National Festival Birmingham Programme 2013

BIRMINGHAM 2-6 JULY 2013

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NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM CONTENTS

05 MAP & VENUES 07 MAIN STAGE PERFORMANcES 08 SPEcIAL EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 11 ABOUT MFY 12 SUPPORT MFY 14 MFY NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AWARdS 16 MUSIc MENTORS 21 PRESENTERS 56 MFY SEASON MAP 57 REGIONAL FESTIVAL SERIES 58 SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS 60 cREdITS LISTINGS PAGE

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TUESDAY 2 JULY

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY

THURSDAY 4 JULY

FRIDAY 5 JULY

SATURDAY 6 JULY

INFANTS & JUNIORS

CHOIRS

BRASS BANDS ENSEMBLES

WIND BANDS TRADITIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER ROCK, POP & URBAN

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS JAzz JAzz COMBOS & ENSEMBLES STRING & CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS

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A PIONEERING CONSERVATOIRE EXPERIENCE “Leeds is the only place where I could pursue both my ambitions - classical cello and pop vocals.”

– Alex, BA (Hons) Music: Classical & Popular Music

§ Short courses § Undergraduate & postgraduate degrees § Summer schools

www.lcm.ac.uk/experience

MAP & VENUES

CENTENARY SQUARE & NUT FESTIVAL TENT

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ENTERTAINING THE WORLD Inspiring Creativity

pROuD pARTNER Of MusIC fOR YOuTH The Royal Albert Hall is pleased to support many charities across the year and to partner with Music for Youth to inspire the nation’s young musicians, as part of our thriving education and outreach programme.

We work with over 100,000 children every year to spark their imagination and inspire creativity.

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MAIN STAGE PERFORMANcES TUESdAY 2 JULY Infants & Juniors Infants & Juniors

Symphony Hall

10:30-17:30

Birmingham Conservatoire (Adrian Boult Hall)

10:30-17:30

Symphony Hall

10:30-18:55

Birmingham Conservatoire (Adrian Boult Hall)

10:30-19:15

Symphony Hall

10:30-19:30

Birmingham Conservatoire (Adrian Boult Hall)

10:30-19:30

Recital Hall (Birmingham Conservatoire)

10:30-19:30

Symphony Hall

10:30-19:30

Birmingham Conservatoire (Adrian Boult Hall)

10:30-19:10

Birmingham Conservatoire (Recital Hall)

10:30-19:30

Rock, Pop & Urban

Town Hall

16:30-21:30

WEdNESdAY 3 JULY Choirs Choirs

THURSdAY 4 JULY Brass Bands Ensembles

Ensembles

FRIdAY 5 JULY Wind Bands Traditional & International

Chamber

SATURdAY 6 JULY Symphony Orchestras Jazz

Jazz Combos & Ensembles String & Chamber Orchestras

Symphony Hall

10:30-18:00

Birmingham Conservatoire (Adrian Boult Hall)

10:30-18:30

Town Hall

10:30-12:45

Town Hall

15:15-18:30

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NATIONAL FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENTS & WORKSHOPS We’re working with a range of fantastic partners to deliver a series of special events and workshops as part of National Festival Birmingham.

IKON FAMILY SATURdAY

FREE & OPEN TO EVERYONE!

JAZZ SHOP - BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL

cENTENARY SQUARE FESTIVAL TENT Sponsored by the NUT 12:00-18:00, Wednesday 3 July 11:00-18:00, Thursday 4 July 11:00-18:30, Friday 5 July Free live music from talented young musicians!

MUSIcIANS’ UNION dROPIN cAREERS SURGERIES

13:00-16:00, Saturday 6 July Ikon Gallery Free performances as part of an afternoon of creative activities designed to engage, challenge and inspire. Open to all ages (adults very welcome).

From 16:00, Saturday 6 July Unit 20, Great Western Arcade, Colmore Row Drop in to the Jazz Shop that hosts free performances from a selection of artists participating in the Birmingham International Jazz Festival, taking place between 5-14 July. On Saturday, young jazz musicians taking part in National Festival Birmingham will take to the stage as guests of the Jazz Festival to perform in this small seated theatre.

OPEN REHEARSAL WITH THE ROYAL NORTHERN cOLLEGE OF MUSIc SESSION ORcHESTRA 13:30-14:45, Saturday 6 July Town Hall The RNCM Session Orchestra, directed by Andy Stott, is the first of its kind, bringing together students from both the popular and classical degree programmes in a world-class conservatoire. It performs repertoire

by Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai, Coldplay, Elbow, Adele, Earth Wind and Fire among many others. Today they’ll join with National Festival Birmingham performers for this special open rehearsal.

PRAcTIcAL SONG ARRANGING WORKSHOP WITH THE ROYAL NORTHERN cOLLEGE OF MUSIc SESSION ORcHESTRA 15:30-17:30, Saturday 6 July

From 10:00 Wednesday 3 - Saturday 6 July

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Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Level 3 Foyer, Symphony Hall

dAY TIcKET HOLdERS & WRISTBANdS ONLY

Led by Andy Stott, Director of Popular Music Performance at the RNCM, this innovative session is designed to give aspiring songwriters an insight into working with professional musicians and inspire them to consider writing for larger ensembles.

Drop in for a chat about anything to do with music careers, being a professional musician and working in the music industry, and find out more about the benefits and services of being in the Musicians’ Union.

IKON LUNcHTIME PERFORMANcES 13:30-13:50, Wednesday 3, Thursday 4 & Friday 5 July Ikon Gallery Free acoustic performances from National Festival Birmingham performers in this internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue.

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‘MILAN‘ - A MEETING OF JAZZ & INdIAN MUSIc WITH THE SOUTH ASIAN MUSIc YOUTH ORcHESTRA & NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ cOLLEcTIVE 13:45-14:15, Friday 5 July Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Witness the blending of two fascinating and highly creative musical cultures and traditions.

Professional and young musicians from SAMYO and NYJC will together perform both original and collaboratively devised music.

Part of MFY’s exciting new Young Artist Development Programme, supporting young composers from all musical backgrounds.

WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG MUSIcIANS Access to the workshops and events listed below is limited to young musicians who have signed up in advance.

NATIONAL YOUTH cHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN SINGING WORKSHOPS Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 July Led by NYCGB singing tutors Rachel Staunton and Esther Jones, these sessions for infants, juniors and senior choirs will include fun songs and singing games, repertoire from around the world, tips on how to build musicianship skills and much more.

FRIdAY AFTERNOONS Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 July Friday Afternoons is a nationwide singing project led by Aldeburgh Music, culminating on Britten’s birthday – 22 November 2013.

Pete Letanka and Dominic Peckham will lead workshops exploring and celebrating Britten’s Friday Afternoons songs with a contemporary twist!

MUSIc THEATRE WORKSHOP WITH YMTUK

BRASS MASTERcLASS WITH THE NATIONAL YOUTH BRASS BANd OF GREAT BRITAIN Thursday 4 July NYBBGB clinicians Mark Wilkinson and Glyn Williams will lead masterclasses for cornets, tenor horns, euphoniums, baritones, trombones and tubas.

cREATIVE cOMPOSITION WORKSHOP Friday 5 July Composer Joe Broughton will lead this composition workshop which will focus on creating original music together, learning some very simple ideas by ear, and growing them into a full piece devised collectively.

PRAcTIcAL cOMPOSITION - TOP 10 TIPS Friday 5 July Composer, Joe Broughton, will take budding young composers through his own top tips for finding ways into different styles of music, thoughts on finding inspiration and starting points to give their writing variety and originality.

Part of MFY’s exciting new Young Artist Development Programme, supporting young composers from all musical backgrounds.

Thursday 4 July

UTALKS

Youth Music Theatre UK is the country’s national youth company for musical theatre. In these workshops, YMT practitioners Mark Aspinall and Gemma Fairlie will enable young musicians to develop their musical theatre skills: how to act through song, prepare for auditions, devise material, give a pop song character and incorporate musicianship into acting.

Friday 5 July

‘MILAN’ - A MEETING OF JAZZ & INdIAN MUSIc - SOUTH ASIAN MUSIc YOUTH ORcHESTRA & NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ cOLLEcTIVE Friday 5 July NYJC and SAMYO will work with young musicians interested in improvisation to come together to their ‘Milan’ (meeting) sessions, designed for improvisers of all levels of ability. Led by NYJC’s Executive Artistic Director, Issie Barratt and SAMYO’s conductor, Gaurav Mazumdar.

INdIAN RHYTHM SESSION WITH SOUTH ASIAN MUSIc YOUTH ORcHESTRA Friday 5 July Led by one of SAMYO’s worldrenowned Indian percussionists, young musicians will try out Indian drums and rhythm patterns, exploring the language of Indian percussion.

Universal Music’s labels are home to artists like Florence + The Machine, Jessie J, Mumford & Sons, Elbow, international superstars like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, alongside classical giants such as Renee Fleming, Daniel Barenboim and Nicola Benedetti.

Universal Utalks offer young people the chance to throw questions at an expert panel working on the front line of the music industry.

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TES is home to over 10,0001 free music lesson plans, music activities, music worksheets and music teaching ideas.

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ABOUT MUSIC FOR YOUTH Music for Youth (MFY) is a national charity that celebrates and supports the breadth of young people’s music-making across the UK. Since 1970, MFY has provided performance platforms for over a million young musicians in some of the UK’s most prestigious venues.

Each year, our core season of festivals and concerts brings together large numbers of young musicians of all ages. As well as our public performance events, we produce participatory projects, offer professional development for teachers, commission new music and a range of other initiatives which complement our core season.

Find out more at mfy.org.uk

THE MFY cORE SEASON SCHOOLS PROM November Royal Albert Hall London

MFY REGIOnAL FESTIvAL SERIES February–March UK wide

PRIMARY PROMS Throughout the year at venues across the UK nATIOnAL FESTIvAL July Birmingham

nATIOnAL FESTIvAL June Scotland

FIND OUT MORE AT MFY.ORG.UK

facebook.com/musicforyouth

youtube.com/musicforyouth

@musicforyouth #mfybrum

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Please note that age restrictions apply to some social networking sites.

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PLEASE SUPPORT MFY

BY DONATING TODAY

DID YOU KNOW? IN 2013, MFY HAS SUPPORTEd AROUNd 40,000 YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE PART IN OUR REGIONAL FESTIVAL SERIES IN ENGLANd ANd WALES ANd THE ScOTTISH REGIONAL FESTIVAL SERIES. AROUNd 8,500 YOUNG PEOPLE WILL TAKE PART IN MFY’S NATIONAL FESTIVALS IN PERTH ANd BIRMINGHAM, ANd LATER THIS YEAR, 3,000 YOUNG MUSIcIANS WILL BE INVITEd TO PERFORM IN MFY’S SPEcTAcULAR ScHOOLS PROM cONcERTS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. 93% OF MONEY RAISEd GOES dIREcTLY ON OUR EVENTS ANd WE dON’T cHARGE ANYONE TO TAKE PART IN OUR FESTIVAL SEASON. NONE OF THIS WOULd BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR SPONSORS ANd THE GENEROSITY OF dONORS. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTEd US THIS YEAR.

dONATE ONLINE

If you would like to make a one-off or regular donation to MFY, visit mfy.org.uk don’t forget, if you are a UK taxpayer you can gift aid your donation, making it worth 25% more to us, at no extra cost to you!

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OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT MFY

If you would like to talk to us about supporting MFY, either as an individual, through your company or by holding a fundraising event, please email fundraising@mfy.org.uk or call Lynn Simmonds on 020 7759 1830.

Unlocking Talent Music is the key

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The National Union of Teachers believes that music is fundamental to the full and enriched education of our children and young people.

Music has a powerful role to play in all our lives. We are proud of our long involvement with Music for Youth.

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Christine Blower, General Secretary Our aim: one union for all teachers NUT – the largest teachers’ union www.teachers.org.uk twitter.com/NUTonline

MFY NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AWARdS MFY is pleased to launch a new awards scheme which provides bespoke educational experiences for especially commended groups of young musicians participating in National Festival Birmingham.

MFY will publicly announce the award recipients in September.

Keep up to date at mfy.org.uk

SPONSORED BY BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE

WINd BANdS The commended group will spend a day at the Conservatoire during which they will receive coaching from the Conservatoire’s associate resident wind ensemble, give a performance within the Conservatoire, and have a reed making/instrument repair workshop.

SPONSORED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

ENSEMBLES The commended ensemble will be coached by the Conservatoire’s resident ensemble, give a performance within the Conservatoire, and attend a masterclass with a high-profile visiting musician as part of the Conservatoire’s new public masterclass series, or a Conservatoire concert.

SENIOR cHOIRS Birmingham Conservatoire will host a day for the selected choir, which will include coaching from a Conservatoire professor, a vocal masterclass with a high-profile visiting singer, a performance within the Conservatoire and attendance at the dress rehearsal for the annual opera production.

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INFANTS & JUNIORS The group receiving this award will enjoy a guided tour of the hall, and attendance at a dress rehearsal of one of the Royal Albert Hall’s major events with a chance to meet the artists.

SPONSORED BY TOWN HALL SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM

cHAMBER This award will link to the Conservatoire’s 2014 Chamber Music Festival. The selected chamber group will give a performance in the festival, following coaching from a Conservatoire chamber group, and a Q&A session with Conservatoire students. They will have access to tickets for all festival concerts.

SPONSORED BY THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

ORcHESTRAS The orchestra receiving this award will perform side by side with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, in either a school or family concert at the Royal Festival Hall. As part of a day in London hosted by the Orchestra, the young musicians will meet the conductor, the LPO players, and take part in their general rehearsal.

