Will Hay

Tag: student compositions

  • Thankyou card from Kampala Music School

    I received a lovely card through the post today from Fiona Carr of Friends of Kampala Music School acknowledging receipt of the £300 raised for Betina’s lessons last year. The concerts actually raised £430 but I have kept the surplus aside to provide any other disbursements Betina may need in the course of her lessons (exams, music etc).

    Fiona requested that I might share the card with my students, so with thanks to Oliver who created the backing track on Noteflight, please see below the embedded video presentation of the delightful Ugandan craft card!

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  • Students perform in Chester recital

    Thirty students performed in the Charity Piano Recital last week at The King’s School.  The concert raised a further £180 towards Betina’s lesson bursary bringing the total raised this year to over £400. With a year of lessons costing £300 this means there is a surplus to go towards her exam fees and other costs. Certificates were presented and the winners of the composition competition performed their work along with noteflight accompaniment!

    A selection of video clips from the concert are available to watch below. More may be added in due course…

  • Composition Competition 2010 – Results

    It was great to receive 11 composition submissions to the competition and many of my students had worked hard on their pieces. In the end though I had to come up with two winners from the entries received and these pieces were performed at the concert on 4th December, 2010. I will add some more of the entries in noteflight form to a composition gallery page over the next few weeks.

    Please find the winning noteflight scores embedded below to listen to and view.

    Oliver – Christmas Dinner

    Ruth – Winter Wonderland

  • 10th Piano Tuition Newsletter

    I have published my last print edition of my Piano Tuition Newsletter as I now intend to only publish them on-line through the email newsletter on the website.

    If you are not already subscribed to the email newsletter, then please fill in your name and email address in the box on my website.

    The past ten newsletters are available to download in pdf by following the links below:

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  • Christmas Composition Competition

    Though the title is a bit of a tongue-twister the idea is quite straight forward…

    This year I am hosting a Christmas Composition Competition to get all my students trying their hand at composing. It is open to all my students and you may compose a song with or without words but there must be a Christmas theme.

    • The composition must have a suitable title
    • There must be a piano part which you can play
    • You may use noteflight to produce a score and have other parts playing at the same time.
    • Free Manuscript paper is available here to download and print
    • The score must be submitted to me (digitally or in print) by the closing date of 27th November, 2010
    • I will showcase the best entries in a gallery on my website
    • The winner must be prepared to perform the winning entry at the next concert on 4th December, 2010 2pm at the Music School, The King’s School

    I will try to provide support with your compositions over the next few weeks and can give students a session on noteflight in their lessons to get them up to speed.