Tom Redmond
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Director of Music|Artistic Director|Joint Principal @chethams ; presenter of schools and family concerts here, there and everywhere.
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Whichever fine musician played from this copy of Daphnis before me, thank you for sharing your experience & wisdom.
http://t.co/Jmw14vZhK5
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In time I’ll write a screenplay dramatising the epic journey these instruments have been on but for now, they’re back
@Chethams
!It took 29 days but
@lufthansa
have finally got them home. Thanks everyone for your support,advice,loans & outrage
@ClassicFM
@bbc5live
@britishtrombone
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Child No2 just finished
@the_halle
youth orchestra course. He was playing my old part, on my old horn, in my old orchestra. I was quite choked up by it all. I asked how it was…
“Really good but the part had your rubbish handwriting all over it!”
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Hi
@lufthansa
. This is the heavy brass of
@Chethams
having just returned from Italy. Unfortunately, despite the premium, you haven’t brought their instruments back. We’ve got a 09:30 rehearsal tmrw so if you could reunite us with 6 trombones, a tuba & a suitcase we’d be delighted
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Beyond excited to be taking up this post from next September.
We're delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Redmond as Director of Music from 2019. Tom succeeds Stephen Threlfall in the role, and looks forward to guiding the music programme at our unique school into its second half century.
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Well here we are. 20 days later & 81,901 people have seen this post but not one person
@lufthansa
has managed to see 6 trombones & tuba
@AeroportoNapoli
@Airport_FRA
or
@manairport
. These
@Chethams
students are auditioning for conservatoire in the autumn, they need them back!
Hi
@lufthansa
. This is the heavy brass of
@Chethams
having just returned from Italy. Unfortunately, despite the premium, you haven’t brought their instruments back. We’ve got a 09:30 rehearsal tmrw so if you could reunite us with 6 trombones, a tuba & a suitcase we’d be delighted
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Obviously as a school
@Chethams
is unbelievably proud of Fang for what he’s just achieved, but all three
@BBCYoungMus
finalists were extraordinary. To perform in the way they did, to an empty hall after the year that’s just passed was awe inspiring. Truly awe inspiring.
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Thank you all so much for sharing this far and wide. Amazingly the instrument turned up in Cash Convertors and is now reunited with its extremely happy 11yo owner. The gentleman who tried to sell it has been reunited with the police, to whom - it seems - he was rather well known
My son’s horn was stolen from the back of the car in north Manchester last night. Paxman double, student model in dark blue, fixed bell rucksack case. Mouthpiece; 21 cup with gold N rim. If anyone should see such a thing in a shop or on eBay please drop me a line.
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Imagine the excitement when you get the message, ‘your alphorn has been scheduled for delivery’.
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I think it’s finally sunk in that this actually happened. 320 musicians from
@Chethams
performed
@BridgewaterHall
yesterday in what was possibly the first public concert by a youth orchestra since early 2020.
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My big brother
@Timothy_Redmond
going one step further than you think possible. Starts his new job as Music Director of
@wssymphony
and he GETS A STREET NAMED AFTER HIM!!!
@alunchethams
, I want a motorway!
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My first day at big school!
Survived my first assembly ✅
All are safely gathered in! Great to see everyone this morning- let the term commence! Welcome to all my new parent followers too
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Not many schools have to include ‘performing
@stevereich
Clapping Music whilst walking back to school’ in their risk assessments. Welcome to
@chethams
!
Awesome performance by our older percussionists with
@colincurrieperc
@the_halle
.
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When we moved house I found a safe bolted into the attic. Today I found a set of keys hidden elsewhere & was genuinely giddy when I realised they were the back up set. That ‘what if’ feeling going through my mind as I opened it..💰..only to discover some old Christmas decorations
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One of the highlights of my job
@Chethams
is meeting new applicants. Today I asked someone why they love music.
“music is like cake. It’s delicious for those that consume it, but I love the simple ingredients that come together to make it delicious.”
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First day of our two week
@Chethams
music course today. After the fire at school last week we’re unbelievably grateful to
@the_halle
for making
@hallestpeters
available to us for rehearsals.
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M’colleague, David Chatterton; head of brass & percussion
@Chethams
for 20 years, assistant principal, all round super nice guy…has NEVER, until this day, worn a Christmas jumper. Photographic evidence of a seasonal miracle
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.
