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Young Artists Performance Series
19th Feb 2010Toby Hodder (14), Harry Smith (17) and Tobie Tripp (17) put on a lunch time recital at The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham on Wednesday 17th February. Playing cello, saxophone and violin respectively the boys played to a packed and very appreciative audience. The music ranged from Haydn to Martinů and Bartŏk to Phil Woods. The audience were spellbound by the three young performers and the praise at the end was not unjustified.
To listen to Harry Smith click here
To listen to Tobie Tripp click here
To listen to Toby Hodder click here
Dalcroze delights Feeder students
19th Feb 2010
Music, Film and Dance Residential
19th Feb 2010
The 2010 February half term brought together 41 students from South West Music School and 8 dancers from Swindon Youth Dance Academy to work on putting new music and dance to archive film footage from the Dartington Archives.
The musicians and dancers group were working to an archive film of ‘Danse Macabre’ first produced at the Barn Theatre, Dartington Hall in 1935 by students of the Joss Leeder School of Dance. 75 years later these students performed an interpretation of the work again on the Barn Theatre stage. The musicians created a music score using the film and influences from the original music by Saint-Saëns and the dancers choreographed a dance with influences from the original choreography. This was then put together and performed on the barn theatre stage with the archive film playing on a screen behind the dancers.Trumpet Day Heralds start of 2010
21st Jan 2010
January 16th saw the first of South West Music School’s instrumental workshops for 2010. Paul Denegri (Head of Brass at Wells Cathedral School) held an intensive day for 4 SWMS trumpeters looking at trumpet techniques and repertoire and how to do productive practise and warm ups even when time is limited.
Young Artists Performance Series
20th Jan 2010
On 11th October new recruits Indigo Hicks (cello) and Henry Tozer (piano) joined long standing student Ben Comeau (piano - pictured left) to perform in the Great Hall at Dartington as part of the Young Artists Performance Series. Each student performed a 20minute set to a packed audience. The music ranged from Bach to Beethoven and Ravel to more contemporary composers such as Joseph Kosma.
This was followed by a second performance in November by some of our percussion students; Kizzy Brooks, Molly Lopresti-Richards and Harriet Riley and they were joined by the percussion group from KEVICC in Totnes. The performers played on a range of instruments from Marimba and Xylophone to Snare Drum and Timpani. This again was a huge success and gave the performers a good experience of playing a professional gig.