SPONSORED BY THE MUSICIANS’ UNION

BRASS BANdS This award involves a special foyer performance in Symphony Hall’s Café Bar to coincide with the Brass Band Gala in Symphony Hall in September 2013, featuring the Black Dyke, Grimethorpe Colliery and Foden Brass Bands, as well as the opportunity to attend their gala concert.

JAZZ ROcK, POP & URBAN TRAdITIONAL & INTERNATIONAL The recipients of these two awards will receive a specially tailored day of activities designed to give insight into the music business through specialist advice and guidance relevant to their musical aspirations and future careers and contact with artists reflecting their musical interests.

The jazz award comprises a range of opportunities including a coaching/mentoring session with THSH’s resident jazz ensemble, the Jazzlines Trio, and a special foyer performance in Symphony Hall’s Café Bar as part of the Jazzlines Free Gigs weekly series.

TO BE ANNOUNCED

JUNIOR cHOIRS We look forward to announcing this exciting award after National Festival Birmingham.

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MUSIc MENTORS MUSIc MENTORS LISTEN TO EAcH PERFORMANcE ANd PROVIdE FOcUSEd, cONSTRUcTIVE FEEdBAcK THAT WILL HELP EAcH GROUP cONTINUE THEIR MUSIcAL JOURNEY.

Patrick Bailey

Phil Bateman

Patrick studied music at the University of East Anglia before completing his education at the Royal College of Music. This was followed by fifteen years of freelancing as a conductor.

He has worked with many professional orchestras, youth orchestras and contemporary music ensembles.

His experience working with young musicians led him to work for the BBC Concert Orchestra as their Learning Manager, organising and running the orchestra’s work with young people and families. Currently, he is Education and Community Director for the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Phil had a love of music from a very early age, learning to play piano, flute and saxophone, before going on to study at Birmingham Conservatoire. After university Phil began teaching music in primary schools and drama schools.

More recently, Phil worked as Musical Supervisor for the hit West End musical Our House, with songs by Madness. He was also the Musical Director of Billy Elliot the musical, working with Elton John to create the show, which he conducted in its first year. Currently Phil is the Musical Supervisor and Musical Director for I Can’t Sing - the X Factor Musical, by Harry Hill, which will open in Spring 2014 at The Palladium in London.

Andrew Bain Andrew began studying percussion at the age of twelve. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and winner of BBC Big Band Drummer 2001; he has performed at Ronnie Scott’s, the 606, the Vortex, at the BBC Proms, the Montreux Jazz Festival and with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Andrew co-leads the group Confluence, whose debut showcased original and highly inventive compositions. He is a faculty member at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Birmingham Conservatoire, a member of the National Youth Jazz Collective and is also Co-Director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland.

Issie Barratt Issie is an internationally active composer, arranger, conductor, baritone player, record producer and educator who has performed at many leading concert halls, jazz clubs and festivals across the world. Issie directs and composes for her own large ensemble comprising twenty-one of Europe’s leading jazz artists, with whom she recorded her highly acclaimed debut album Astral Pleasures. Issie is also Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the National Youth Jazz Collective.

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Leonora Davies Leonora has worked in almost every area of music education. She has taught in both primary and secondary classrooms, was the Inspector for Music and Music Services in the London Borough of Haringey for thirteen years and now works as a freelance music education consultant. In addition to authoring numerous publications, Leonora was Chair of the National Association of Music Educators, the Music Education Council, and was a member of the Music Manifesto Steering Group. She worked as both a trainer and mentor for Trinity Guildhall and as an advisor for Sing Up. She was awarded an MBE for services to education in 2003.

Sam Dunkley Sam works as a community musician, running projects across the country for schools, prisons, councils, theatres and various other groups; specialising in large scale singing projects, songwriting and transition in schools. He also runs Performing Arts etc, a company which creates fun and exciting music theatre projects for young people. Sam has conducted at the Royal Albert Hall for the MFY Schools Prom and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall for the Sing for All Chorus. He also conducts Beverley Early Music Festival Schools Chorus and a community choir. Sam’s first instrument is voice, he also plays drums, guitar, bass and piano.

Malcolm Edmonstone

Sarah Freestone

Keith Hewson

Malcolm is a jazz pianist and arranger.

He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he became a professor in 2005. Having gained bachelors and masters degrees, Malcolm continues to forge a career as a modern musician, working as a pianist, educator, arranger and musical director. In addition to playing with many of the UK’s leading jazz musicians, education has always been a large part of Malcolm’s life. This has included many teaching positions, in addition to working for five years as Co-Director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Sarah is a violinist, guitarist, conductor and arranger. She is a member of the BBC Concert Orchestra and has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Opera North and English National Ballet. She has been the musical director for over forty musical theatre, opera and ballet productions and conducts and presents the Guildford Philharmonic, Dartford Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Thames Gateway and the Kingston University Chorus and Chamber Choir.

She also devises and leads creative learning projects for the BBC, Trinity Laban and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Keith studied music at the Royal Northern College of Music and then Leeds University. He was a secondary teacher from 1972 until 2008.

Throughout his teaching career he was constantly involved in the development of school orchestras, brass bands, wind bands and choirs. In 2002 Keith was voted Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year and was given positions on the Specialist Schools Expert Panel and the government’s Music and Dance Scheme Group.

John Evans John is a professional session guitarist, composer, songwriter and arranger who has played for Ray Davies, Chris Difford, Liam Bailey, Marti Pellow and The Divine Comedy. John has also appeared on soundtracks for the BBC and Channel 4, arranged music for various ensembles including the BBC Ulster Orchestra and Sinead O’Connor, in addition to playing in various West End shows, including Billy Elliot and Jersey Boys. John teaches composition and music technology at Sussex Downs College.

Rob Farrer Rob trained in orchestral percussion at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Upon leaving college Rob joined the pop band The Divine Comedy. He has been fortunate enough to work with artists and organisations such as The White Stripes, Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has played on many film scores, themes for TV programmes and in West End shows. Outside of performing, he is Head of Percussion at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Junior Department.

Adey Grummet Adey is a soprano, mostly working within contemporary classical music. She has created more than a dozen roles in new operas for contemporary composers including John Woolrich, Julian Grant, Stephen McNeff, and Richard Thomas.

She sang in the fusion vocal group The Shout with Orlando Gough, and works all over Europe as a vocal animateur, most recently leading projects for the BBC and ENO Baylis. Adey is also a writer, lyricist and conductor, directing her own vocal ensemble The Curate’s Egg.

Damien Harron Damien is a co-founder of BackBeat Percussion Quartet with whom he has toured internationally. He is known for his interest in many global styles of percussion, which has seen him make recordings for Mode, NMC, NonClassical and Tzadik labels among others. As a composer, Damien has written many works which involve young people, including a large work for the 2002 Blue Peter Prom that combined hundreds of young drummers and singers with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He has led many creative education projects for organisations, festivals and schools all around the UK and beyond. Currently, Damien is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds College of Music.

Jennifer John Jennifer is the Artistic Director of Sense of Sound, the award winning company that creates and produces amazing ways to celebrate singing. A vocal coach and mentor specialising in artist development, she is also the manager of Sense of Sound Singers, the national collective of singers, songwriters and vocal coaches working within the commercial music industry.

Kate Jones From early beginnings learning the piano, adding a tenor horn and moving onto the french horn, music has always played a major part in Kate’s life. Whilst she pursued other subjects at university, Kate’s career has focussed significantly on music. From Choir of the Year and the Folkestone Menuhin Violin Competition, to BBC Radio 2’s Voice of Musical Theatre and the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Currently, she produces youth music events for the Mayor of London and in 2012 organised the Big Busk, London’s biggest ever street music competition.

Joanna Mangona Joanna studied clarinet and saxophone at the University of Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music. This was followed by studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of Natal Centre for Jazz and Popular Music in South Africa. Upon her return to Britain she began working for Lancashire Music Service, initially as Head of Woodwind and then as Wider Opportunities Leader. Joanna now divides her time between working for Lancashire Music Service and Charanga Music for whom she wrote the Inspira programme. As well as teaching, writing and publishing, Joanna has remained active as a performer in theatre, orchestral work, big band and African ensembles.

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Jennifer Martin

Percy Pursglove

Sarah Watts

Jennifer spent eighteen years at Edinburgh University, first studying music, followed by postgraduate study in composition, before teaching Composition and Music in the Community. At the same time, she taught composition at the City of Edinburgh Music School, while also lecturing in the Animation Department of Edinburgh College of Art, and the Drama Department of Queen Margaret College.

Jennifer has also written a lot of music for orchestras, choirs and ensembles, but still found the time to lead creative education projects for orchestras and ensembles across the UK. In 2003 she became Learning Manager for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Percy studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and New School University, New York City. During his stay in New York he performed with a great variety of jazz ensembles. Percy now works as a freelance jazz musician, composer, arranger and recording artist on trumpet, double bass and cajon. He also lectures in jazz at the Birmingham Conservatoire, directs the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Wales and tutors for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and National Youth Jazz Collective.

Sarah studied at the Royal College of Music in London and plays the bassoon, saxophone and flute, but is best known now as a composer. Her published works include the Razzamajazz series, Band in a Book, Red Hot Song Library, Red Hot Recorder Tutor and Class Act. All these are published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd. Sarah is currently Artistic Director of the National Youth Music Camps. She enjoys presenting workshops and inset days in this country and abroad.

David McLeod As a brass player and conductor David has performed internationally and can be found performing or recording with brass quintets, big bands, in musical theatre, orchestras and pop bands. David worked for nineteen years as a brass instructor for Midlothian Council and is currently Head of Instrumental Teaching for the same region. He continues to enjoy a varied playing career and conducts Newtongrange Silver Band.

Dave Milligan Dave studied Jazz and Contemporary Music at Leeds College of Music before settling in Edinburgh in the early 1990s.

He is one of the most highly regarded pianists in Scotland, and has gained an enviable reputation as a highly skilled composer and arranger; writing works for large-scale ensembles down to solos, duos, string quartets and numerous arrangements for small groups. He is currently Musical Director of youth folk orchestra The Gordon Duncan Experience at Horsecross in Perth, and is in demand as a guest tutor at numerous youth learning projects.

Gwyn Parry-Jones Gwyn studied at Manchester University, where he co-founded the university chamber orchestra before continuing with his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. Gywn taught music before playing with the Hallé Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He also sang with the BBC Northern Singers and conducted both the Melandra Ensemble and Manchester Camerata. After a period teaching at Salford University College, Gywn took up an academic post at Reading University where he was Head of Music Activities until his retirement in 2006. He continues to perform and conduct.

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Jane Sebba As a child, Jane was a keen singer and pianist, also teaching herself guitar.

She took up the bassoon aged thirteen and went on to join the National Youth Orchestra. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Jane has been a musician throughout her working career: a performer, teacher, songwriter, composer, editor and arranger. She has worked in theatre, schools, colleges and publishing, and her music for children has been widely published and played on radio, TV and in concert halls all over the world.

Andy Stott Andy is currently Director of Popular Music Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music. He studied music at the University of Leeds, and completed a masters in Education Management at Liverpool John Moores University. As a performer, Andy has worked as a session drummer and percussionist. He has also worked extensively in the field of musical theatre as a musical director. In 2001 Andy was a producer and the Musical Supervisor for the first UK tour and West End run of the award-winning Broadway musical RENT.

Alison Walker Alison studied music at university, and continued with postgraduate studies on recorder at Vienna Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

A passionate teacher, Alison works with beginners, adults and music students alike. Some musical highlights along the way include improvising and performing with the world class Iranian Dastan Ensemble, co-directing and performing with the BBC Proms Family Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and leading hundreds of young recorder players in SCORE! at Birmingham City Football Ground as part of MFY’s National Festival in 2010.

Stephen Whibley Stephen is a percussionist and composer.

Currently he performs in the BBC Concert Orchestra, and is also heavily involved with the orchestra’s education programme leading samba bands, junk percussion groups, and most recently coaching at a festival of Indian raga music. Stephen has previously performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Northern Sinfonia in addition to various ensemble and solo playing. As a composer, Stephen’s compositions became recognised when he formed the percussion quartet 4-MALITY who performed at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, receiving critical acclaim for Stephen’s piece for quartet, Monsoon.

Ben Woodgate Ben was principal clarinet of the Orchestra of the Royal Artillery, based in Woolwich, London. This role saw him perform in many venues around the world including London’s Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall in Birmingham and Berlin’s Waldebune Stadium.

He is currently principal clarinettist for the British Concert Orchestra and the Dartford Symphony Orchestra. Ben also teaches clarinet and saxophone at the Bexley Academy of Music and Performing Arts. At present he is deputising on the London production of Wicked where he plays soprano saxophone, Bb, Eb and bass clarinets.

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PRESENTERS TIM LIHOREAU

Courtesy of Classic FM All week Symphony Hall Tim is an accomplished musician, best selling author and Classic FM presenter. After studying music at the University of Leeds, Tim worked as a professional pianist and at a contemporary classical and jazz record label, prior to his move into radio. He joined Classic FM in 1993 as a producer and has spent many years working behind the scenes as the station’s Creative Director. Tim has written regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Independent, alongside publishing many books about classical music. You can hear Tim on Classic FM’s More Music Breakfast every weekday morning from 6.00am to 9.00am.

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ALLY MccRAE Friday 5 July Rock, Pop & Urban Town Hall Ally is best known as the host of BBC Radio 1's new BBC Introducing show, which showcases upcoming bands. Ally's musical taste became widely regarded after launching Detour Scotland, which started as a podcast featuring unsigned Scottish bands. It soon gained a large dedicated following and a reputation for putting on gigs in new and unusual venues across the country. Ally’s love of music was fostered during his time at Stirling University, where he managed Air3, the University's student station. In his spare time, Ally is a keen drummer.

