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Building Bridges

A concerto composed by local school pupils during the Music in Action project, led by Jason Thornton and the Bath Philharmonia Creative Learning Team.

The concerto, based on the Cello concerto by Elgar – one of the works performed at the BathPhil concert that evening, was the culmination of a five day workshop.

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Fibonacci Sequence
Chamber ensemble
Piano: Kathron Sturrock
Violins: Daniel Pioro, Benjamin Roskams
Viola: Morgan Goff
Cello: Benjamin Hughes

Chetham's School of Music Chamber Ensemble
Lunch time schools concert at the 2016 Shaldon Festival
Excerpts from Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Music Director: Stephen Threlfall
Narrator: Leon Winston
Animated by pupils from Shaldon Primary School and Teignmouth Community School Mill Lane with the help of masks they created.

VOCES8 Concert at the Shaldon Festival
18th June 2015

Operatic medley encore
Skyfall - words and music by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Chorus sung by pupils from Teignmouth Community School and Shaldon Primary School

Music of the Birds, Creating a Concerto
Education project at the 2014 Shaldon Festival

Project led by Jason Thornton, Music Director of Bath Philharmonia.
Violin soloist: Tamsin Waley-Cohen

This was an amazing project involving workshops held over four days with Dawlish Community College, Oaklands Park School and Ratcliffe School. Video taken during concert performance.

Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten.
Community Opera performed at the 2013 Shaldon Festival


Director: Tony Lidington
Musical Director: Stephen Threlfall
Noah, Julian Rippon; Mrs Noah, Helen Haviland; Voice of God, Leon Winston.
Chetham's School of Music Ensemble and schoolchildren from seven local schools.

The King's Singers

Excerpts from Royal Rhymes and Rounds

Anon: Hey Trolly Lolly Lo!
King Henry VIII: Pastime with good companie
John Hilton: Fair Oriana, Beauty's Queen

The Notos Quartet

Walton Piano Quartet
Excerpt from the second movement Scherzo

The 2012 appearance of the Shaldon Festival Choir that each year attracts 200 singers to work with a well-known guest Musical Director in a day-long choral workshop that ends with a public performance. 2012 featured Musical Director Jonathan Watts conducting Handel’s Messiah, with piano accompaniment by Peter Adcock.