Norfolk County Music Festival

Registered Charity number 1081411
Affiliated to the British Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech
Festival Administrator: 01508 493629 (office hours only Mon - Fri)
E-mail: ncmfestival@aol.com

President Paul Harris ARAM GRSM LRAM ARCM MTC Hon TCL

  

Monday 2 March to Saturday 14 March 2009
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2009 Programme

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Now in its 84th Year, over 4000 musicians taking part each year

The Norfolk County Music Festival exists solely to promote, to encourage and to support performers.

All entrants have the opportunity:

  • to perform in public.
  • to perform in front of a specialist adjudicator and an informal and sympathetic audience.
  • to hear alternative interpretations of the same music and speech.
  • to learn how to improve their own performance.
  • to learn from the advice given to other performers.

Adjudicators

Adjudicators include:

Andrew Brown
Laura Cannell
Maria Jagusz
Paul Harris
David Lowe
Tish Nicoll
Mary Pells

Others to be advised where appropriate

Venues

Norwich
Kings Lynn

Closing date for entries: 30 November 2008

The final concerts will take place on
Recital Concert Friday 27 March 2009 (7.00pm) at the Assembly House, Norwich
Final Concert Sundat 29 March 2009 (3.00pm) at Thorpe St Andrew School

Entries to be sent or emailed to the Festival Administrator Brackendale, Poringland Road, Upper Stoke Holy Cross, Norwich NR14 8NW
Email: ncmfestival@aol.com


For full details, please refer to [pdf icon] the Syllabus for the 2009 Festival. (506kb). This is a large file and will open in a new browser window, or you may prefer to right-click the link and save the file to a local drive for future reference.

NCMF Entry Forms 2009

Entry Forms, this document is presented in .doc format, so that it can be easily completed and Emailed to the Festival at ncmfestival@aol.com

For more help in completing the entry forms, and for a personal record of your entries, please refer to the Guidance Notes and Teacher's Record for the 2009 Festival.

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Proposed Outline Timetable

Whilst every effort will be made to keep to this outline timetable, the Festival reserves the right to make changes where necessary.

URC = United Reform Church, Princes Street, Norwich
St Andrew's Hall, St Andrew's Plain, Norwich
The Assembly House, Theatre St, Norwich
CNS = City of Norwich School, Eaton Road, Norwich
KES = King Edward School, Gaywood Road, Kings Lynn

For later revisions see the 2009 Programme

Date
Morning: 10.00 am
Afternoon: 2.00 pm
Evening: 6.30 pm
Monday 2 March Speech
URC
Speech
URC
Speech
URC
Monday 2 March No class
  
Percussion
CNS
Percussion
CNS
Tuesday 3 March Speech
URC
Speech
URC
No class
  
Tuesday 3 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No class
  
Tuesday 3 March No class
  
Percussion
CNS
Percussion
CNS
Wednesday 4 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
Adult Choirs
URC
Wednesday 4 March Guitar
URC
No class
  
No class
  
Thursday 5 March No class
  
Young Singers
URC (late start)
Young Singers
URC
Thursday 5 March Kings Lynn
KES
Kings Lynn
KES
No class
  
Friday 6 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No class
  
Friday 6 March Young Singers
URC
Young Singers
URC
Adult Solo Singing
  
Saturday 7 March Adult Solo Singing
  
Adult Solo Singing
  
Adult Solo Singing
  
Monday 9 March Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Monday 9 March Scools Music
URC
Strings
URC
Strings
URC
Monday 9 March Percussion
Kings Centre
Percussion
Kings Centre
Percussion
Kings Centre
Tuesday 4 March Speech
URC
Speech
URC
Adult Choirs
URC
Tuesday 4 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No Class No Class
Wednesday 5 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No Class No Class
Wednesday 5 March No Class Young Singers
URC
Young Singers
URC
Thursday 6 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No Class No Class
Thursday 6 March No Class Young Singers
URC (late start)
Young Singers
URC
Thursday 5 March Kings Lynn
KES
Kings Lynn
KES
No class
  
Friday 6 March School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
School Choirs
St Andrew's Hall
No class
  
Friday 6 March Young Singers
URC
Young Singers
URC
Adult Solo Singing
  
Saturday 7 March Adult Solo Singing
  
Adult Solo Singing
  
Adult Solo Singing
  
Monday 9 March Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Monday 9 March Schools Music
URC
Strings
URC
Strings
URC
Monday 9 March No class
  
Orchestras
CNS
Orchestras
CNS
Tuesday 10 March Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Tuesday 10 March Strings
URC
Strings
URC
Strings
URC
Wednesday 11 March
  
Woodwind/
Brass
URC
Woodwind/
Brass: URC
Bands:CNS
Bands
CNS
Thursday 12 March Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Piano
The Assembly House
Thursday 12 March
  
Woodwind/
Brass
URC
Woodwind/
Brass: URC
Bands:CNS
Bands
CNS
Friday 13 March
  
Recorders
URC
Recorders
URC
No class
  
Saturday 14 March
  
No class
  
No class
  
No class
  
Recital Class Concert
Friday 27 March
      Evening Concert
Venue: Assembly House, Norwich
End of Festival Concert
Sunday 29 March
   Afternoon Concert
Venue: Thorpe St Andrews School,
Laundry Lane