Tag Archive: composition

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   Our Year of Music: 2024–25 in Review

   By Tom Redmond, Joint Principal and Music Director At the end of this academic year, it’s incredible to look back at the musical highlights of the last ten months. It’s...

   31st July 2025 • Read more

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   International Women’s Day: An Interview with Anastasia Foster

   For the second of our pair of interviews for International Women’s Day, we speak with Anastasia Foster (Chetham’s, 2022–24), a first-year composition student at the Royal College of Music. Still...

   13th March 2025 • Read more

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   International Women’s Day: An Interview with Lucy Farrimond

   To celebrate International Women’s Day, we are sharing a pair of interviews with recent Chetham’s alumni who are making their mark in the music world. First, we speak with Lucy...

   8th March 2025 • Read more

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   Celebrating female composers on International Women’s Day

   On Friday we celebrate International Women’s Day and its theme for 2024, Invest in women: Accelerate progress. Classical music has traditionally been dominated by men and we’re committed to addressing this...

   5th March 2024 • Read more

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   The incredible story of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

   This July Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra will perform at The Bridgewater Hall, in a concert featuring one of the most influential musical works of the 20th Century… Stravinsky’s The Rite of...

   23rd June 2022 • Read more

6. Chetham’s students release Don’t Look Back in Anger, six months after the Manchester Arena attack

   Please support victims of terror across the UK through the British Red Cross UK Solidarity Fund Today, Wednesday 22 November, marks six months since the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena,...

   22nd November 2017 • Read more

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   Christmas Carol Competition 2016

   This year’s Chetham’s Carol Competition produced a real variety of choral pieces, with thoughtful texts and imaginative musical settings.  The judge was Matthew Owens, a former Chetham’s student, published composer and current Director...

   9th December 2016 • Read more

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   TEDx trip to Fallibroome Academy

   On Wednesday 16 November, 40 Sixth form students from Chetham’s were lucky enough to attend the TEDxyouth@Manchester at Fallibroome Academy In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, the TEDx conference...

   22nd November 2016 • Read more