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TUESdAY 2 JULY INFANTS & JUNIORS SYMPHONY HALL 10:30-17:30 PRESENTER TIM LIHOREAU, COURTESY OF CLASSIC FM MUSIc MENTORS JOANNA MANGONA, JANE SEBBA

10:30 ST GREGORY’S & ST THOMAS AQUINAS SONGBIRdS

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Age 5-9

Tutor Caroline Hollingshurst Bele Mama Trad Aboriginal The Mouse & the Lion Julia Donaldson Teddy Bear Rock & Roll Lin Marsh

TONGUETWISTERS, VOXPOP, HUMMING & NOTES

cottenham, Harston & Newton, cambridgeshire Age 4-14

Musical Director Siobhan Lihoreau Pianist Tim Lihoreau Water is Life Tim Lihoreau Medley from Matilda Tim Minchin arr T Lihoreau

ROcHdALE JUNIOR BRASS BANd Rochdale, Lancashire

Let Me Entertain You Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers arr C Mabon

BLAENAVON HERITAGE PRIMARY BRASS BANd Blaenavon, Torfaen Age 6-10

Musical Director Lana Tingay Assistant Director Michelle Hall Mini March Ian McKenzie Love Me Tender G Poulton arr A Fernie Suo Gan Trad Super Spy Alan Fernie Pop Rock Ian McKenzie

GRIMSdELL TOFFEE BEAR INFANT cHOIR Mill Hill, London Age 5-7

Head of Music Chao Cox Mo Li Hua Trad Chinese Tue Tue Trad African Will You Teach Me How to Sing?

Victor C Johnson, Cary Barlow Great Day for a BBQ Trad All arr C Cox

Age 7-13

Musical Director Hayley Walsh Co-ordinator Susan Ayres True & Trusty J A Greenwood Carnival of venice H Round arr D Collins

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HAZLEHURST PRIMARY ScHOOL BRASS BANd Bury, Lancashire Age 7-11

Musical Director Mark Golding Assistant Director Michael Golding

James Bond Theme Monty Norman arr M Golding Chordal Crunch Chorale Ian McKenzie Super Trouper Andersson, Ulvaeus arr P Lawrence The A Team Mike Post arr M Golding

dULWIcH PREP LONdON SYMPHONY ORcHESTRA dulwich, London Age 10-13

Conductor Philip Brooke Capriccio Espagnol Rimsky-Korsakov arr Mayer Goldberg variations no 19 J S Bach The Dambusters March Coates arr D Andrew

THE ABBEY ScHOOL ORcHESTRA St Albans, Hertfordshire Age 6-11

Director Marie Price The Dambusters March Coates Selection from Mary Poppins Robert Sherman All arr M Price

UKELEAR POWER King’s Lynn, Norfolk Age 7-11

Director Jessica Berners Assistant Director Brian Eade Meet My Ukulele Ian Lawrence

* Student Composition

Our Dustbin/Fish & Chips/One Bottle of Pop Trad Mean Ol’ Ukes Josh Daniels Woah the Ukulele!

Trad All arr J Berners

ST MARY’S Rc PRIMARY ScHOOL UPPER JUNIOR cHOIR clapham, London Age 9-11

Music Co-ordinator Julie McCann Accompanist Tamara Vasylenko Inisheer Thomas Walsh arr St Mary’s RC Primary School Upper Junior Choir Rattlin’ Bog Trad Irish Wonderful World Bob Thiele, George David Weiss arr J McCann The World’s Greatest R Kelly arr St Mary’s RC Primary School Upper Junior Choir

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12:55-13:30 LUNCH

14:30 NETHER GREEN JUNIOR ScHOOL ORcHESTRA Sheffield, South Yorkshire Age 8-11

Musical Director & Conductor Tom Heritage Assistant Director Kathryn Winson Tourdion (A 16th Century French Dance) Anon Theme from The Blue Danube Johann Strauss II Jupiter from The Planets Holst Rock Around the Clock Max Freedman, Jimmy de Knight All arr N Hare

TRENANcE MIXEd cHOIR Newquay, cornwall Age 5-7

Choir Leader & Accompanist Judith Moseley Choir Leader & Conductor Heather Trethewey My Dog Trad arr D Lawrence The Lighthouse Lin Marsh Pirates!

Lin Marsh Any Dream Will Do Andrew Lloyd Webber arr L Marsh

SOMA STOMP

Fleet, Hampshire Age 9-11

Musical Director Alison Wyld Choreographers Carmella Reece, Beryl Porter Soma Ralph Wyld

GALLIONS PRIMARY ScHOOL ORcHESTRA Beckton, London Age 9-11

Music Manager Rosamond De Vile Conductor Miguel Calvo Finlandia Sibelius Hungarian Canon Trad

KMS/HVMc AFROBEAT Holmfirth, West Yorkshire Age 4-13

Director Phil Needham Assistant Director Carol Stephens African Medley Jamawaile Gum Boot Dance Senzenina Kye Kye Kule O-re-mi Trad arr P Needham, C Stephens

SMITHY BRIdGE PRIMARY BRASS BANd

GLANAETHWY JUNIORS

Age 7-11

Age 8-13

Smithy Bridge, Lancashire

Bangor, Gwynedd

Conductor Lee Rigg

Musical Director Rhian Roberts

Everybody Anon arr Stanko Circus Parade Ray Woodfield Fooling About Gary Young Toccata in D minor J S Bach

Cantre’r Gwaelod Einion Dafydd

HESTON PRIMARY ScHOOL ENSEMBLE Hounslow, Middlesex Age 8-11

Music Leader Zoe Antoniades I Wanna Sing Scat Malcolm Abbs Cat & Mouse Games Malcolm Abbs All arr M Hanke, Z Antoniades

WITHYcOMBE STOMP

STREPITOSO

Birmingham, West Midlands Age 5-11

Conductor Heather Clemson Accompanist Michelle Sanders Rumpty Rumba Helen Butterworth Snowflakes Swedish Folk Song arr H Butterworth Stamping Song Helen Butterworth

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16:55-17:30

Exmouth, devon Age 10-11

Director Gill Chalkley Funk Up the Junk* Withycombe Stomp arr G Chalkley NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2013 | 23

TUESdAY 2 JULY INFANTS & JUNIORS ADRIAN BOULT HALL 10:30-17:30 MUSIc MENTORS LEONORA DAVIES, SAM DUNKLEY

10:30 SPRATTON HALL ScHOOL JAZZ BANd Spratton, Northamptonshire Age 9-13

Conductor Andrea Fountain Tequila Chuck Rio arr M Sweeney Moon River Mercer, Mancini arr R Stitzel Big Spender Coleman, Fields arr R Stitzel

dRAGON ScHOOL BIG BANd Oxford, Oxfordshire Age 9-13

Musical Director David Smith A nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Manning Sherwin arr R Holmes Libertango Astor Piazzolla arr P Murtha

SILKSTONE cOMMON JUNIOR & INFANT ScHOOL ENSEMBLE Barnsley, South Yorkshire Age 9-11

Teacher Kathryn Smith Quintet in E Major, Op 11 no 5 iii Minuet, Trio Luigi Boccherini arr T Catherine Cheeky Czardas Helen Butterworth

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LITTLEBOROUGH cOMMUNITY PRIMARY WINd BANd

BRAdFORd JUNIOR BRASS BANd

Age 7-11

Conductor Morgan Griffiths

Littleborough, Lancashire Musical Director Lee Rigg Assistant Director Jane Conway

Let Me Entertain You Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers arr A Fernie Clough Top March Dave Chapman Summer Romance Francis Clifford Toccata in D minor J S Bach arr Stanko

ST STEPHEN’S SAMBISTAS Newham, Londom Age 9-11

Leader Mark Russ Samba Medley Trad

REINWOOd INFANT cHOIR Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Age 6-7

Conductor Bridget Mair Pianist Ben Hinchliffe Do-re-mi Rogers, Hammerstein Roller Ghoster Alan Simmons I Am a Small Part of the World Sally Albrecht, Jay Althouse The Rhythm of Life Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields

Bradford, West Yorkshire Age 8-14

Fanfare for an Occasion Alan Fernie Concert Overture Francis Clifford The Raiders March John Williams arr Mabon Aura Lee Trad arr G Young Pastime with Good Company Henry VIII arr M Kingston

cHEddAR VALLEY MUSIc cLUB JUNIOR BRASS ENSEMBLE cheddar, Somerset Age 12-13

Musical Director Anne Higgs The night Sky i Orion the Hunter ii Lunar Landscape iii Shooting Star iv Astral Fanfare Tony Mason Blues Band Terry Cathrine

YAXHAM UKES Yaxham, Norfolk Age 8-10

Director Tony Bailey Assistant Masha Smith Sunshine of Your Love Bruce, Brown, Clapton Shortnin’ Bread Trad Tallis’ Canon Thomas Tallis

* Student Composition

Pick a Bale of Cotton Trad If You’re Happy & You Know It Trad All arr T Bailey

‘KENAGE TAIKO’ FROM MOLdGREEN ScHOOL

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Age 8-11

Musical Director Barry Kerr Shimibayashi Bayashi Edge of Magic Jonathan Kirby Fear Jonathan Kirby All arr B Kerr

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12:55-13:30 LUNCH

14:30 ST SWITHUN’S JUNIOR ScHOOL YEAR 3

ST JAMES’ c OF E PRIMARY BRASS BANd Rochdale, Lancashire Age 8-11

Conductor Gwen Smith Singin’ in the Rain Nacio Herb Brown arr A Fernie James Bond John Barry arr R Stanko Scooby Doo Meets the Muppets Various arr C Mabon A Team Mike Post, Pete Carpenter arr R Stanko

NORTH RIdING BRASS

Head of Music & Drama Caroline Silvester Class Teacher Juliette Nicholson Much Ado in a nutshell Shakespeare, Caroline Silvester arr C Silvester

ST AUGUSTINE’S PERcUSSION GROUP darlington, durham Age 7-11

Musical Director Anthony McGeeney Italian Waltz Alan Lawson arr A McGeeney Tin Pan Samba A McGeeney Sing2Me Swedish House Mafia arr A McGeeney

cHRISTcHURcH STRING GROUP

Tower Hamlets, London Age 9-10

Teacher Katherine Chibah Accompanist Jeremy Birchall Walk On Mars Thomas Gregory Flapping Around Thomas Gregory Ballad Thomas Gregory

Harrogate, North Yorkshire Age 11-12

Mentor Keith Freeman Two Part Inventions J S Bach arr K Freeman Charleston Anon arr K Freeman Chicago Kander, Ebb arr K Freeman Tarantella* William Freeman

Winchester, Hampshire Age 7-8

Tango Albeniz arr V Mavromoustaki Samba Brazil Trad arr J Ferraretto, E Mtungwazi

PELIcAN BANd

cambridge, cambridgeshire Age 6-7

Musical Director Kirsty Body La La Lament Sarah Watts arr K Body Pelican Gymnopedie* Pelican Band Take Me Out Kapranos, McCarthy arr K Body

dULWIcH HAMLET JUNIOR ScHOOL FUSION ENSEMBLE dulwich, London Age 10-11

Musical Director & Assistant Music Co-ordinator Lauren Brant Scandinavian Sounds* Dulwich Hamlet Junior School Fusion Ensemble

MINITRAd

Ashford, Kent Age 11-12

Musical Director John R Hall I Wanna Be Like You Sherman & Sherman Frankie & Johnny Cannon When the Saints Go Marching In Trad

OLd STRATFORd PRIMARY ScHOOL BRASS

Old Stratford, Northamptonshire Age 7-11

BRIdGE PROJEcT ENSEMBLES London

Age 6-10 Lead violin Tutor & Ensemble Director Victoria Mavromoustaki Lead violin Tutor Angela Najarian-Evernden Minuet 1 J S Bach Minuet 2 J S Bach Dark Eyes Trad Russian arr V Mavromoustaki

Conductor Jo Coventry Circus March Chris North Gringo Mariachi Ian McKenzie Fast Forward Ian McKenzie

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WEdNESdAY 3 JULY cHOIRS SYMPHONY HALL 10:30-18:55 PRESENTER TIM LIHOREAU, COURTESY OF CLASSIC FM MUSIc MENTORS SAM DUNKLEY, KATE JONES

10:30 SPRATTON HALL ScHOOL cHOIR

Spratton, Northamptonshire Age 9-13

Musical Director Andrea Fountain Accompanist Derek Wears A Little Curl Nick Page Feed the Birds R & R Sherman arr C C Miller Sing Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gary Barlow

cOR BOdHYFRYd Wrexham Age 7-11

Musical Director Sian Meirion Accompanists Eldrydd Dodd & Geraint Jones Y Pyped J Eirian Jones O nefol Addfwyn Oen Sioned Williams arr R Arwyn O-re-mi Trad African

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH cHOIR Northamptonshire Age 13-19

NORTHAMPTON ScHOOL FOR BOYS cHOIR

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 12-18

Musical Director Barrie Johnson El Grillo Josquin des Prez arr J Wesley Harris Autumn Jussi Chydenius Quant j’ai ouy le Tabourin Debussy Chili Con Carne Anders Edenroth

BYRON WOOd PRIMARY ScHOOL cHOIR Sheffield, South Yorkshire Age 7-11

Performing Arts Teacher Becky Stroud Jamawaile Trad African Song Fix You Coldplay Allah Hoo Islamic Qawwali Song Power in Me Rebecca Lawrence 26 | NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2013

Musical Director Graham Tear Assistant Conductor Teri Deal Two nonsense Songs i There Was an Old Lady of France ii There Was an Old Man in a Tree Mátyás Seiber The Lark in the Clear Air Trad Irish arr A Carter I Gaze Upon You Gabriel Jackson name That Tune Grayston Ives

cOR YSGOL MAES GARMON Mold, Flintshire Age 11-18

Accompanist Nia Wyn Jones Conductor Llinos Williams

Adre Caryl Parry Jones arr N Wyn Jones Defying Gravity Stephen Schwartz

cANTABENE

King’s Lynn, Norfolk Age 12-18

Director Fiona Marshall Can’t Help Falling in Love Weiss, Peretti, Creatore arr M Brymer Jabula Jesu Stephen Hatfield arr F Marshall The Hills of Tomorrow Stephen Sondheim arr F Marshall One Day More Boublil, Schonberg, Kretzmer, Natel

THEALE cE PRIMARY ScHOOL cOMBINEd cHOIR Theale, Berkshire Age 7-11

Musical Director Catherine Morley I Am the Wind Lin Marsh Autumn Leaves Kosma arr Forbe, Cassidy Double Trouble John Williams The Lord’s Prayer David Fanshaw Five Eyes C Armstrong Gibbs

Mr Huwcyn Pat Ballard arr R Jones Gemau Claer Mike Batt arr I Evans

* Student Composition

WARWIcKSHIRE cOUNTY cHORISTERS Warwickshire Age 8-13

Founder Director Garry Jones Accompanist Julian Grimshaw Cantar!