@andrewCDmcg
@BBCRadio3
is rebroadcasting a joint
@the_halle
/
@BBCPhilharmonic
performance of Alpine Symphony at 11:00.
Here’s a short clip from rehearsal of 4 horns making the epic journey from off stage Left to on stage Right
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Every available space is being used for music making
@Chethams
.
@MBJFarnsworth
currently rehearsing
@EricWhitacre
’s Lux Arumque outside my office!
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When you’ve got scripts to write and a concerto to learn, and then your new space suit arrives!!!
It can only mean one thing...
#comeandplay2019
@halle
...coming soon.
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It’s been a long day. We left
@Chethams
at 07:00 but after mini buses, planes, a quick lunch in Munich, coaches and boats we’ve made it to Ischia! (And despite the best efforts of the airline, the trombones have arrived straight)
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Let’s have a superhero themed BBQ m’colleague
@NicolaChethams
said. Let’s dress up, she said. One of us clearly takes their job far more seriously than the other.
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Here’s Clifford Lantaff, principal harp
@BBCPhilharmonic
for nearly 40 years and tonight he plays his first ever piece of Beethoven!!! Hear him in The Creatures of Prometheus
@BBCRadio3
at 19:30.
@GernonBen
conducts
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.
@Chethams
6th form flattened by a 7th!!! An inspirational day of choral sessions led by our head of vocal and choral studies
@MBJFarnsworth
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Child 2/4 has been busy this week. We have food, loo roll and health - but we're running out of wood
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My first
@Chethams
founders day today, and a very fine day it was too! Genuinely heartwarming to have the whole school community together
@ManCathedral
.
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Well here we are. 20 days later & 81,901 people have seen this post but not one person
@lufthansa
has managed to see 6 trombones & tuba
@AeroportoNapoli
@Airport_FRA
or
@manairport
. These
@Chethams
students are auditioning for conservatoire in the autumn, they need them back!
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A fine day for
@Chethams
chorus. Performing Haydn’s Harmoniemesse
@BridgewaterHall
with
@BBCPhilharmonic
conducted by
@GernonBen
. Huge thanks to
@MBJFarnsworth
and
@sjoverington
for their work in preparing for tonight. Hear it
@BBCRadio3
in a few weeks time.
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Just gave unexpected interview on
@Chethams
trombone saga. Staying in a hut in deepest, darkest Derbyshire so had to use makeshift camera stand to counter my caffeinated hand shakes.
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Unexpectedly early start this morning to present
@BBCRadio3
breakfast. Join us at 7:00 as we wish
@elizabethalker
a speedy recovery.
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Sorry we couldn't make it
@sarahwillis
but we were with you in spirit.
@BerlinPhil
live in the living room in Manchester!
#HoHoHorn
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My Christmas Orchestral Adventure.
We danced, we sang, we went on a bear hunt & we met Father Christmas. Twice. For 10,000 people
@RoyalAlbertHall
.
All in all, a good day.
@Timothy_Redmond
#RAHChristmas
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Weekend has come early....My new inflatable dinosaur suit has arrived!
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What an absolute treat for
@Chethams
woodwind students to work with the extraordinary
@JessGillamSax
this evening.
Thanks to our friends
@MancCamerata
for making this possible.
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36 hours
@BrittenPears
in an intense but massively inspiring think tank on the health and well-being of young musicians. Many things to takeaway and implement but ultimately if everyone could just come and see this for 20 minutes we’d be heading in a much healthier direction.
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.
@NicolaChethams
and I have just popped to London for tea and sandwiches. We did better on dress compliance and than last week.
A great honour to represent
@Chethams
at the coronation garden party.
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After welcoming all of our new students to
@Chethams
this weekend I managed to make it home to drop off youngest on his first (half) day of reception. 3 out of 4 smiling at the end of day one. Eldest absent as he relishes final 48 hours before A levels!
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.
@Chethams
Symphony Orchestra, soloists and many, many choirs join together for Mahler’s 8th symphony with Director of Music,
@stevethrelfall2
.
Here they are ‘just marking it’ in rehearsal. Hear them really go for it tonight
@BridgewaterHall
or
@BBCRadio3
on 10 July.
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A giddy, brilliant and emotional day. A return to
@RoyalAlbertHall
with
@Timothy_Redmond
for My Christmas Orchestral Adventure. Albert’s Orchestra,
@nycgb
, 🎅 and 🐻 all on excellent form.
