages 18–35

Why This Event?

What’s Next Wind Band is a brand‑new, fun and social music‑making experience designed exclusively for wind and brass players aged 18–35. Whether you’re in musical limbo, missing your old band days, wanting to meet new people, or simply looking for a creative mental‑health boost — this day is for you.

You’ll enjoy a day of high‑quality rehearsals with a relaxed performance at the end of the day, and plenty of opportunities to socialise with other musicians. It’s a chance to reconnect with your instrument, rediscover your love of ensemble playing, and build a new musical community.

Who Should Attend?

  • Wind, brass and percussion players grade 5+* aged 18–35
  • Those who played at school or university and want to get back into it
  • Young professionals seeking a creative outlet
  • Local students wanting to meet other musicians and find a musical community for post-graduation
  • Anyone looking to build confidence and community through music

*(please contact us if you would like to attend but are unsure if this course is at your level)

When & Where?

Saturday 6th June 2026

10am – arrival
10:30am – 4:30pm rehearsals, including morning, afternoon and lunchbreak
5pm – informal performance

Post performance: a trip to the pub afterwards for anyone who wants to continue the fun!

Venue: Squire Performing Arts Centre, Nottingham, NG1 4JB

The event will be held in Nottingham city centre, making it easy to travel from nearby cities such as Derby or Sheffield.

Getting there:
By Car: There is a car park at the Squire Performing Arts Centre and additional on-street parking on Arboretum Street.
By Public Transport: The High School tram stop is the closet stop to the Squire Performing Arts Centre. This is a 7 minute walk away.
Nottingham is easily reachable via trains into Nottingham Station – there is a tram stop at the station which will take you to the High School stop. Both tram routes go between the Station and the High School stop.

Pricing

The event costs £30 for the day, including a pizza lunch.

There will be a group discount of 10% at the time of booking for groups of 2 or more players booking together.

We don’t want anyone to be excluded from MfE activities because of their financial circumstances and there is a subsidised scheme available for any who needs it. Please contact anna@music-for-everyone.org if this is the case.

 

 

We are grateful for the financial support from the MfE Founder’s Artistic Development Fund to help us run this event (https://www.music-for-everyone.org/founders-fund)

 

 

 

Concert: Instruments in Bloom

East Midlands Youth String Orchestra
East Midlands Youth Band
Nottingham Youth Band
Nottingham Strictly Strings

Conductors: Claire Franklin, Tamaki Higashi, Erika Zeckser Owen

 

Sunday 15th March, 3:30pm

Grange Hall, Radcliffe, NG12 2FB

 

Music for Everyone’s youth music groups present their end of term concert. Join them as they showcase their hard work and perform a fun and wide ranging programme of music from classical to film and tv favourites – a perfect way to spend Mother’s Day.

 

Tickets

Adult £8, Child/Student £4

Tickets can be purchased below. Please keep your email confirmation as this will be needed on the day.

 


 

 

Open Voices Sherwood: My Fair Lady

Open Voices Sherwood: My Fair Lady
Come and see them in action on Friday 25th July at St Martins Church, Trevose Gardens, Sherwood, NG5 3FU.
Entry is free.
Tea and cakes at will be served at 11 and the performance begins at 11.20am.
We’d like to say a big thank you to the Rempstone Steam and Country Show for their donation to Open Voices Sherwood to support them with their production of My Fair Lady.

NFC October Singing Course & Concert

Booking for this course is now closed.

Come and be part of an amazing choral experience and perform a dazzling concert. All participating singers become the Nottingham Festival Chorus for the day! 

St Nic’s Church, Maid Marion Way, City Centre, Nottingham, NG1 6AE

Conductor: Alex Robinson

Chorus master: Rachel Parkes

Accompanist: Angela Foan

Walk the golden streets of Venice in our first Festival Chorus concert of the season, focusing on the music of two of Venice’s greatest exports – Monteverdi and Vivaldi. The Vivaldi Gloria is one of his most famous works and a real joy to sing. Experience the splendour of the high baroque era from Europe’s cultural jewel with strings and harpsichords ringing out in celebration.

NFC courses are open to all keen singers.

