Springboard – Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Festival
Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Festival – providing a supportive platform for actors and musicians of all ages
I just happened to be listening to my local Radio Station (Radio Sussex) this September, when my ears pricked up. I knew that voice – it was the lovely Becci Whiteley (The Theatre Workshop and West End Experience Creative Director and Springboard Speech and Drama Teacher).
She was being interviewed with Brenock O’Connor – some of you may remember him as one of Becci’s students. Continue reading “Catching up with Brenock O’Connor”
Berniya Hamie, winner of Springboard’s under 19s concerto section and Senior Piano Championship 2019, will be performing in the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 10 November. Her programme will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. For more details please use this link.
Berniya and her sister Riya (winner of Springboard’s under 14s concerto section) will also be playing in Brighton at the Chapel Royal on Tuesday 5 November. Details here.
Syllabuses for the 2020 Festival are now available for our Speech & Drama, Concerto, Piano, Strings, Woodwind & Brass sections. You can find them on our Festival Classes page. Online entries open on 30 September 2019.
Congratulations to Lily Petrova (piano), Hannah Hever (clarinet) and Javier Morillas Arques (viola) who played with the Brighton Youth Orchestra on 8 February at St Georges Church, Kemptown. The orchestra were also joined by five players from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance who sat alongside members of the Youth Orchestra.
Hannah and Javier played Bruch, Concerto for Viola and Clarinet 19 and Lily played Anton Arensky, Fantasia on Ryabinin’s themes.
Springboard Concerto Day is on 31 March at Brighton & Hove High School, Montpelier Road. Audience is welcomed and tickets are available on the door.
Brighton Youth Orchestra side by side with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
Conducted by Andrew Sherwood
Friday 8 February 2019, 7pm
St George’s Church, Kemptown, BN2 1ED
Springboard Festival is delighted to announce an evening with the Brighton Youth Orchestra side by side with selected players from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. The concert features prize-winning soloists from the Springboard Concerto Competition, held in association with BYO and open each year to young musicians in Britain under the age of 25. The Springboard winners who will play are Lily Petrova, Hannah Hever and Javier Morillas Arques.
We are very pleased to have been offered some free tickets for Springboard Festival participants and their families and supporters to the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra’s next concert, which takes place at Brighton Dome Concert Hall on Sunday 20 January at 2.45pm.
The concert lasts for approximately 2 hours, with a 20-minute interval.
Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and can be
collected on the day of the concert from 2pm onwards.
If you are interested please email mail@brightonphil.org.uk
by 5pm on Thursday 17 January stating how many tickets you would like, and how many of those who will be attending are children.
For further information about the concert please use this link:
Thomas Carroll Cello/Director
Prokofiev Symphony No.1 (Classical)
Schumann Cello Concerto
Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 (Scottish)
Discounted parking (just £6 between 1pm & 6pm) is available at NCP Church Street Car Park. Collect a follow on ticket at the concert from the Car Parking stand in the Dome foyer.
DON’T FORGET THE CLOSING DATE FOR SPRINGBOARD MUSIC ENTRIES IS ALSO 20 JANUARY!
The closing date for Speech & Drama entries has now passed. We are delighted to have a bumper number of entries this year and are hoping for the same for music. Don’t forget to enter by 20 January.
Local pianist Berniya Hamie will be playing Chopin 
with the Brighton Youth Orchestra String Ensemble on Saturday, 8 December: 19:30 at St Luke’s Church, Brighton BN2 0FZ.
She will be performing the slow movement of Chopin’s second piano concerto and his brilliant Andante Spiniato and Grande Polonaise. Definitely not to be missed!
Guest soloist (Springboard Award Winner) Hazel Nguyen will play 
Hummel’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Brighton Youth Orchestra this weekend (1 December) at St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 3HQ.
The Percussion Ensemble will also be performing using kitchen utensils (!) as well as the choirs with some fantastic festive choral repertoire.
Doors open at 6.30pm. Further information.
For the 2019 Festival the total value of awards offered for the strings recital classes has been increased to £400.
The awards have been donated in memory of Corin Long (1966-2007) who was Principal Bass of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and taught at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music. These awards in his memory are intended to support young string players in their musical studies.
There are two classes to be held on Sunday 10 March:
For a full list of classes, download the Strings Syllabus.