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All of our teaching rooms
@Chethams
are now equipped with units like these so our instrumental tutors can deliver a blended learning experience, keeping our students and staff safe
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2019
#ComeandPlay
@the_halle
has begun! Moon landings, space exploration, bit of singing, bit of dancing...And a some costumes.
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All this happening right now
@Chethams
! Franz Krager conducts Bartok/Abe/Tchaikovsky,
@garyfarr
introduces free improvisation,
@MBJFarnsworth
directs vocal consort, brass prepare for visit from
@SepturaOfficial
& Andy Wilson directs
#saxophone
choir.
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As a young boy there were things that I never thought would excite me, but
@Chethams
receiving full marks from HSE for our Covid measures makes me immensely proud. Bravo all!! 👏👏👏
We were one of the first Schools in England to have our covid health and safety inspection from the HSE. Delighted to be given a massive 👍 for implementation of safety guidance but also happy, well students and staff. Well done Chets!
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Conscious that not all pianists have the same hand span, we’re very excited to take delivery of this smaller keyboard
@Chethams
. Want to know more, read this from
@MurrayMcPiano
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And we’re off!
@Chethams
music course is underway!
@leethereynolds
conducts RVW, Gipps,
@AyannaWJ
, Ravel & Ibert. Meanwhile our TWO other orchestras play Tchaikovsky, Boulanger, Bacewicz, Bologne & Saint Saens. Singers are on IPA with
@Libby_Burgess
(int. Phonetic Alphabet!!!)
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This year’s
#comeandplay
has been a bit of a bucket list for me. I got to sing Sinatra songs sporting a space suit & I got to do Superman! It’s been a brilliant ten years & if I’ve achieved anything in life it’s a huge part down to these concerts & the support
@the_halle
gave me
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Yeeeeaaahhaaaaaaaaaa! Fang through to the finals of
@BBCYoungMus
. Tune in on Sunday to hear him perform with
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BridgewaterHall
@BSAboarding
Incredible - well done Fang!
BBC Young Musician Grand Finals... here we come. Bravo!
@BBCYoungMus
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Very excited to meet everyone ahead of our first day at school together in September! Can’t wait to get started.
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It’s bring your brother to school week
@Chethams
so laid on a small orchestra and chorus for
@Timothy_Redmond
to work with
@StollerHall
.
Join us this Friday for music by
@DaniHoward6
, Shostakovich and Walton.
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I’m an emotional wreck! What an evening/year. Bravo Fang!!!!!
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Quick update on this...still no update! The good news is that
@lufthansa
have passed on the baggage codes to someone on the ground. Hopefully with detective skills, a magnifying glass & a book on how to identify an instrument it wont take too long to spot 6 TROMBONES AND A TUBA!
Hi
@lufthansa
. This is the heavy brass of
@Chethams
having just returned from Italy. Unfortunately, despite the premium, you haven’t brought their instruments back. We’ve got a 09:30 rehearsal tmrw so if you could reunite us with 6 trombones, a tuba & a suitcase we’d be delighted
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Mahler 2, offstage heroes. Hear this magnificence, along with the rest of the
@the_halle
,
@hallechoir
,
@AliceCoote
& S’Mark Elder, live
@BBCRadio3
19:30.
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I know I’ve saturated Twitter with
@Chethams
music course but take 40 seconds to listen to this.
2 string orchestras play Mahler 5 Adagietto.
This week we’re working with not one but TWO distanced string orchestras from
@Chethams
School of Music! Absolute hats off to the students, who are making the most gorgeous music under extraordinary circumstances 🥰
#musiceducation
#cultureundercovid
#mahler
#ClassicalMusic
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The whole ‘remote office’ taking a turn for the extreme today.
@Chethams
back to school steering group chaired from the top of the Long Mynd
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Made it to the end! A fine finish to the year, narrating
@Timothy_Redmond
’s setting of Hairy Maclary with
@conductorben
and
@the_halle
@BridgewaterHall
. Merry Christmas one and all.
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When my children ask what I do at work, sometimes it’s difficult to explain.
And we’re off! We have our very own
#NeilArmstrong
, the inimitable
@redmond_tom
!
#DiogoCosta
conducting
#FlyMeToTheMoon
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Pleasure to be on stage with
@Jheyward843
last night for his final hoorah as
@the_halle
’s assistant conductor. What a way to go; orchestra, several hundred singers and a lot of prosecco! Quite gentle compared the siege of Leningrad that he led the night before!