J Althouse Corpus Christi Carol Benjamin Britten Children Go Where I Send Thee Caldwell, Ivory Pinball Wizard Townshend arr M Huff

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13:00-13:30 LUNCH

14:30 EAST HERRINGTON PRIMARY AcAdEMY cHOIR Sunderland, Tyne & Wear Age 8-11

Choir Leader & Conductor Nicola Hair Accompanist Graham Brown Amazing Grace Trad, John Newton arr G Brown, N Hair Dig a Little Deeper Randy Newman arr G Brown, N Hair Can You Feel the Love Tonight Elton John, Tim Rice arr K Christopher Funiculì, Funiculà Luigi Denza arr G Brown, N Hair

INGLEBY MILL cHOIR

Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-onTees Age 7-11

Choir Teacher & Conductor Elizabeth Shaller Assistant Choir Teacher Linda Milne

A Turn of a Tap Elizabeth Shaller We Are the Future* Elizabeth Shaller

BURGESS HILL ScHOOL FOR GIRLS JUNIOR cHOIR Burgess Hill, West Sussex Age 8-11

Musical Director Julie Playford Accompanist Richard Haslam Ching a Ring Chaw Aaron Copland How Much is That Doggie in the Window?

Kirby Shaw Be Who You Are* Lily Williams

BRENT JUNIOR SINGERS Brent, London Age 8-12

Choir Leaders Sandra Campbell, Eric Angus & Dorothy Stewart This Old Man Trad arr E Angus Tuli Tuli Trad African arr E Angus Wayfaring Stranger Spiritual arr S Campbell Shout R Orzabal, I Stanley arr E Angus

cOR AELWYd cHWILOG

Gwynedd cARdIFF cOUNTY & VALE OF chwilog, Age 9-17 GLAMORGAN YOUTH cHOIR Musical Director cardiff

Age 16-21 Musical Director Jeff Davies Co-Conductor Jen Roderick Il est bel et bon Passereau Cenin Aur (Daffodils) Mansel Thomas Be Thou My vision Bob Chilcott Money, Money, Money Andersson, Ulvaeus arr R Allwood, L Sansun

WARWIcKSHIRE cOUNTY MALE VOIcES Warwickshire Age 11-21

Founder Director Garry Jones Accompanist Julian Grimshaw Down In the River to Pray Trad arr Jones Cantate Domino Pitoni arr D Moore Bright Morning Stars Are Rising Paul Siskind Summertime Gershwin arr I Little Rhythm of Love Tim Lopez arr A Beck

Pat Jones Group Leader Carys Jones Accompanist Catrin Alwen Elocutionist Alun Jones Dod Ar Fy Mhen Trad arr M Prilchard Hen Arferion Anon arr O Jones The Snow Elgar Hei Tin Cwl Robat Arwyn

BASSALEG ScHOOL JUNIOR cHOIR Newport, Gwent Age 11-13

Musical Director Sally Davies Accompanist Craig Keates I Am a Small Part of the World Sally K Albrecht Calon Lân John Hughes Imagine John Lennon arr S Davies Walking on Sunshine Kimberley Rew arr M Huff

Our School Song - This is Our School Elizabeth Shaller no More Starving* Elizabeth Shaller Drumming Elizabeth Shaller NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2013 | 27

TWYFORd GOSPEL cHOIR Acton, London Age 11-18

Director Lloyd Crossfield Assistant Director Phil Bennett The Lord is My Shepherd Mattie Moss Clark O Come Let Us Sing Rev Lloyd Crossfield Holy, Holy, Holy Richard Smallwood

ST AIdAN’S cHAMBER cHOIR

Harrogate, North Yorkshire Age 16-18

Director of Music Mark Pallant Christus Factus Est Bruckner The Long Road Esenvalds

YSGOL GLANAETHWY Bangor, Gwynedd Age 8-13

Conductor Rhian Roberts With My voice Einion Dafydd Mi es allan ddoe i’r ffair Sandor Veress Benedictus Robat Arwyn Alleluia Montpellier Codex Dedwydd Fyd (Happy Land) Bob Chilcott

ST cEcILIA SINGERS croydon, Surrey Age 14-18

THE SOUTH WEST LONdON STAGEcOAcH cHOIR Wimbledon, London Age 10-16

Choir Principal Jennie Graham-Roberts Choir Leader Lindsay McFarlane Someone Like You Adele Adkins, Dan Wilson arr M Huff Double Trouble from Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban John Williams, William Shakespeare Run Snow Patrol

FOUR OAKS cLUSTER cHOIR

Sutton coldfield, West Midlands Age 9-13

Musical Directors Richard Jeffries & Liz Birch This Old Man Trad Folk arr J Fulleylove The Rose Amanda McBroom arr J Knowles The Lord Bless You & Keep You John Rutter Grandma’s Feather Bed Jim Connor arr S Albrecht

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Musical Director Hilary Meyer Accompanist Gillian Hope Il Grillo Vecchi Gray’s Pier Peter Maxwell Davies Good news Ken Burton

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* Student Composition

WEdNESdAY 3 JULY cHOIRS ADRIAN BOULT HALL 10:30-19:15 MUSIc MENTORS PHIL BATEMAN, ADEY GRUMMET, JENNIFER JOHN

10:30 cAERPHILLY cHILdREN’S cHOIR caerphilly Age 8-13

Musical Director Nigel Jones Accompanist Sara Hodges Children, Go Where I Send Thee Spiritual arr R E Schram Pie Jesu from Requiem Cambrensis Nigel Jones Goliath Joseph M Martin Can You Feel the Love Tonight Elton John, Tim Rice

THE RAINBOW cONNEcTION JUNIOR cHOIR

Forest Gate, London Age 9-11

Musical Director Jenny Beeching Assistant Director Aletha Saunders From Forest Gate to Mona Heights Jenny Beeching Recycle It Jenny Beeching Bolingo Trad Don’t Use Plastic Bags Anymore Jenny Beeching

Lewisham, London Age 12-18

doncaster, South Yorkshire

Musical Director Andy Gilbert

Conductor Deborah Mellors Musical Director Paul Mellors

Run Snow Patrol Heaven Emeli Sandé Say Yes* Natalie Okri All arr A Gilbert

Age 7-13

Happiness Clark Gesner arr P Mellors Lift the Wings Bill Whelan Oh, the Thinks You Can Think Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty arr P Mellors

ALL SAINTS JUNIOR ScHOOL cHAMBER cHOIR Fleet, Hampshire Age 9-11

FLOYd MAcAPELLA

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Age 15-18

GOdWIN JUNIOR ScHOOL cHOIR

VOcALIZE

Musical Director Vincent Forshaw Starwars Mister Tim For the Longest Time Billy Joel The Water is Wide Trad arr Quigley, Forshaw Beautiful* Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha arr D Applewhite

EGGLEScLIFFE ScHOOL SENIOR GIRLS cHAMBER cHOIR Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees Age 14-18

Head of Music Matthew Haworth Conductor Clare Wills

Conductor Emma Mabin Accompanist Roy Woodhams Feel Good Tyson, Scott Peace Like a River Trad arr J Shafferman How Can I Keep from Singing?

Trad arr E Crocker The Heavenly Aeroplane John Rutter

BURGESS HILL ScHOOL GLEE cLUB Burgess Hill, West Sussex Age 14-18

Director of Music Richard Haslam A Selection of Glee Pieces Various arr L Williams

Ave Maria Holst Laudi alla virgine Maria Verdi Ching-a-ring Chaw Copland arr I Fine * Student Composition

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EAST RIdING YOUTH SINGERS

cHARLTON KINGS JUNIOR ScHOOL cHOIR

QUAY LASSES

Age 12-19

Age 7-11

Conductor Mark Anyan Activity Producer Emma Ogle

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire Musical Director Elaine Dave Dance to Your Daddy Trad arr Len Young Home is Here* Jonathan Taylor Bring Him Home Schonberg, Kretzmer, Boubil arr M Brymer Top of the World Bettis, Carpenter arr J Althouse

THE BLUE ScHOOL cHOIR Isleworth, Middlesex

cheltenham, Gloucestershire Musical Director Jane Ward Watts Choir Leaders Alison & Mark Harmer Friends Across the World Anon Hine Ma Tov Trad Hebrew arr Watts, Harmer How Much is That Doggie in the Window?

Bob Merrill arr K Shaw

TRURO ScHOOL PREP cHOIR

Age 8-11

Truro, cornwall

Conductor & Musical Director Paula Jones Assistant Director Elaine Lacey

Music Co-ordinator Angela Renshaw

Age 8-11

We Are One Mark & Helen Johnson Sing Joe Raposo Where Do We Go From Here?

Chris Hazell

nine Brave Boys Trad Cornish arr Truro School Prep Choir Kusimama Jim Papoulis Marvelous Song Tom Eggleston

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ST THOMAS MORE ScHOOL cHAMBER cHOIR

13:00-13:30 LUNCH

14:30 LPSB cANTABILE Beckenham, Kent Age 11-13

Director David Bullen Tue Tue Barima Trad Ghanaian Straighten Up and Fly Right Nat King Cole arr Milloy Set Fire to the Rain Adele Adkins, Fraser T Smith arr Bullen Shine Take That, Steve Robson arr L’Estrange

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Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Age 15-18

Musical Director Michael Summers Five Hebrew Love Songs Eric Whitacre

GUMLEY cHAMBER cHOIR Isleworth, Middlesex

Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Age 11-16

Watching the Wheat Welsh Folksong arr G Arch The Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre Dubula Trad Xhosa

HOLMEWOOd HOUSE cHAMBER cHOIR Tunbridge Wells, Kent Age 9-13

Conductor Glynis Dickinson Accompanist Chris Bass Gualbert Piping Down the valleys Wild from Jazz Songs of Innocence Bob Chilcott The Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre The Raggle Taggle Gypsies Trad niska Banja Serbian Gypsy Song arr N Page

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16:15-16:45 17:15 OJAM

Age 11-18

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Accompanist Kaye Barker Conductor Louise Robertshaw

Director Richard Nimmo

Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan arr L Robertshaw The Birds Benjamin Britten Candle on the Water A Kasha, Hirschhorn arr E Lojeski Blue Skies Irving Berlin arr R Emerson

Age 11-15

I’m Yours Jason Mraz arr OJAM Dynamite Taio Cruz arr A Phan Little Things One Direction arr OJAM

* Student Composition

YEOVIL YOUTH THEATRE SHOW cHOIR Yeovil, Somerset Age 13-19

Director Alan Forster Musical Director Kathryn Stevens Cats Medley Andrew Lloyd Webber arr K Stevens

THE cHOIR Bristol, Avon

BRIdGWATER SHOW cHOIR Bridgwater, Somerset Age 16-18

Musical & Artistic Director Kathryn Stevens Listen Krieger, Preven, Cutler, Knowles arr Brymer Sing a Song, Let’s Get Loud, Get On Your Feet McKay, Defaria, Casas arr Stevens Seize the Day Menken arr Emerson

Age 14-16 Head of Music Emily Wilson Emmylou First Aid Kit Electric Feel MGMT At Home Crystal Fighters Wolf First Aid Kit All arr The Choir

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ST MARY’S ScHOOL cHOIR chiswick, London Age 8-11

Musical Director James Devaney The Moments Various arr J Devaney

STP VOIcES

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire Age 11-18

Conductor Lisa Shelmerdine Richards Head of Music James Olyott O-re-mi Trad arr M Brewer A Clare Benediction John Rutter It Don’t Mean a Thing Mills, Ellington arr M Huff Calon Lan Trad Welsh arr S Richards

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THURSdAY 4 JULY BRASS BANdS SYMPHONY HALL 10:30-19:30 PRESENTER TIM LIHOREAU, COURTESY OF CLASSIC FM MUSIc MENTORS KEITH HEWSON, DAVID MCLEOD

SCHOOL 10:30 BISHOP STOPFORd BRASS BANd

Kettering, Northamptonshire Age 11-18

Conductor Brad Turnbull Manhattan Erik Leidzen Theme from Doctor Who Ron Grainer arr A Myers The Lost Chord Sir Arthur Sullivan arr G Langford Tuba Power Peter Smalley

LPSB BRASS BANd Beckenham, Kent Age 12-18

Musical Director Ian Rowe Curtain Up Jock McKenzie Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez Joaquin Rodrigo arr K Bolton Shine Take That, Steve Robson arr R J Hume

HASLINGdEN HIGH ScHOOL BRASS BANd Rossendale, Lancashire Age 11-16

Musical Director Kevin Gibbs The Pathfinder J A Greenwood

Duelin’ Xylos Arthur Smith arr R Saucedo Finale from The Dark Side of the Moon Paul Lovatt-Cooper