What is the Nottingham Festival Chorus?

  • Mixed choir of 100+ voices, no auditions
  • Expertly led, highly enjoyable workshops and concerts
  • Distance-learning packs provided

What experience do singers need?

The ability to read music and some previous singing experience is needed for this course.

  • Mixed choir of 100+ voices, no auditions
  • Expertly led, highly enjoyable rehearsal weekends
  • Distance-learning packs

Don’t miss out, book your place now!

Venue

The course and concert on 4th October will take place at St Nic’s in the city centre. Find out more about St Nic’s here: About — St Nic’s Nottingham

Repertoire

Vivaldi – Gloria

Concert 

The Nottingham Chamber Singers will perform three works by Monteverdi, including Beatus Vir, before the Nottingham Festival Chorus completes the programme singing Vivaldi’s Gloria.

Music Scores

Music hire is included in the price. Please select collection point upon booking.

We offer music collection points. Please choose an option when booking. (The edition to be used is Ricordi, 1970 ed. Malipiero)

Provisional Timetable –

Friday 26th September, NTU Clifton

Rehearsal 7-9pm

Saturday 4th October, St Nic’s Church

Registration: 9.30am

Singing sessions: 10am – 4pm

To include tea, coffee and lunch break.

Concert: 5pm – 6:30pm

Workshop Fee

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

MfE Subscribing Members – £40; Non-members – £45.

We don’t want anyone to be excluded from MfE activities because of their financial circumstances and there is a subsidised scheme available for any who needs it. Please contact anne@music-for-everyone.org if this is the case.

How to enrol

Booking for this course is now closed.

Online – pay by card:

Click the button above and fill in your details: Payment can be made via debit/credit card (no additional fees)

By post – pay by cheque:

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

MfE Membership

Join us as a member and become part of a unique community of music makers. Your membership will also help to sustain, strengthen and shape the future of MfE, enabling others to experience the joy of music too.

Membership benefits you will receive are:

  • Special membership rates for courses/workshops
  • Invitation and voting rights for the annual AGM
  • Priority early booking of tickets for all events including concerts

Annual Membership – £40 per year

N.B. If you play or sing with one of our regular groups i.e. Daytime Voices / Daytime Orchestras / Nottingham Chamber Singers you are already part of the family and will automatically receive these membership benefits as part of your termly subscription. You do not need to take out membership.

Click here to become a member

Meet the Composer: Open Workshop

Nottingham Chamber Singers 40th Anniversary Season

Sunday 11th May, 2pm – 4.30pm

Djanogly Rehearsal Hall
Department of Music
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Have you ever wondered how a composer goes about writing a piece for choir and orchestra? Do they start with the melody, or go straight to the words? This is your unique opportunity to find out.

To celebrate their 40th Anniversary, the Nottingham Chamber Singers have commissioned a piece for choir and string orchestra from gifted Nottingham-born composer, Libby Croad. Libby write the splendid choral Fanfare, Hail Bright Cecilia, which opened the Music for Everyone 40th Celebration Concert two years ago.

Come along and watch, or sing with the choir, and be part of the creative process as Libby introduces and explores her new piece The Nightingale.

 

 

 

 

Tickets (which include refreshments and music scores) are priced at £5 (payable on the day) and are FREE for students and children.
Available from:

  • filling in the form via the button below
  • MfE Box Office (0115 9589312)
  • on the door

 

Concert: A Summer Celebration

East Midlands Youth String Orchestra
East Midlands Youth Band
Nottingham Youth Band
Nottingham Strictly Strings

Saturday 5th July, 3.30pm
St Luke’s Church, West Bridgford, NG2 6GL

 

Music for Everyone’s Strictly Strings, Youth String Orchestra & Youth Bands present a concert to celebrate summer! Come and listen to the exuberant talent of youth in an exciting and varied programme.

Tickets: Adult £7, Child/Student £4

Tickets will be available on the door subject to availability.

Workshop: Blow the Dust off your Instrument!

Orchestral Playing Day: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Albert Hall, North Circus St,
Nottingham NG1 5AA

Did you learn an instrument at school, only for it to be gathering dust in the attic?  Maybe you have taken up an instrument later in life purely for the joy of playing?

