Will Hay

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  • 2012 – Review of the year

    2012 is nearly over and it’s a chance to look back over the year and take stock of what has been achieved. I don’t think I’ve ever organised so many piano concerts in one year before.

    Over the past 12 months, there have been 16 concerts for my students to perform in around Chester. 36 of my students have taken exams including 19 prep tests and 2 theory exams.

    The themes this year have been Sea Idylls, Creatures Great and Small, and Going Places.

    Whilst the major project for the spring term featured a composition in a set format to run alongside a video I produced, the other terms featured collaborative video projects in which many of my students took part.

    The review video clip below features excerpts from some of the concerts which have taken place over the year.

     

    Some students have performed in as many as five concerts over the course of the year and their teachers in school have commented on how nice it is to see the progress they have made from concert to concert.

    The concerts at All Saint’s enabled another £300 bursary to be sent to Kampala Music School in June. The bursary is now providing piano lessons for Justus, a 22 year old university student.

     

    Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
    WILL

     

  • New ABRSM Piano Syllabus – Grade 1

    It is with great pleasure that I can announce the new ABRSM Piano Syllabus for 2013-2014. The pieces can be used in exams from January 2013 until Easter 2015. I have produced a playlist of demonstration videos of the Grade 1 Pieces so far and intend to produce more as time permits…

    My favourite selection I think would have to be A3 – Das Ballett, B3 – In a boat and C2- March though I am also fond of the C3 Chatanooga ChooChoo piece and have been since I first heard it played from a cassette tape in my youth! Only time will tell as to which pieces prove most popular with my students.

    It was fun recording the pieces this morning and I couldn’t resist putting an out-take on the facebook page from when Geoffles decided to jump in on the action!

  • “Creatures Great and Small” Student Concert Series

    The banner above links to “The Geoffles Daily“, a daily photoblog of my kitten Geoffrey following his antics since he came to live with us on April 13th. The daily photos from the photoblog automatically syndicate to a facebook page and an evernote folder!

    Appropriately, the concert series this term will follow an animal theme with the title “Creatures Great and Small”. The school concerts will showcase the talents of my piano pupils within each school with a range of solos, duets and own compositions and each will culminate with this term’s multimedia collaboration project in which a number of students have taken part along with members of the Chester Music Society Youth Choir.

    Parents of the children involved are cordially invited to attend the concert in schools and everybody is invited to the final concert in the series taking place at All Saint’s which will again be supporting a Kampala Music School piano bursary with audience tickets priced at £3/adult and £1/child.

    St. Oswald’s, Mollington – Friday 15th June at 9:15am

    St. Werburgh’s Primary – Monday 18th June at 9:10am

    Saighton School – Friday 22nd June at 9:10am

    Upton Heath Primary – Monday 25th June at 9am

    All Saint’s Church – Saturday 30th June at 11am

    A concert preview video below features excerpts from the Spring Concert Series earlier this year.

  • Celebrating Success at Step One

    LCM Music ExamsFollowing the second entry I have submitted to the LCM exams, Dominic came away with a distinction (86/100) in his Step 1 Piano Exam and was very keen to share some of his favourite pieces from the exam in this video.

    Step One Exam Success

  • March: Month of Concerts

    Instead of organising one end of term concert for my students this term, there will be five! Four of the concerts will be taking place in schools during the school day and will be an opportunity for EVERY piano student in that particular school to take part in a performance. As usual, I will also be inviting some of my students to take part in the end of term “Playing Together” Charity Concert which will be held at All Saint’s Church , Hoole.

    The concert listed below in bold are the piano concerts. I have also included some details of a few other concerts in which I will be taking part this month for information!

    12th March – Upton Heath – 9am

    15th March – Saighton – 10am

    17th March – CMSYC Spring Concert, All Saint’s, Hoole – 7:30pm

    24th March – NES Spring Concert, Neston Parish Church – 7:30pm

    26th March – St. Werburgh’s – 10am

    27th March – St. Oswald’s – 2:45pm

    31st March – “Playing Together”, All Saint’s Hoole – 11am

    3rd April – Nave Choir Passion tide Devotion, Chester Cathedral – 7:30pm

    As a taster for the forthcoming series of concerts, the video clip below features the talented Year 3 Pianists at St. Werburgh’s taking part in their own concert at the start of this term.
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