FEBRUARY - UPDATE

DIARY DATES

PORTSMOUTH

MUSIC HUB

Key Dates:

11th

March Performance Evening 19

th March

SOUNDSATIONAL! 26

th March

Instrumental Ensembles Spring Concert 27

th March

Vocal Ensembles Spring Concert 30

th March

Infant Voices Showcase 1

st April

Time-scape

AHOY ME

HEARTIES!

800 excited young pirates from infant and primary schools across the city gathered at the Kings Theatre just before half term for an interactive pirate show. The children all joined in very enthusiastically and, what with the singing, the dancing, the rowing, the treasure hunting, the rhythms, the band and the Music, it was a morning to remember.

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VERISONA LAW We are very grateful to Verisona Law for their generous financial support for Time-scape and the Friends of Portsmouth Music Hub. Verisona Law is fast becoming the ‘go to’ commercial law firm for businesses based in Portsmouth and the surrounding South Coast region. The firm is also highly regarded for its specialist private client services.

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BIG SCREEN COMPETITION

This great competition is for schools taking part in the Ten Pieces project and composing music linked to the Ten Pieces: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w All you have to do is film your children's 'Ten Pieces' composition on a high resolution camera and submit an mpeg to portsmouthmusichub@portsmouthcc.gov.uk by May 22

nd. The Ten pieces judging panel will review all

entries and the three top entries will be shown on the Big Screen on June 5

th as part of the Ten Pieces

Celebration Day.

WELCOME TO THIS UPDATE

To complement Portsmouth Music Hub's termly newsletter, we hope this update will keep you fully informed and up to date with latest news. Do let us know what you think and what you find helpful.

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CONTACT US

6th

March, 7.30pm

Angelic Voices Concert

St John's College Chapel

11th

March, 6.30pm

Spring Term Performance

Evening

Langstone Junior School

21st

March

National Learn To Play Day

Musicroom

21st

March, 7.30pm

University of Portsmouth Choir: Puccini St Mary’s Church, Fratton Road

19th

March, 6.30pm

SOUNDSATIONAL!

Portsmouth Guildhall

7th

March, 12 to 4pm

Sea Song Slam

National Museum of the Royal

Navy, Portsmouth Historic

Dockyard

14th

March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: South

Downs College music students

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

UKULELE DEMONSTRATION IN SCHOOLS

Members of the Pompey Pluckers have kindly volunteered to provide free demonstration sessions for schools. These will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, subject to availability. If you are in-terested, please contact the Music Hub office and we will put you in touch with the Pompey Pluckers so you

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OUT OF THE ARK AND

RED NOSE DAY

This upbeat song is perfect for getting everyone in the Red Nose Day mood and it’s FREE: www.outoftheark.com/RND15. Schools will also receive a FREE CD ROM featuring the Red Nose Day video and song, as well as three additional FREE Out of the Ark songs. An exciting offer of a song to bring in the Spring, 'Spring Fever'. To receive your download (only available to the first seventy schools), use the discount code: PORTSMOUTH2015

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NEW MUSIC STAGE PROGRAMME

Music for Youth and Sound and Music are offering to support more performances of new music written by young composers. As part of MFY’s Birmingham based National Festival in July, there will be a day-long New Mu-sic Stage event presenting selected performances of new music by young composers, performed by young people. The programme is open to young composers who are aged between 12 and 21 years old. Applications can be made by young composers themselves, or by music organisations representing young composers:

The deadline for entries is Friday 27th

March.

To take part in the programme please go to http://www.mfy.org.uk/evolve/NewMusicStage and click on Apply Now.

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NATIONAL LEARN TO PLAY DAY

This year's day will take place on Saturday 21st

March. Full details of the event and all participating venues can be found at www.learntoplayday.com

28th

February, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club:

Speranza Trio and Francaix Trio

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

26th

March, 6.30pm

Instrumental Ensembles Spring

Concert

Langstone Junior School

27th

March, 6.30pm

Vocal Ensembles Spring

Concert

St Michael's Church, Paulsgrove

MUSICROOM PORTSMOUTH will be hosting a wide range of free workshops for you to give something new a go!

10.30 & 11.00: Folky Folk Ukulele Class 12.00 & 12:30: Guitar Class 1.00 & 1:30: Samba Band Workshop 2.00 & 2:30: Violin Class 3.00 & 3:30: Piano workshop 1

4.00 - LIVE FINALE - Cantilena Youth Choir -

Interactive Live Event

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PORTSMOUTH PHILHARMONIA

Portsmouth Philharmonia is looking for an enthusiastic percussionist/timpanist and trumpet, trombone and viola players available to play on a regular basis. The local community orchestra rehearses every Sunday evening 7.00 to 9.00pm at the Church of the Resurrection in Drayton. If you are interested in joining a nice group of people who enjoy making music together and performing three concerts a year for charity please contact the Music Hub who can pass on your details.

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CLUSTER CHOIRS

We are able to fund children's choirs for three clusters in the city for the next financial year, starting at the beginning of the Summer Term. The cluster would need to provide a free venue and one adult to help with the children (no singing expertise required). If your cluster is interested, please submit a bid by email to Sue Beckett at the Music Hub by March 2

nd, identifying the

target age of the cluster choir, the venue and the ideal day and time. We will assess the bids and let you know by March 6

th and liaise with the successful cluster to

put a choir in place for the Summer Term. _______________________________

SEA SONG SLAM National Museum of the Royal Navy on the 7

th March

will have a wide range of community choirs and groups singing songs inspired by the sea competing against each other to be crowned Sea Song Slam Champion 2015! From this event they hope to form their first community choir which will come together on 11

th April

in a separate event for the local community.

