| The
Nottingham Choral Trust is now in its 25th season. The
founding aim in 1983 was to promote weekend choral courses
and concerts for singers from all walks of life in the
Nottingham area. Committed from the beginning to an
imaginative and adventurous approach to choral music,
the work of the Trust has developed rapidly since then.
Today NCT Music has eleven performing groups, both adult
and youth, choral and instrumental, involving over one
thousand participants. We also present a varied programme
of twelve high quality concerts per season.
NCT
Music is a registered charity no. 517018 and is a members
of Making Music (the National Federation of
Music Societies), Young Choirs.net (British
Federation of Young Choirs) and the National Association
of Youth Orchestras.
Music
for Life!
NCT
Symphony Chorus
Our Symphony Chorus (250 singers) offers a number of
workshops and high-quality performance opportunities
each season and provides a rewarding experience for
singers of all abilities. There are no auditions and
the time commitment is minimal: some preparation in
your own time at home, guided by a rehearsal CD, then
one or two intensive and highly enjoyable day or weekend
rehearsal culminating in an exciting concert. The Chorus
includes people from Nottingham and much further field,
keen members of choral societies and also people who
cannot attend a weekly choir and find the NCT Symphony
Chorus is the perfect way to keep in touch with singing.
Next
NCT Symphony Chorus Event
East
of England Singers
This specialist SATB choir is one of the leading chamber
choirs in the East Midlands, performing works from the
whole choral repertoire and appearing frequently in
venues throughout the East Midlands.
Next
EOES Concert
Instrumental
Workshop Days
Our orchestral
days appeal to a wide range of players. Some participants
are lapsed players wanting to get back into making music,
some are keen instrumentalists trying out a second or
third instrument and others have recently taken up instrumental
lessons for the first time and are hungry for orchestral
experience!
Next
instrumental event
Music
to Go!
NCT Music has a well-established, innovative and award-winning
programme of participative music events for young people
of all abilities.
Vocals
NCT Youth Choir is for children of primary school age.
Over 200 children take part, divided into three school-year
group choirs for some of the time. A singing weekend
leading to a special concert is offered in the autumn,
at Christmas and in the spring. There are no auditions.
The children are carefully supervised and conducted
by specialist leaders who have a fun approach to singing.
Next
Youth Choir Event
Nottingham
Boys' Voices
Nottingham Boys’ Voices is a choir for boys with
unbroken voices and has fortnightly rehearsals.
Festival
of Boys' Voices and Sport
Occasional
Saturday afternoon workshops. Taster sessions of singing
complemented by sport or craft activities.
Next
Workshop Day
Festival
of Girls' Voices
Occasional Saturday afternoon singing workshops for
girls of secondary school age.
Girls'
Choir
Rehearses
on Tuesday evening, 6.00pm - 7.15pm at Holme Pierpont
School, Coledale, Gamston. For further information
send us an Email
or telephone Su Bounford on 0115 9596484
Youth
Chamber Choir
Founded in
1999, an auditioned SATB group for singers aged 13 -
21. Weekly rehearsals.
Next
Youth Chamber Choir Concert
Stringwise
An annual event for young players from beginners to
grade VI. Three orchestras covering the ability range
work together over a weekend and then give an informal
concert the following Sunday afternoon.
Next
Stringwise
Youth
String Orchestra
Founded in
2000 an auditioned group of players Grade V! standard
and above.
Monthly rehearsals
Next
Youth String Orchestra Concert
Bandwise
An annual event for young players of woodwind, brass
and percussion from Grade I to Grade VIII. Three bands
covering the ability range work together over a weekend
and then give an informal concert the following Sunday
afternoon.
Next
Bandwise
Artistic
Personnel
Information coming soon
Professional
Opportunities
Information coming soon
Volunteer
Support Teams
Information coming soon
Sponsors,
Patrons and Friends
The Nottingham Choral Trust gratefully acknowledges
the support of the following:
Principal
Education Sponsor
- The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street,
Nottingham
Principal
Business Sponsor
- Sharespace, 49 Stoney Street, Nottingham
Business
Patrons
- Robert Cain, String Instrument Maker and Restorer,
90 Appletongate, Newark
- Hinson School of Music, Tel 0115 845 1086
- Alan G Hopkin - Specialist in violins, violas, cellos,
bows,cases
Eden House, Mill lane, Ellastone,
Ashbourne
- Paul K Joyce, Music for Television and Film
25 Burlington Road, Sherwood, Nottingham
- Maclaren Warner - Solicitors
129 Bath Street, Ilkeston; 159 Derby
Road, Stapleford,
40a High Street, Beeston;
45 Nottingham Road, Eastwood
- Russell Ulyatt Financial Services Ltd. - Independent
Financial Advisors
1 The Triangle, Nottingham
- St John's College, Bramcote
- Windblowers, 75-77 Derby Road, Nottingham
Further information about this scheme
may be obtained by sending NCT Music an email.
Publications
NCT Music publishes twice a year (Sept -Dec and Jan-August)
Choral Music, a booklet listing choral
concerts in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. If
you would like to receive a copy or would like to know
how to be included in the publication then please send
us an email.
Equal
Opportunities
NCT Music intends no discrimination against
or in favour of any professional artist or employee
irrespective of gender, race, nationality, ethnic origin,
religion, disability or sexual orientation
Within
the organisation, the executive committee have obligations
not to discriminate against participants irrespective
of gender, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion,
disability or sexual orientation
Mission
Statement
- The Nottingham Choral Trust provides opportunities
for singers and instrumentalists of all ages and abilities
to take part in educational music weekends and high
quality public performances in Nottingham and further
afield
- The repertoire ranges widely, balancing classics
with less familiar works, including contemporary music
commissions and researched programmes.
- The Trust maintains an orchestral group to accompany
all the choirs and to contribute orchestral items
to choral concert programmes.
- The Trust is strongly committed to developing participation
in music by young people. It provides a programme
of courses and concerts for its four open access youth
choirs and runs regular youth string and youth windband
projects and a boys' choir. It supports
two auditioned chamber groups: a four part choir and
a string orchestra.
Brief
History
The NCT was formed in 1983 by Angela Kay, its
Artistic Director. The first choral weekend for adults
was devoted to the Verdi Requiem, with a choir of two
hundred and a performance in Nottingham¹s Royal
Concert Hall. As membership and interest grew, the chamber
choir (The East of England Singers) was formed in 1985,
the Nottingham Choral Trust Youth Choir in 1989, the
orchestra in 1990, Stringwise in 1993, Bandwise and
the Youth Chamber Choir in 1999, 'Blow the Dust off
your Instrument' and the Youth
String Orchestra in 2000. The year 2001 saw the launch
of the Boys' Singing Challenge, a project funded by
the National Foundation for Youth Music to support a
regular boys ' choir and an associated outreach initiative
in city schools.
NCT
Music is a registered Charity No 517018 |