#THIF
#MIF
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A very emotional day as
@Chethams
comes back to life. Students returning throughout the day for the start of term tomorrow.
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Day 3 of
@Chethams
Summer Music Course and we’ve had a ceilidh, sectionals, tuttis, staff recitals, choirs, a lot of sweets, the inaugural Chets paper-aeroplane competition, rounders,
@chethamslibrary
tour, & a modest amount of sleep!
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Week one of the summer term
@Chethams
.
Full school photograph ✅
Class with
@boden_jon
&
@sweeneyfiddle
✅
All set for visits from
@hulme_b
&
@matildalloydtpt
✅
AND we've got concerto auditions this Saturday.
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After 4 months of home working/schooling we’ve totally gone up a gear. 3 pneumatic drills smashing up a solid floor to a mechanical melody of B, Bb, D.
It’s like really angry minimalism from Mordor.
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Remarkably, of the 54,967 people who have interacted with this tweet not one of them works for
@lufthansa
. Advice on their website is that it's the responsibility
@Airport_FRA
&
@AeroportoNapoli
to locate c£30k of missing instruments.PLEASE COULD YOU SEND US OUR TROMBONES & TUBA?
Hi
@lufthansa
. This is the heavy brass of
@Chethams
having just returned from Italy. Unfortunately, despite the premium, you haven’t brought their instruments back. We’ve got a 09:30 rehearsal tmrw so if you could reunite us with 6 trombones, a tuba & a suitcase we’d be delighted
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All dressed up and no one to test. Baronial Hall
@Chethams
has seen a lot in its 600 year history. Yesterday morning our founder Humphrey watched as we set up to test our returning students. Got a bit more time now to tweak and move things round...
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Not sure where this would happen other than
@Chethams
. Completely student led performance of Hansel & Gretel. Arranged, produced, directed, managed performed and conducted by students from years 12 & 10.
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On Sunday I interviewed a great knighted maestro for two hours. On Tuesday I gave a workshop to the England football manager on leadership in music. Today I’m Singing Burt/Mary Poppins in Bolton.
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To all professionals in the film, television, theatre, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and post a pic.
#SaveTheArts
.
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In a brief pause of the Mancunian summer downpour, we had bbq & ice creams on the yard today
@Chethams
.
Thanks to
@kevin_thornley
,
@EnzaScialpi
and the whole catering team for making it happen.
@NicolaChethams
& I found our rhythm in scoops, flake and sauce.
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Christmas on the yard
@Chethams
. Carols, unlimited candy floss, gluhwein (0%), fantastic food AND SNOW.
Huge thanks to our amazing catering team...
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And we’re off! Our first socially distanced music course
@Chethams
. A week of Vaughn Williams, Wagner, Ives, Connesson with
@CVansoeterstede
.
@LloydRColeman
, Beethoven, Mozart,
@RakhiSinghMusic
& side by socially distanced side project with
@manc_collective
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Having a job is far unhealthier than I ever imagined. Is it actually possible to walk past a tray of 48 Ferrero Rocher without taking a couple?
Another tough day
@Chethams
!
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After several hours in the car, a few tears, the inevitable emergency lay-by clear up, and an unexpected detour to see the Magna Carter, this view always brings immediate feelings of decompression. Happy half term
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2018 has been one of the best ever. Thank you all very much for making it so. Looking forward to all that 2019 brings...including an actual office!!!
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Another Great Orchestral Adventure
@RoyalAlbertHall
with my brilliant big brother
@Timothy_Redmond
,
@LonYouthChoir
(featuring fantastic Carmen resources from
@cansingcymru
) and a whole host of puppeteers, dinosaurs, servants and singers. See you at Christmas for the next one 🎅
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An actual train ride to an actual city to present a nearly actual concert!!
@TheCBSO
online concerts for KS2 & 3 coming soon.
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Despite the ongoing saga of trombone (departure) gate things are pretty exciting
@Chethams
this week.
@conductorben
has arrived to lead us through Stravinsky,
@RVWSociety
, Korngold & his very own Urban Fox. Join us
@BridgewaterHall
this Friday.
#RVW150
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This was quite an historical moment. The first principal in
@Chethams
history to actually meet our eponymous founder.
#MedFest2021
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Had a brilliant socially distant, strategic talk & walk on the moors with a
@Chethams
colleague this afternoon.
