Bedales Community Concert at St Peter’s

Bedales Community Concert at St Peter’s

26/10/2010

Bedalians performed a lunchtime concert for the local community at St Peters last week with recitals by the School’s Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Choir and soloists Lotti and Georgie Gulliver, Olivia Brett, Callum Anderson and Charlie Raines.

Directed by Nicholas Gleed and William Lithgow, the programme included Edvard Greig, Two Elegiac Melodies; Antonin Dvořák,  Eja Mater; Johann Sebastian Bach -Organ Fantasia in C minor BWV 537; Johann Pachelbel – Canon; Sir Hubert Parry - My Soul, there is a country; Camille Saint-Saëns- Deus Abraham.

These, and many other works, had featured in the school’s 2010 Summer Music Tour of Tuscany and Umbria when students were given the wonderful opportunity to perform at pre-arranged events within the Italian community across the region.

The students had been invited to perform in the Musica Sacra Festival in Cortona and other summer concert programmes in the hill towns of Todi, Castiglione del Lago, Trevi and Assisi.  At the concert in Cortona, a collection was organised in aid of the Magnificat Institute of Jerusalem which enables young people from different faiths and cultures to experience the unanimous peace and contentment which performing and studying music brings. The Bedalians were so inspired by the Jerusalem project that they have decided to continue to support it financially in the future.

In between performances, students took the opportunity to do some sight- seeing, which included a visit to an underground Roman town, a ceramics factory and a guided tour of Perugia.
Commenting on the Music Tour and the Concert at St Peters, Nick Gleed, Director of Music  said: “We had wonderful audiences in Italy and were thrilled to see that even Italian teenagers from the local football club came to hear our music … and this at a time when the World Cup was being broadcast! We were welcomed by the local community both in Italy and Petersfield and it was lovely to share our passion for music with appreciative audiences. We are very lucky to have such talented students, many of whom return to the school after sixth form to spend some time with the Bedales Music Department in preparation for their future careers. It was a great pleasure to return again to St Peter’s last week and make music in such a supportive acoustic, right in the heart of Petersfield.”

Bedales next public concert, The Cecilia Concert, will be on Wednesday 24th November at 7.30pm at the School. Please visit www.bedales.org.uk/bedales-arts for more information.

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