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Welcome to Broadstone Music –

Inspiring music. Nurturing young talent. Bringing our community together.

Now in its 16th year, the Broadstone Music Series has become an established and much-loved part of our local community. Presenting a wonderful programme of high-quality recitals and concerts, primarily in the churches and venues around Broadstone, we bring outstanding professional musicians and exciting young talent to local audiences, usually accompanied by delicious home made cake!

At the heart of our work is the Poole Society for Young Musicians (PSYM) https://poolesym.co.uk, a registered charity dedicated to providing inspiring musical opportunities and a high-quality educational pathway for young people across the South. Much of our action-packed programme is made possible by a committed team of volunteers who share our passion for music and the next generation of musicians.

Concerts & Recitals – Bringing exceptional professional musicians to Broadstone.
Young Musicians – Creating opportunities to learn, develop and perform.
Music Education & Community – Supporting musical progression and inspiring the next generation.

Our professional concerts are a particularly special part of the series. This autumn, we were delighted to welcome our friends from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Lower Brass section, who presented a glorious autumn recital following an inspiring workshop for 20 young local brass players, including children keen to discover the trombone for the first time.

Through our collaborations with some of the UK’s leading conservatoires, we continue to create unique opportunities for young musicians to learn from and perform alongside outstanding professionals.

On 15 November, we look forward to welcoming the award-winning Neruda String Quartet from the Royal Academy of Music. As well as giving a recital, the quartet will work with some of our young string players, who will have the exciting opportunity to join them in a special collaborative performance. This is part of our programme supported by the prestigious Albert & Eugenie Frost Trust.

Looking ahead –

Our annual Christmas Concert on 21 December is always a highlight of the season. In the New Year, we look forward to inviting some of our most advanced young musicians to Broadstone to share their talents with us, followed by the welcome return of the Aurea Ensemble in early spring.

There will also be further recitals and musical events throughout the coming months, so do keep an eye on our programme for announcements.

Whether you are a regular concert goer, a supporter of young musicians or simply someone who enjoys discovering wonderful live music, you are warmly invited to join us.

Come and enjoy the music, support young talent and be part of the Broadstone Music story.

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 ex BSO assistant conductor Enyi Okpara in March 2025, we were invited back to the Lighthouse on 30th November 2025 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. Our termly Orchestral projects have continued and we are delighted to have been invited to the beautiful Bryanston School this term for our October training day which was conducted by the new BSO assistant conductor Michal Oren with side by side tutors from BSO. We are grateful to the Radcliffe Trust for supporting this term’s Orchestral project and we look forward to returning to Bryanston again next term.

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

Occasionally a pop up recital might arise by some of our super star alumni, so keep your eyes open for those!

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!

We are grateful to all our loyal friends and supporters, our sponsors and venues. We are particularly grateful to Mr Stuart Archer for his annual support, the 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 some of our charity’s education work.

If you’d like to see a little of our education work, then take a look at https://poolesym.co.uk

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