Year 4 pupil Chloe Williams conducted Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers in front of over 1000 other school children at St David’s Hall yesterday. It was all part of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s Orchestradventure! which continues with two performances in Carmarthen Leisure Centre today.
Children from Glynhafod Junior School, Aberdare with some of the Orchestradventure! team including Karen Welch from Western Power Distribution
Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom Redmond, and conducted by RWCMD graduate Tianyi Lu, the interactive performance from RWCMD Symphony Orchestra also included the Overture from La Forza del Destino, Mahler’s Symphony No 5 Adagietto and John Williams The Force Awakens.
Merch o flwyddyn 4 yn arwain y gerddorfa coeliwch neu beidio… Believe it or not, a Year 4 pupil conducting the orchestra… #orchestradventure @RWCMD pic.twitter.com/eZJKpppATf
— Ysgol Pencae (@Pencae2) February 13, 2018
Building on its successful outreach work across Wales and the South West, this ambitious new project aims to inspire school children to engage with classical music, and reach around 3000 5-18 year old school children across Wales over the next two years.
“Discovery, participation and learning are at the heart of this project. We hope that the concert will help the children to develop skills in listening, cultural awareness and social interaction, as well as inspiring both teachers and students to discover more about music and the performing arts,” says Kevin Price, Head of Music Performance.
With funding from Arts Council of Wales and Western Power Distribution, a series of outreach and workshops in South Wales schools in the autumn and spring terms of 2017/18 delivered the core skills needed to enable the school children to be able to participate and engage in the live Orchestradventure! performances.
An Orchestradventure workshop at St Mellons Church in Wales School, Cardiff
Following February’s performances, the concert will travel to North Wales next Spring as Orchestradventure On Tour!, supported by The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.
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