Spring Term Newsletter 2015

KEY DIARY DATES Welcome back!

I trust you have had a good break over the festive period and that you are ready for an exciting new year of music making! At least there are a few months until we start rehearsing Christmas carols again, although I have to confess I did attend a Christmas 2015 planning meeting yesterday!

There is a multitude of exciting musical events, workshops and concerts for schools, academies and partners to get involved with this term. In fact, there are more events and musical opportunities than I can remember in a spring term and I hope you will take full advantage of the many opportunities on offer. You will find key dates for your diaries in the right-hand column.

Remember to ‘like’ Portsmouth Music Hub on Facebook and follow us on twitter so that you can keep up to date with events as they happen.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contact me. I look forward to making music with many of you and your students in the forthcoming months.

Please note: The Music Service SLA (Service Level Agreement) will be e-mailed to schools next week. These need to be returned to the Music Service by

March 31st 2015.

Best wishes,

Sue Beckett

Director of Portsmouth Music Hub

PORTSMOUTH

MUSIC HUB

Ahoy Me Hearties!

Kings Theatre

3rd February 2015

Solent Music Conference

Portsmouth Guildhall

12th February 2015

Infant Voices Festival week

Schools across the city

2nd - 6th March 2015

Gamelan Concert

Portsmouth Guildhall

11th March 2015

Soundsational - Secondary Schools and Colleges

Portsmouth Guildhall

19th March 2015

Infant Voices Showcase

Kings Theatre

30th March 2015

Timescape

Portsmouth Guildhall

1st April 2015

Sing Out Pompey:

Portsmouth Guildhall

26th June 2015

Held for the first time in the main auditorium of Portsmouth's iconic Guildhall, Soundsational is the perfect platform to showcase the talents of the many musicians in Portsmouth's secondary school and colleges. This will be held on Thursday 19

th March

2015 at 6.30 pm. For further information contact Christopher.mahy@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Deadline for submissions: 19th January

SOUNDSATIONAL!

CONCERT IN MEMORY OF ALISON

SPITTLES The Music Service organised a special concert in memory of Alison Spittles, in December which was attended by her family and the musical was narrated by her mum.

Children from Goldsmith Infants, Cottage Grove Primary, Westover Primary, Southsea Infants and Meon Infants performed at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Southsea. The church was packed and we raised over £700 for Rowans Hospice.

Two of the Hub's Rock Bands took part in an exciting day at Winchester University at the end of term. The Bands worked with students to find out about sound, lighting, stage presence and plenty more besides! The gig at the end of the day was an excellent tribute to the hard work of all the bands and the event organisers, Stu and Seb Brewer from Portsmouth Music Service. There are some more exciting Rock Band gigs planned next year including another day at Winchester University and a gig at the Wedgewood Rooms in the Summer.

ROCK THE ROOM

22nd January 2015 4.15pm - 5.10pm College Park Infant School

Young Voices is a Music Hub choir developed for children from Year 4+ to come and sing rock, pop and songs from the musicals

22nd January 2015 5.15pm - 6pm College Park Infant School

Little Voices for children in Years 1-4 singing songs in a wide variety of styles

Hub Ensemble start dates:

Wind Band: 17th January All other ensembles week of 19th January

New members are always welcome. All groups are free of charge

REHEARSALS

For full details about the Hub ensembles check out the Ensemble tab on the Hub website.

There are also two choirs for adults, Portsmouth Sings and the Gospel Choir. Details can be found under Community Choirs on the website.

7th January 2015 4.15pm - 5.10pm Portsmouth Guildhall

UVG 11 – 18 Contact info@theuvg.co.uk or just turn up to rehearsal!

7th February, 11am

Portsmouth Festival Choir: Come and Sing Judas Maccabaeus by Handel

St Paul’s Church, Churchside

GAMELAN PERFORMANCE FOR

SCHOOLS

Portsmouth University is presenting a unique opportunity to hear a professional Gamelan performance at the Guildhall. The gamelan is a collection of instruments from Indonesia that are played all together in a special type of orchestra.

The Southbank Players will be visiting Portsmouth on March 11

th 2015 and as part of their visit they will

putting on a one-hour gamelan performance for schools. This will take place between 1.30 - 2.30pm (arrival by 1.20pm). The performance will be suitable for students in Key Stage 2 and above. Any infant school wishing to bring along Year 2 pupils, please note they will need to sit still and listen attentively - please apply and places will be allocated subject to demand and availability.

This exciting opportunity is not one we will be able to repeat for quite some time and for many students, this could be a once in a life-time experience. There is also a workshop for staff between 4:30pm - 5:30pm. Forms will be sent to schools separately.

