Holiday Camp for Young Musicians
Join us this Easter for a dazzling showcase of some Spies TV & movies theme tunes.
From James Bond to the Pink Panther, Mission Impossible to Johnny English, we will play a large variety of Classical pieces, theme tunes and Jazz tunes featured in 70 years of TV and Cinema of your favourite secret agents. Continue reading “Easter 2019 – For Your Eyes Only”
Ho Ho Ho! Tis the season to be jolly again!
Join us in a flurry of famous pieces for our Christmas edition!
Our young musicians will play a collection of classic Carols, some well-known Jazz holiday tunes, the Corelli Christmas Concerto and excerpts from the Nutcraker. Check our videos below to get yourself familiar with the music.
PS: can you spot the 5 added characters to the poster? Continue reading “Christmas 2018 – Glory to the newborn King”
1868 – The maestro of Overtures, Gioachino Rossini dies near Paris and Scott Joplin, king of ragtime is born in Texas. Some 50 years later in 1918, Impressionist composer Claude Debussy dies in Paris whilst Leonard Bernstein, acclaimed composer, pianist and conductor is born in Massachussetts.
To celebrate the anniversaries of these 4 great composers, we welcome you to our Heavyweight Showdown. Come and elect your champion! Continue reading “Summer 2018 – Battle of the Composers”
50 years ago, a computer went rogue aboard a space station whilst apes were fighting next to a tall black monolith…
A decade later, a rookie pilot and a scoundrel were searching the galaxy in search of a young princess, flanked by two droids and a wookie!
This Easter, fasten your hyperspace seat belts as we will revisit the music of two iconic sci-fi movies: Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The latter famously used two pieces by Strauss and Strauss (not related to one another!) and became the first video clip for both tunes! Continue reading “Easter 2018 – A Space Edition”
Tovarich, the time has come to pay tribute to the Motherland and revisit some of the most famous pieces Russian composers have produced around the 1917 Revolution…and beyond. Continue reading “Summer 2017 – Rise of the Soviets”
Echoes of far away lands are resonating in West London, strange harmonies and exotic scales have reached our shores, the time has come for a fusion of the senses and open our minds to new sounds!
