Stand Sure Orchestra & Choirs

Composer Of The Month - Vivaldi This month our composer is Vivaldi - and today (4th March) is his birthday! Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)...

Music education has been an essential component of schooling for centuries. The benefits of music education are many and have been proven...

Our composer of the month is Felix Mendelssohn. He was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic era. Here are 10...

When you go to a concert you see the conductor waving their arms around and you may wonder whether that's all they've done! Well, an...

Playing music with others can be an incredibly enriching and rewarding experience, both musically and socially. Here are a six reasons...

The Romantic period of music, which spanned roughly from the early 19th century to the early 20th century, was a time of great change and...

Our composer of the month is Felix Mendelssohn. Felix Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)" is an overture composed in 1830 and...

It is true that we all lead busy lives and if we play in a band or orchestra, or if we are singing in a choir, it can be very easy to...

My Top Five Pieces To Conduct We all have a list of things we’d like to do in life, a bucket list if you will. I have several things I’d...

Music can conjure up a whole load of emotions but how often do we think of laughter as being one of them? Laughter is a great medicine...

Each month I will feature a composer who’s birthday is celebrated in that month. This month’s composer is Felix Mendelssohn. Born - 3...

Singing is good for you! It doesn’t matter whether you think you can sing or not, the benefits will all be the same. In this blog I...

Today, January 27th, is Mozart's Birthday. In a change to the usual blog I've created a timeline to show some events in the world, the...

Trying Something Different One of my least favourite phrases is “I/We have always done it this way.” As a musical director, theatre...

In today’s blog I shall share with you my eight of my favourite quotes about music by composers, conductors, musicians, and those not “in...

I thought it might be quite interesting to talk about the different genres, and indeed sub-genres that are played by the orchestra. ...

Starting my orchestra has never been about making money. Making money has always been secondary. First and foremost I want to give...

In my previous blog I wrote about how Mozart was one of my heroes. January was Mozart's birth month, so I'll do an occasional Mozart...

In 1990 my family went and I went on holiday to Austria. We stayed in our folding caravan in Innsbruck. Even though Mozart died in...

As a kid I used to pretend to conduct the orchestra whenever I listened to music. It didn’t matter what the genre was, I’d be there on...