The Menuhin Foundation, Youth Orchestra performs an arrangement of “Yellow”, by Coldplay.
The Menuhin Foundation, founded in 1976, is dedicated to bringing the art of string playing to Bermuda’s children.
Since September 2006, Oliver Grant has been teaching piano at the Bermuda School of Music and is the Organist at Christ Church, Warwick. He studied piano in Madrid Conservatoire and later in Bath Spa University and Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He has performed in London, Bath, Chester, Manchester, Derby, Nottingham, Madrid and Bermuda.
Concertos include Rachmaninov`s second piano concerto with the Bath Philharmonic and later with the Derby Concert orchestra. He performed the Liszt Piano Concerto #1 with the Chester Philharmonic orchestra.
Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto No. 2
The Menuhin Foundation, founded in 1976, is dedicated to bringing the art of string playing to Bermuda’s children.
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David France lives in Bermuda and has taught violin at the Bermuda School of Music since 2004.
David grew up in Connecticut where he studied violin in the pre-college division of the Hartt School of Music. He obtained a BA in Music and a MM in Violin Performance from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Bermuda he taught at St. Joseph School of Music, The St. Paul Conservatory, and Wichita State University, as assistant to John Harrison.
He is an active soloist and Chamber musician. He has performed with The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, The Wichita Symphony, The Hartford Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the National Orchestral Institute Orchestra. He has performed with Josh Grobin, Dave Lubbin, Voices of Freedom Gospel Choir, and Smokey Robinson. David has recorded with Dave Lubben, Conspiracy among Friends, Golden and Twisted Linguistics. He is a member of Two to Tango with classical guitarist Louise Southwood and is simultaneously working on a collaborative debut CD in Brooklyn, New York. His major teachers include Sally O’Reilly, Samantha George, and Aaron Janse. Source: http://www.musicschool.bm/bio.php
website: musicschool.bm
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“Last year I participated in the first Youtube Symphony Orchestra. I hope to audition for the youtube Symphony 2011.”
Meet the Youtube Symphony: David France lives in Bermuda and has taught violin at the Bermuda School of Music since 2004. In 2007 the New York Post featured his single Peddling Medicine from the hip hop Album by the same name in their MPFREES section.
He pursued a graduate degree in violin performance at the University of Minnesota with Sally OReilly and Orchestral Studies with Aaron Janse of the Minnesota Orchestra.
He has appeared in concert with Josh Grobin and Smokey Robinson. His orchestral credits include The Bermuda Philharmonic, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, The La Crosse Symphony, The Hartford Symphony, and The Wichita Symphony.
As a street performer he is at the forefront of improvised compositions for the hang drum and violin. Mr. France can also be heard as featured soloist on the album Conspiracy Among Friends.
Sally Bassett was an enslaved mixed-race woman from Bermuda. She was declared guilty and burned at the stake in June 1730 for the attempted murder by poisoning of her slaveholder masters. She always claimed her innocence. Her notoriety has influenced Bermudian history and cultural heritage. (click image for more info)
