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PROGRAMME2017 Monday 27th February £5 to Thursday 9th March YOUR PERFORMANCE YOUR TALENT YOUR MUSIC norfolkmusic.org.uk1 NORFOLK COUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL Established 1925 Registered Charity number 1081411 Affiliated to the British and International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech PRESIDENT Paul Harris FRAM GRSM LRAM ARCM MTC Hon TCL ADJUDICATORS Sue Nicholls – Choirs/Singers Kwesi Edman – Strings Sally Adams – Woodwind Julian Hellaby – Piano Nick Walker – Guitar, WCET Chris Nall – Percussion David Powell – Wind Ensembles & Bands, Orchestras, Jazz/Pop/ Rock/ Brass VENUES Central Baptist Church, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 3AP St Andrew’s Hall, The Halls, St. Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR3 1AU Norwich Salvation Army Citadel, 34 St. Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1LL United Reformed Church, Princes St, Norwich, NR3 1AZ Arc Performing Arts Centre, CNS (City of Norwich School), Eaton Road, Norwich, NR4 6PP St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, Jessopp Road, Norwich NR2 3QB THIS PROGRAMME ALLOWS ONE PERSON ADMISSION TO ALL FESTIVAL CLASSES. 2 CONTENTS Page Festival Timetable 4 - 5 Venue Information 5 Message from the Trustees 6 Adjudicators 7 Monday 27th February 9 1. Piano classes. United Reformed Church 2. Wind ensembles and bands classes. Salvation Army Citadel Tuesday 28th February 11 1. Piano classes. United Reformed Church Wednesday 1st March 13 1. Piano classes. United Reformed Church 2. Woodwind classes. Central Baptist Church 3. Percussion classes. CNS, Arc. Thursday 2nd March 14 1. Jazz/Rock and Pop/Brass / Orchestra classes. CNS, Arc. 2. Guitar classes. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School Friday 3rd March 15 1. Whole Class Ensemble Tuition classes. Central Baptist Church Monday 6th March 16 1. School Choirs. St Andrew’s Hall 2. Young singers, adult and youth choir classes. Central Baptist Church Tuesday 7th March 17 1. School Choirs. St Andrews Hall 2. Young singers’ classes. United Reformed Church 3. Strings classes. Central Baptist Church Wednesday 8th March 20 1. School Choirs. St Andrews Hall 2. Strings classes. Central Baptist Church Thursday 9th March 22 1. School Choirs. St Andrews Hall 2. Strings classes and cello workshop. Central Baptist Church Information 24 Information about Adjudication & Certificates 24 Festival Rules 25 Frequently Asked Questions 26 Safeguarding Policy 28 Accompanists 29 3 TIMETABLE WEEK 1 27th February to 2nd March Mon 27 Feb Tue 28 Feb Wed 1 Mar Thurs 2 Mar Frid 3 Mar Venue United Reformed Church AM Piano Piano Piano PM Piano Piano EVE Piano Piano Venue Central Baptist Church AM Woodwind WCET PM Woodwind EVE Venue Citadel AM PM EVE Wind Ensembles & Bands Venue CNS AM EVE Percussion Jazz/Pop/ Rock/ Orchestras Venue St Francis of Assisi School EVE Guitars 4 WEEK 2 6th to 9th March Mon 6 Mar Tue 7 Mar Wed 8 Mar Thurs 9 Mar Fri 10 Mar Venue St Andrew’s Hall AM School Choirs School Choirs School Choirs School Choirs United Reformed Church AM Young Singers Central Baptist Church PM Young Singers Adult Singers Eve Adult & Youth Choirs AM Strings Strings Strings PM Strings Strings Strings Eve Strings Strings/ Cello Ensemble Workshop VENUE INFORMATION 1. United Reformed Church, Princes 4. St Andrew’s Hall, The Halls, St. Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 1AZ Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR3 1AU There is some on-street parking with public There is no parking at St Andrews Hall parking at Monastery Court, Elm Hill (about but drop-off is allowed in the courtyard. 3 mins walk) and St Andrew’s Multi-storey Parking for cars is available at the nearby car park (about 5 mins walk). St Andrews multi-storey car park in Duke 2. Central Baptist Church, Duke Street, Street or the Monastery car park off Elm Norwich, NR3 3AP Hill. Instrumentalists may be dropped off 5. City of Norwich School, Eaton Road, outside the CBC. There is public car Norwich, NR4 6PP parking available at St Andrews multi- There is ample car parking on site, close to storey car park and also nearby in Botolph the Arc. Street and Colegate. 6. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary 3. Norwich Salvation Army Citadel, 34 School, Jessopp Road, Norwich NR2 3QB St. Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1LL There is ample car parking on site. There is very limited on-street parking. The St Giles multi-storey car park is almost directly opposite the Citadel. 