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BYME – Stringwise 2023

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 12th November 2023 – South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Concert: Sunday 19th November – Albert Hall, Nottingham

 

Come to Stringwise 2023 – an instrumental workshop day and concert for all young violin, viola, cello and double bass players from beginners to grade 5+.

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 12 November 2023 – Workshop Day
South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

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

Sunday 19 November 2023 – 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 £14 for Stringwise 1 & 2, £18 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 10BYME23 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.

BYME – Bandwise 2023

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 11th November 2023 – South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

Concert: Sunday 19th November – Albert Hall, Nottingham

 

Come to BANDWISE 2023 – an instrumental workshop day & informal concert for all young woodwind, brass and percussion players of grade 2 standard and above.

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 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 11 November 2023 – Workshop Day
South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe on Trent

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

Sunday 19 November 2023 – 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 £14 for Bandwise 1, £18 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 10BYME23 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.

NFC Choral Workshop with Sam Evans

10.00am – 5.00pm at the Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus NG11 8NS

This October, come and sing a selection of well-loved choruses from Mendelssohn’s Oratorio epic Elijah, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach’s sparkling Magnificat and the beautiful Vilja chorus from Lehár’s opera The Merry Widow.

Music for Everyone is delighted to welcome guest conductor and dynamic workshop leader Sam Evans. Much in demand for workshops for singers of all kinds, Sam has run events for large choirs such as Highgate Choral Society, The London Chorus and Henley Choral Society. He has run numerous “Come and Sing” workshops, on repertoire ranging from opera choruses to pop music from movie soundtracks.

Sam brings to his workshops his infectious enthusiasm for singing, and his ability to explain his methods in a clear and accessible way. He draws on his 15 years experience as a member of the Monteverdi Choir, and his long experience as a singing teacher and soloist, to draw the best out of the singers he works with. A seasoned and acclaimed Chorus Master, with a star-studded roster including the BBC Singers, the Monteverdi Choir, and for the Swedish Radio Choir, Nottingham’s choral singers are in for an absolute treat.

What experience do singers need?

MfE events are open to all keen singers, you do not need to be a member to take part. (See details below if you would like to become a member). The ability to read music and some previous singing experience is needed for this course.

Tuition, music and tea and coffee is included in the price.

Don’t miss the chance to book your place now!

Music Scores

All music will be provided on the day. Please indicate if you have your own copy of Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Provisional Workshop Day Timetable – Saturday 7th October 2023

9:45 – 10:00am           Registration

10:00 – 12:30pm         Morning session (with refreshment break)

12:30 – 1.30pm           Lunch (please bring a packed lunch)

1:30 – 5.00pm             Afternoon session (with refreshment break and informal performance at 4.30pm)

Workshop Fee

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

MfE Subscribing Members – £30; Non-members – £40.

Benefit Claimants/Students – £15

How to enrol

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:

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

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

NCS September Concert

8.00pm, St Barnabas Cathedral, North Circus Street, Nottingham NG1 5AE

Nottingham Chamber Singers
Nottingham Classical Players

Emily Hodkinson mezzo-soprano, Peter Siepmann organ, Rachel Parkes conductor

Duruflé Requiem & Quatre Motets Sur Des Themes Gregoriens

Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine

Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu

Elgar Sospiri

Franck Psalm 150

The Music

From the opening organ rumblings of Franck’s grand and sparkling Psalm 150, to the brooding pre-war angst of Lili Boulanger’s Pie Jesu and Elgar’s achingly beautiful Sospiri, we aim to give you a flavour of the styles and sensibilities of some of the greatest Romantics of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Relax into Faure’s well-known and beloved cantique de Jean Racine, and lose yourself in the ancient chants that expand and unfurl in Maurice Duruflé’s uplifting Quatre Motets. 

The second half of the concert will be devoted to Duruflé’s profoundly moving and deeply consoling Requiem, a work you will be guaranteed to fall in love with as the melodies linger long afterwards in your memory.

The Performers


Tickets

Front Nave- Full £16, Concession £15, Child/Student £5

Side Aisle/Back Nave – Full £14, Concession £13, Child/Student £5

*Online Booking is now closed. Tickets will be available to buy on the door*

NB There will be a very short interval during this concert. Regrettably, refreshments will not be available.

The Venue

The sumptuous Gothic interior of St Barnabas Cathedral, the work of Augustus Pugin, one of the architects of the Houses of Parliament, is a hidden gem in the heart of the city.

