NEWS & EVENTS
RECENT EVENTS
Easter Holiday Club | April 2025
This year we brought our Preludes Music Holiday Club back to St Nicholas of Tolentine Primary School. Over 4 days, we did a range of activities including writing music, playing instruments, games, cooking classes and creative workshops, culminating towards a performance for their parents at the end of the week!
St George’s Takeover Day 2025
Children from four different Preludes Music schools joined us at St George’s Bristol for a day of making, learning, singing and playing music.
Preludes Music and Cosmos Choir Festive Singalong 2024
Preludes Music team up with Cosmos Choir for a lunchtime concert of festive music at St George’s Bristol.
Symphony of the World 2024
Our biggest Preludes Music project to date! Children from 3 different Preludes Music Schools worked together with various musicians from Bristol to compose their own pieces of music, culminating in two performances at Trinity Arts Centre and St George’s Bristol, with features on BBC Points West and BBC Radio Bristol.
Preludes Music Event 15th Anniversary Concert at St Mary Redcliffe Church 2024
A celebration of 15 years of Preludes Music featuring children from all of our Preludes Music schools, singing songs and playing pieces learned on their instruments throughout the year.
St George’s Takeover Day 2024
Children from four different Preludes Music schools joined us at St George’s Bristol for a day of making, learning, singing and playing music.
Preludes Music Event at St Mary Redcliffe Church 2023
Annual concert featuring children from all of our Preludes Music schools, singing songs and playing pieces learned on their instruments throughout the year.
Holiday Clubs
We run regular holiday clubs for our schools where we do a range of activities including writing music, learning music, games, cooking classes, trips, creative workshops and much more!
PAST PRELUDES MUSIC EVENTS
Arts Council Project on The Lark Ascending
Children at St Bernard’s RC created beautiful pieces of music, letters and artwork inspired by Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending for its 100th anniversary. Children in Bankleaze and Long Cross also wrote music based on larks and sang Vaughan Williams folk songs.
The Chineke! Orchestra Visit
The wonderful Chineke! Orchestra came and gave quartet concerts and held workshops in Ilminster Avenue, Redfield and Easton C of E.
Bristol Ensemble Classical Series – Beethoven and Mozart
Children from Bankleaze Oasis Primary School attended a rehearsal with one of the greatest pianists of our time; Andrei Gavrilov. They later performed before the main concert at St George’s Bristol.
Bankleaze and Ilminster Avenue attended the rehearsal of legendary French violinist Gilles Apap and the Bristol Ensemble before their evening concert. Preludes Music children performed before the main concert at Bristol Beacon. Gilles Apap came into schools to talk and perform to the children.
Preludes at Bristol Beacon
Year 3 children from Ilminster Avenue E-Act Academy and Merchants Academy Primary went to play and sing at the Bristol Beacon for Bristol Ensemble’s Beethoven and Mozart series two years running.
Inspire Day for all Oasis Schools in Bristol about WW1
A special day based on WW1 commemoration in 2018 with all the Oasis schools in Bristol. Children wrote poems which they read alongside music undertones at St Mary Redcliffe Church. A very moving day!
Bristol Harbour Festival – Arts Council Project on Handel’s Water Music
Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Handel’s Water Music, children from Ilminster Avenue E-Act Academy and Oasis Academy Long Cross performed their new composition on the SS Great Britain and BBC Radio Bristol stage in Brunel Square.
Malago Partnership Concert at St Mary Redcliffe Church featuring dance
The Malago Partnership was a group of schools, all built near the river Malago, that got together for CPD and Preludes Music concerts. Three concerts were held at St Mary Redcliffe Church and one at Bristol Beacon.
The line up also included Knowle DGE Academy, Ilminster Avenue E-Act Academy, Greenfield E-Act Academy, Victoria Park Primary School, Headley Park Primary School, Cheddar Grove Primary School, St Peter’s C of E Primary School, Parsons Street Primary School, Bedminster Down Secondary.