For further information, please contact Colin Jagger, Director of Music, Portsmouth University: colin.jagger@port.ac.uk

10th January, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown -Piano

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

27th January, 7.30pm Rhapsody in Blue by Candlelight: Warren Mailley-Smith Smith (piano) St Martin in the Fields Book tickets 0207 7661100 www.smitf.org/rhapsody

25th January, 3.00pm

Portsmouth Music Festival Opening Concert

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall

CONCERTS AND EVENTS

Portsmouth Music Hub will be running a Pirate themed music workshop as part of The Kings Theatre Education Week with free tours and workshops aimed at schools during the week commencing February 2nd. Students have the opportunity to enjoy drama workshops, introductory sessions in technical theatre and to meet professionals in a range of careers in the theatre.

The week is free and the Pirate show is full with a waiting list. For more information contact Rachel Gibbens on 02392 852218 or email: Rachel.gibbens@kings-southsea.com

KINGS THEATRE

CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS

24th January, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: Portsmouth Grammar School Music Scholars

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

19th January, 7:30pm

Music in the Round: Benyounes Quartet

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall

28th February, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: Speranza Trio and Francaix Trio

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

12th February 2015

Solent Music Conference

Portsmouth Guildhall

Portsmouth and Southampton Music Hubs third annual joint hub event for music practitioners, school music coordinators and heads of music.

14th February, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club:

Maureen Galea -Piano

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

19th February-21st February, 7.30pm

University of Portsmouth Drama Music Society: Allegro

Kings Theatre, Southsea

22nd February, 11am - 4pm

Portsmouth Chinese Association Chinese New Year Extravaganza

Portsmouth Guildhall

25th February Get into music: Creative Choices Day

Portsmouth Guildhall Email Hayley Reay for more info.

Here is the first regular slot presenting IT resources available on the web. The focus for Spring is Musical Elements with a focus on music notation.

SFS Kids – The Education Site of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: www.sfskids.org/ This site has just recently been updated. Try Musical Skies to look at musical textures and explore mood or try Perform to explore pitch using a range of instruments. If you click on looking for SFS Classic, a tab just below the main window, you can get access to the Music Lab. Great activities to explore all the Musical Elements. The Tempo Activity is great for KS1 and lower KS2 you as you make the drummer work up a sweat playing at increasingly higher tempos.

Counting Music by Phil and David Tulga: http://www.philtulga.com/counter.html This is your first stop for teaching rhythm notation. The rhythm program is the first activity that comes up when you log onto the site. It’s a very simple drop and drag program for teaching simple rhythm notation which can be played back in an interesting way by pressing the play button. Press the tab for Activities and then Maths and Science Activities and you open up to a bright colourful word of interactive games for teaching the Musical Elements at KS1/2.

IT RESOURCES FOR KS1 AND KS2

CREATE! AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY

FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS

Portsmouth Music Hub is launching an exciting initiative called 'Create!', a programme which aims to support budding young composers. The first stage of the programme is a competition for students in KS2, 3 and 4 to compose a piece of instrumental music. The best composers will be given the opportunity for their compositions to be performed at a special concert. Their pieces will also be published on the Portsmouth Music Hub website. In addition, one composer will be awarded a 'Composer in Residence' position with one of Portsmouth Music Hub's ensembles, where they will receive advice and support in writing a piece for the ensemble to perform in their end of year concert in the Summer Term.

Please encourage students to participate in this exciting competition. Entries should be in the format of a score and a recording, and should be sent to catherine.brentnall@portsmouthcc.gov.uk at Portsmouth

Music Hub by Friday 13 March 2015.

16th February, 7:30pm

Music in the Round: Trio Martinů

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall

Ten Pieces is an exciting new initiative for primary schools, led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups, focusing on classical music and creativity.

Announcing a special brand new resource - Ten Pieces Guide to the Orchestra Ebook which is available as a free download for iPad, Android and Kindle devices. It’s a video-rich, interactive guide to the orchestra with five games. Barney Harwood from Blue Peter introduces the families of instruments, and professional musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales explain how their instruments work. .

How to get involved To find out how your school can get involved visit bbc.co.uk/tenpieces, where you can sign up for the newsletter and find your local Ten Pieces Champion who may be able to help you develop the project in your school.

We are hoping to get involved with a very exciting initiative on June 5th with students performing Anna Meredith’s body percussion piece “Hands Free”. This will be subject to all sorts of liaison and arrangements and also subject to funding. In the meantime, do put the date in your diary - you will not want to miss out!

BBC TEN PIECES

The fabulous Urban Vocal Group performed their fourth annual concert at the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth to a packed audience of over 200 people. The group have been running for 7 years and in addition to ensemble work they also provide tuition on vocal technique, song writing and recording. All of the UVG’s activities are provided free of charge to young people aged 11 – 18. There are currently groups in Havant and Portsmouth with a new Chichester group planed to start in February 2015. http://www.theuvg.co.uk/chichester/

URBAN VOCAL GROUP

14th March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: South Downs College music

students

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

March 21st

National Learn To Play Day

28th March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club: Sebastian Muller (violin) and Terence Allbright (piano)

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

21st March, 7.30pm

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

29th March, 7.00 pm

Portsmouth Music Festival Gala Concert 2015 Kings Theatre, Southsea

28th

March, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Festival Choir Spring Concert: St John Passion by J. S. Bach

Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral

19th

March, 6.30 pm

SOUNDSATIONAL!

