It’s not just the Festival!

For over 100 years, Skipton Music Festival has been providing a space for (particularly) young people to begin to hone their performance skills and grow as musicians.  This has become increasingly important in today’s climate of cut-backs and concentration on the mechanical aspects of “education”.

Our main Festival is held in March each year.  In 2024, for the first time, it starts with some Open classes on Saturday 9th March and will close on the evening of Friday 15th March with a concert of all that has been the best of the week’s performances.

Read more about this year’s Festival here.
Browse the Syllabus here. (To be updated when the Syllabus is published
And enter a class here.  (From November 1st)

But there is more…

Woodwind
We will be hosting a Woodwind Workshop at Trinity Methodist Church in Skipton on Sunday 22nd September 2024.  It’s lead by Perfect Fourth Sax Quartet featuring several faces well-known to Skipton’s Festival.

This free event is open to all and will include a series of performances by some existing Festival performers and it will end with a recital Perfect Fourth.

Read more about the Woodwind Workshop here.

Vocal
On 15th November (a Friday), we will be repeating the highly successful “SongShop” day. Several primary schools have been invited to help create a massed choir of some 140 young voices.  During the day, they rehearse a selection of songs, ready to perform to an enthusiastic audience at the end of the day.

This event will again be led by the energetic and charismatic Steven Roberts.

Find out more about the SongShop here.

Recorders
Following the hugely successful workshop with Palisander, we are hoping to follow this with a workshop led by Piers Adams (described as the ‘reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today’.  Provided we acn secure grant funding, this will take place in June 2025

More details of the Recorder Workshop will be posted here

… and then, it’s all hands to the wheel for our week-long Festival in March!