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Welcome to the Broadstone Music Series

2025-26 Seasons begins: “Classics to Film Score” with Icon Strings, the critically acclaimed Covent Garden Candlelight quartet……… Experience the elegance of Vivaldi & the magic of movie music, all in one unforgettable night. Our 2025/26 Season will be a celebration of the string quartet – following up with the Sonas String quartet in November and the Slate quartet in April 2026, bringing to a close a season with an eclectic combination of genres for our Broadstone audiences!

We are really excited about welcoming the Dogoda Wind quintet to Broadstone in the spring too! We will update you, of course.

Since 2024-25 was again full of magical recitals and much music education serving our community. We can’t pass on to our next series, without mentioning the huge and well deserved British Empire Medal given to our Charity Director, Alison Kay, in the New Years’ honours list.

PSYM Education – our Monday night Music Academy continues to flourish – currently at Poole Grammar school this offers term time weekly instrumental lessons, Tunes’n Grooves music development fun group aimed at key stage 1 children, Mezzo Maestros instrumental ensemble and Junior and Senior Jurassic Brass ensembles, all led by some highest qualified and inspiring professional musicians in the business.

Meanwhile our popular Youth String Camerata and Symphonic wind aimed at grade 5+ musicians will continue to meet around 4 times in the term. We are making plans to continue our scheme with the world famous conservatoires : The Royal Academy of Music London and more recently also with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London. We are delighted to be able to offer this prestigious type of input to all of our young musicians to help them reach their potential.

Following the success of our Youth Lighthouse orchestral training day with BSO assistant conductor Enyi Okpara, we have been invited back so details for this exciting course are currently in planning.

Our extremely popular 13th summertime Music course will take place in July 2026 so look out for dates!

Our Broadstone Music Series will continue to provide high quality entertainment for our community and we love to include and welcome back our alumni musicians who are now in the profession . This year we will include a “Celebration of the String quartet” beginning with the well known “Icon Strings” who are most famous for their Candlelight concerts in the famous Covent Garden St Paul’s church.

This theme will demonstrate the diversity of the quartet and include music from Classical period to shows and film scores!

During the year we will also welcome a Guildhall string quartet who will work with our young musicians as well as the Slate quartet later in the year. They will work too with our young musicians!

We look forward to welcoming a Royal Academy of Music wind quintet too in spring 2026 for a recital and our young wind players will enjoy and benefit from working with them.

Occasionally a pop up recital might arise so keep your eyes open for those! Hugo Svedberg (BBC Young musician of the year String semi finalist) performed for us during May which wowed our audience.

Our Xmas concert is a major date in our diaries as that’s always sold out so we urge early booking and our Broadstone Afternoon Tea concert is always a special one. Young musicians show off their talents accompanied by Debra’s delicious cakes!

In fact, our refreshments have become an extremely popular aspect of our concerts!

We are grateful to all our loyal friends and supporters, our sponsors and venues. We are grateful again to Wessex Young Musicians Trust for their help and Albert and Eugenie Frost Trust for their chamber music projects support.

We would like to show a special thank you to our hub partners SoundStorm Music agency who provide help, advice and funding towards our charity’s education work.

Alison Kay

BEM

Poole Society for Young Musicians Charity Director

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