2024 Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2024 Award winner, Octavia Meakin Lee, and to the runner-up Finnely Brett, who received their prizes at the Summer Party on 14th July 2024. Details about the 2025 Award will be published in March 2025.
Sound Waves South West Music & Music Therapy Trust – 2024 Workshops
SWSW was delighted to welcome the baroque ensemble, Apollo’s Cabinet to Bude for one week in October. Around 1,400 students in the local schools were able to attend these performances and hear baroque instruments which have been around for hundreds of years, including harpsichord, violin, viola da gamba, recorder and the obo. They played music from various European countries with the enraptured audiences participating in clapping rhythms, conducting, dancing forwards, backwards and sideways in time to the music; they even learnt how to sing Happy Birthday in German having heard the history of King Frederick the Great. The nature of the Workshops evolved during the week as the players found more ways to engage the children.
Thank you to the Cornwall Council Community Chest for funding toward the Workshops in Stratton, Morwenstow and Kilkhampton Primary Schools.
2023 Summer Party & Award For Excellence
The SWSW annual summer party and awards for local music talent was once again a resounding success. Supporters and visitors were treated to the sounds of the Fletchtet Jazz Band from Truro whilst tucking in to a sumptuous cream tea.
The highlight of the afternoon was the Award For Excellence which celebrates the progress made by individuals in their chosen musical field. The 2023 winner was Rowan Tidball (clarinet) who has, been successful in securing a place at the renowned Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The runner up Jack Plusnin, was a young Cellist from Okehampton. They both excelled in their instruments and contributed greatly to music in the community.
Choral Workshop
Our very grateful thanks to our Patron, Rosie Richardson, for organising a very successful Choral Workshop in Camelford on the 28th January 2023. Music was conducted by Mr John Hobbs.
The choir spent the day studying ‘Messa Di Gloria’ by Puccini. ‘I Was Glad’ by Parry and ‘Abide With Me’ in a version by John Cornish, a living American composer. The works were performed in an excellent concert at the end of the day and raised £180 for SWSW.
