The Inverurie Music Award Scheme ran for its sixth year in 2024 and we are delighted that more than £2,400 was awarded to 18 young musicians from local schools. Applications were received for funding for a variety of purposes including to help purchase instruments (a violin, a saxophone, a euphonium, a trumpet, a tuba, a […]
Come along to St Andrew’s Church, Inverurie on Saturday 17 June 2023 at 7pm for a bonus midsummer musical treat in support of the Inverurie Music Award Scheme. This concert aims to boost the Award Scheme fund for 2023 and it will feature music from the Nova Quartet as well as from some very talented young musicians from local schools. There will be […]
Inverurie Music is delighted that the Award Scheme for young musicians went ahead last year, albeit with reduced funds. A total of £1,100 was awarded to young musicians who were successful in their applications in 2022, bringing the total awarded since the scheme began to £6,543. Applications were received from most of the four schools […]
‘…le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d’une occupation inutile’ wrote Maurice Ravel at the head of his manuscript to one of his most enduring piano works, Valses nobles et sentimentales in 1911. These are the words of the symbolist poet Henri de Régnier and this description of the ‘delicious and forever-new pleasure of a useless occupation’ […]