FREd LONGWORTH HIGH ScHOOL BRASS BANd

Tyldesley, Greater Manchester

Age 11-18

SPONNE BRASS BANd

Musical Director Helen Robinson

Age 11-18

Soul Bossa nova Quincy Jones arr A Duncan The Bass in the Ballroom Roy Newsome Three Kings Swing William Himes

Intro Spectacular Frank Bernaerts Amazing Grace Trad arr W Himes Saving All My Love Michael Masser arr C Wormald Music from Kantara Mov i Kenneth Downie

cROMPTON HOUSE ScHOOL BRASS BANd

EGGLEScLIFFE ScHOOL BRASS BANd

Towcester, Northamptonshire Conductor Catherine Underwood

Shaw, Greater Manchester Age 12-18

Conductor Seth Livingstone Director of Music Jack Pickford Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima arr M Freeh Seventy-Six Trombones Meredith Willson arr W J Duthoit

WARdLE HIGH ScHOOL BANd

Rochdale, Lancashire Age 12-17

Conductor Lee Rigg

Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees Age 11-18

Conductor Matthew Haworth Seventeen Come Sunday Vaughan Williams arr G Jacob The Prizewinners P Sparke

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12:50-13:30 LUNCH

Old 100th Vaughan Williams arr R Stanko Suite Gothique iv Toccata Léon Boëllmann arr E Ball vitae Lux Frode Alnæs arr T Aagaard-Nilsen NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2013 | 33

MUSIC CENTRE & OPEN 14:30 SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH BRASS BANd Southampton, Hampshire Age 13-18

Director Paul Hart Music for a Festival Philip Sparke Emerald Skies Paul Lovatt-Cooper James Bond 007 John Barry arr S Sykes

WIGAN YOUTH BRASS BANd NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Wigan Music Service, Greater YOUTH BRASS BANd Manchester Music Hub

Age 14-18

Conductor Dave Little

Conductor Brad Turnbull

The Tally Boy Christopher Evans Japanese Slumber Song Gareth Wood

Enchanted Kingdom Paul Lovatt-Cooper Somewhere from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein arr E Crees

PEMBROKESHIRE ScHOOLS’ BRASS BANd Pembrokeshire

Rhondda-cynon Taf Age 11-18

Conductor Steve Martin Ein’ Feste Burg Andrew Mackereth variations - A Fantastic Discovery Robert Redhead Pound the Streets Paul Lovatt-Cooper

ST HELENS YOUTH BRASS BANd St Helens, Merseyside Age 12-19

Musical Director Anna Hughes Williams Secretary Sheila Hibberd Call of the Cossacks iii Cossack Fire Dance Peter Graham Skyfall Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth arr P Sparke Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima arr M Freeh

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PORTHYWAEN YOUTH & TRAINING BANd

Age 11-18

Oswestry, Shropshire

Conductor Matthew Jenkins Administrator Hilary Lewis

Conductor Carol Jones

The Dark Side of the Moon Paul Lovatt-Cooper

BRASS TAcKS

Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Age 11-19

RHONddA-cYNON TAF BRASS BANd

Northamptonshire

Age 11-19

Musical Director Susan Avison Fill The World With Glory!

Anon arr K Larsson The Irish Blessing Joyce Eilers Bacak arr S Bradnum They Shall Come From the East John Larsson arr K Larsson

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16:20-16:50 17:20 dUdLEY PERFORMING ARTS BRASS BANd dudley, West Midlands Age 14-18

Director Mark Hadlington Director Jo Todd Fanfare & Flourishes Curnow Key West Barry

Age 7-21

Cornets A Go Go Derek Broadbent Irish Blessing Joyce Eilers Bacak arr S Bradnum Pencil Full of Lead Paolo Nutini arr A Fernie

HAMPSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH BANd Hampshire Age 14-18

Director Jock McKenzie Prelude on Tallis Peter Graham vitae Aeternum Paul Lovatt-Cooper

YOUTH BRASS 2000

corby, Northamptonshire Age 9-18

Chairman Don Collins Conductor Chris Jeans American Patrol Trad arr G Miller Moonlight Serenade Jerry Gray arr C Jeans virtuosity Kenny Baker arr J Peberdy Pennsylvania 6-5000 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction Hawkins, Dash, Johnson, Feyne arr D Armitage Chatanooga Choo Choo Harry Warren arr S Richards valero James Swearingham arr S Smith

GREATER GWENT YOUTH BRASS BANd Newport, Gwent Age 12-20

Music Director Christopher Turner The Red Machine Peter Graham

FEEDBACK

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THURSdAY 4 JULY ENSEMBLES ADRIAN BOULT HALL 10:30-19:30 MUSIc MENTORS ROB FARRER, SARAH WATTS

10:30 HIGH WYcOMBE MUSIc cENTRE SAX cHOIR

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Age 13-18

Conductor Alison Downie Carnival Karen Street All Because of You Karen Street Witch Hunt Ulrich Schultheiss

HIGH WYcOMBE MUSIc cENTRE cLARINET cHOIR

ELTHAM cOLLEGE ScRAPYARd ORcHESTRA

Age 13-18

Age 11-18

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Conductor Alison Downie Concertertino Michael Ball Looping The Loop [Chicago Hop] Martin Ellerby

OAK GROVE cOLLEGE Worthing, West Sussex Age 13-17

Mottingham, London Associate Composer Christopher Petrie Director of Music Alastair Tighe

Symphony of Scrap* Eltham College Scrapyard Orchestra

SLIdE TEcHNIQUE

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 11-18

Music Teachers Emily Armstrong & Rob Harvey

Musical Director Jon Lloyd 12th Street Rag Tutti Camarata

Age 13-18

You Can Go Your Own Way Lindsey Buckingham Falling* Tom Quarrell, Daniel Mottau

Musical Director M Collins Music Teacher B Jenkins

THE SPEN VALLEY TROUBAdOURS

12:50-13:30

LEWIS & THE UKES Pengam, caerphilly

Somebody I Used to Know Gotye Yours ‘til I Die* Nathan Battersby Pencil Full of Lead Paolo Nutini

KINGSHILL GLEE cLUB & UKULELE BANd

cirencester, Gloucestershire Age 11-15

Musical Director Guy Guerrini Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison Dog Days Are Over Florence Welch, Isabella Summers Pencil Full of Lead Paulo Nutini All arr Kingshill Ukulele Band

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Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Age 11-16

Musical Director Chris Hanks Beat It M Jackson arr C Hanks Living on a Prayer Jon Bon Jovi arr C Hanks Was it All You* Niamh Stacey

FEEDBACK LUNCH

14:30 BENTS GREEN SPEcIAL SOUNdS

Sheffield, South Yorkshire Age 16-17

Musical Director Judith Ennis Out of Africa John Barry arr J Ennis

* Student Composition

SAXIdENTALS

SPONNAISSANcE

Age 14-18

Age 14-18

Hertford, Hertfordshire

Towcester, Northamptonshire

Musical Director Clare Taylor

Musical Director Catherine Underwood

Simon’s Mangrove Groove Roger May Harlequin Dances Keiron Anderson

Highland Laddie Trad My Bonny Lass She Smileth Thomas Morley Adoramus Te Giovanni da Palestrina Il Ballerino Giovanni Gastoldi As vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending Thomas Weelkes Pastime With Good Company Henry VIII

PERcUSSION ScHOOL Ramsgate, Kent Age 14-18

Musical Director Molly Hollman Furniture Music* Percussion School 6 5 4* Percussion School

NOTRE NOTES

Sheffield, South Yorkshire

FEEDBACK

16:20-16:50

Age 14

Director & Teacher Alex Ward Time Lapse Michael Nyman Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan Sing Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gary Barlow All arr A Ward

BITESIZE

Wrexham, North Wales Age 7-19

Director Linda Griffiths Musical Director Shirley Newman Choreographer Laura Roberts Jungle Sounds & Rhythms* Bitesize Adiemus Karl Jenkins The Circle of Life Elton John Can You Feel the Love Tonight Elton John, Tim Rice Jungle Rhythm Lorraine Feather, Paul Grabowsky

17:20 EAST RIdING SENIOR PERcUSSION ENSEMBLE

cITY OF HULL YOUTH PERcUSSION ENSEMBLE Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Age 13-18

Musical Director & Conductor Martin King Stick Schtick Chris Brooks Blue Rondo à la Turk Dave Brubeck arr J Moore

BRAVURA

Birmingham, West Midlands Age 10-17

Conductor Heather Clemson Accompanist Michelle Sanders Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat from Guys & Dolls Frank Loesser arr B Birch Poeme Zdenek Fibich arr C Bull Galop from Cheremushki Shostakovitch arr P Smith

Age 15-18

HAMPSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH cELLOS

Musical Director Chris Sykes

Age 13-18

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire

Metheny Dream Pat Metheny arr J Ancona Twisted Proverbs Lynn Glassock

NORTH MONMOUTHSHIRE MUSIc cENTRE ELASTIc BANd

Hampshire

Cello Coach Nicola Heinrich Hampshire County Youth Orchestra Director Carl Clausen Stricturae viola di Gambicae for Cello Ensemble David Funck Hope Eicca Toppinen

Monmouth, Gwent Age 14-18

Director Sean O’Neill William Tell Overture Rossini Instant Concert Various Send in the Clowns Sondheim Hootenanny Trad

KRUPA PERcUSSION ENSEMBLE Ealing, London Age 14-17

Musical Director Ben Gale Mission Impossible Lalo Schifrin Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield Pirates of the Caribbean Klaus Badelt All arr Ben Gale

FEEDBACK

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THURSdAY 4 JULY ENSEMBLES RECITAL HALL 10:30-19:30 MUSIc MENTORS DAMIEN HARRON, JENNIFER MARTIN

10:30 IScA LINEA HARP ENSEMBLE (GMSS) Newport, Gwent Age 12-17

Director Peter James What Child is This Trad arr M Heulyn Amazing Grace Trad

THE GIST

Lancaster, Lancashire Age 15-16

Bogoroditse Devo Rachmaninoff arr The Gist We Are Young Fun arr A Porteous Aladdin Medley Aaron Dale arr A Porteous

FIddLE FINGERS TRAINING STRINGS Ripon, North Yorkshire Age 11-17

Musical Director Janet Nicholas Concerto in A minor for Two violins Vivaldi arr C Neuen-Rabinwitz newsworthy Peter Martin Dumbledore’s Farewell Nicholas Hooper arr R Nicholas

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HOT cLUB dU cROESY cwmbran, Torfaen Age 15-18

Blue Monk Thelonious Monk Mr PC John Coltrane A Minor Swing Django Reinhardt

TUBA EUPHORIA (GMSS) Newport, Gwent Age 13-18

Director Sean O’Neill March to the Scaffold Berlioz arr W Granger Pads & Riffs Tom Davoren

SELBY MUSIc cENTRE SENIOR GUITAR ENSEMBLE Selby, North Yorkshire Age 11-16

Ensemble Director Dominic Melbourne Mandolin Concerto i Allegro Vivaldi arr A Forrest vikingman R Sanchez, G Quintero arr J D & J C Melbourne

SIR THOMAS PIcTON ScHOOL PERcUSSION ENSEMBLE

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire Age 11-18

Music Director Melanie Walker Head of Music James Olyott Caravan Duke Ellington arr Downes, Mottingly Blue Rondo à la Turk Dave Brubeck arr J Moore King of Pop Medley Michael Jackson arr J Moore

FEEDBACK

12:50-13:30 LUNCH

14:30 BUNcH O’ cROOKS

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 15-17

Coach Graham Tear Pigs Alan Ridout Pizzicati Delibes arr W Parry Jones Lip My Reeds P D Q Bach

* Student Composition

BERKSHIRE MAESTROS JUNIOR BASSOON ENSEMBLE

OXFORdSHIRE SENIOR PERcUSSION ENSEMBLE

THE GREEN cOATS

Age 15-19

Age 7-14

Director Richard Ashton

Manager Mark Snowden Musical Director Claire Pilling

Reading, Berkshire Director Catherine Millar Up Anchor Trad Highland Cathedral Korb, Koever Dick Barton Williams

THE ORIGINAL WOOdWINd ENSEMBLE Leigh-on-Sea, Essex Age 11-17

Musical Director Gill Thorn The Wasps Vaughan Williams arr G Thorn Serenade Op 44 iv Finale Dvorák arr G Thorn

GREATER GWENT YOUTH BRASS ENSEMBLE Newport, Gwent Age 15-18

Director Sean O’Neill Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury arr A Fernie Toccata from Suite Gothique Leon Boellman arr S Kerwin

BERKSHIRE MAESTROS NEWBURY Mc cLARINET cHOIR

Oxfordshire

Four On the Floor Jeffrey Peyton

FEEDBACK

16:20-16:50 17:20 NORTHAMPTON ScHOOL FOR BOYS SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 15-18

Musical Director Will Osborn Sax in the City Colin Crabb Time Out! Part 1 Ulrich Schultheiss Be-Bop Dizzy Gillespie arr C Englar

RGS cLARINET cHOIR

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Age 15-18

Conductor Alison Downie RGS Director of Music Tim Venvell

Newbury, Berkshire

Rikudim - Four Israeli Folk Dances Jan Van der Roost arr M Jense Three Dances Guy Wolfenden

Director Helen Paskins

AMc FLUTE cHOIR

Age 11-16

Montagues & Capulets Prokofiev arr T Carr Poisoned Apple* Thomas Carr Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho Trad arr L Niehaus

Eccles, Greater Manchester Age 13-16

Mr Sandman The Chordettes Give Me Love Ed Sheeran Don’t You Worry Child Swedish House Mafia All arr The Green Coats

THE BARBER dUO Thorpe, derbyshire Age 15

Director Jason Curteis Sonata no 3 in C i Adagio - vivace Leclair Georgiana Moon Trad arr B Thorpe Allegretto Beriot

