Welcome to the Broadstone Music Series

30TH DEC 2024 EXCITING NEWS JUST IN OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER, ALISON KAY, RECEIVES BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL IN 2025 NEW YEAR HONOURS – MORE HERE

Welcome to the Broadstone Music Series. We exist under the title of “Poole Society for Young Musicians”,  registered charity no 1171893. Many of our music activities are educational and we present action packed years, even throughout the pandemic when we worked hard on creating safe settings for all young musicians and our audiences.
We present to our audiences an annual series of professional musical events throughout the year, dedicated to the highest standards of excellence though professional recitals and also providing performing opportunities for young aspiring musicians alongside renowned professionals. It is our goal to integrate professional musicians including those invited from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, to work with young talented musicians through workshops, masterclasses and joint performances. This idea evolved as many local talented young musicians historically further their studies at Music College or University and so it is advantageous to give them a performance platform at home. The community also benefit from hearing them and listening to their careers develop.

Education:

Our Music education provision has grown enormously during the last few years. We consider it important to include as many high quality annual Master Classes and workshops as possible, given by specialist musicians to help inspire the young musicians who are still at school, giving them a unique experience that will help them to improve their musical skills.

We started a Monday night Mini Maestros Music Academy in the autumn of 2021 to provide a local progression route for local youngest musicians so that they have an opportunity to learn an instrument from starter levels to reaching their full potential, all with highly qualified professional teachers. The Monday evening Mini Maestros also provides various ensemble opportunities, supported by SoundStorm Music Agency, our Hub partners.

We aim to always offer other opportunities by working alongside our local friends, partners and further afield. Just before the pandemic some of our senior young musicians benefited from an invite to study and perform alongside some young musicians in Venice over 3 days and we were also invited to perform in St Giles’ cathedral at the Fringe Edinburgh festival during the same summer! Poole Society for Young Musicians enjoys it’s annual summer school, this year will be it’s 13th and the last few years has catered for more than 100 young musicians in chamber groups, symphonic groups, and supporting activities, all led by professional musicians and incredibly inspiring. It ends with a senior orchestral day for the most senior musicians who are offered the opportunity to perform solo with orchestra. We work closely alongside our hub partners BCP SoundStorm Music Agency and we are continually grateful for this continual support.

We continue to hold 4 termly outstanding sessions of chamber Music coaching so that young musicians gain an opportunity to study at the highest levels with experts and gain high quality performance opportunities.

We still enjoy a chamber music scheme with the Royal Academy of Music London from where we welcome Asset award winning chamber groups to work alongside our students each year and we have enjoyed building this partnership. Last year, 15 of our most senior strings were invited to RAM for a day at JRAM which was an extremely valuable and enriching experience and we are grateful to RAM for running this especially for our musicians. We are also building our relationship with GSMD and so in our next season, we look forward to enjoying working with them too.

We are extremely grateful to the Albert Eugenie Frost Trust for their support for string education chamber music during the last 2 years which this year has also included piano.

Our 2024-25 education season also enjoyed the launch of our new senior Symphonic Wind Ensemble and a collaboration with the Poole Lighthouse concert hall who hosted our young musicians for orchestral training day this spring and we will be continuing with this alliance. Thank you to the WYMT for their support for these 2 activities during the last term.

We remain extremely grateful to all our sponsors, Trusts, friends and audiences for their support as well as our committee of volunteers. We are always looking out for more behind the scenes help as our charity grows and we hope to continue to provide a worthwhile Music service of excellence to our community!

Organisers:

• Artistic Director:
  Alison Kay B.E.M
  Music Assistant:
  Simon Gilliver
• Chairman:
  Martin Casey
• Treasurer:
  Nicky Nicholas
• Concert Secretary: Tammy Sullivan
• Caterer:
  Debra Adam
  SafeGuarding:
  Natalie Covell
• Public Relations:
  Helen Tate
• Artistic Adviser:
  Jenni Curiel
• Concert planning, recitals and workshop administrator, Education planner, co-ordinator, event promoter & sponsorship director.
  Alison Kay
• Orchestra Manager
  Barbara Castle
• Fund Raising
  Michael Armstrong.
  Website:
  Peter Banks & Jackie Richmond