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Only 2 weeks to go till the deadline for the SCMT Youth Music Festival…. Have you booked your place yet? All info can be found below… SCMT Youth Music Festival 2014 Here at SCMT we will be adding extensively to our Concerts and Competitions timetable this coming summer term and re-naming the run of events… Continue reading Only 2 weeks to go till the deadline for the SCMT Youth Music Festival….

Here at SCMT we are running a competition across Facebook. We are calling it ‘2 clicks to win’. Simply share our competition post and like our Facebook page (not the post) and you will go into a draw to win £100! The post you need to share can be seen below, simply find this post… Continue reading We have a competition running on Facebook.. to win £100!

Duke Ellington is this month’s featured composer/musician so we thought we’d give you a few facts about this brilliant musician.. Name: Edward Kennedy Ellington Stage name: Duke Ellington Born: April 29, 1899 Died: May 24, 1974 Occupation: Jazz musician, composer and bandleader Early career: Ellington started his career in the 1920s when he became pianist and often composer and then later… Continue reading A few facts about Duke Ellington….

Throughout April SCMT will be featuring composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington as our Composer/Musician of the Month. Born in April 1899 his career started in the 1920s and carried on through until he died in the 1970s. This month we will be looking at what made this man such an influential figure in american… Continue reading April’s Composer/Musician of the Month is Duke Ellington…

We are delighted by the brilliant performance of 2 of our students Berniya (who won Junior Championship!) and Riya in the latest Springboard music competitions. Well done girls… Not forgetting their teacher, the lovely Emily, well done to you too! Below are all their classes and awards:     Berniya Piano Section: Winner of the… Continue reading Big congratulations to Berniya and Riya on their Springboard success…

Here at SCMT we are pleased to announce Ackerman Music http://www.ackermanmusic.co.uk will be sponsoring our Youth Music Festival this summer!     We are also very happy to announce that this year we will be supporting ‘amaze’  a fantastic, Brighton based, charity working with parents of children with special needs, http://amazebrighton.org.uk.   Please see below for all information with regards… Continue reading SCMT Youth Music Festival, sponsored by Ackermam Music and raising money for ‘amaze’…

In our last Bach blog we discussed his life between age 23 and 38. It was during this time he wrote 2 of his most famous works. The 6 Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier. So what was it that made these 2 such iconic works…. The Brandenburg Concertos This is a collection of 6 concertos, all… Continue reading Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier….

We have a lot of students taking their ABRSM exams today and we just wanted to wish them the best of luck! We have our fingers crossed for you and look forward to hearing all about it. It won’t be long till we get the results in….

So in our last Bach history blog we had left Bach at 23, so what happened next…. Bach’s next post was a organist and chamber musician for Duke Wilhelm Erns, back in Weimar. He stayed here until 1716. He wrote a great many cantatas and he also began writing music for the harpsichord here. This is where… Continue reading More in the life of Bach…

Well our Jonathan certainly does get around! He is now playing bass for Kian from Westlife… you can catch him on today’s Blue Peter. He has also been on ITV’s This Morning and next week he will be on Loose Women. Way to go Jonathan, we are a proud bunch here at SCMT! Jonathan currently… Continue reading Our lovely piano/bass guitar teacher Jonathan is on TV again!

In our last blog regarding this month’s featured composer we talked about Bach’s early life. It was the start of his composing career and most of the works he produced then were church cantatas and the early structure of the toccata and fugue. In this we will explore the those to forms of music…. don’t… Continue reading Bach’s early compositions….

As you may know SCMT have picked JS Bach as March’s Composer/Musician of the month. So we thought we would give you a little history on this great composer. Bach was born in Germany, 1685 into a very musical family. It was thought his father taught him to play violin and harpsichord and his older… Continue reading Bach’s early life….

SCMT are incredibly pleased to introduce you to 2 new music teachers that have just joined us. We have Louis, a brilliant piano teacher and Adrian, a fantastic singing teacher. Below are their teachers profiles. Please contact Susanna direct on 07720 770153 or email [email protected] if you would like to have music lessons with either Louis or Adrian.… Continue reading 2 new music teachers, Louis and Adrian, join the ranks here at SCMT….

Here at SCMT we are delighted to announce that we will be adding extensively to our Concerts and Competitions timetable this coming summer term and re-naming the run of events as the SCMT Youth Music Festival! We will be holding our usual Summer Concerts.  We’ll also be repeating the Competitions… AND we’ll be adding some fun (and… Continue reading BIG ANNOUNCEMENT…SCMT LAUNCH YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL…

SCMT’s lovely singing teacher Keith has spaces for new students. He is a fantastic singing teacher, his teacher’s profile can be found below. Please contact Susanna direct on 07720 770153 or email [email protected] if you would like to have singing lessons with Keith. Remember your first lesson is free with no obligation to book and we will… Continue reading Our lovely singing teacher Keith has spaces for new students….

This Month’s Composer/Musician of the Month is Johann Sebastian Bach. March is Bach’s birthday month, he would have been 329 this year had he not died in 1750! Bach was a German composer of the baroque era. He had a huge impact on western music, aiding the development of counterpoint, harmony, structure and form during this… Continue reading Bach is SCMT’s March Composer/Musician of the Month…

SCMT’s February Composer/Musician of the Month is coming to a close, but just one more interesting fact before we move on. We already know that John Williams is a great film composer, composing some of the most memorable film scores in the last 50 years, but he is also a brilliant conductor. He can be… Continue reading John Williams, not only a composer but a conductor too…

We have just seen the end of this year’s Winter Olympics, but did you know that John Williams composed the theme music to four Olympic Games? “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” – 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles “The Olympic Spirit” – 1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul “Summon the Heroes” –1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta “Call of the Champions”… Continue reading Did you know that John Williams also composed the theme music to 4 Olympic games?!