Will Hay

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  • Piano Concert raises £150 for Betina’s Lessons

    The piano concert last Saturday raised £150 for the Kampala Music School Bursary fund. A record number of students attended and were performing, 27 in total. Everybody gave it there best shot and though most people were very nervous, they played well. After the presentation of the piano points cup (which arrived just in time thanks to Mrs Hay) piano points and exam certificates were awarded. Half way through the programme we heard our sponsored student from Kampala Music School, Betina play her violin. I have posted videos of three performances from the concert below. If you would like a high-quality video clip of your child’s performance then please send a memory stick in with them to their next lesson.

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  • News from Kampala Music School

    Details about Betina, the student receiving our piano bursary have been received from Kampala:

    Betina Nalugo.

    Date of Birth: 5 December 2000

    Local School: Kampala Quality Primary School

    Level: Primary 5

    She loves music, drama and very much the violin.

    “She has played the violin for over a year but began with her current teacher Frances Attwood in September this last year. She is currently about Preparatory Test level of the ABRSM.”

    “All sweet words for your sponsorship and she promised to work hard possibly even to ABRSM grade 1.”

  • Spring Piano Concert – Friends of Kampala Music School

    'African Dance' by Oliver

    This term, the piano concert will again be taking place at All Saint’s Church, Hoole on Saturday 13th March, 2010 starting at 2pm.

    We will be supporting the recently formed ‘Friends of Kampala Music School‘ to further sponsor an African piano student, suggested donations of £3 per audience member.

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    The 9th Edition of my piano teaching newsletter has been published and will be distributed at lessons over the next couple of weeks. If you cannot wait until then, the print edition of the newsletter should be visible below:
    Piano Tuition Newsletter – January 2010

  • Letter from Fiona Carr, Kampala Music School

    Dear Will and all your students,

    Thank you very much for the very generous cheque of £300 that you have sent for a KMS bursary. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into performing at two student recitals. We do trust you really enjoyed performing and putting the recitals on and that you enjoyed meeting and hearing Terence Ayebare.

    Your money will go out to Kampala soon and a student will be allocated to you and information about him or her will be sent to you.

    Thank you once again.

    Best wishes,

    Fiona

  • Piano concerts raise £300 providing piano bursary for Kampala Music School

    piano-concert-270609 The summer concert, held last Saturday was well recevied by the audience and managed to raise another £140 for the Kampala fund which means that coupled with the money raised from the last concert, a total of £300 will be sent to Uganda, providing a year of 60 minute piano lessons for an African student. Over the course of the year, details of their progress will posted here on the blog.

    piano-points-molliePart of the concert included the first presentation of the new piano points trophy won by Mollie who scored 42 points in the Easter term and gets to keep the silver cup until the next concert, at which point it will be presented to the winner of this term’s piano points competition.

    Audio recordings of all the student performances at the concert have been uploaded to an album in the gallery. The podcast episode features some of these recordings given by Mollie, Louise, Sophie and Alice along with the entertaining closing speech given by the special guest, Terence Ayebare.

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