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Remember Finchley and Hendon Music Centres start back THIS week on Saturday 15th September!
Reminder East Barnet Music Centre started back LAST week.
NB:
Barnet Youth Brass Band and Barnet Youth Orchestra start back this Thursday 13th September.
Barnet Youth Wind Orchestra and theory class start this Friday 14th September.
One Voice Choir, Young Voices and Junior Steel Pan Orchestra start back on Wednesday 19th September.
Barnet Schools’ Music Festival 2017 takes place in June on 12th – 15th and 19th – 22nd. The festival, now in its 17th year, will run for eight days at the Artsdepot in North Finchley and feature children from primary and secondary schools from across the borough. At the heart of the festival, children join forces to perform as a massed choir singing a wide range of songs, including performing a 20 minute version of Orpheus and Eurydice with the English Pocket Opera Company!
In addition, all schools performed their own item of music, reflecting the diversity, variety and excellence of music in Barnet schools.
For more information click HERE, and for a booking form to be a part of this exciting event click HERE. Booking forms must be completed and returned by Monday 9 January 2017.
In the Autumn Term 2017 Hendon Music Centre will move to:
St Mary’s and St John’s School
Bennett House
Sunningfield Road
Hendon
NW4 4QR
Hendon Music Centre’s Senior Concert Band performed a varied programme on Golders Hill Park Bandstand on Sunday 10 July to a very welcoming audience. Despite having to battle against the force 9 gale blowing on stage; stands were kept upright, music stayed firmly pegged to stands and the students performed with gusto!
Barnet Schools’ Music Festival 2016 took place in June on 13th-16th and 20th-23rd. The festival, now in its 16th year, ran for eight days at the Artsdepot in North Finchley and featured children from 68 primary and 6 secondary schools from across the borough. At the heart of the festival, children joined forces to perform as a massed choir singing a wide range of songs.
Music is to remain a priority in Barnet as Ian Phillips, Chair of Woodhouse College board of governors and Martin Baker, Chair of BEAT, shake hands after signing a 10 year agreement to lease premises to BEAT for the Centralised Music A level courses.
Our esteemed conductor of Barnet Youth Orchestra will be hanging up his baton at the end of this term and leaving his conducting post with us. We would like to thank him for his tireless work in finding repertoire, players and performance opportunities for the young people in Barnet. He will be replaced in September by Justin Fung.
British-Chinese conductor, Justin Fung is an active educator and orchestra trainer. He is much in demand as a conductor of youth orchestras, he currently holds the Principal Conductor position of North Hertfordshire Youth Orchestra, Barnet Youth Orchestra, Tri – Borough Youth Orchestra, Kingston Youth Orchestra, Kingston String Sinfonia and Kingston Training Orchestra,
He is also the Music Director of Opéra les Fauves and Principal Conductor of the Swinsian Ensemble. Justin has previously held conductor positions at the Firebird Orchestra of London, Amadeus Orchestra, Chamber Academy Orchestra, Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Orchestra, University of Glasgow, Stirling University, the Kelvin Ensemble and the Glasgow Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Justin graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he studied composition and conducting. He then continued studying privately with James Lowe, Mark Heron and Lionel Friend. Justin has studied in masterclasses with Benjamin Zander, Kenneth Woods, Colin Metters, and George Hurst. Aboard, Justin studied with Adrain Gnam in the United States, Manfred Huss in Vienna, Austria and opera conducting with Julius Kalmar in Verona, Italy and performed Mozart’s Don Giovanni with OperAverona.
Recent concert appearances have included a double bill production of Mozart’s Impresario and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchiwith Mid Summer Opera in London, a new production of Holst’s The Wandering Scholar with Opéra les Fauve, Eroica Camerata of Birmingham, ‘Ensemble thing’ in the Hague, Netherlands, the Orchestra of the Swan, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Amadeus Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, the Kelvin Ensemble, the Scottish Borders Community Orchestra and the CR:ACC Ensemble in Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Glasgow International Festival of visual art, University of York and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Justin would especially like to thank Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Orchestra of the Swan, the Two Rivers Festival, London Masterclasss and Sian Edwards for their generous support in helping him further his conducting studies.
