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.
13th July 2014 |
The Commonwealth Piano Foundation has been created by Young Ambassador Vatche Jambazian in association with The Commonwealth Resounds. This exciting new initiative will support and encourage pianists all over the Commonwealth and already has an impressive track record dating back to 2009, when The Commonwealth Resounds created the world’s first PIANORAMA in Trinidad and Tobago, commissioning 53 x 1-minute piano pieces, from every Commonwealth country!
For more information click here.
More developments linked to The Commonwealth Piano Foundation will be published soon!
13th June 2014 |
Projects run by The Commonwealth Resounds! have helped enable several young musicians to achieve their Gold Arts Award. This is the highest level of a special arts-based qualification run jointly by the Arts Council of Great Britain and Trinity College. The pupils involved were part of the Royal Opera House’s Bridge Pilot project, and they used their Commonwealth musical leadership experiences to help gain the award. All are under the age of 18!
Ruth – raised enough money not only to get herself to Sri Lanka as part of The Commonwealth Resounds! team, but also extra to help the charitable organisation SONGBOUND start three new children’s choirs in Sri Lanka. She wrote about her experiences for her Gold Arts Award.
Seo-Jin and Stephanie – performed in a special opera written by the Anglo-Indian composer Danyal Dhondy, and ran their own workshops for children in Sri Lankan schools and orphanages. Both evaluated an documented their leadership projects for their Gold Arts Award.
Sophia – organised and ran her own fundraising concert for the Sri Lankan Commonwealth team. This took place at the Conway Hall in London. Sophia’s friends all came to perform and they raised £900. Sophia created a special website for her Gold Arts Award, and she evaluated and described all her hard work running this concert as the basis of the whole of Unit 2 – Arts Leadership Project.
