Chetham’s long connection with The Commonwealth Resounds! is driven by staff members Nicholas and Sarah Oliver. Nick – familiar to Lunchtime Concert audiences as Joint Head of Accompaniment – was a founder member of the project, and since 2009 he and Sarah have together planned projects, fundraised, and led international exchanges between musicians of different nations.
The next The Commonwealth Resounds! project takes place next month, when ten Chetham’s students will travel to Kampala, Uganda, for a ten day musical outreach project alongside Kampala Music School. Together, students will play and work in community organisations across the city to share musical traditions, culminating in a final concert at the MacKinnon Suites hotel in Kampala.
Fundraising for the trip is actively underway; projects are entirely self-financed, with each student aiming to raise around £1300 towards overall costs. Chetham’s Lunchtime Concert on Friday 29 September will be dedicated to the project, and after a successful concert in Didsbury last weekend, the students involved will perform at Turton Rotary Club, Bolton, on Friday 6 October.
Chetham’s Lunchtime Concert, Friday 29 September
If you’d like to contribute to The Commonwealth Resounds! or to purchase tickets for the concert in Bolton (£12 each including a pie supper), please contact us on hello@chethams.com
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Alison Cox OBE
A wonderful achievement! Well done to the whole Chets team for creating this wonderful project in Uganda! I shall tell the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Summit 2018 Team all about it!