Places at the National Festival are filling up fast. There are many amazing concerts, masterclasses and playing that you can take part in. Discover what you've got to look forward to in our Events Coming Soon section.
There are still vacancies for a Web Editor and E-News Assistant. Only basic document editing skills required for an E-News Assistant and budding tech gurus can apply for the Web Editor position.
As always, if you'd like to include anything in the March edition please email news@srp.org.uk by 17th March.
Thanks,
Louise
SRP Publicity Officer
E-NEWS ASSISTANT
An E-News Assistant is wanted to help send out the monthly newsletter. Anyone that is able to copy/paste and organise information from the SRP website and emails once a month is suitable.
With spring coming there are many events listed on our website and this edition of eNews. Sometimes there are too many to effectively keep you informed.
With so many playing days, courses, workshops, and recorder concerts we’re keen to ensure that we communicate effectively with our large and growing membership, as we don’t want you to miss anything relevant.
Today with have various channels of communication at our disposal. I’m keen to ensure that we use them effectively. You can sign up to receive email updates of listings on our website which is always the most up to date source of information. Our web team have done an excellent job to make it easy for events to be added and for you to receive alerts. eNews provides a monthly summary of events occurring this month, and you will soon see a new initiative in the Recorder Magazine where an insert will be included with listings.
But communication is a two way street, and I’d love to hear from you how you would like to receive information, and in particular how we might enhance eNews to make it more useful for you.
To help improve eNews, we’re still looking for an assistant eNews editor, so if you think you can help do let me know.
I also hope to meet many of you at the upcoming Festival in Durham, so do please let me know personally any suggestions you may have.
Saturday 23rd March is also to deadline to book for the Orkney Branch Playing Days, lead by Andrew Challenger, in April. Places are limited! You can find more details here
On Saturday 23rd March, Moira Usher is leading an SRP workshop on conducting (Level 2) in Bath. More details can be found here. On Saturday 30th March, busy Moira is leading another SRP workshop, this time exploring the art of playing Renaissance music written without bar lines. This will be held in Leicester and you can find out more here.
Philip Thorby will be in Tonbridge on Saturday 30th March, leading a workshop on Gabriele's canzonas: polychoral music full of light and shade, grandeur, dancing rhythms and singing melodies. Further details here.
As well as these SRP workshops you can find out about the many other recorder courses which are taking place in March here.
See the SRP websitefor other events later this year
There's an extensive range of playing sessions, workshops, concerts, a composition competition, workshops and a masterclass wtih Piers Morgan, all held in the very beautiful Ushaw College. You can find details about all the playing sessions here The music on offer in the playing sessions covers all ranges from the medieval Alfonso el Sabio to composers bringing their own brand new pieces. There’s music from Iceland to Russia, and from America, as well as music that reflects the Festival setting in the North East. There’s even a brand new piece for the Festival venue: Graham Hamlett’s “Ushaw (Moor and College)” as well as Rosemary Robinson’s festival commission “Dunholm Suite” (the title comes from the Saxon name for Durham).
If you want a break from playing and want to do some listening, you can attend one of the Festival concerts. All the details are here.
There are limited places remaining so don't wait till the last minute to book or you may be too late! You can book here
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