Got more done in 2 hours than a month of screen time - and remembered how to play!!!
@FranRochdale
- you’re next!
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Such a buzz about the place today. Corridors filled with music and laughter once again.
It's great to be back in lessons, lots of happy and relaxed students.
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What a week it’s been
@Chethams
, culminating last night in an absolutely sizzling performance of music by
@DaniHoward6
, Shostakovich & Walton in
@StollerHall
. Great to welcome
@RWCMD
actor Kieran Smith to play Henry V & nice to spend time with guest conductor
@Timothy_Redmond
!!!
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The beauty of a course for young musicians is listening to the way they move between activities. Yesterday, a spontaneous rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody in the lunch queue & I've just heard a grungy reimagining of Bruckener's Locus Iste being belted out on the way to socials
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Audible intake of breath from 2000 children as
@TheCBSO
&
@Lee_Reynolds_
performed
@DaniHoward6
’s Coalescence this morning
@BMusic_Ltd
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Now that
@Chethams
term has ended I’ve even more time encourage
@Lufthansa
to track down the 6 trombones & tuba they’ve lost, and also to be a dad.
Today I watched my daughter at sports day, collected my youngest from school and now watching the eldest play cricket. Summer wins
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.
@Chethams
choral concert tonight
@StollerHall
. 5 choirs directed by
@MBJFarnsworth
&
@sjoverington
. A fine way to spend a Tuesday evening. And there’s an interval. I’ve not had an interval for well over a year!!!
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And we’re off!
@BBCRadio3
Manchester week is live here
@StollerHall
.
@bonaomi1
and
@elizabethalker
welcome the audience before
@pkkolesnikov
performs.
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What a spectacular week!!! Over 100 young musicians joined us
@Chethams
for our summer music course; a week of fun, friendship, singing, playing, paper aeroplanes & performance. Huge thanks to all our participants, tutors & staff…see you next year!
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First day of music course
@Chethams
. Paul Mann taking CSO through a program of Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Hindemith. Stunning sound as orchestra reads through Petrushka for the first time.
Come and hear us in Lancaster or Manchester next week.
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When you put on your pink sequinned Elvis jump suit for the first time and it fits like a glove. Thank you
@WNOtweet
for making all my dreams come true.
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.
@ChetsComposers
concert in
@StollerHall
tonight. Such a brilliant variety of music from composers across the entire school. This picture sums it up. Written, conducted & performed by students! Spectacular
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Our string players
@Chethams
had an online masterclass with
@CallumLSmart
today, the first of several guests visiting cyber Chets this term.
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Pretty proud to say the least to see
@Chethams
alumna Sophie conducting
@NYO_GB
@bbcproms
- bravo Sophie, don’t forget us!!!!
@NYO_GB
Absolutely loving the Proms performance tonight. Especially loved seeing Sophie conduct the encore.
@bbcproms
@_sophstevenson_
@RCMLondon
@Chethams
@BurtonYMS
@alunPCadence
@stevethrelfall2
@redmond_tom
@dannyelfman
@NicolaChethams
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.
@Chethams
music course is GO!!! A week of symphonies, song, saxophones, a massive percussion concerto and a residency
@DidsburyHigh
where we’ll share our rehearsals with students, along with workshops & side by side playing.
Concerts
@StollerHall
on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
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.
@Chethams
Cori Spezzati
@ManCathedral
. A sensational sound as the whole school sings together for the first time in two years - albeit bubbled in a space the size of football pitch!
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32 years a member of
@londonsymphony
(its longest serving 4th horn player),
@tonoflips
steps down this July. He spoke exclusively to the
@britishhorns
for our summer magazine. Worth joining just to read this interview!
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Amazing new instrument loan scheme announced by
@britishhorns
.
Spread the word!
@MusicInTrafford
@Oldhammusic
@tameside_music
@Chethams
@RNCMvoice
@RoyalAcadMusic
@RWCMD
@birmconsbrass
@bethrandell
@jossylightfoot
@StegsHorn
Horn Teachers! Have a student who needs a new instrument?
BHS now has 4 professional model horns for loan to young players.
All info on how to apply here
Please spread the word far and wide!
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Not really anything that words can add to this. Bravo Fang, from all
@Chethams
!
@BBCYoungMus
CONGRATULATIONS FANG! 🥳
Our
@BBCYoungMus
superstar ⭐️
#BBCYoungMusician
Not many young performers can do this... 👇
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