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Welcome to the Broadstone Music Series

Whilst we have been reflecting on what we have achieved over the past decade and beyond, despite the horrendous aspects of the pandemic, we are amazed at just what was possible in this very challenging time. We have just completed our 12th year of music making in Broadstone, run by our charity, Poole Society for Young Musicians.

We are proud of our notable reputation as a unique organisation providing popular professional, quality recitals and concerts in the community as Broadstone Music Series and our extensive work with young musicians encompassing music education, workshops, masterclasses and our highly regarded and popular music summer school, as Poole Society for Young Musicians charity which is this year presented it’s 9th annual summer school, always working closely with Soundstorm Music Education Agency, as a hub partner for the BCP area. Children travel from depths of Dorset and Devon to take part in our music provision. This July, 145 young musicians took part with 38 highly qualified musician tutors and we even ran a choral course alongside this year.

We now run a popular and fun Mezzo Maestros grade 2-5 ensemble on a Monday evening over 8 weeks a term with concert alongside a Mini Maestros Music Academy which includes instrumental lessons and a fun rhythm and aural development class, with Cathy Murray, supported by WYMT and SoundStorm. Grade 1-8 Music Theory tuition is also on offer.
Our superb Jurassic Brass ensemble meet on a Tuesday evening at 5.30pm, is also outstanding and open to any newcomers from around grade 4+. This ensemble has worked alongside BSO brass section this past year as well as enjoying a day of workshops in London alongside Richmond Music Trust.

Our Camerata Chamber Musician club is in its 6th year and also flourishing. This small group of wind and string musicians are all grade 5 – diploma levels and benefit from the joys of chamber music each term over around 4 Sunday afternoon coaching sessions with performances, and studying with professional musicians locally and beyond.
We are delighted to be continuing our chamber music scheme with the Royal Academy of Music London this year and this involves a resident string quartet.
The strings and with piano chamber music is again this year supported by the Albert & Eugenie Frost Trust. We are extremely grateful for this as it makes this highest quality music provision accessible to all. Alongside SoundStorm’s access scheme, we make sure that no young musician misses out! During our 4 sessions this autumn, Catherine Martin from Royal College of Music will lead one chamber session, our resident RAM Kyan Quartet will lead another and our good friends from BSO including wind principals will lead too.

SoundStorm Sinfonia for grade 5 to post grade 8 young musicians with conductor Kevin Smith and holds short courses during the year.

During the mid pandemic we were grateful Yarrells School for their outdoor facilities, a gratitude that has continued since in the form of the Camerata & chamber music club. We are also grateful to other facilities: Parkstone Grammar school, Poole Grammar School, Castle Court School and Lytchett Minster where are summer course takes place. We love all our local church facilities too for our Broadstone Music Series concert series.

All our performers and an array of professional musicians and teachers continually helped to create and facilitate an annual programme full of beautiful music making .

We are also delighted that we raised £1300 for local charities during outdoor recitals during the pandemic, £1000 for the children of Ukraine last spring as a result of a children’s concert and also a concert towards the extension at St John’s church, our concert venue base. This is on top of our regular recitals and series of workshops, masterclasses, and constant fundraising for our own music charity, Poole Society for Young Musicians.

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We are continually grateful to support SoundStorm, and our private sponsors with a special thank you to Mr Richard Bagley and Mr Stuart Archer this year.

As an organisation we so appreciate the hard work and support of our small team of committee members, charity trustees and those that dip in to lend a hand either regularly or ad hoc, which together, has brought the idea from its tiny start to where we are now. Whether a music maker, educator, tea maker or treasurer it is definitely the case that sum is greater than all the parts. We welcome any local enthusiasts to get involved, anyone who thinks that they have a skill that they would like to bring to our charity.

This year we welcome our amazing professional musicians again to bring wonderful recitals to our audiences. This combined with our continual workshops with young musicians will hopefully bring another musically satisfying year in our community and beyond.