Portsmouth Guildhall

The Festivities is Portsmouth’s flagship arts festival, and proud Arts Partners of Portsmouth Music Hub. As well as hosting world class international artistic talent, it is a true celebration of the arts, culture and heritage of Portsmouth itself. The Festivities are looking forward to hosting the internationally renowned Swingle Singers, who will provide a talk, workshop and performance. This year will also include Sing Out Pompey! - a celebration of Portsmouth through song in collaboration with Portsmouth Music Hub - as well as the much anticipated Family Concert and live drawing Musical Murals event, and performances by popular local ensembles, Portsmouth Festival Choir and Portsmouth Choral

Union. Festivities week is 19th- 28th June 2015

COUNTDOWN TO PORTSMOUTH

FESTIVITIES 2015

National Learn to Play Day is taking place on 21 March 2015. The aim is to offer the general public the chance to have a free ‘taster’ session on a musical instrument. People who have never played and people who used to play, all can come on the day to try an instrument. Musicroom Portsmouth will be teaching ukulele, mandolin, banjo and piano

throughout the day.

NATIONAL LEARN TO PLAY DAY 11th April, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Music Club:

Sam Brown-Guitar

The Rotunda, Portsmouth Grammar School. Book tickets

1st April 2015 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

30th March 2015, 6.00pm

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

16th May, 7:30pm

Portsmouth Light Orchestra: Spring Concert The Church of the Resurrection, Drayton. A fundraiser for the Drayton Centre Development Fund.

On the 25th February, Portsmouth Guildhall are hosting a Creative Choices day, for students aged 14-16. The day will give students an insight into careers in the creative and cultural industries outside of performance opportunities. Students will get opportunities to participate in workshops in Technical- Lighting and Sound, Marketing, Digital Set Design and Costume/Wardrobe design. Places are limited, so if you are a school interested in

bringing a group, please email

hayley.reay@portsmouthguildhall.org.uk to book or for

more information.

GET INTO MUSIC: CREATIVE

CHOICES DAY

22nd

April

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Portsmouth Guildhall School Group Offer: tickets £5 for children, teachers free.

27th April, 7:30pm

Music in the Round: Melvyn Tan

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall

Have you ever wanted to perform in a professional orchestra, or played a musical instrument in the past but not had the opportunity for many years? Then now is the time to dust off your instrument and revive your talent! The Rusty and Not So Rusty Musicians project offers you the opportunity to play with BSO musicians in concert, as well as offering professional coaching to help you maximise the experience. 31st May Portsmouth Guildhall

RUSTY AND NOT SO RUSTY

MUSICIANS

SUMMER TERM 2015 EVENTS

26th June 2015

Sing Out Pompey:

Portsmouth Festivities

Portsmouth Guildhall

Portsmouth Festival choir are inviting you all to come and sing Handel on Saturday 7th February 2015. The day will start at 11am and be directed by Peter Allwood. Singers will study the choruses and some duets leading to a performance at 4pm. Vocal scores will be provided and tea/coffee will be served free of charge.

Use the web-site to register online at: ticketsource.co.uk

COME AND SING JUDAS

MACCABAEUS BY HANDEL

Portsmouth Music Hub c/o Paulsgrove Community Centre

Marsden Road, Portsmouth PO6 4JB Telephone: 023 9237 5655 Fax: 023 9237 0263 E-mail: portsmouthmus-chub@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

www.portsmouthmusichub.org twitter: portsmouthmusic Facebook: Portsmouth Music Hub

Let's give all children access to arts in education not just the most affluent. Article by Sir Anthony Seldon - http://news.tes.co.uk/b/opinion/2014/11/14/39-an-education-in-the-arts-is-limited-to-those-already-economically-privileged-it-is-an-unjust-waste-of-national-talent.aspx

Young People should pursue what they enjoy - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11225992/Young-people-should-pursue-what-they-enjoy.html

Should Education promote Science or the Arts? - http://ccskills.org.uk/supporters/blog/should-education-promote-science-or-the-arts

How Music Education Inspired Google CEO Larry Page - http://fortune.com/2014/11/18/larry-page-music-education/

Music lessons promise life lived in song - http://mobile.goerie.com/?articleRedirect=1&url=http://www.goerie.com/article/20141109/LIFESTYLES01/311099988

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31st May, 10am- 5pm

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Rusty and Not So Rusty Musicians Portsmouth Guildhall

25th June 2015, 7.30pm

Portsmouth Festival Choir Spring Concert Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral

A semi-staged performance of Purcell’s: Dido and Aeneas As part of Portsmouth Festivities

2st June, 7:30pm

Music in the Round: Emma Johnson & John Lenehan

Harlequin Room at Portsmouth Guildhall