5 MESSAGE FROM THE TRUSTEES Welcome to the 2017 Norfolk County Music Festival! We are a local charity with one central aim: to offer amateur musicians of all ages an opportunity to perform in public, in front of friendly audiences, and to receive positive advice from the professional adjudicators who come to listen to them. Many gifted and talented young musicians have been regular performers at the Festival while at school and then gone on to a professional career in music. At the same time, every child and young person who has had the opportunity to take part in the Festival will remember their experience of playing for an audience and enjoying the applause at the end of their performance. Every entrant to the Festival, whether a soloist, duet, trio or larger ensemble receives personal, written feedback on their performance and is presented with a certificate. This year NCMF lost one of its key players to leukaemia. David Capp was Chairman of the Festival for 13 years, as well as a passionate player of the lute. As Headmaster of Brundall Primary School, David worked tirelessly to promote the children’s musical education. In his memory, the NCMF Trustees have set up the David Capp Memorial Bursary worth £1,000, for extra music or singing tuition for primary school pupils and their teacher. This year the fund is available for extra singing tuition. Please see page 30 for further details. Norfolk is very fortunate in having so many committed music teachers working in primary and secondary schools across the County, and in both state, voluntary and private sectors who encourage their pupils to take part in the Festival. The emotional, intellectual and social benefits from learning music are widely known. These include developing a sense of personal achievement and strengthening motivation, as well as building confidence and self-esteem. NCMF offers extra support to encourage participation in the festival by providing extra funding to cover travel costs for school choirs and WCET entries. We are a small charity and the costs of mounting the Festival are met by entry fees, a modest audience admission charge and a bequest made to the NCMF by Olive Shorten, whose father founded the Festival in 1925. In addition, we are very grateful to the Norfolk Music Hub for its contribution to the NCMF and to Mrs Ursula King for her bequest in memory of her late husband which supports the cost of the official accompanists. We need you to spread the word about the Festival. Funding cuts and SATs pressures are making it harder for schools to commit to the Festival. Please ask your school music teachers to contact us and find out how to get involved. Jacquie Burgess & Ian Chopping Chairman and Vice-chairman, NCMF, on behalf of the Trustees Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and share with friends and family. @NCMFestival Facebook.com/NCMFestival 6 ADJUDICATORS Sue Nicholls is a successful primary music Julian Hellaby BMus, MMus, PhD, LRAM, specialist and Advanced Skills Teacher. She ARAM studied piano at the Royal Academy was music consultant for the BBC radio of Music and has performed as solo pianist, programme ‘Music Box’ and is an active concerto soloist, accompanist and chamber member of NAME (National Association of musician in continental Europe, the Middle Music Educators), on the Representative East, South Africa and throughout the Council as co-chair of the Early Years and UK. Julian is an ABRSM examiner, trainer, Primary Focus Group. Since 2007 she has moderator and public presenter, as well lectured to PGCE students at the University as a mentor for the ABRSM’s Certificate of Northampton and at the University of of Teaching course. He has extensive Leicester. experience of piano teaching at all levels, and is currently Associate Research Fellow at Kwesi Edman graduated from the Royal Coventry University. Academy of Music. He performs regularly across the world as a soloist, chamber David Powell plays the tuba. He studied at musician, pop musician and conductor London University and the Royal Academy and has collaborated with players from of Music, David has played as an extra the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields, with all of the London orchestras, with the Southbank Sinfonia, the Royal Opera Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Sinfonietta, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and Enlightenment. He has worked alongside London Brass. David was a founder member artists such as Shirley Bassey, Damon of Loose Tubes, and also worked with Mike Albarn and Elton John and even played on Westbrook, John Dankworth and Billy a bus next to David Beckham at the Beijing Cobham. He has played on albums by Eric Olympics. He teaches privately in North Clapton, Heaven 17, Madness, Marc Almond, London, closely monitored by his elderly cat Van Morrison, Kanye West, and Peter Cindy. Gabriel (with whom he has toured widely). His own band “Kermesse” has played on Sally Adams’ interest in music was fired at radio; he currently plays with “Balkanatics”, the age of 7 when she was offered riding playing music of eastern Europe. David lessons if she passed Grade 1 piano. Thanks has run many education and community to her pony redesigning her front teeth a projects involving drama, improvisation and few years later, she ended up playing the composition. He is examiner for the Royal flute.