If so, Blow the Dust off Your Instrument June 2026 is for you!

This exciting and welcoming playing day led by Alex Robinson (orchestra and string ensemble) and Claire Franklin (wind band), is designed to help you rediscover old skills or put newly learned ones into action. You will enjoy making music in a friendly, relaxed and supportive atmosphere, alongside fellow players who share your enthusiasm.

To help you feel confident and prepared, parts will be sent out in advance, giving you plenty of time to get to grips with the music before the day itself.

Dust off your instrument, rediscover the joy of playing, and join us for a day of music-making you won’t forget!

Repertoire

To be added nearer the event

 

Workshop Day Timetable 

9.30 am                Registration

10.00 am             Morning rehearsals (to include coffee break)

12.30 pm             Meal break

1.30 pm                Afternoon rehearsals (to include tea break)

4.00 pm                Short break

4:30 pm                Informal concert for friends and family

5:30 pm                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, the workshop experience and coffee or tea at the morning and afternoon breaks.

Orchestra players

Members of Music for Everyone      £43

Non Members                                  £53

Benefit Claimants/Students             £15

How to Enrol

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

Subsidy scheme is available, please email anne@music-for-everyone.org for further details.

NCS Concert – Cathedrals of Sound

Saturday 25th April 2026, 7.30pm, St John the Baptist Church (Beeston Parish Church), NG9 1EJ

Nottingham Chamber Singers and Wind Ensemble

Conductor: Angela Kay

Programme to include:

Bruckner – Mass No.2 in E minor

Górecki – Totus tuus

Vaughan Williams – Let all the world in every corner sing

The programme uses the spaces of the church to enfold the audience in music composed for special buildings and occasions. Bruckner’s sonorous Mass in E Minor, scored for eight-part choir and wind ensemble, takes us to the ‘new’ cathedral in Linz, Austria, while other composers convey us through England, France and Poland to Italy – from Durham Cathedral to St Mark’s in Venice, via Warsaw’s Chopin Airport!

Tickets

Tickets are available to book online via the 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.

Full £15, Concession £14, Child/Student £5

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 Artistic Director, Rachel Parkes, and accompanied by Angela Foan.

Programme to include songs from Mary Poppins, Cabaret and Oklahoma!

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

All music will be provided on the workshop day.

Parking is available at the venue and Hucknall tram stop is an 11 minute walk away.

Timetable:

Saturday 7 March
John Godber Centre, Ogle Street, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7FQ

10.00am – 6:30pm

The course fee for this event is £30 (£15 for students and benefit claimants).

We don’t want anyone to be excluded from MfE activities because of their financial circumstances and there is a subsidised scheme available for any who needs it. Please contact anne@music-for-everyone.org if this is the case.

 

To book tickets for the concert please use this link.

The Creation

Nottingham Festival Chorus presents

The Creation

Saturday 7th February, 6pm
Albert Hall, Nottingham

Join the Nottingham Festival Chorus for an immersive, multi-sensory performance of Haydn’s choral masterpiece The Creation.  Fine Artist and Composer, Caroline Bordignon, will bring a dynamic, visual dimension to the performance – as she paints in real time, her evolving artwork will mirror the unfolding drama of Haydn’s score, from the chaos before light, to the emergence of life and nature.  Through her exploration of colour, light, space, and time, and the ways these elements interrelate through synaesthesia, Bordignon will create a profound synthesis of sound and image – music inspiring art, and art, in turn, amplifying the expressive power of music.

The Music:

Haydn, The Creation

The Performers:

Alex Robinson, Conductor

Rachel Parkes, Chorus Master

Angela Foan, Accompanist

Eleri Gwilym, Soprano

Harry Grigg, Tenor

William Burn, Bass

Live art, Caroline Bordignon

Nottingham Concert Players

The Festival Chorus (NFC)

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 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.

Tickets: Full £19 – £15, Conc. £18-14, Child £5, Students free (on production of valid student ID)

Tickets are no longer available to purchase online but will be available on the door from 5pm.