Berkshire Maestros

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Berkshire Maestros
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Formation1982
Legal statusLimited company, Registered charity
PurposeExtra-curricular music education
HeadquartersReading, Berkshire
Location
Region served
South East England
Membership
Private
Chief Executive
Dawn Wren
Main organ
Board of trustees
Staff
~260
WebsiteOfficial website

Berkshire Maestros is the trading name of The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust, a musical education charity operating in Berkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

Description[]

The charity's aim is to bring music to a wider audience, and encourage children to play a musical instrument, sing, or play music in a group with others.[2] The charity teaches over 6,000 children in schools, bands, orchestras and choirs, and has centres in Bracknell, Newbury, Windsor, Reading and Wokingham.[3] Tuition covers a wide range of instruments, including vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion, brass, strings and woodwind in a range of styles, and composition.[4]

Events[]

In 2007, the charity's choir appeared at The Proms,[5] and alongside Southbank Sinfonia at the Windsor Festival.[6] In 2014, the organisation was awarded a grant from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.[7] On 1 May 2016, around 1,500 of the Berkshire Maestros students performed a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Primary school choirs from West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead performed songs from musicals such as Mamma Mia!, Oliver! and The Jungle Book.[8] On 19 October 2018, the Bracknell concert band played to The Queen at The Lexicon, Bracknell. [9]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust". Charity Commission. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Berkshire Maestros fundraises to bring music to toddlers and babies". Bracknell News. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Graduate Teacher Programme 2020". berkshiremaestros.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Berkshire Maestros". Slough Borough Council. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Proms 2007 Prom 57". BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Choral events". Windsor Festival 2007. Windsor Festival. 2007. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
  7. ^ "Berkshire Maestros". Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. ^ "More than a thousand Berkshire Maestros children perform at the Royal Albert Hall". Getreading.co.uk. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  9. ^ "The Queen visits The Bracknell Lexicon". inyourarea.co.uk. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

External links[]

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