Royal College of Music Junior Department November 27th 2011A group of six students aged 8-17 from the Royal College of Music Junior Department visited the island along with their teacher, professor Viktoria Grigoreva, for a day of masterclasses and a concert. The connection with professor Grigoreva was made during the International Music Forum and […]
European Festival Baroque Orchestra November 25th 2011During their visit to the island, organised by Music In Action, members of the European Festival Baroque Orchestra were hosted at the academy and kindly offered to perform an after-school concert introducing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Led by Anna Smith from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the group took […]
CTV Mozart Manuscript Recording October 31st 2011Channel Television got in touch with the academy in relation to the sale of a rare Mozart manuscript through Stanley Gibbons. The 238-year-old score was part of the ‘Serenade in D major’, believed to have been composed in 1773 for the graduation of a family friend. The seven-movement work […]
Jersey Eisteddfod Preparation Concert October 23rd 2011In preparation for the Eisteddfod, seventeen students of various ages performed in front of an audience of family and friends to give their pieces a ‘dry-run’ before the start of the festival. For the Eisteddfod itself, in addition to all the solo entries various academy ensembles participated in […]
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Masterclass Week August 15th-21st 2011The academy hosted an incredible week of opera with students on the brink of international careers receiving tuition from soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, tenor Dennis O’Neill, and pianist Michael Pollock. An incredible busy, productive and fruitful time was had by all: MasterclassesEach morning masterclasses […]
Musique et Aventure 2011 July 24th-31st 2011This year marked the fifth anniversary of Musique et Aventure, the academy’s summer music course for children aged 10-17. The course attracted forty students again this year, and as always the large body of local children was joined by various students from the UK, Guernsey and France. Musique…Each morning music tuition […]
The Brundibár Project June/July 2011 The Brundibár project has been a large-scale collaboration between the academy, Chetham‟s School of Music (the UK’s leading under-18 specialist music school), Victoria College Preparatory School, Springfield School, Grainville School, Jersey College for Girls, Les Quennevais School, Victoria College, and the Jersey War Tunnels. The planning for this began in […]
Liberation International Music Festival May 6th-9th 2011 The third Liberation Jersey Music Festival featured ten internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings side by side with Jersey’s own choirs and musicians throughout the island. Organised by Music In Action, the academy hosted many of the visiting musicians and was the […]
Project Week, Escola Das Artes ResidencyMarch 28th-April 2nd 2011 The term was brought to a close with a wonderful busy week of musical activities centering around the visiting group of young musicians and teachers from the Escola Das Artes, Madeira. The group comprised a brass quintet and string septet, led by violin teacher Vladimir Proudnikov, […]
International Music Forum and Competition, MadeiraMarch 5th-12th 2011Chris George and Emmanuelle Dumas were invited to become members of the international jury brought together in Funchal, Madeira, for this competition (pictured below at the competition’s closing ceremony). The organisation behind the event, entitled ‘Art in the 21st Century’, is a Ukranian non-profit organisation that runs musical […]