BBC Ten Pieces Coaching Application

We have submitted an application to be considered for the BBC Ten Pieces Coaching Scheme ; a potential opportunity to work with professional musicians from the BBC Performing Groups including all the BBC orchestras and the BBC Singers.

P6 and P7 Scottish Opera Unwrap The Marriage of Figaro

Superb seats in the stalls of the Festival Theatre for P6 and P7

Thank you very much to Audrey Blake and our friends at Scottish Opera for a lovely  opportunity for six of our classes ( P6 and P7) to visit the Festival Theatre on Thursday 10th November for Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Unwrapped. Fantastic orchestra, beautiful singing and wonderful story telling, with a fascinating behind the scenes exploration of all that is involved in staging an opera production. And what a great introduction to our pupils to the many different roles and careers within the production, from costume designer to stage manager, from special effects designer to singer and from musician to conductor. Bravo!

Edinburgh Competition Festival Association

http://www.ecfest.org.uk
 
Be quick to sign up online and register by 30th November for this fantastic music opportunity! The 2017 Festival will be held from Tuesday 28 February to Sunday 12 March, with the preliminary round of the Concerto Class being held on 27 and 28 January.

Edinburgh Competition Festival Association

The Edinburgh Competition Festival Association was founded in 1920 for the promotion of the arts of Speech, Music and Dance in the City of Edinburgh and its neighbouring counties and is a member of the British and International Federation of Festivals. It is an amateur Festival organised and staffed by volunteers. 

About our Festivals

We run an annual festival which provides an opportunity for amateur musicians of all ages to perform their pieces in a friendly environment and, along with other performers of a similar ability, receive constructive feedback and advice from a specialist adjudicator.

Our programme of competitive and non-competitive classes allows performers of all abilities to take part. There are classes in a wide range of instruments, or combinations of instruments, as well as for singers. Full details are contained in our annual Syllabus, accessible on this website.

If you have participated in our festival before and benefitted from it, please tell your friends and encourage them to participate too. Newcomers are very welcome. More generally, if you have any comments or suggestions about our festival, we would like to hear them: please email us at email@ecfest.org.uk.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ecfestuk

Very Best Wishes to Dr Robert Fraser on His Retiral Wed 9th November

Dr Robert Fraser, instrument tutor for 13 years, is retiring on 10^th November and his last day of teaching at Sciennes will be Wednesday 9^th. I am sure families and children who have known Dr. Fraser will join in offering him very best wishes for a long, healthy and happy retirement.  

We are very grateful for all the support Dr Fraser has provided for school in many musical performances and for all his advice on Music provision and policy over many years. 

We have been informed that the post has been advertised and the closing date is 3^rd November. We will inform children and families when a tutor has been appointed.

Tom Bancroft of ABC Creative Music is Coming to Sciennes!

Last session, we were delighted to be given a free opportunity to pilot online resources from ABC Creative Music until the end of the year, with additional free staff training and also two days of Music workshops with pupils.

We have taken out a subscription to the online resources this year and are absolutely delighted that ABC Creative Music's founder, Tom Bancroft, will visit Sciennes on Wednesday 30th November and Thursday 8th December to lead Music workshops in school.

ABC was founded by twin brothers Tom and Phil Bancroft. Both studied Medicine at Cambridge University, with Phil doing a joint degree in Psychology, and Tom in Social and Political Sciences. Both went on to become two of the UK’s leading jazz musicians. For the past 12 years, they have combined their interest in science, the brain and psychology, with a passion for Education, particular exploring the huge potential creativity brings to children’s experience of Education especially in music education.

Tom is a winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation and a Creative Scotland Award. He runs his own big band Orchestro Interrupto and the band Trio Red, as well as playing in Trio AAB and other groups.

Both Tom and Phil have played with many world class musicians from the classical, jazz, pop, and folk scenes including Sun Ra, Tommy Smith, Martyn Bennett, Bill Wells, Hue & Cry and have studied music and performed with top-level musicians from around the world, including Cuba, South America, Africa and India. This wide range of experience in composed and improvised music from different traditions informs much of Tom and Phil’s approach to the design of ABC Creative Music programmes for children.

CEC Music School Open Day Sat 5th Nov

Come along to The City of Edinburgh Music School's Open Day this Saturday to see what they offer: http://bit.ly/2e4YMDp

P6 and P7 Scottish Opera Unwrapped

Thank you very much to Audrey Blake and all our lovely friends at Scottish Opera for arranging a free visit for all P6 and P7 classes to a Scottish Opera Unwrapped session on Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" on Thursday 10th November at the Festival Theatre 1pm.