7th November 2022
In spite of very heavy rain outside, a good sized audience gathered in St Nicholas Hall at Leicester Grammar School for the annual Bardi-LGS concert focusing on GCSE Set Works.
The audience was treated to several solo performances by talented young pupils from the school enjoying the opportunity of playing with a full-sized orchestra. The Bardi players also enjoyed the company of around twenty pupils sitting alongside them to play in the Orchestra.
The audience were kept on their toes with interactive questions about the music displayed on a large screen, with responses from mobile phones in the audience, as the programme was described by Amy McPherson, Deputy Director of Music at LGS.
Oh yes, and in the photographs you might be able to spot Orchestra Manager Robert Calow, he usually plays in the clarinet section but it was his birthday on the day of the concert so we let him join the percussion section and he had a wonderful time playing the cymbals.
Our wonderful LGS soloists for the afternoon were:
Vidhi Thakor (flute) played the Badinerie from Bach Suite No 2 in B minor
Samuel Li (violin) played the 1st Mvt of Violin Concerto No 4 in D Major by Mozart
Elena Bensi (trumpet) played the 1st Mvt of Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Leonora Ashworth Jones (clarinet) played the 3rd Mvt of Kozeluch Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb major
Sarah Inchley (violin) played the 2nd Mvt of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No 1
Arjun Kotecha (cello) played the 1st & 2nd Mvt of Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
Katie Bensi (saxophone) played the 2nd mvt of Milhaud’s Scaramouche Suite
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