Berkshire Maestros

Berkshire Maestros is the trading name of The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust, a musical education charity operating in Berkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

Berkshire Maestros
MottoTeaching music, changing lives
Formation1982
Legal statusLimited company, Registered charity
PurposeExtra-curricular music education
HeadquartersReading, Berkshire
Location
Region served
South East England
Membership
Private
Dawn Wren
Main organ
Board of trustees
Staff
~260
WebsiteOfficial website

Description

The charity's aim is to bring music to a wider audience, and encourage children to play a musical instrument.[2] The charity teaches over 6,000 children in schools, bands, orchestras and choirs, and has centres in Bracknell, Newbury, Windsor, Reading and Wokingham.[3] Tuition covers a wide range of instruments, including vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion, brass, strings and woodwind in a range of styles, and composition.[4]

Events

In 2007, the charity's choir appeared at The Proms,[5] and alongside Southbank Sinfonia at the Windsor Festival.[6] In 2014, the organisation was awarded a grant from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.[7] On 1 May 2016, around 1,500 of the Berkshire Maestros students performed a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Primary school choirs from West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead performed songs from musicals such as Mamma Mia!, Oliver! and The Jungle Book.[8]

References
  1. "The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust". Charity Commission. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. "Berkshire Maestros fundraises to bring music to toddlers and babies". Bracknell News. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  3. "Graduate Teacher Programme 2020". berkshiremaestros.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  4. "Berkshire Maestros". Slough Borough Council. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. "Proms 2007 Prom 57". BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. "Choral events". Windsor Festival 2007. Windsor Festival. 2007. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
  7. "Berkshire Maestros". Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. "More than a thousand Berkshire Maestros children perform at the Royal Albert Hall". Getreading.co.uk. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

Official website

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