The Cathedral is easy to find – located on the corner of Derby Road and North Circus Street, facing Nottingham’s Albert Hall. The Cathedral is approx. 5 mins away from the Theatre Royal tram stop, there is a bus stop outside the front door plus plenty of on-street parking and car parks close by.

 

Recorder Consort Day

Playing and Performance Day

10.00am – 3.00pm at Belton House, Grantham NG32 2LW

Come to Music for Everyone’s Recorder Consort Day

Taking place in the historical setting of Belton House, enjoy a day of recorder playing followed by informal performances to members of the public in the café courtyard. The workshop day will be led by Chris McDouall. Chris is an experienced recorder player who is sure to bring the best out of everyone.

Music chosen reflects a broad sweep of styles, from the heyday of the Renaissance to the present day.

Timetable – Saturday 2nd September

10.00am    Registration
10.30 – 1.00pm  Morning rehearsals (with refreshment break)
1.00pm – 2.00pm  Lunch Break (please bring a packed lunch)
2.00pm – 3.00pm  Informal performances in the saloon

Music will be sent out approximately 3 weeks before the course.

Workshop Fees

MfE Members* £16, Non-members £21, Benefit Claimants/Students £11.

To sign up online, click the button above and fill in the form. You can pay with PayPal or credit/debit card (no booking fees)

To sign up by post, download this PDF form and send it to us with your details and cheque payment (payable to Music for Everyone). Post to Music for Everyone, 10 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FF.

*MfE Membership (£35 per annum) is open to all. Current members of a regular MfE Daytime group are automatically signed up for membership.
For further information, tel. 0115 9589312 or email admin@music-for-everyone.org

A Musical Celebration: Concert

Join us in celebrating Music for Everyone’s 40th Anniversary, with an afternoon concert at Nottingham’s Albert Hall on Sunday 2nd July, 3.30pm, bringing together over 300 performers from MfE’s Daytime Voices, Daytime Orchestras, Festival Chorus, Concert Orchestra and Chamber Singers, past and present! MfE’s Sunday Afternoon Big Band and Flute Choir will also be performing in the Osborne Suite before the concert.

Opening with a brilliant new fanfare for choir and brass – Hail, Bright Cecilia! – to celebrate MfE’s 40th Birthday, the concert also includes ‘O Fortuna’ from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah, excerpts from Elgar’s Serenade for Strings and music by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Queen. All to say a special ‘THANK YOU’ to Angela Kay for 40 years of outstanding music-making in the East Midlands.

– The Four Decades of Music for Everyone –

Don’t miss the special 40th Anniversary Exhibition in the Albert Hall’s Osborne Foyer. Take a trip down memory lane with photographs from MfE events old and new, see our very first typewriter, letters and publicity and look back on 40 years of the famous MfE pencil!

Tickets: Adults £15, Children/Students £7.50 includes souvenir programme and birthday cake!
Book online via the ‘Buy Tickets’ button below.
Phone the MfE Box Office on 0115 958 9312
In Person (Monday – Friday, 11am – 4pm): Bookwise, 10 Goose Gate, Hockley NG1 1FF

ONLINE BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO BUY ON THE DOOR. 

DOORS OPEN FROM 3PM TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS, PLEASE DO COME ALONG EARLIER TO EXPERIENCE THE EXHIBITION IN THE OSBORNE SUITE

Spotlight on Youth – Saturday 1st July, 3.30pm Albert Hall, Nottingham
Come and celebrate 40 years of MfE with our instrumental youth groups and Vocals Choir featuring alumni members. Programme to include magical folk-fiddling by special guest Sam Sweeney, national folk musician and former MfE Stringwise member.
Book tickets online: https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/a-musical-celebration-spotlight-on-youth/

A Musical Celebration: Spotlight on Youth

East Midlands Youth Band
East Midlands Youth String Orchestra
Nottingham Strictly Strings
Nottingham Youth Band
Vocals Youth Choir
Invited alumni members

Special guest artist: Sam Sweeney

Conductors: Josh Goodman, Tamaki Higashi, Jane McDouall, Rachel Parkes, Mike Shaw

3.30pm, Saturday 1st July 2023
Albert Hall, Nottingham

Join us as we celebrate Music for Everyone’s 40th Anniversary in an afternoon concert at Nottingham’s Albert Hall on Saturday 1st July 3.30pm, with the East Midlands & Nottingham Youth Bands, Strictly Strings, East Midlands Youth String Orchestra and our Vocals Choir featuring singers and players, past and present! There will also be a special performance from MfE’s World Drumming group in the Osborne Suite before the concert begins.

