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Welcome to the Broadstone Music Series

Now enjoying our 15th season of professional Concerts and workshops for young musicians, our 2025-26 Seasons began with the first in our “Power of the String Quartet” cycle: “Classics to Film Score” with Icon Strings, the critically acclaimed Covent Garden Candlelight quartet………the cycle demonstrates the diversity of the quartet, and will celebrate Music from Classical period to shows and film scores!

Our 2025/26 season: the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Sonas String quartet visited us in November who also spent a day of inspiring workshops with PSYM young string players. Next, we are really excited about welcoming the Royal Academy of Music https://dogodaquintet.co.uk Dogoda Wind quintet to Broadstone on 22nd Feb. We are grateful to the Arts Society Poole for their support towards this event.

The celebrated Slate quartet will perform in April 2026, then Clem Pickering, the new BSO principal viola will join us in May for a special viola recital. Look out for a summer concert when we hope to showcase some of our alumni musicians who are studying at leading conservatoires or now young professionals who we are always proud of. This will bring to a close a season with an eclectic combination of genres for our Broadstone audiences!

Broadstone again enjoy a year full of big quality recitals as well much music education serving our community. During 2025, we enjoyed celebrating the huge and well deserved British Empire Medal given to our Charity Director, Alison Kay, in the New Years’ honours list.

Alongside the Broadstone professional recital series, our Poole Society for Young Musicians charity Education work includes the Monday night Music Academy, supported by hub partner SoundStorm and continues to flourish – currently at Parkstone Grammar school this offers term time weekly instrumental lessons, Mezzo Maestros junior orchestra and Junior and Senior Jurassic Brass ensembles, all led by highly qualified and inspiring professional musicians including musicians from our local BSO.

Meanwhile PSYM popular Youth String Camerata and Symphonic wind aimed at grade 5 – 8+ musicians continue to meet 4 -5 times in the term for a tailor made programme of exciting repertoire including our specialist string chamber music programme, currently supported by the prestigious Albert & Eugenie Frost Trust. We are constantly making plans to continue our scheme with the world famous conservatoires : The Royal Academy of Music London and more recently also with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London. We are delighted to be able to offer this prestigious type of input to all of our young musicians to help them reach their potential.

Following the success of our Youth Lighthouse Poole orchestral training day with BSO assistant conductor Enyi Okpara in March 2025, we were invited back to the Lighthouse on 30th November when 186 young musicians too to the stage to perform Vivaldi Gloria alongside Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus and in partnership with Thomas Hardyes School. Our orchestra of 80 young musicians in 2 orchestral works was outstanding under the baton of Rachel Erdos. We are planning next a return to the Lighthouse in October 2026.

PSYM extremely popular 13th summertime Music course will take place in July 2026.

Occasionally a pop up recital might arise so keep your eyes open for those! Hugo Svedberg, one of our longstanding local young PSYM musicians and BBC Young musician of the year String semi finalist performed for us during May 2025 and Lewis Lee, one of our outstanding alumni violinists from Guildhall in June, and both wowed our audience.

Our Xmas concert is a major date in our diaries as that’s always sold out so we urge early booking and our Broadstone Afternoon Tea concert is always a special one. Young musicians show off their talents accompanied by Debra’s delicious cakes!

In fact, our refreshments have become an extremely popular aspect of our concerts!

We are grateful to all our loyal friends and supporters, our sponsors and venues. We are grateful again to Wessex Young Musicians Trust for their help, Albert and Eugenie Frost Trust for their chamber music projects support, local churches, school venues and the Lighthouse Poole.

We would like to show a special thank you to our hub partners SoundStorm Music agency who provide help, advice and funding towards our charity’s education work.

We are excited to be launching our new Poole Society for Young Musicians charity website soon!

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