Aylesbury Music Centre
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Aylesbury Music Centre is an arm of the Buckinghamshire Music Service, based in Aylesbury
, Buckinghamshire
, England
.
Aylesbury Music Centre comprises a team of 47 teachers who provide specialist music education to 64 schools across Aylesbury Vale
. A programme of 'Wider Opportunities' is delivered to Primary schools across Aylesbury Vale - enabling access to Instrumental/Vocal provision to ALL children in a given year-group at Key Stage 2
. Programmes include whole class xylophone, violin, recorder, African drums, brass, fife and samba. Each programme includes vocal work and allied skills.
The Centre runs more than 40 weekly evening/Saturday classes at Centre bases (Aylesbury and Winslow
) - including symphony orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, jazz band
s, string orchestra
s, choir
s, guitar
ensembles, percussion ensemble
s, recorder ensembles and chamber music
. The AMC Dance Band is one of the country's leading youth big bands, as evidenced by a large number of awards from various national competitions. The Centre's senior ensembles regularly reach the Finals of the National Festival of Music for Youth. In recent years, Finalists have included AMC Concert Band, AMC Flute Choir, AMC Dance Band, AMC Brass Band, AMC Chamber Ensembles & AMC Youth Orchestra.
The Centre runs a Professional Concerts Series, as well as workshops, and classes in music theory and aural training.
The Centre's purpose-built premises opened in 2001.
Friends of Aylesbury Music Centre
We have a very active Friends of Aylesbury Music Centre Association.
The Friends:-
Raise money to develop the centre
Hold instrument accessories and 2nd hand music sales
Run social events
Provide refreshments at our Concerts
Provide a tuck shop at the centre on Tuesday and Thursday evening sessions
Aylesbury Music Centre's Head, Mrs Suzanne Hopkins, succeeded Mr Hugh Molloy in 2009.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
Aylesbury Music Centre comprises a team of 47 teachers who provide specialist music education to 64 schools across Aylesbury Vale
Aylesbury Vale
The Aylesbury Vale is a large area of flat land mostly in Buckinghamshire, England. Its boundary is marked by Milton Keynes to the north, Leighton Buzzard and the Chiltern Hills to the east and south, Thame to the south and Bicester and Brackley to the west.The vale is named after Aylesbury, the...
. A programme of 'Wider Opportunities' is delivered to Primary schools across Aylesbury Vale - enabling access to Instrumental/Vocal provision to ALL children in a given year-group at Key Stage 2
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when pupils are aged between 7 and 11. The term is applied differently in Northern Ireland where it refers to pupils in Year 5, Year 6 and...
. Programmes include whole class xylophone, violin, recorder, African drums, brass, fife and samba. Each programme includes vocal work and allied skills.
The Centre runs more than 40 weekly evening/Saturday classes at Centre bases (Aylesbury and Winslow
Winslow, Buckinghamshire
Winslow is a small market town and also a civil parish designated as a town council within Aylesbury Vale district in north Buckinghamshire. It has a population of about 4500....
) - including symphony orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, jazz band
Jazz band
A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section, in the early days often trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass or tuba, and drums.-Eras:SwingDuring the swing era in the mid-twentieth...
s, string orchestra
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
s, choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
s, guitar
Classical guitar
The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
ensembles, percussion ensemble
Percussion ensemble
A percussion ensemble is a musical ensemble consisting of only percussion instruments. Although the term can be used to describe any such group, it commonly refers to groups of classically-trained percussionists performing primarily classical music. Percussion ensembles are most commonly found at...
s, recorder ensembles and chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
. The AMC Dance Band is one of the country's leading youth big bands, as evidenced by a large number of awards from various national competitions. The Centre's senior ensembles regularly reach the Finals of the National Festival of Music for Youth. In recent years, Finalists have included AMC Concert Band, AMC Flute Choir, AMC Dance Band, AMC Brass Band, AMC Chamber Ensembles & AMC Youth Orchestra.
The Centre runs a Professional Concerts Series, as well as workshops, and classes in music theory and aural training.
The Centre's purpose-built premises opened in 2001.
Friends of Aylesbury Music Centre
We have a very active Friends of Aylesbury Music Centre Association.
The Friends:-
Raise money to develop the centre
Hold instrument accessories and 2nd hand music sales
Run social events
Provide refreshments at our Concerts
Provide a tuck shop at the centre on Tuesday and Thursday evening sessions
Aylesbury Music Centre's Head, Mrs Suzanne Hopkins, succeeded Mr Hugh Molloy in 2009.