NORTHAMPTON ScHOOL FOR BOYS cLARINET cHOIR Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 14-18

Musical Director Graham Tear Early Start William Blezzard Cafe 1930 from Histoire du Tango Astor Piazzolla Can-Can a la Rossini Phillip Buttall

FEEDBACK

19:05-19:30

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Age 15-18

Conductor Lizzie Molloy Allegro for Three Flute Orchestras Handel arr R Soldan Sonata for Flute Choir iii Adagio Misterioso iv Allegro Andrew Downes

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FRIdAY 5 JULY WINd BANdS SYMPHONY HALL 10:30-19:30 PRESENTER TIM LIHOREAU, COURTESY OF CLASSIC FM MUSIc MENTORS SPONSOREd BY MUSIcIANS’ UNION KEITH HEWSON, BEN WOODGATE

SCHOOL 10:30

NORTHAMPTON ScHOOL FOR BOYS SYMPHONIc WINdS

HIGH ARcAL SENIOR cONcERT BANd

Angels in the Architecture Frank Ticheli

Age 11-18

ST AIdAN’S SYMPHONIc WINd BANd

Sedgley, West Midlands Conductor Simon Platford Sky Dance Richard Saucedo When Spirits Soar Brian Balmages

GLOSSOPdALE cOMMUNITY cOLLEGE WINd BANd Glossop, derbyshire Age 11-18

Musical Director Mark Bousie The Cowboys John Williams arr J Bocook The Final Frontier Andrew Stevenson

SPRINGWOOd HIGH ScHOOL cONcERT BANd King’s Lynn, Norfolk Age 13-18

Musical Director Peter Strudwick September Marice White, Al McKay, Allee Willis arr P Murtha Quad City Stomp Michael Sweeney Slavonic Dances Dvorák arr C W Johnson

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Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 13-18

Musical Director Barrie Johnson

Harrogate, North Yorkshire Age 12-18

Director of Music Mark Pallant Hymn of the Highlands i Ardross Castle Philip Sparke Music from Carmina Burana Orff arr J Bocook

HIGHGATE ScHOOL SYMPHONIc BANd Highgate, London Age 13-18

Conductor Stuart King Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre Orient Express Philip Sparke

ABRAHAM dARBY AcAdEMY SHOWBANd Telford, Shropshire

MOUNTBATTEN WINd BANd Romsey, Hampshire Age 11-16

Director Stu Marchant Sabre Dance Khachaturian arr J Bullock Incantations Robert W Smith

FEEDBACK

12:50-13:30 LUNCH

MUSIC CENTRE & OPEN 14:30 WELLINGBOROUGH MUSIc & ARTS cENTRE FESTIVAL BANd Wellingborough, Northamptonshire Age 11-19

Age 11-18

Conductor Ruth Allen

Head of Music Rachel Morton

Songs of Sailor & Sea Robert W Smith

Impressions of Japan James Barnes

AYLESBURY MUSIc cENTRE cONcERT BANd Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Age 12-18

Conductor Joanna Basterfield Towards the Sunrising James Curnow Arabesque Samuel R Hazo

NEWPORT MUSIc cENTRE SENIOR WINd BANd Newport, Gwent Age 12-19

Musical Director Joanne Hornsby On the Wings of Swallows Michael Sway Contre Qui Rose Morten Lauridsen Flash Point John Moss

BURY YOUTH cONcERT BANd

Bury, Greater Manchester

FEEDBACK

16:20-16:50 17:20 GLOUcESTERSHIRE YOUTH WINd ORcHESTRA Gloucestershire Age 12-19

Musical Director Steve Legge Staff Dave Mills, Philip Cowley, Tim Stokes, Andy Prouse, Kerry Ford Hall of Memory Liz Lane Walking Into History Richard Saucedo

BROMLEY YOUTH cONcERT BANd

Bromley, London Borough of Bromley

Age 12-19

Age 14-18

Musical Director Steven Sandiford Band Leader Megan Howard

Conductor Michael Purton

Doyen Goff Richards Blue Rondo Ă la Turk Dave Brubeck arr S Schwalgin

Escenas de los Aztecas Op 141 James Barnes

OLdHAM YOUTH WINd BANd

ROcHdALE cONcERT BANd Rochdale Music Service, Greater Manchester Music Hub Age 11-17

Musical Director Richard Charles Death or Glory R B Hall Dream Song Richard Saucedo Pulsation Richard Saucedo

GREATER GWENT YOUTH SYMPHONIc WINdS Newport, Gwent Age 13-20

Musical Director Paul Hornsby An American Elegy Frank Ticheli Sky is Waiting S Hazo

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Oldham, Greater Manchester Age 12-18

SEFTON WINd ORcHESTRA Sefton, Merseyside Age 12-19

Co-Directors Phil Shotton, Phil Palmer Whistle Gangnam Style Flo Rida, PSY arr Sefton Wind Orchestra Belgium Pictures Andre Waignein

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH cONcERT BANd Northamptonshire Age 15-19

Musical Director Peter Smalley Dusk Stephen Bryant Testament Robert Jaeger

Group Leader Jonathan Leedale Conductor Roger Meaden Shenandoah Frank Tichelli Jubilee Overture Phillip Sparke

SWINdON YOUNG MUSIcIANS SENIOR WINd ORcHESTRA Swindon, Wiltshire Age 12-18

Conductor Jason Wrobel Assistant Tutor Ashley Pullen Music from The Incredibles Michael Giacchino arr J Bocook Where never Lark or Eagle Flew James Curnow

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FRIdAY 5 JULY

TRAdITIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

ADRIAN BOULT HALL 10:30-19:10

MUSIc MENTORS SPONSOREd BY MUSIcIANS’ UNION DAMIEN HARRON, DAVE MILLIGAN

10:30 OXFORd YOUTH GAMELAN Oxford, Oxfordshire Age 10-18

Musical Director Isabelle Carre Ladrang Kagok Semarang Trad Javanese Swara Suling Nartosabdho arr Oxford Youth Gamelan Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock arr Oxford Youth Gamelan

OKU NOJO dAIKO (NORTH EAST HAMPSHIRE AREA ScHOOLS TAIKO) Aldershot, Hampshire Age 11-19

Director Carol West Fuji* Oku Nojo Daiko, Stuart Eynon

KAGEMUSHA JUNIOR TAIKO Exeter, devon Age 14-18

Artistic Director Jonathan Kirby Franti Jonathan P Kirby

cóIRIú

Sunday Waltz Trad arr Coíriú Barndance Trad arr Coíri Banjo Going One Direction One Direction arr Coíriú Reels: The Boy in the Boat/Scully’s Trad arr Coíriú

Musical Director Sam Cuddy Dance Co-ordinator Anne Kearney Air: The Milk Maid’s Song Trad arr D Mulholland

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Bradford, West Yorkshire Age 11-16

Musical Director Peter Strawson Sound Fusion Peter Strawson

STEEL S.I.L.c

Leeds, West Yorkshire

TLA SMALL STEELBANd Littlehampton, West Sussex Age 15-19

Musical Director Lee Nelson Mr Magic Grover Washington Jr arr L Nelson Palladio Karl Jenkins arr L Nelson Spice* Alex Clifton

Age 16-19

Musical Director Xanthe Lewty Assistant Directors Tracey Harrison, Lisa Martin Symphony no 7 ii Allegretto (excerpt) Beethoven Too Close Alex Clare All arr X Lewty

FEEDBACK

Rochdale, Lancashire

12:50-13:30

Musical Director Cliff Woodworth

LUNCH

THAT’S ALL FOLK! Age 11-17

Bluebell Hornpipe/Tamlin Reel Trad Across the Alley from the Alamo Joe Greene Looking at a Rainbow Through a Dirty Window/The High Drive Reel Trad All arr That’s all Folk!

Magherafelt, Londonderry Age 14-18

cBc ENSEMBLE

BEcKFOOT SAMBA BANd Bradford, West Yorkshire Age 11-18

Musical Director Mark Lewalski Deja vu M Lewalski

14:30 WAdHAM STEEL dRUMMERS crewkerne, Somerset Age 14-15

Musical Director Kellie Simpson Winter from The Four Seasons Vivaldi Sumer is Icumen in/Hot, Hot, Hot Old English/Buster Poindexter Shake Senora/Under the Sea/ Monkey Man Medley Lord Kitchener/Alan Menken/The Maytals All arr K Simpson

* Student Composition

BELFAST ROYAL AcAdEMY IRISH TRAdITIONAL MUSIc GROUP

cHESTNUT GROVE AcAdEMY STEEL PANS

IAMS JUNIOR STEEL PANS GROUP

Age 14-18

Age 14-16

Age 14-19

Steel Pan Director Chris Storey Head of Performing Arts Katie Ash

Head of Music Andrew Fordham Steel Pans Teacher Kerry Cumberbatch

Symphony no 25 in G minor i Allegro con brio Mozart Pan by Storm Designer All arr C Storey

Lazy Song Bruno Mars Apologise Timbaland Footsteps Xtatik

SALFORd cARNIVAL cREW

LAdY LUMLEY’S ScHOOL ENSEMBLE

Belfast, Antrim

Director Dr Catherine Scully Musical Directors Niall & Damien McIlroy Damian’s Reels Trad arr D & N McIlroy Tred in A Trad arr R Brogan, N McIlroy Garech’s Wedding Trad arr N McIlroy, C Scully

Balham, London

Salford, Greater Manchester Music Hub

Islington, Finsbury Park, London

Pickering, North Yorkshire

Age 7-18

Age 11-18

Ashford, Kent

Musical Director Alison Mancini

Musical Director Clive Wass

Co-ordinator Gill Booker

Brazil/Soca Party Medley Barroso/Trad arr A Mancini

A Montage Fusion of Folk & Jazz Various

HIGHWORTH FOLK BANd Age 13-18

Hopkinson’s Favourite & Byker Hill Trad arr Highworth Folk Band Collective Musings* Highworth Folk Band Harvest Home & Boys of Blue Hill Trad arr Highworth Folk Band

NORTH TYNESIdE STEELBANd

Wallsend, Tyne & Wear Age 13-21

Joint Musical Directors Michael Darling, Dave Edwards, Karina Atkinson & Jenny Gilberg Balaimos Paul Barry, Mark Taylor arr J Gilberg Titanium David Guetta arr J Gilberg Palladio i Allegretto Karl Jenkins arr G Paul

THE BEARdS

canterbury, Kent Age 12-15

The Peacock Followed the Hen Trad Northumbrian Out on the Ocean Trad Irish The Flogging Reel Trad Irish/Scottish Inisheer Thomas Walsh Sleep Soond i da Moonin Trad Shetlands Drowsy Maggie Trad Irish All arr The Beards

FEEDBACK

16:20-16:50 17:20 PIMLIcO AcAdEMY STEEL ORcHESTRA Pimlico, London Age 14-17

Musical Director Chris Storey Head of Music Nick Jones vibes Cyah Done Machel Montano Spain Chick Corea Do I Do Chick Corea All arr C Storey

THE cASTLE ScHOOL STEELBANd Taunton, Somerset Age 11-16

Musical Director Caron Lisett Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison arr B Shores The William Tell Overture Rossini arr E Schrader Wipe Out Berryhill, Connolly, Fuller, Wilson arr C Lisett

FEEDBACK

18:40-19:10

cHWARAE TEG (GMSS) Newport, Gwent Age 12-17

Musical Director Donald Stewart E minor Set Trad Gig Set Trad Reel Set Trad

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FRIdAY 5 JULY cHAMBER RECITAL HALL 10:30-19:30 MUSIc MENTORS SPONSOREd BY MUSIcIANS’ UNION GWYN PARRY-JONES, ALISON WALKER

10:30

BOX OF FROGS

TGI dEcTET

Overture to the Barber of Seville Rossini Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld Offenbach

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 15-18 Director Alan Bell Intrada from Serenade for Sophia Guy Woolfenden Andante for Dectet Sergei Taneyev Sinfonietta for 10 Wind Op 188 iv vivace Joachim Raff

Forest of dean, Gloucestershire Age 15-16

cHURcHILL AcAdEMY PIANO QUINTET churchill, North Somerset Age 14-18

Piano Quintet in C minor i Allegro Dohnányi

WELLINGBOROUGH MUSIc & ARTS cENTRE BRASS FARTHINGS TRIO Wellingborough, Northamptonshire Age 17-18

Musical Director Ruth Allen Intrada* Ryan Linham Three Movements from Trio for Trumpet, Horn and Trombone David Uber Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?

Huey Canon arr B Holcombe

GUTTEd!

