The Royal Opera House teamed up with NUMU to find talented young music makers. The mission was to create a fanfare and win the chance to have is arranged, recorded and played by the Orchestra at the Royal Opera House in London.
Well, the response was amazing! We had hundreds of entries and the standard was impressively high. The judges have made their decision, and the Ten winners are, in no particular order...
Michael Ranashinge from Stoke Newington School, London.
Lucy-Rose Graham from Oakham School, Leicestershire.
Song Eun Choi from The Purcell School, Hertfordshire.
Joshua Hagley from The Purcell School, Hertfordshire.
Adam Deans from Burgoyne Middle School, Bedfordshire.
Ainanshe Ali from Burgoyne Middle School, Bedfordshire.
India James and Lucy Farestvedt from Burgoyne Middle School, Bedfordshire.
Rebecca Seaton, Connor Smither, Billy Fisher, Alex Leach, Lewis Hobbs, Louie Juster from Glenthorne High School, Surrey.
Jack Somerset Scott from Trinity School, Croydon.
Max Brown from St Edwards School, Cheltenham.
Congratulations, one and all! The winners will now watch their Fanfares come to life. They will get the chance to attend a workshop with composer Duncan Chapman and musicians at the Royal Opera House. The Fanfares will be recorded in April and launched in the Summer.
A Fanfare is a short piece of music that is designed to grab your attention. Check out Orlando Gough's profile on NUMU. He is a composer who has written five fanfares as examples to launch the competition. We have also made some short films to help you with your entry.
Write a 30 second track that really packs a punch. The music has to grab people's attention. Keep it short. You can write for any instrument you want. Our judges love to be surprised. Put your heart into it and try and capture the listener's imagination.
Any NUMU member aged 11-14. You can work in groups or on your own.
Competition closing date:
12 February 2010 - THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED
Announcement of the winning compositions:
2 March 2010
Winner's workshops:
10 and 19 March 2010
Recording Session with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House:
26 April 2010
Public premier of the winning fanfares at the Royal Opera House:
June 2010
If you are a KS3 teacher why not use this competion to create a composition project? The Royal Opera house has a special page in www.teachingmusic.org.uk/royaloperahouse offering a KS3 Curriculum Unit Resource and supporting video and audio assets for use in the classroom to help your students engage with composition and take part in the competition.
Each winner will get to attend a workshop and arrange their fanfare with a professional composer for the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. The fanfares will be recorded by the Orchestra and used as the front of house announcement sounds to herald the start of a performance.
The winning entries will be chosen by a panel of Royal Opera House composers, conductors and professional musicians.
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Find out more about Ballet, Opera and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House: www.roh.org.uk/discover
