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Song Writer 2009 - Online Voting Opens

Proudly Sponsored by:

Check out www.numu.org.uk/songwriter-2009 to hear songs from the competition and to cast your votes for your favourite.

Goldie, Boo Hewerdine and Annie Nightingale are among the successful professional songwriters and media personalities are giving up their time to support the song-writing of young people in Hertfordshire.

Hertfordshire Music Service is running the competition to encourage the young people of Hertfordshire to write songs, and is offering workshops including some for hard to reach and vulnerable learners in partnership with Youth Music, District councils, and Youth Connexions.

Song-writer 2009 is generously sponsored by Avid, who will donate recording equipment and software to winners. Contestants will also win recording and performing opportunities at showcases across the county; winning songs will be published on a compilation CD.

Categories will run across the whole school age range, and is also open to young people aged up to 25, living, working or studying in the county.

Entries have been submitted in Rock, Acoustic, Urban and Electronic Music categories
Closing date for receipt of entries has now passed and the winners will be announced in March 2010.

For more details, entry forms, please check out:

• Song Competition 2009

or ring 01438 202806.

Forthcoming County Events

County Youth Orchestra
April 18th Concert - 7.30pm - Royal College of Music
August 29th Concert - 7.30pm venueTBC

Hertfordshire Schools Symphony Orchestra
March 17th Sing Up Gala Concerts - Royal Albert Hall (times TBC)
August 29th Concert with CYO - (venue TBC)

Hertfordshire Wind Sinfonia
April 7th Concert - 7.30 - Grove Theatre, Dunstable
August 21st Concert - 7.30 - St Alban's Abbey

County Youth Brass
July 30th Concert - 7.30 - St Saviour's Church, St Albans

Hertfordshire Youth Jazz Ensemble (HYJE)
July 25th Concert - 7.30 - Clarendon Muse, Watford

County Youth Choir
February 12th - 15th Tour to Belgium
March 21st Concert - 7.30 - Clarendon Muse, Watford

County Recorder Ensemble and Forum
August 29th Concert - 7.30 - Rothamsted Manor, Harpenden

County Classical Guitar Ensemble, Forum and Junior Ensemble
July 24th Concert - 7.30 - Clarendon Muse, Watford

For all tickets call 01727 860941

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Taiko Festival Launched

The Taiko festival running over the weekend of 27th and 28th June was launched and run as a great success.

Further details of how the event went will be available soon. In the meantime please check out the Press Release written by Tom Shipp

• Word 2003, 88kb/2 pages, 30/06/2008, taiko_press.doc

'Vocalise' project up and running

The Vocalise project being coordinated by the Mix team in Hertfordshire Music Service is now up and running. The project is led in youth centres and schools and focuses on developing singing, rapping and other related music making.

Please read the press release for more information:

• Word 2003, 25kb/1 page, 12/05/2008, vocalise.doc

Hertfordshire County Youth Group CD's

If you would like a copy of any of the CD's made by our County Groups including:

• HYJE - Home Again, Home Again
• County Youth Brass - 1969-2004
• County Youth Orchestra
• Classical Guitar Ensemble - Evocation

Please follow the link to our CD Page

New Watford School of Music Opens

Hertfordshire Music Service and Watford Grammar School for Boys' are delgihted to announce the opening of their new joint venture. The new building named "Clarendon Muse" will house the Watford School of Music and the music department of the Boys' School.

For further detail please see our press release:

• Adobe pdf, 170kb/2 pages, 09/01/2008, clarendon_muse.pdf

Sing Up arrives in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Music Service is Area Singing Leader for Hertfordshire for the new and exciting Music Manifesto National singing programme; Sing up.

Sing Up has been produced by Youth Music with AMV-BBDO, Faber Music Publishers and The Sage Gateshead, supported by Howard Goodall –the Singing Ambassador, and by Government. Sing up aims to raise the status of singing and increase opportunities for primary school-aged children throughout England to enjoy singing as part of their everyday lives.

Hertfordshire Singing Strategy
Hertfordshire Music Service in partnership with University of Hertfordshire

In addition to this national campaign Hertfordshire Music Service has also embarked on an ambitious local initiative, funded by the University of Hertfordshire to support, nurture and develop singing with particular emphasis on Key Stage 1.

The combination of these two initiatives will enable the Music Service to develop a comprehensive programme of both singing experiences and CPD aimed specifically at classroom teaching. Read more...

CYO In Prague

The County Youth Orchestra toured to Prague at the end of August to give a performance in the magnificent Rudolfinum Hall of an all Czech programme. Emily Blogg (violin) has written an account of what happened when CYO flew off for this exciting european tour:
Read more....

Online Resources for Hertfordshire Music Teachers

There are now two online resources to support music classroom teachers in Hertfordshire. All Hertfordshire schools music teachers should register now! Read more...