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BEDFORD SCHOOL Wednesday 5th February Friday 28th February MUSIC SOCIETY CALENDAR 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Voice 4.30pm Adrian Boult Society meeting SPRING TERM 2020 Adjudicator: Alex Mason MUSIC SCHOOL Parents and members of the public are welcome to ERSKINE MAY HALL attend the events listed in bold type 7.00pm Detweiler Competition Presentation Awards Thursday 6th February GREAT HALL / BELL ROOM FOYER Thursday 9th January 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert presented by the New Music 8.00am Music Scholars breakfast Society Wednesday 4th March DINING HALLS MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL 5.00pm ABRSM Theory Examinations MUSIC SCHOOL ENSEMBLE ROOM Thursday 16th January Friday 7th February All day Prep Music Teachers INSET Day 4.30pm Adrian Boult Society meeting Thursday 5th March MUSIC SCHOOL MUSIC SCHOOL 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Piano MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert by Music Scholars Monday 10th February MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL All day Woodwind Fellowship programme – Ian Clarke working with 6.30pm Charity Concert organised by Ben Watson (U6) prep and upper boys in workshops and masterclasses in aid of CRY Thursday 23rd January MUSIC SCHOOL MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Brass Free Admission with retiring collection MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL Tuesday 11th February 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Piano Friday 6th March Friday 24th January Adjudicator: Nico De Villiers 4.30pm Prep School Informal Concert for boys in Y4/7 4.30pm Jazz Improvising Workshop with Tom Syson MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL ERSKINE MAY HALL QUARRY THEATRE 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Percussion Saturday 7th March to Saturday 14th March Saturday 25th/Sunday 26th January EXEAT WEEKEND Adjudicator: Matt Whittington Bedfordshire Festival of Music, Speech and Drama ERSKINE MAY HALL VARIOUS VENUES IN BEDFORD Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th January All Day 13+/16+ Music Scholarship Auditions 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Organ Monday 9th March MUSIC SCHOOL Adjudicator: tbc 6.30pm Music School Parents Evening THE CHAPEL GREAT HALL Wednesday 29th January 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Brass Thursday 13th February Tuesday 10th March Adjudicator: Mark Bennett 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Voice All day Prep Schools Choral Day ERSKINE MAY HALL MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL CHAPEL 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Strings Friday 14th February Wednesday 11th March Adjudicator: Julian Metzger 2.30pm Prep School House Singing Competition All day Fifth Form GCSE Performance recordings MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL Adjudicator: Cassandra White MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL GREAT HALL Thursday 30th January Wednesday 11th March 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Strings 6.30pm Piano Duet Recital - an evening of music performed MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL Saturday 15th to Sunday 23rd February HALF TERM HOLIDAY by Marina Nadiradze and Grace Mo MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL Friday 31st January Free Admission 4.30pm Adrian Boult Society meeting Wednesday 26th February MUSIC SCHOOL All day Piano Fellowship Programme - Masterclasses & Lunchtime Thursday 12th March Concert with Joanna MacGregor 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert by 5th Form GCSE Music Monday 3rd February MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL students 6.30pm ROCK NIGHT – In aid of charity MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL QUARRY THEATRE Thursday 27th February Tickets £5 on the door and from the Quarry Theatre 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Woodwind Friday 13th March MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL 4.30pm Prep School Informal Concert for boys in Y5/8 Wednesday 5th February ERSKINE MAY HALL 6.30pm Music Prize Competitions for Woodwind Friday 28th February Adjudicator: Alice Eddie 4.30pm Prep School Informal Concert for boys in Y3/6 MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL ERSKINE MAY HALL Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th March EXEAT WEEKEND Wednesday 18th March MUSIC OFFICERS 6.30pm Spring Chamber Concert MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL President of the Music Society Jack O’Donovan Free Admission Vice President of the Music Society & Secretary of the Adrian Thursday 19th March Boult Society Henry Poppleton 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert by Remove Form Music students Head of Brass Ensemble Benjamin Watson MUSIC SCHOOL RECITAL HALL Head of Chamber Music Jay Johnson Head of Chamber Orchestra Calum Bourne Friday 20th March Head of Chapel Choir Flik Feng & 4.30pm Adrian Boult Society meeting Tizian-Oscar Geyer MUSIC SCHOOL Head of School Musical Thomas Arnold Head of Jazz Orchestra William Cochrane Saturday 21st March Head of First Orchestra Calum Bourne 7.30pm Brass Concert Head of Media Production Oliver Dwight ST MARY’S CHURCH, STEVINGTON Head of New Music Society Peter Barrington Tickets available on the door Head of School Band Joseph Young Tuesday 24th March 4.30pm Prep School Composition Competition Finals Adjudicator: James Lark MUSIC STAFF ERSKINE MAY HALL Director of Music Mr Jonathan Sanders Thursday 26th March Assistant Director of Music and 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert of music for Organ Head of Academic Music Mr Chris Brammeld MUSIC CHAPEL Teacher of Music Technology Mr Thomas Rooke Head of Music (Prep School) Mrs Jo-Anne Gedye 2.15pm Choral Fellowship Programme – Choral Singing & Directing Head of Strings Mr Bjorn Bantock workshops with Ralph Allwood Head of Woodwind & Brass Mr Dominic Childs SOCIETY MUSIC SCHOOL & CHAPEL Head of Piano Mrs Hanja Bantock Musician-in-Residence Mr Andrew Groom 7.00pm Music Society Dinner CAFÉ BAR Music Department Administrator Mrs Helen Moore CALENDAR VISITING MUSIC FELLOWS CHORAL SERVICES IN BEDFORD SCHOOL CHAPEL Ralph Allwood Conductor, Masterclass leader, Music teacher Ian Clarke Flautist, Composer, Professor at Guildhall School To which members of the public are most welcome of Music & Drama Mike Lovatt Outstanding lead trumpeter of the John Wilson Sunday 12th January Morning Prayer at 10am Orchestra Friday 17th January Evening Prayer at 6.15pm Joanna MacGregor Concert Pianist, conductor, composer and festival Sunday 2nd February Evening Eucharist at 6.15pm curator SPRING Sunday 9th February Morning Prayer at 10am Jakob Kullberg Cello Professor, Masterclass leader, Artistic Sunday 1st March Morning Eucharist at 10am Director of the Open Strings Cello Academy TERM Sunday 8th March Choral Evensong at 6.15pm Tuesday 10th March Choral Evensong at 4.00pm nd Sunday 22 March Morning Prayer at 10am CONTACT 2020 MUSIC OFFICERS The Music School, Bedford School, De Parys Avenue, Bedford MK40 2TU. Tel (01234) 362355 E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: Bedford School Music Twitter: @BedfordMusic Instagram: Bedford School www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upper-school/outside-the- classroom/creative-arts/music/ .