28th

March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: Sebastian Muller (violin) and

Terence Allbright (piano)

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

28th

March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Festival Choir

Spring Concert: St John

Passion by J. S. Bach

Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral

29th

March, 7.00 pm

Portsmouth Music Festival

Gala Concert 2015 Kings Theatre, Southsea

30th

March 6.00pm

Infant Voices Showcase

Kings Theatre

Year 2 pupils involved in the Infant Voices Festival week are showcased in a concert

1st

April 6.30pm

Time-Scape

Portsmouth Guildhall

Pupils from across the city will be invited to sing songs from Portsmouth Music Hub’s latest publication Time-scape

MUSIC REVOLUTION

The Music Revolution is a newly formed Music Club at Portsmouth Guildhall in partnership with the SoCo Music Project. The Music Club features free drop-in sessions of Rock/Pop, Music Tech, and Song writing with different specialist add-on sessions each week in Urban, DJ

and Afro-beat. These sessions take place every Saturday at Portsmouth Guildhall, from 10am – 2pm for 11 – 18 year olds.

For more information, or to register an interest, please contact Hayley Reay or Marie Negus

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BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

The BSO is offering a free workshop to talented young composers aged 16-21 on Saturday 28

th

February. It will be an afternoon dedicated to composing contemporary music for orchestras and ensembles. The ensemble workshops are led by one of today’s most prolific composers, Colin Matthews. Instrumental workshops in strings, wind, percussion and harp with BSO musicians will also take place giving an insight into writing for their individual instrument. Places are limited to just 15 (allocated on a first-come-first-served basis). To book a place, please contact Chris Block, Participation Administrator at the BSO cblock@bsorchestra.co.uk

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PORTSMOUTH FESTIVITIES

CALL OUT FOR DANCERS

Age, ability, background and experience do not matter. What counts is enthusiasm. Rehearsing with the internationally-acclaimed Stopgap Dance Company, dancers will develop brand new choreography. Casting is happening now, with rehearsals currently scheduled to start in mid-March. Portsmouth Festivities are keen to hear from any groups with an interest in taking part. If you are a group interested in taking part as dancers in The Seafarers, email Associate Producer, Samantha Worsey at samantha@portsmouthfestivities.co.uk or call 023 9268 1390.

11th

April, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club:

Sam Brown-Guitar

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School.

22nd

April, 7.30pm

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Portsmouth Guildhall

25th

April, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Philharmonia and

Hayling Choir

Hayling Island Community Centre

27th

April, 7.30pm

Music in the Round:

Melvyn Tan

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall

16th

May, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Light Orchestra:

Spring Concert

The Church of the Resurrection, Drayton.

31st

May, 10am to 5pm

Bournemouth Symphony

Orchestra: Rusty and Not So

Rusty Musicians

Portsmouth Guildhall

26th

June, 6:30pm

Sing Out Pompey:

Portsmouth Festivities

Portsmouth Guildhall

The Power of Music "Compelling evidence" for benefits of music education is revealed in a new research review by Professor Susan Hallam MBE, UCL Institute of Education. Available for purchase here or download Executive Summary or Full document

ARTICLES OF

INTEREST

ARTS & CULTURE

PASSPORT

Don’t forget to continue collecting stamps for your Arts & Culture Passport. With five stages, students can become involved from any age.

With so much going on, it is a great time to gather evidence of your involvement, not only with music, but in anything to do with arts and culture. That can include a trip to the theatre even to see a pantomime, museum visits, dance shows and photography - indeed anything creative or cultural.

With only 5 stamps needed for Stage 1, you will be surprised just how quickly the stamps mount up. Remember that, if you take part in at least 20% of the events (so that means only one event for Stage 1), your certificate, signed by the Lord Mayor, will be at gold status.

The evidence of your activities will normally be assessed by your school, so do ask if your school has registered for the Passport.

Further information about the scheme can be found here on the Music Hub website. There are also some examples of completed portfolios so you can see what you need to do. Most of all, have fun!

7 Leadership Skills Fostered in

Arts Education

Read the detailed article here

ADVOCACY TOOLKIT

Working collectively, we can tell a powerful story about the value of public investment in arts and culture, at a national and local level. Watch the new film to find out more about the advocacy toolkit and the three things we can all do to make the case for public investment.

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OFSTED INSPECTIONS Ofsted's new report "Better Inspection for All" makes reference to music in Point 27: “The Don’t Stop the Music campaign encouraged many parents and others to respond to the consultation. As part of the campaign, those who responded to the consultation said that Ofsted should include a specific focus on music as part of Inspections and produce evidence of that in Inspection reports. They also said that no school should be judged good or outstanding if it is not at least good or outstanding in music. Ofsted cannot commit to focusing inspection disproportionately on an individual subject. However, we agree with the broader point that inspection must take account of whether schools offer a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. Music is clearly an element of such a curriculum. Based on the responses and feedback overall we have decided that we will consider the breadth and balance of a provider’s curriculum under the effectiveness of leadership and management judgment.”

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GET CREATIVE Get Creative is a major celebration of the nation's arts, culture and creativity. Led by the BBC and What Next? in collaboration with a huge range of arts, cultural and voluntary organisations, it will be a year-long high profile campaign - potentially a tremendous springboard for the arts, for culture and for creativity.

To register your interest and find out more about the many ways to get involved contact: getcreative@bbc.co.uk