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Age 14-17

Musical Director Jacqui Robertson-Wade The Major Burk Thumoth arr T Chancey O’Carolans’s Draft Turlough O’Carolan arr T Chancey O’Carolans’s Farewell to Music Turlough O’Carolan arr T Chancy Drowsy Maggie Anon arr J Robertson-Wade

THE ORIGINAL OcTET Leigh-on-Sea, Essex Age 14-17

Musical Director Gill Thorn Overture to Cosi fan tutte Mozart Poco Lento & March from Wind Serenade Gordon Jacob The Bartered Bride Smetana All arr G Thorn

* Student Composition

EYSO WINd QUINTET Enfield, Middlesex Age 14-18

Coach Jessica Mogridge Adagio & Allegro in F minor Mozart arr K Hermann Pillney Le Petit negre Debussy arr E Bozza

THE HAMPSHIRE STRING QUARTET Hampshire Age 17-18

Musical Director Juliet Balch Manager Gideon Baker

dRAGON PIANO TRIO Oxford, Oxfordshire Age 9-10

Musical Directors Gerald Hopkin & Karen Suter Russian Song no 3 Glinka arr E Herrmann Kleines Trio Op 46 vivace Rowley

FEEDBACK

13:00-13:30 LUNCH

La Oración del Torero Joaquin Turina

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14:30 cARLEON cOMPREHENSIVE ScHOOL BRASS QUINTET carleon, Gwent Age 16-18

Group Leader Cheryl Jones Prelude from Te Deum Charpentier arr M Bennett She Moved Through the Fair Trad arr S Barnett Handful of Keys Fats Waller arr L Henderson

ST ALBANS SUZUKI GROUP St Albans, Hertfordshire Age 15-18

Musical Director Juan Drown Head Teacher Ben Storey Humoresque Dvorák Waltzing Matilda Christina MacPherson

ATKINSON STRING QUARTET Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire Age 17-18

String Quartet no 17 in B Flat Major i Allegre vivace Assai Mozart

TAUNTON’S TRUMPETS

WHS YEAR 6 TRIO Wimbledon, London Age 10-11

Director Kristen Callaway Coach Nuno Carapina Concerto in A minor for 2 violins Op 3 no 8 Vivaldi arr Galamain, Piccioli

ORIGINAL 5

Age 14-18

Teacher Maia Griffin Trio in E minor Mov i Louise Farrenc

Musical Director Gill Thorn

Age 16-18

Miniature no 2 for Wind Quintet Vinter Theme & variations from Quintet no 1 Françaix Leaping Dance Farkas All arr G Thorn

cYM THEOdORA PIANO TRIO

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Director Alison Downie A Klezmer Wedding Mike Curtis Birdwatching Swallows Fleeting Sparrows Bickering vultures Looming Michael Henry

Age 16-17

THE JUNIOR ORIGINAL cHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Musical Director Kate Ryder

Age 9-13

Waterloo, London

Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano ii Andante Nino Rota 8 pieces for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Op 83 no 7 vii Allegro vivace, ma non troppo Max Bruch

Head of Music Paul Swindale

Age 18-19

Leigh-on-Sea, Essex Musical Director Gill Thorn

Allegro Mozart A Toye Gordon Jacob Ballet Music from Rosamunde Schubert Bear Dance Bartók All arr G Thorn

cheddar, Somerset Musical Director Anne Higgs

The Royal Charles Suite* i Pride of the Fleet ii Through the Fog iii Burnt Embers Harry Bishop

FEEDBACK

16:30-17:00

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Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

THE KLOSE cLARINET QUARTET

cHEddAR VALLEY MUSIc cLUB BRASS QUARTET

Count Me Out Uber Dream Intermezzo Uber Truncated Sonata Campbell

L’ANNO ScORSO

Age 15-17

Leigh-on-Sea, Essex

Age 16-18

Southampton, Hampshire

17:30

EXETER ScHOOL SAXOPHONE QUARTET Exeter, devon Age 13-18

Director Mike Greenwood Miniature Jazz Suite no 1 The Best of Times Gospel Truth Lennie Niehaus Yakety Sax James Rich, Boots Randolph arr L Norred

* Student Composition

BLAcK dYKE YOUTH TROMBONE QUARTET

Queensbury, West Yorkshire Age 16-20

Mentor Brett Baker Co-ordinator Gordon Eddison Thunderbirds Barry Gray arr G Brazell Penny Lane Paul Mc Cartney arr G Brazell Gospel Time Jeffrey Agrell

THE AdOLPHE SAX QUARTET

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Age 16-18

Director Alison Downie Under the veil Nigel Wood night Club 1960 from Histoire du Tango Astor Piazzolla arr C Voirpy

FEEDBACK

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FRIdAY 5 JULY ROcK, POP & URBAN TOWN HALL 16:30-21:30 PRESENTER ALLY MCCRAE MUSIc MENTORS SPONSOREd BY MUSIcIANS’ UNION JOHN EVANS, ROB FARRER, ANDY STOTT

16:30 SOUL PATROL

Market Harborough, Leicestershire Age 14-19

Head of Music Helle Munksgaard Petersen Show Me Some Rhythm* Sherry Trusler, Georgia Price Whatever it Takes* Sherry Trusler Dance With Me* Elliot Buchanen All arr Soul Patrol

PULSE

THE SKELLIES

Age 14-17

Age 16-21

Hampton, Middlesex Musical Director Mark Ramsay Manager Angela Ramsay vertigo* Pulse arr M Ramsay Diamonds (In the Sky) Rihanna arr Pulse Love in the Corners of the night Kendall & Mark Ramsay arr M Ramsay

LUcY HOdSON & EMILY FOX

THE dOOR TO dOOR SALESMEN

Age 15-18

Age 16-17

St Albans, Hertfordshire Love Me Back* Lucy Hodson Mirror* Emily Fox

ARTS LIVE - ROcK BANd Garforth, West Yorkshire Age 11-12

Band Leader Alex Cairns Arts Live Co-ordinator James Jelliman Locked Out of Heaven Bruno Mars Garforth Mash-Up Various

Swindon, Wiltshire

Head of Swindon Music Service Rock School Paul Ashman Stop Your Rain* The Door to Door Salesmen Wonderwall Noel Gallagher Radioactive Imagine Dragons

THE ZAPPA PROJEcT

Moving On* Skellies Running Away* Skellies Brixton Sands* Skellies

BROKEN SUBJEcTS Harwich, Essex Age 14-15

Another Love Tom Odell You and I Lady Gaga Beautiful* Lucy Scott arr M Chubb

WEEKENd REScUE Exmouth, devon Age 17-18

Pirates Cosmo Jarvis Baby Sitters* Fin Cawthera Get Lucky Daft Punk

Mullion, cornwall

cHAMELEON

Musical Director Mark Burgoyne Head of Music Georgina Davies

Age 12-15

Age 13-16

Son of Mr Green Genes Frank Zappa Echidna’s Arf of You Frank Zappa

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London

Sevenoaks, Kent Space* Chameleon Static* Chameleon 17 Years Younger* Chameleon

* Student Composition

THE HOURGLASS HAS TURNEd

THE BENEFITS

Age 15-17

Assistant Principal Pepita Hanna

Swindon, Wiltshire

Head of Swindon Music Service Rock School Paul Ashman Focus* The Hourglass Has Turned All I Can Give* The Hourglass Has Turned A Sin That Paid My Debts* The Hourglass Has Turned

THE dEBUTS

Swindon, Wiltshire Age 16

Birmingham, West Midlands Age 14-15

I’m Yours Jason Mraz Lego House Ed Sheeran Pompeii Bastille

FEEDBACK

20:30-21:30

Balacade* The Debuts Runaway* The Debuts Railway Side* The Debuts

UNIT 6

Sidcup, Kent Age 14-16

Musical Director Andy Gilbert Money* Andy Gilbert, Billy Gardner Let Me Breathe* Andy Gilbert, Jack Rutherford-Axcell, Sami Bouzefrane Sunshine* Andy Gilbert, Freddy Geraghty

WYVERN SOUL BANd Eastleigh, Hampshire Age 12-16

Director Geoff Lai Head of Music Bryan Postlethwaite The Informer Jools Holland Many Moons Janelle Monae Proud Mary John Fogerty All arr G Lai

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SATURdAY 6 JULY SYMPHONY ORcHESTRAS SYMPHONY HALL 10:30-18:00 PRESENTER TIM LIHOREAU, COURTESY OF CLASSIC FM MUSIc MENTORS PATRICK BAILEY, SARAH FREESTONE, STEPHEN WHIBLEY

OPEN 10:30

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH ORcHESTRA

GREATER GWENT YOUTH ORcHESTRA

Till Eulenspiegel R Strauss

Newport, Gwent Age 10-21

Musical Director Peter James Scythian Suite Prokofiev

OXFORdSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH ORcHESTRA Oxfordshire Age 14-19

Conductor John Traill Don Juan Op 20 R Strauss

BERKSHIRE YOUTH ORcHESTRA Berkshire Age 11-18

Conductor Jonathan Burnett Orchestral Manager Helen Rawstron Raiders of the Lost Ark John Williams Out of Africa John Barry Type II* Harry Davidson

Northamptonshire Age 15-19

Conductor Richard Roper

TEES VALLEY YOUTH ORcHESTRA Tees Valley Age 14-19

Conductor Nicholas Nowicki Light Cavalry Overture Suppé Hungarian Dance no 5 Brahms Carillon & Farandole from L’arlésienne Bizet

WEST SUSSEX cOUNTY YOUTH ORcHESTRA West Sussex Age 8-20

Conductor David Bennet Gladiator Hans Zimmer arr J Wasson Danzon no 2 Arturo Marquez

FEEDBACK

13:05-13:35 LUNCH

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SCHOOL & MUSIC CENTRE 14:30 OLdHAM MUSIc cENTRE YOUTH ORcHESTRA Oldham, Greater Manchester Age 12-18

Conductor Gerard Booth Marche Slave Tchaikovsky arr G Tomlinson Music from Guys & Dolls F Loesser arr C Custer Pictures at an Exhibition The Great Gate of Kiev Mussorgsky arr D Stone

ST AIdAN’S SYMPHONY ORcHESTRA Harrogate, North Yorkshire Age 11-18

Musical Director Jo Leonard Waltz from Sleeping Beauty Tchaikovsky March to the Scaffold Berlioz arr A Carter Pirates of the Caribbean Klaus Badelt arr T Ricketts

* Student Composition

AYLESBURY MUSIc cENTRE YOUTH ORcHESTRA

BIRMINGHAM ScHOOLS’ cONcERT ORcHESTRA

Age 13-18

Age 12-17

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Birmingham, West Midlands

Conductor Tom Horn

Conductor Bob Vivian

Cartoon Collection Various arr J G Mortimer Pictures at an Exhibition Mussorgsky arr Ravel

Pomp & Circumstance March no 4 Elgar Danse Bacchanale Saint-Saëns

EGGLEScLIFFE ScHOOL ORcHESTRA

17:30-18:00

Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees

FEEDBACK

Age 11-18

Conductor Matthew Haworth Concerto for Cello i Adagio - Moderato Elgar Tannhäuser Overture Wagner Highlights from the Musical Chicago John Kander Theme from The Magnificent Seven Elmer Bernstein

THE cITY OF HULL YOUTH SYMPHONY ORcHESTRA Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Age 11-18

Conductor Chris Maynard Kingston Sketches iii Ferensway March Anthony Hedges Danzon no 2 Arturo Marquez

SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORcHESTRA Southampton, Hampshire Age 13-18

Conductor Jane Higgins Hebrides Overture Mendelssohn Le Cid Castillane Aragonaise navarraise Massenet

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SATURdAY 6 JULY JAZZ ADRIAN BOULT HALL 10:30-18:30 MUSIc MENTORS MALCOLM EDMONSTONE, PERCY PURSGLOVE

MUSIC CENTRE & OPEN 10:30 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE cOUNTY YOUTH BIG BANd Northamptonshire Age 15-18

Musical Director Jon Lloyd Cute Neil Hefti Hunting Wabbits Gordon Goodwin

PARAFFERNALIA

Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Age 14-19

Band Leader David Blakey Assistant Band Leader Julia Watson Assistant Teacher Angela McDonald Children of Sanchez Chuck Mangione arr V Lopez Attack of the Killer Tomatoes John Debello arr R Ford Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima arr M Collins

cITY OF HULL YOUTH JAZZ ORcHESTRA

Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Age 13-19

Musical Director Sean Miller Assistant Musical Director Bill Ferrier Spill the Beans Andy Scott

GREATER GWENT YOUTH JAZZ ORcHESTRA Newport, Gwent Age 16-21

Director Paul Hornsby

Torfaen

Pure Spirit Steve Attlee Cousin Jeff Les Hooper

Director Lucyanna Brunnock

FEEDBACK

Hit the Bricks Gordon Goodwin Stompin’ at the Savoy Benny Goodman, Andy Sansom, Chick Webb arr R Phillipe Mambo from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein arr M Mossman

LUNCH

TORFAEN MUSIc cENTRE BIG BANd Age 12-18

cAVMS YOUTH JAZZ ORcHESTRA cardiff

Age 13-18 Musical Director David Miller May’s Way Jeff Jarvis Mambo Hot Victor Lopez Groovin’ Hard Don Menza arr D Barduhn

dENBIGHSHIRE YOUTH JAZZ ORcHESTRA denbighshire Age 11-18

Conductors & Tutors Alex Wynne Jones & Ben Neal Squib Cakes Tower of Power Soul Bossa nova Quincy Jones The Jazz Police Gordon Goodwin 52 | NATIONAL FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2013

12:55-13:30

REcKLESS BRASS darlington, durham Age 16-19

Musical Director Danny Miller Assistant Director Rich Hodgson Running of the Bulls Doug Beach, George Shuttack Sweet Dreams Eurythmics All arr D Miller

* Student Composition

SCHOOL 14:30 NSG BIG BANd

Northampton, Northamptonshire Age 13-18

Musical Director Rob Reid Assistant Director Paul Parker L.O.v.E Bert Kaempfert, Milt Gabler arr M Collins If I Could Pat Methany arr B Curnow Get in Line Gordon Goodwin

MOUNTBATTEN BIG BANd Romsey, Hampshire Age 12-16

Director Stu Marchant Assistant Director Jahan Hunter Corner Pocket (Until I Met You) Freddie Green, Don Wols arr E Wilkins Galang Vijay Iyer arr D Mar-Molinero

BURTON BOROUGH ScHOOL BIG BANd Newport, Shropshire Age 11-18

Conductor Wayne Ruston Rico-chet Lennie Niehaus Channel One Suite Bill Reddie arr M Lewis Soul Sacrifice Carlos Santana

I Got Rhythm George & Ira Gershwin Charleston Cecil Mack, Jimmy Johnson

ALTRINcHAM GRAMMAR ScHOOL FOR BOYS SWING BANd Conductor Colin Myers Assistants Elena De Jesus, Jane Bold

