Blog – Page 165 – SE22 Piano School ~ East Dulwich

Dulwich Piano Festival 2014 – Enter now!

A Piano Competition in London for pianists of all ages.

Our 2014 Dulwich Piano Festival competition syllabus is online and you can enter and pay directly via our web site. We believe we might be the first music competition web site in the UK to have an online entry system. Goodbye paper forms!

Sponsorship and advertising opportunities available.

The Dulwich Piano Festival takes place on Saturday 14th & 15th of June. It is not possible to choose the day on which your classes will take place.

Entry deadline for piano classes: 1st May 2014

We are a paperless festival. Fees are payable by Paypal. Entry fees are non-refundable once you have entered.

The Dulwich Piano Festival is a competitive music festival for amateur musicians of all ages in the United Kingdom and beyond. Look out for our raffle prizes at several local school fairs where you can win free entry to one of the classes in the festival.

Can you hear the difference between a Stradivarius and a £39.99 violin from Tesco?!

Maybe proof that the musician maketh the music, not the instrument…

As the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opens its Stradivarius exhibition, the Telegraph arranged for a young musician to play the fabled Serdet – an original Stradivarius from 1666, her own 18th century instrument and a £39.99 violin available from Tesco and Argos.

But are you able to choose which is the more illustrious, based purely on the sound each instrument produces?

With the help of Oxford University music graduate Cecilia Stinton, The Telegraph put this idea to the test, and to complicate the challenge further we’ve included the cheapest brand of new violin currently available in the UK, costing under £40 and available from high street retailers like Tesco and Argos.

Take the test here:
Do you have the ear to pick out the world’s most famous make of violins?

I’m glad to say I got it right!

Find out more about the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum

This summer, the Ashmolean will open a special exhibition celebrating the life and work of Antonio Stradivari. For the first time ever in the UK, the Ashmolean will bring together 21 of Stradivari’s most important, well-preserved instruments to showcase the brilliance of his craft, including 11 works from his Golden Period.

Music Aptitude Tests for Secondary School Music Scholarships

Music Scholarship Seminar – Come and ask any questions you have about the application process for state or private schools.
22 July 2014 at 6.15pm:
http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1354445

The Music Aptitude Test (MAT) is used by several state Secondary Schools in the UK to select 10% of their intake on a Music Scholarship program.

The MAT is a multiple choice listening test with 60 questions designed to test a candidate’s sense of musicality.

The Music Aptitude Tests cost £12.99. We have now automated the MAT ordering system via Paypal. You will receive the files instantly. Click here to order.