Ealing Festival of Music, Dance, Speech and Drama

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A record breaking 2,000 entries this year

There's still time to catch up on the best of this year's performances at the Celebration Concert on Sunday, 12th June at St Mary's Church, Perivale lane UB6 8SS.

Children, students and adults have come from Ealing, surrounding boroughs and all over the SE of England to take advantage of the Festival's many performance opportunities and to benefit from the professional adjudicators' informed, constructive comments. People came from as far afield as Birmingham, Billericay in Essex,  East Grinstead (Sussex) and March (Cambridgeshire.) 

The Vocal Section had four Under 11s children's choirs including two from Ealing: Hambrough Primary School Choir, Southall, and the prizewinning Notting Hill and Ealing Junior Chamber Minstrel Choir.  For the first time senior students entered from the University of West London (London College of Music)

The Instrumental Section also had good support from school instrumental groups from Notting Hill and Ealing High School Junior and Senior Recorder Ensembles, Brent Youth Strings Orchestra, St Christopher's Preparatory School (Wembley) and several wind and strings groups with families and friends playing together. 

There were entries from all ages and levels - from young dancers aged 4 to senior citizens in their eighties - and from beginners to advanced students from all the London music colleges, well on their way to professional careers and all eager to take advantage of Ealing Festival's hundreds of performance opportunities. 

The prestigious Concerto Award was won by the promising 21-year-old violinist Martyn Jackson who comes from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. Martyn has studied at the Royal College of Music and is now at the huge and prestigious Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin - but  Ealing can hear him again when he performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Ealing Symphony Orchestra next spring. 

The Festival Committee is now well into plans for the 2012 Festival and full details, contacts and photos will be on the Festival website - www.ealingfestival.org.uk. 

There's still time to catch up on the best of this year's performances at the Celebration Concert on Sunday, 12th June at St Mary's Church, Perivale Lane UB6 8SS.  

Entrance is free with a retiring collection.
Everyone is welcome - but come early to be sure of a seat !

Angela Arratoon Vocal Section Leader - Ealing Festival

 

 

7th June 2011