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  • Neston Ecumenical Singers Events: 2009-2010

    St. Michael's, ShotwickThe Neston Ecumenical Singers will be helping the congregation of St. Michael’s, Shotwick celebrate Visit event on Facebooktheir new sound system and hymnbooks this Friday (2nd October) with a ‘Hymns of Praise’ service featuring the congregation’s favourite hymns along with two popular anthems, Bruckner’s Locus Iste and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine accompanied on the organ by Chester Cathedral’s organ scholar, Simon Walker.

    Below is the latest list of events planned for the singers this year:

    2nd October 2009        7:30pm ~  Hymns of Praise at Shotwick
    12th November 2009    6-9pm ~ Carols at Gordale Open Evening
    14th November 2009      10am ~ Autumn Coffee Morning & Fayre at Neston Town Hall
    11th December 2009   7:30pm ~ Christmas Carols at St. Winifredes
    18th December 2009   7:30pm ~ Christmas Carols at Parkgate URC
    19th December 2009       11am ~ Carols at Neston Farmer’s Market
    30th January 2010       7:30pm ~ Choir Annual Dinner
    20th March 2010           7:30pm ~ Easter Concert

  • Piano Teaching Schedule – Autumn 2009

    The new term is underway and piano lessons will resume the normal schedule from Sunday 6th September 2009-17th December 2009. This means that lessons in schools will be starting from 7th September.
    Half term dates: 24th-31st October 2009
    Check the google calender for any updates to visit days.

  • Piano Points Results – Summer 2009

    At the end of the term, the top 10 total piano points achievers are as follows:

    1. piano-points-cupAlice from Tattenhall Park with 43 points,
    2. Sophie from St. Oswald’s with 42 points,
    3. Emily from Tattenhall Park with 41 points,
    4. Beth from St. Werburgh’s and Jacob from Ellesmere Port Catholic High with 38 points,
    5. Sophia and Kate from St. Werburgh’s, Louisa from Queen’s and Joe from Waverton with 36 points.

    This means that at the next concert the piano points cup will be presented to Alice from Tattenhall Park.

    47% of students have achieved the target 28 points for the term and will be receiving a certificate at the beginning of September.

    The top 5 Average points achievers for the term are:

    1. Alice from Tattenhall Park on 3.91 points per lesson,
    2. Louise from St. Werburgh’s on 3.89 points per lesson,
    3. Mollie from St. Oswald’s on 3.88 points per lesson,
    4. Beth from St. Werburgh’s on 3.80 points per lesson, and
    5. Emily from Tattenhall Park on 3.73 points per lesson.

    65% of students have managed an average of 3 or more points per lesson.

  • Summer Piano Lessons

    As you are probably aware, I don’t normally teach over the summer holiday but as quite a number of people have asked this year I have decided to make some days available if you would like to keep up with piano lessons.

    The days when they will be available are
    Tuesdays 18th, 25th August and 1st September

    Contact me if you would like to have summer lessons on the latter Tuesdays in August.

    Normal teaching schedule will resume from 3rd September.

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    Teaching Fee Increase and Piano Lesson Agreement

    As you may be aware from the last newsletter, I will be increasing my fee slightly from September to £24/hr for lessons at my home and £28.50/hr for lessons in school or at your home.

    I will also be asking all parents to sign a piano lesson agreement which acknowledges my ’24 hours notice’ lesson cancellation policy. I haven’t actually changed any of the details of this and they are currently printed on the back of every invoice but I thought it would be fair to ask everybody to sign it at the start of the new term, to confirm that they agree to abide by it.

  • 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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