Brentwood Faculty proudly declares the launch of the First Brentwood Worldwide Music Competitors, a landmark initiative designed to draw and have fun the world’s most gifted younger musicians. This thrilling new enterprise marks a big milestone for the varsity’s Specialist Music Programme, which has already demonstrated distinctive promise in its inaugural time period.
The competitors will place Brentwood Faculty as a worldwide hub for musical excellence, drawing aspiring musicians from all over the world to expertise the varsity’s first-rate services, state-of-the-art boarding home, excellent instructing, and dynamic inventive group.
The Brentwood Worldwide Music Competitors will provide college students worldwide a singular alternative to showcase their expertise by way of a prestigious platform, culminating in a grand finale held at Brentwood Faculty. All finalists will achieve suggestions from world-renowned adjudicators, enhancing their musical growth.
Profitable musicians will obtain a variety of prestigious awards, together with scholarships, bursaries, and financial prizes. The Grand Prize is the chance of a life-changing full boarding bursary price £60,000 per 12 months; a spot on the varsity’s Specialist Music Programme and enrolment on the Guildhall Faculty of Music Junior Conservatoire – an unparalleled alternative for probably the most distinctive expertise.
Brentwood Faculty is a number one unbiased faculty famend for its holistic strategy to training, mixing tutorial rigor with excellent co-curricular alternatives. Its Specialist Music Programme nurtures distinctive expertise, fostering the subsequent era of musicians by way of world-class coaching and partnerships with prestigious establishments such because the Guildhall Faculty of Music and Steinway and Sons. Brentwood is certainly one of solely twenty-five All-Steinway Faculties within the UK.
Grig Cuciuc, Creative Director of Specialist Music, is an internationally famend musician and educator. Since his debut at age 15 with the Nationwide Chamber Orchestra of Moldova, he has carried out as a soloist with ensembles such because the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and King’s Chamber Orchestra and carried out within the UK and Italy. He has taught at Junior Guildhall and Whitgift Faculty, the place he helped arrange the Whitgift Worldwide Music Competitors, and has delivered masterclasses throughout Europe and Central America. A graduate of the Royal Faculty of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, the place he earned a DipRAM on full scholarship, Grig has been influenced by traditions going again to well-known violinists Auer and Ysaÿe. Fluent in a number of languages, he performs a 1780 Nicolo Gagliano violin and collaborates with the Edvard Grieg Academy in Bergen.
The competitors, in collaboration with Brentwood Faculty long-term associate, the Guildhall Faculty of Music, is open to college students aged 13 to 17, and can include two levels: On-line submissions, adopted by an in-person dwell finale on the Essex campus, that includes suggestions periods and prize shows. After the ultimate, the transformational Grand Prize will likely be awarded.
The panel will likely be chaired by Lord Man Black of Brentwood, Council Chairman of the Royal Faculty of Music and Chairman of Brentwood Faculty Governors. Adjudicators will embody Professor Vanessa Latarche, famend piano pedagogue and Head of Keyboard on the Royal Faculty of Music; Gerard Le Feuvre, acclaimed cellist, composer, and Director of the King’s Chamber Orchestra; Rosie Whitfield, Head of Junior Guildhall, and Grig Cuciuc, Brentwood’s Creative Director of Specialist Music. Collectively, they create with them a wealth of expertise instructing, performing, and adjudicating all over the world (please be aware that full particulars of the panel for the ultimate spherical will likely be launched as soon as the finalists have been introduced, as extra adjudicators could also be invited on the discretion of Brentwood Faculty).
The First positioned musician will likely be awarded £1000, the runner-up will likely be awarded £500, and third Place is £300. All finalists will likely be eligible for added rewards together with scholarships, bursary awards, masterclasses and an computerized place on the Specialist Programme at Brentwood Faculty (worth circa £2,000 per 12 months).
Functions for the Brentwood Worldwide Music Competitors open in the present day with a submission deadline of Tuesday 1st April. Aspiring musicians from all backgrounds are inspired to take part, discover the distinctive alternatives obtainable at Brentwood Faculty, and contribute to its rising status as a centre for musical excellence.
Brentwood Faculty is positioned on a 75-acre web site within the city centre near London, which is simply 23 minutes away and has wonderful transport hyperlinks and entry to important airports. A group of round 1900 college students, Brentwood is a heat, down-to-earth setting based mostly very a lot on a constructive group spirit, underpinned by the varsity’s values – Advantage, Studying, and Manners – which were in place since 1622. Boarding at Brentwood has a household really feel, in step with the varsity’s concentrate on group spirit and shared values. As an integral a part of the varsity, boarding services will likely be reworked with a brand new purpose-built Boarding Home – opening in September 2025 – that includes university-style mild and ethereal non-public ensuite classrooms, and a brand new Sixth Kind Café, serving as a vibrant hub for each boarding and day college students.
For additional particulars concerning the competitors and how one can enter, please go to Brentwood Faculty’s web site (click on right here) or contact our competitors committee (electronic mail right here).
