Events

Truro Youth String and Truro Junior Strings Orchestras - Music for the Festive Season
TYSO and TJSO will be performing a one hour family concert including interesting arrangements of Christmas carols
and Mozart’s delightful Eine Kliene Nachtsmusick
Admission FREE
Chacewater Village Hall
Sunday 13th December
7.30pm
Concert flyer

CMEH County Choirs Christmas Concert
12th December, Chapel Street Methodist Church, Penzance at 7.00
Tickets
Adults - £3 (concessions - £2)
Under 18's free

Annual Mince Pie Concert
The regional ensembles, Trigg Strings, Trigg Winds and Whirlwinds (delivered by CMST and supported by the Hub), will be performing in their annual Mince Pie concert at Wadebridge School on Thursday 10th December at 7.30pm

Carrick Breeze and Carrick Winds Annual Christmas Concert
Newquay Tretherras School
Thursday 10th December
7.00

Restormel Junior Strings, the regional strings ensemble delivered by the CMST and supported by the Hub, have been invited to open the Gala Night for the St. Austell Festival of Music and Speech at St. Johns Methodist Church, St. Austell on Saturday December 5th.

Newquay Strings, the regional strings ensemble delivered by CMST and supported by the Hub, will be performing at St John's Methodist Church as part of the St. Austell Festival of Music and Speech on 3rd December at 2.00.

FOR EVERY VOICE A CHOIR
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Auditions 2015
Auditions Programme Principal Supporter: The Royal Albert Hall
In 2015, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain will hold 12 days of auditions for four of its five constituent choirs at 14 locations nationwide.
We are particularly looking forward to our audition day in Truro on Saturday 28 November, and to the opportunity to welcome more members from Cornwall to our choirs, which already contain 19 talented young singers from the county.
Candidates may audition for the following choirs:
The National Youth Boys’ Choir – for trebles and boys with changing voices, ages 9-15.
The National Youth Girls’ Choir – for girls, ages 10-15.
The National Youth Training Choir – for boys and girls, ages 14-18.
The National Youth Choir – for boys and girls, ages 16-22.
For more information about each choir, CLICK HERE.
NYCGB Auditions Flyer 2015
Dates and venues




Saturday 31 October


LONDON




Sunday 1 November


LONDON, BIRMINGHAM




Sunday 8 November


LONDON, NOTTINGHAM




Friday 13 November


WEST CUMBRIA, PETERBOROUGH




Saturday 14 November


LONDON




Sunday 15 November


LONDON, MANCHESTER, NORFOLK




Friday 20 November


BIRMINGHAM




Saturday 21 November


LEEDS




Sunday 22 November


IPSWICH




Friday 27 November


GATESHEAD




Saturday 28 November


CARDIFF, EDINBURGH, TRURO




Sunday 29 November


BRISTOL




NYCGB supplies audition venue information to candidates once their audition is confirmed. Our audition venues are typically central musical venues or higher education facilities which are easily accessible by public and private transport.
How to apply
You can apply for audition from 9.30am on Monday 7 September through our website atwww.nycgb.org.uk/join-us
Follow the instructions to create a user profile and select and pay for an audition slot. You’ll need a headshot image to complete the process.
Please note that auditions are allocated on a first come first served basis. NYCGB will always do its best to ensure auditions for all candidates.
Cost & financial support
An NYCGB audition costs £35. Financial assistance is available to cover the costs of auditions and travel. For further information, please visit: www.nycgb.org.uk/join-us/financial-support

The Cornwall Youth Orchestra will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall as part of Music for Youth's School Proms. The CYO, plus guests, will be performing David Bruce's musical epic, Prince Zal and the Simorgh.
100 young players from Cornwall will be performing as part of the orchestra and they will be joined by 22 junior violinists from Cornwall, 25 violinists from Northamptonshire, Iranian music players and four young narrators from Cornwall. The orchestra will be conducted by local young musician, Angus Webster.
Further information about the School Proms can be found on the Music for Youth website - http://www.mfy.org.uk/coreseason/schoolsprom

'Empowering Choral Leaders' - Free Vocal training session with Stuart Barr
Venue – Truro prep school
Date - Monday 9th Nov 4.3-6.30pm and Tues 10th November from 10-4.00pm
(Sign up is for the two sessions which will contain different information)
Empowering choral leaders
Learn about what’s going on inside the singing voice and singers’ brains, and how it can empower you as a choral leader, as Stuart Barr makes a return visit to expand on last year’s session. Starting with an easy-to-understand technical guide as to how the voice works, you’ll also discover how children’s voices change when growing up, and how you can use this knowledge. Other subjects covered include Idiomatic Voice Technique (how to get singers to change their sound to fit the music); and Can one teach the “X-Factor”?: an exploration of to what extent it’s possible to teach the elements that appeal to audiences that lie outside conventional pedagogy.
About Stuart Barr

Stuart Barr is a musical director and singing coach with a very wide experience of working with choirs and solo artistes at international level. He is a former president of the British Voice Association, teaches at the Royal Academy of Music, and has been musical director to Dame Shirley Bassey since 2009. Alongside much private coaching work with his specialist area on idiomatic vocal technique, he has been a regular judge on Choir of the Year and many other choral competitions.
To book – contact Angela Renshaw - [email protected]

Thanks to a grant from the Arts Council on FRIDAY 6th and SATURDAY 7th November 2015 we have Carole Stennett visiting the college from London. Carole is a WestEnd performer/star and has played the role of Nala in the Westend and UK tour of The Lion King production, as well as Nicky in The Bodyguard along side Alexandra Burke.
Carole will be running a musical theatre masterclass on the morning of FRIDAY 6th November 2015 (9.30-12.30) and again on SATURDAY 7th from 10-2pm and we would like to invite your singers to take part in this FREE event.
Attendees should prepare a song to perform for Carole (and the other workshop attendees). She will lead a warm up and she will then feed back on their performance and spend some time with them working on technique, projection, technical exercises for vocal improvement, confidence and performance and staging etc. (approximately 20 mins per performer)
It will give students the opportunity to work along side a Westend star and experience the kind of performance platforms that happen at stage schools and within music courses.
If you have some potential stars of the future or any young performers that you feel would benefit and are interested in bringing some students along to this FREE event, please let me know and complete the attached application forms and send back to me ASAP.
Friday 6th application form
Saturday 7th Application form
I know its short notice – SORRY! Places are also limited!

Benji Vincent
Head Of Music Bodmin College