4th March 2015 |
Young musicians, singers and dancers from different cultural groups across the UK are getting very excited about Commonwealth Observance Day 2015, on Monday March 9th at Westminster Abbey. This year, several of the performances have been organised by The Commonwealth Resounds.
The Observance will be attended by Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family, Commonwealth Religious Leaders, High Commissioners, Commonwealth Delegates and members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, as well as a large number of schoolchildren and members of the public.
Those performing will include:
dancedigital has worked in close collaboration with Sarah Ndagire from Uganda and will be accompanied by members of the Commonwealth Festival Orchestra, performing ‘Maltugandata UK’, a specially-commissioned piece by young composer Thomas Carr, aged 16. This performance has been generously supported by Hertfordshire Music Education Hub.
The Commonwealth Festival Choir – performing new songs written by young people in a special songwriting workshop, supported by Lord and Lady Harris and the Gatwick Area Community Fund, and featuring young singers from the Bermondsey Harris Academy, the Apollo Youth Choir and the Purcell School for Young Musicians.
The Commonwealth Festival Orchestra – conducted by Dr James Ross and featuring young musicians from the Royal College of Music Junior Department, Chethams School of Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Fanfare – The Commonwealth Resounds! – composed by Max Bilbe aged 16 and performed by young musicians from Chetham’s School of Music.
6th January 2015 |
The Commonwealth Resounds is delighted to confirm that Louis Perera will become their Young Music Ambassador for Sri Lanka. For our 10th Anniversary in 2015, we are looking for other outstandingly talented young musicians in different Commonwealth countries to become Young Ambassadors and help us to promote musical partnerships in their own countries. This is inspired by the theme ‘A Young Commonwealth’ which runs throughout Commonwealth Week from March 9th-15th
31st December 2014 |
From October 10th – 12th a group of young singers and composers from the Purcell School’s Commonwealth team travelled to Kent to work with inexperienced but enthusiastic young singers from the Apollo Youth Choir and the Bermondsey Harris Academy who were keen to write and sing their own songs.
The idea of this project was to create some new material for the recently re-developed Commonwealth Festival Choir. The choir will be singing some of these songs in Westminster Abbey as part of Commonwealth Observance Day 2015, in which the Commonwealth Resounds will be strongly featured as it celebrates its 10th Anniversary.
All-in-all, 12 new songs were composed by young people in a single day, all of which were commendable and some of which were excellent.Three of these songs will be orchestrated by more experienced young composer/orchestrators to be accompanied by the Commonwealth Festival Orchestra in Westminster Abbey on March 9th 2015.
The special theme for this year’s Commonwealth Observance Day is ‘A Young Commonwealth’. This lovely project will fit this theme admirably. To read more about it, click here
13th November 2014 |
The Commonwealth Resounds! has been delighted to recommend outstanding international string players to the Malta Philharmonic for their prestigious concert in the Malta Arts Festival
We shall soon be able to give more information about exciting developments with the Commonwealth Festival Orchestra and Choir building up towards CHOGM 2015.
Projects and performances linked to our 10th Anniversary Celebrations will be running throughout 2015.
13th August 2014 |
In 2015, The Commonwealth Resounds! will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary. There will be many fascinating musical events linked to this, but perhaps the most exciting of all will be our return to Malta for CHOGM 2015, where our programme first began in 2005. This is an amazing coincidence, about which we are all delighted.
We are hoping to bring to Malta a wonderful dynamic musical programme shaped by the needs and wishes of this beautiful, special host country.
2015 will be a very important year for The Commonwealth Resounds! and we warmly invite others to join with us and help celebrate it. New ideas and partners will be warmly welcomed.