With special guest and Stringwise alumnus, folk musician Sam Sweeney, the concert will showcase our talented youth groups performing a varied programme, culminating in a grand finale with all performers in ‘Just Sing!’ from Trolls World Tour.

– The Four Decades of Music for Everyone –

Don’t miss the special 40th Anniversary Exhibition in the Albert Hall’s Osborne Foyer. Take a trip down memory lane with photographs from MfE events old and new, see our very first typewriter, letters and publicity and look back on 40 years of the famous MfE pencil!

Tickets: Adults £10, Children/Students £5

ONLINE BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO BUY ON THE DOOR. 

DOORS OPEN FROM 3PM TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS, PLEASE DO COME ALONG EARLIER TO EXPERIENCE THE EXHIBITION IN THE OSBORNE SUITE

Book online and choose your seats via the ‘Book Tickets’ button below
Phone the MfE Box Office on 0115 958 9312
In Person (Monday – Friday, 11am – 4pm): Bookwise, 10 Goose Gate, Hockley NG1 1FF
Tickets available on the door, subject to availability

A Musical Celebration – Sunday 2nd July, 3.30pm Albert Hall, Nottingham

Do join us again for our Sunday concert, featuring over 300 members of MfE’s adult music groups performing music by Handel, Brahms, Carl Orff, Elgar, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Queen! All finished off with a piece of birthday cake! Book tickets online at: https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/a-musical-celebration-concert/

 

Workshop: Blow the Dust off your Instrument!

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

  

Josh Goodman, Angela Kay conductors

Let’s Blow the Dust off our instruments

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

Did you learn to play an instrument when you were at school but haven’t got it out of the case for a long time? Or 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 2023.

Conducted by Angela Kay and Josh Goodman, this playing day will give you the chance to renew old skills or put new-found ones into practice in a friendly relaxed and supportive environment.

The music has been chosen to give scope to players of all abilities and will include Edward Elgar’s rousing Imperial March Op.32, Leroy Anderson’s beautiful Forgotten Dreams, Queen’s iconic rock anthem We are the Champions and Arthur Wood’s Barwick Green, as featured on popular radio show The Archers!

There will be items for wind band and string orchestra. The instrumental parts will be sent out in advance of the workshop to give you time to get to grips with the notes ahead of the day itself.
NB Please note: This course is suitable for players of a standard Associated Board Grade 3 and above.

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      £32

Non Members                                  £37

Benefit Claimants/Students             £22

 

How to Enrol

Online – pay by card:

Online booking now closed. Please phone the office to ask about available spaces for Saturday.

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

Family Sing Workshop

2pm – 5pm at The Grange, Radcliffe-on-Trent

Online booking is now closed but we do have spaces to turn up on the door! Registration is from 1.45pm and we can accept cash or card payments.

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!

Music leaders – Sara King & Rachel Parkes

   

Join us for a fun afternoon singing workshop at The Grange in Radcliffe on Trent. The whole family is invited to take part together, enjoy well-known songs from ‘Celebration’ by Kool and the Gang, ‘My House’ from Matilda and ‘Under the Sea’ from the Little Mermaid, all led by our experienced conductors. There will also be an opportunity to have a go at STEEL PAN DRUMMING and listen to a short performance by our new ensemble!

Enrolment and Price

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

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

Online – pay through PayPal or by card

Just click here and fill in your details:

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

In partnership with:

Hail, Star of the Sea

Nottingham Chamber Singers
Nottingham Classical Players
Angela Kay conductor

Tickets available on the door

Experience the exquisite fusion of voices and strings in this concert featuring music from the 18th to the 21st centuries. 

From the intensity of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater to the lyricism of Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs, Arvo Part’s haunting Salve Regina to the inventiveness of Cecilia McDowall’s Ave Maris Stella.

A concert of contrast and beauty.

Ticket prices  In advance/reserved – Full £12, Conc. £10, Child/Student £6 On the door – Full £13, Conc. £11, Child/Student £6.50.  

 

Online ticket booking is now closed, tickets will be available to purchase on the door.