National Chamber Music Festival for Schools
Pro Corda's annual Chamber Music Festival for Schools is a celebration of all that is great about ensemble playing: its central role in the development of young musicians, the wonderful chamber music repertoire, the endless possibilities for creative ensemble work and crucially the thousands of young people themselves up and down the country who get such a huge amount out of engaging with ensemble playing. Formerly the National Chamber Music Competition, Pro Corda was asked to take over this annual Festival in 2006, and since then it has grown in size and scope. Celebrating all chamber groups from the conventional to the extroadinary (string quartets rub shoulders with tuba octets!) the National Chamber Music Festival for Schools visits schools in all Arts Council England regions, together with venues in Scotland and Wales. Young ensembles play to top ensembles and performers and each receive a mini masterclass. Regional qualifying and semi final rounds produce groups to play in a non competitive finals day (which will take place at the Birmingham Conservatoire for the 2010 Festival.) Highly competitive groups get the opportunity to perform at prestigious venues throughout the UK.
For Pro Corda, the CMF is a crucial tool to enable us to tap into an ever wider range of young people and talent and a central aim of the CMF is to introduce and develop chamber music and ensemble training within the state sector. To get involved, and for more information about fundraising for this vital celebration of young talent, please contact Pro Corda's CEO Andrew Quartermain on
andrew@procorda.com.
CMF Qualifying Round, RNCM, Manchester
30 January 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Godolphin School
02 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Shrewsbury School
03 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Aylesbury Vale Academy
04 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Henrietta Barnett School
07 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Charterhouse School
07 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School
08 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Perse Girls School, Cambridge
08 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Exeter School
09 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Sherborne School for Girls
11 February 2010
CMF Qualifying Round, Alleyns School
11 February 2010
CMF Semi Final, Wycombe Abbey School
01 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, Bryanston School
01 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, Trinity School, Croydon
02 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, Sevenoaks School
04 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, St Helen & St Katherine School, Abingdon
04 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, Godalming College
06 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, RNCM, Manchester
06 March 2010
CMF Semi Final, North London Collegiate School
07 March 2010
CMF Non Competitive Finals Day, Birmingham Conservatoire
14 March 2010
