7th May 2016 |
The Commonwealth Resounds is delighted to be organising a unique study tour for 7 aspiring young Nigerian musicians who are developing their orchestral skills to help them lead and run ensembles in their own country. This project will be run in partnership with MUSON, one of Nigeria’s most enterprising music conservatoires.
The Nigerian musicians will be taken to hear some of the UK’s top professional orchestras in rehearsal, and will meet professional musicians who will give them support and guidance. They will also have a chance to play side-by-side in some regional orchestras in Croydon, Hertfordshire and Manchester. They will visit the Purcell School and Chethams School of Music. The highlight of their tour will be to participate in high-profile events linked to Commonwealth Week 2017.
Everyone is looking forward to meeting the Nigerian musicians, and would like to give special thanks to our wonderful Patron Tunde Jegede, Artistic Director of Muson who is carefully preparing the musicians for this tour.
More details will appear in the study tour section of our website, just click here to find out more!
10th April 2016 |
The Commonwealth Resounds would like to congratulate our Patron Kuljit Bhamra MBE on a well deserved Olivier Award Nomination for the Autograph Sound Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Having worked on the score of the blockbuster film Kuljit co-orchestrated Bend it Like Beckham, the musical with Howard Goodall and it played in London’s west end for almost a year and is now set to tour around the country. Critics gave the show glowing reviews including a 5* Daily Telegraph review who declared it a “bold, beautifully British triumph” and the Evening Standard called it a “joyous hymn to girl power”. The independent called Kuljit a Bhangra maestro and described his work as “Exquisite”.
Alison Cox OBE, Founder and Co-Director of The Commonwealth Resounds said:
I am delighted that the Olivier Awards chose to nominate Kuljit after he has spent so many years supporting the Asian music scene around the world at the highest levels. We are so grateful to have Kuljit’s support as patron of The Commonwealth Resounds and look forward to our continued partnership in the future.
Bend it Like Beckham has already won several major awards including ‘Best Musical’ at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.
12th March 2016 |
The Commonwealth Resounds ran a highly successful trip to Malta as part of CHOGM 2015, including more than 80 instrumentalists, singers and composers, the Commonwealth Festival Choir and Orchestra, musicians from the Caribbean and Nigeria, young musicians from the UK’s specialist music schools and a very large number of Maltese participants. They ran outreach projects in Maltese schools, gala concerts in some of Malta’s finest venues and performed 52 pieces from all over the Commonwealth in their unique, pan-Commonwealth project PANORPHEUS.
Click here for details and photographs.
We shall soon be able to reveal our exciting plans for 2016, including a study tour for 7 musicians from Nigeria, new projects and partnerships and some additional touring programmes to visit our longstanding Commonwealth musical partners.
More information soon!
28th September 2015 |
We are all deeply saddened by the untimely, tragic death of our wonderful Patron, Roderick Lakin MBE, Director of Arts at the Royal Over-Seas League. Roderick has helped and supported The Commonwealth Resounds over the years in so many ways.
Without his vision, inspiration and leadership, it would have been much more difficult for us all to run projects in Uganda, Trinidad, Australia and Sri Lanka as well as the UK. He has also generously spent time helping us to develop the vision and profile of our organisation.
Roderick will never be forgotten, and we are hoping to find many ways to celebrate his life and achievements through music.
23rd July 2015 |
This unique project will be presented in Malta by The Commonwealth Resounds as part of CHOGM 2015 on Thursday November 26th.
There will be five concerts, each featuring new pieces and composers from different regions of the world performed by brilliant young Commonwealth musicians
Altogether, we are planning to present 53 newly commissioned pieces on this day!
Please click here for more information
A CALL TO COMMONWEALTH COMPOSERS
Selected composers will be given plenty of publicity and exposure as part of this exciting project. If you would like to be considered as the composer to represent your own country, please email Alison Cox on tcr2015@btinternet.com
