Welcome to the Music pages.

We are planning a return to a full calendar of events for March 2022 and hope that this time nothing will occur to stop us!

We start the Festival with Primary Music Day, in the Bath Pavilion on Tuesday March 8^th.  We then return to St Marys Bathwick for Secondary Choral Day on Thursday March 10th.  There is a new venue for Adult Choral Day on March 12^th.  We are delighted to have booked the beautiful St Swithin’s Church with its glorious acoustic.  We have the use of the crypt for choirs to gather before each class but regret that we will not be able to offer the warm up rooms as we have in the past.

Bands and Orchestras will be held on Friday 18th March at St Luke’s Church, Wellsway, Bath.  Classes for smaller Instrumental Groups will take place late afternoon and evening on Tuesday March 22nd.

New classes in Percussion and Electric Guitar. New to the syllabus for 2022 are classes in percussion and electric guitar.  These will take place after school in Beechen Cliff School Music Centre on Wednesday March 16^th.  Please support us in this new venture.

Classes for singers, piano players and instrumentalists will take place as before in the usual venues of the Guildhall or Bath Citadel. Pianists will be pleased to note that the Piano Concerto class has been reinstated this year provided sufficient entries are received.

Harp classes are scheduled for Monday 21st March.  They will take place in the Steinway Music School at the Royal High School, Bath.  The increasingly popular harp workshop will be led by the day’s adjudicator, Keziah Thomas.  Using Keziah’s solo harp arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, this class will explore using improvisation, contemporary techniques and sound scape creation to bring programmatic music to life. This is a fun and creative practical class in which everyone will play and contribute ideas!

The closing date for entries is Wednesday 19th January.