Conductor Richard Butler Libertango Astor Piazolla arr Murtha Lullaby of Broadway Warren, Dubin arr Wolpe Respect Otis Redding arr Berry Me And My Shadow Al Jolson, Dave Dreyer arr C Payne

ST JOHN FISHER cATHOLIc HIGH ScHOOL JAZZ ORcHESTRA Harrogate, North Yorkshire Musical Director Craig Ratcliffe

BOLTON ScHOOL JAZZ BANd

NORTHAMPTON ScHOOL FOR BOYS BIG BANd

Director of Music Richard Meehan

Director Rita Goodman

Age 12-18

Ulverston, cumbria

Songs of Loss & Longing Richard Meehan

Age 13-18

Age 13-19

Altrincham, cheshire

Just a Closer Walk Trad arr D Sorenson newton* Isaac Dunn Jump Wynton Marsalis

Reading, Berkshire

Barnham, West Sussex

UVHS BIG BANd

Age 14-18

REAdING ScHOOL BIG BANd

SWINGIN’ SAINTS

Bolton, Greater Manchester

Northampton, Northamptonshire

Age 13-18

Age 15-18

Director Fiona Berry

Musical Director Barrie Johnson

Talk is Cheap Kris Berg Aqua de Beber Antonio Jobim arr P Mossman

Madcap Chuck Owen Gates of Tashbaan Kris Berg

Age 14-18

Out of the Doghouse Erik Morales Chelsea Bridge Bill Strayhorn arr G Yasinitsky Hit the Bricks Gordon Goodwin

FEEDBACK

17:50-18:30 Visit classicfm.com to see exclusive photo galleries and news from National Festival Birmingham

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SATURdAY 6 JULY JAZZ cOMBOS & ENSEMBLES TOWN HALL 10:30-12:45 MUSIc MENTORS ANDREW BAIN, ISSIE BARRATT

10:30

cHURcHILL AcAdEMY AdVANcEd JAZZ

OX3

Age 15-18

Oxford, Oxfordshire Age 12-15

Do it the Hard Way Rogers, Hart arr C Baker, OX3 Ananas* Zoe Reed Sanderson It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it Ain’t Got That Swing) Ellington, Mills arr OX3

EZRA

London

Age 16-20 Learning & Participation Co-ordinator James Hill Colonial Mentality Fela Kuti Strasbourg/St Denis Roy Hargrove All arr Ezra

HOT cLUB

Lincoln, Lincolnshire Age 12-18

Head of Strings Janet Welsh Director of Music Aric Prentice Blue Drag Joe Myrow Belleville Rendez-vous Charest, Chomet All arr J Welsh

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churchill, North Somerset All Blues Davis arr M Tomaro Summer nights Hazeltine

TOMORROW’S WARRIORS YOUTH ENSEMBLE London Age 17-21

Learning & Participation Co-ordinator James Hill The Hymn Charlie Parker arr S Maurice-Grey Short Story Kenny Dorham arr N Garcia

THE FUNKSTERS Ashford, Kent Age 13-15

Musical Director John R Hall Sweet Home Chicago Robert Johnson Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock Superstition Stevie Wonder

FEEDBACK

12:20-12:45

* Student Composition

SATURdAY 6 JULY STRING & cHAMBER ORcHESTRAS TOWN HALL 15:15-18:30 MUSIc MENTORS SARAH FREESTONE, ALISON WALKER

15:15 KIRKLEES ScHOOLS STRING ORcHESTRA Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Age 10-19

Conductor Peter Simons October Eric Whitacre Journey to Catastrophe* Rebecca Stubbs Mixing the Malt Peter Martin

cARLEON cOMPREHENSIVE ScHOOL STRING ORcHESTRA Newport, Gwent Age 11-18

Conductor Peter James Andante Festivo Sibelius Music from Carmina Burana Orff arr Bulla Soliloquy Michelle Diehl

BERKSHIRE MAESTROS BRAcKNELL MUSIc cENTRE cORELLI STRING ORcHESTRA Bracknell & Wokingham, Berkshire Age 14-18

Conductor Susan Black

MILTON KEYNES MUSIc SERVIcE STRING ORcHESTRA

KMS cOLNE VALLEY MUSIc cENTRE SENIOR STRINGS

Age 12-18

Conductor Peter Simons

Milton Keynes Conductor Euan Forrester Assistant Anna Gash

Serenade for Strings Elgar

PENZANcE YOUTH STRING ORcHESTRA

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Age 11-18

Theme from The Godfather Nino Rota arr R Longfield Santana in Concert Santana arr L Moore Winter from The Four Seasons i Allegro non Molto Vivaldi

Penzance, cornwall Age 10-19

Director Tim Boulton Czardas Monti arr B Comeau La Beauté du Diable François Dompierre

NEW cENTURY STRINGS

Bolton Music Service, Greater Manchester Music Hub Age 11-18

Conductor Sarah Reed Coach Helen Riley

GREATER GWENT YOUTH STRING ORcHESTRA Newport, Gwent Age 10-20

Director Peter James Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams

FEEDBACK

18:00-18:30

viola Concerto in G Major i Largo ii Allegro Telemann 2 variations on a Theme by Purcell* New Century Strings St Paul’s Suite iv Finale (The Dargason) Holst

Serenade for Strings iv Marcia Dag Wirén Suite for Strings iii O Waly Waly iv Dashing Away John Rutter

* Student Composition

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2013 MFY SEASON

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REGIONAL FESTIVAL SERIES Each year the MFY season starts with the Regional Festival Series. during February and March, around 40,000 young people took part in festivals at venues across the UK. THANK YOU! The 2013 Regional Festival Series would not have been possible without the support of the following local organisers and venues:

ScOTLANd EDInBURGH Tony George Broughton High School GLASGOW The High School of Glasgow InvERnESS Alison Mackenzie Culloden Academy PERTH Patrick Dalgety & Horsecross Creative Learning Team Perth Concert Hall

ROCHDALE Richard Charles Rochdale Town Hall ROSSEnDALE Gill Middlemas Haslingden High School WARDLE Gwen Smith Wardle High School WARRInGTOn Jo Meredith Great Sankey High School

WALES CARDIFF The Coal Exchange HAvERFORDWEST Chris Llewellyn Sir Thomas Picton School nEWPORT Peter James Newport Centre WREXHAM Kevin Whitley Rhosnesni High School

cENTRAL ENGLANd

GATESHEAD Michael Summers St Thomas More Catholic School HALIFAX Kevin Rivett Heath Training & Development Centre HARROGATE Mark Pallant St Aidan’s C of E High School HUDDERSFIELD Pat France Colne Valley Specialist Arts College HULL Chris Maynard Albemarle Music Centre LEEDS David Evans Garforth Academy PETERLEE Andy King The Academy at Shotton Hall SHEFFIELD Ian naylor The Bannerdale Centre STOCKTOn-On-TEES Matthew Haworth Egglescliffe School WAKEFIELD Geraldine Gaunt & Fiona Park St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School

AYLESBURY Lizzie Molloy Aylesbury Music Centre BEDFORD Michael Gleeson & David Ewbank Wootton Upper School BIRMInGHAM Birmingham Conservatoire BIRMInGHAM Pepita Hanna Birmingham Ormiston Academy BOSTOn Graham Standley & Lee Hextall Haven High Academy Technology College LOUGHBOROUGH Aidan Geary Loughborough Endowed Schools nORTHAMPTOn Peter Smalley Northampton School for Boys nORTHAMPTOn Peter Smalley Northampton School for Girls OXFORD Liz Stock Oxfordshire Music Service at Bayards Hill School OXFORD Liz Stock Oxfordshire Music Service at St Gregory the Great School STAFFORDSHIRE & STOKE Jenny Mason The Bridge Centre

NORTH WEST

EAST ANGLIA

BUXTOn Hannah Watson St Thomas More Catholic School LIvERPOOL Clare Wilkins Formby High School

KInG’S LYnn Paula Moate & Peter Strudwick Springwood High School nORWICH Ian Johnson OPEN

NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE

LONdON & AROUNd CROYDOn Fairfield Halls EALInG Dan Francis Twyford C of E High School HAvERInG Jan Bristow Coopers’ Company & Coborn School HIGH WYCOMBE Tim venvell Royal Grammar School HOUnSLOW Alan Goodall & Emily Andrews Isleworth & Syon School for Boys nEWHAM Michael Broad Langdon School SHOREDITCH Rich Mix SOUTH BAnK Southbank Centre READInG Rhiannon Greenaway Kendrick Girls’ School ST ALBAnS Ben Storey St Albans Music School

SOUTH EAST ALDERSHOT Wendy Brett & Simon Wyld The Connaught School ASHFORD John Hall Norton Knatchbull School BURGESS HILL Richard Haslam Burgess Hill School SOUTHAMPTOn Paul Swindale Richard Taunton Sixth Form College SOUTHAMPTOn Stuart Marchant Mountbatten School

SOUTH WEST CHELTEnHAM Philip Cowley & Steve Legge Pate’s Grammar School EXMOUTH Steve Grant Exmouth Community College SWInDOn Paul Ashman & Dougall Prophet The Platform TRURO Tim Boulton Truro Methodist Church & Music Cornwall The Regional Festival Series is sponsored

by ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music Supported in Scotland by the Youth Music Initiative through Creative Scotland

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SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS MFY would like to thank all of its sponsors and supporters. Their generosity and vision enables MFY to support young musicians across the whole of the UK. MAJOR SPONSORS

The national Union of Teachers is the largest teachers’ union and the only union that represents only qualified teachers, or those who are on courses or in posts that will lead to teacher qualification. The NUT campaigns consistently for professional unity in the teaching profession. We believe that a single professional body, articulating the views of the profession, would benefit both children and teachers.

Teaching is a challenging and important job. Teachers can change children’s lives. The hallmark of the NUT has been a commitment to high-quality education for all children. Crucial to the full and enriched development of our children and young people is the opportunity to enjoy and make music. The National Union of Teachers is honoured to be a major sponsor of Music for Youth. teachers.org.uk

At TES, we believe that teachers around the world are the single most important influence on a child's education. We also believe that those teachers want access to the very best content and resources possible to inspire their students.

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Proud of our 100-year heritage and of our ever-increasing collection of free digital teaching resources, the TES exists to help drive up standards of education by putting the right teachers in the right jobs and giving them the tools to be the very best that they can be.

Our award-winning website, TES Connect, is home to over 10,000 free music lesson plans, music activities, music worksheets, music teaching ideas and much more - designed for teachers by teachers.

TES Connect continues to grow at a phenomenal rate: home to 620,000+ teaching resources, the site connects a community of over 50 million teachers and students worldwide, with over 2.6m registered members in 275 countries and territories. In peak periods, 3.6m teaching resources are downloaded a week – that’s 8 resources a second.

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The Royal Albert Hall is the world’s most famous stage. It has been in continuous use since it was opened in 1871 as a multipurpose building to host music concerts, dance spectaculars, exhibitions, scientific conversations and award ceremonies. It is a registered charity held in trust for the nation and receives no central or local government funding.

As a charity the Royal Albert Hall is dedicated to giving access to all by running a thriving Education and Outreach programme working with children, teachers, young people, families and community groups.

We deliver a wide range of exciting opportunities linked to the Hall’s calendar of events and the unique characteristics of the building, including specially created tours, workshops, projects and schools matinees.

To find out more about the work we do visit royalalberthall. com/education. To learn how you can support us please visit royalalberthall.com/support or contact the Fundraising Team on 020 7959 0544 or fundraising@ royalalberthall.com Registered Charity No: 254543 royalalberthall.com

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ABRSM is the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, delivering over 650,000 exams every year in around 90 countries. These include graded music exams for more than 30 instruments, for singing, jazz and music theory, as well as diplomas, and assessments for ensembles. ABRSM exams are designed to motivate students of all levels and ages, giving them a series of realistic goals and tangible rewards for their achievements. We are committed to supporting highquality music making, learning and development, and to producing the best possible resources for music teachers and students.

ABRSM has been supporting and promoting the highest standards of musical learning and assessment since 1889 and works with a variety of organisations in the UK and around the world, providing donations, scholarships and sponsorship.

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Vivendi currently operates a number of companies that are leaders in content, media and telecommunications.

MFY GRATEFULLY AcKNOWLEdGES dONATIONS FROM William A Cadbury Charitable Trust The Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust The Goldsmiths' Company Charity Hochtief Facility Management UK Ltd The Hugh Fraser Foundation The Martyn Donaldson Music Trust The Mercers’ Charitable Foundation

In content and media: the French leading pay-TV channel (Canal+ Group), the world’s leading music company (Universal Music group) and the world leader in video games (Activision Blizzard). In telecommunications: the number one alternative telecommunications operator in France and in Europe (SFR), the number one fixed-line and mobile telecommunications operator in Morocco (Maroc Telecom) and the number one alternative telecommunications operator in Brazil (GVT).

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MANAGEMENT TEAM Judith Webster Chief Executive Elias Bate Operations & Finance Manager Lynn Simmonds Development Manager Alexandra Brierley Head of Producing Tim Spires Senior Producer DĂŠarbhaile nairn Producer Lauren Barton Producer Ros Terry Producer Emma Lee Marketing Manager Alistair McDonald Digital & Communications Officer Jennifer Martin Scotland Co-ordinator

dIREcTORS David Hamid Chairman Robin Bynoe John Dixon Hugh Lenon Robert Wilson Larry Westland CBE Honorary Life President

BIRMINGHAM AdVISORY GROUP Katie Banks Town Hall Symphony Hall Emily Bartlett Birmingham Conservatoire John Clemson Birmingham Music Service Tony Dudley-Evans Town Hall Symphony Hall Clare Edwards Freelance Music Consultant

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