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Instrumental Taster Days

Join our pupils and take part in a fun and interactive day of music.

St Mary's Music School will be hosting junior and senior Instrumental Taster Days in term one. Our taster days are designed to give young people with a passion and talent for music an insight into what it is like to be a pupil here. 

Junior Instrumental Day for P4 to S2

Sunday 29 October 2023 11am - 3.30pm

Our Junior Instrumental Taster Day is designed for young musicians aged between P4 and S2, inclusive. 

Please note to take part, all applicants must have been taking lessons on their chosen instrument for a minimum of 12 months.

Please note closing date for our Junior Instrumental Taster Day applications is 14 October. 

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED

Senior Instrumental Taster Day for S3 to S6 

**NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND AGENDA**

Sunday 26 November 2023 11am - 3pm

Friday 24 November 2023 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Our Senior Instrumental Taster Day has been specifically designed for young musicians aged S3 to S6. All applicants MUST be at a minimum of ABRSM Grade 5 or equivalent to take part in the activities on offer.

Participants are welcome who play the following instruments: Orchestral Instruments/ Piano/ Organ/ Accordion and Harpsichord.  

Please note closing date for our Senior Instrumental Taster Day applications is 17 November. 

We would like to invite the applicants into School to take part in Musical Activities with our current students on the afternoon of Friday 24November. We hope that the afternoon will give you an even better insight into some of the music activities here at school.  During the afternoon, we propose the following activities: 

 

1.30 pm                Registration and meeting of buddy

1.45pm                 Orchestra Rehearsal

2.30pm                 Performance Class

3.15pm                 Registration and walk to Cathedral

3.30 pm                Chancel Concert in St Mary’s Cathedral (Parents are most welcome to join us)

4.30 pm                Parents collect from the Cathedral.

 

You would be most welcome to join in with the performance class, or can sit back and watch what happens with our current pupils. If you wish to take part, please contact us in advance (admissions@smms.uk) to forward any piano parts that would be needed.

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 Junior Instrumental Taster Day

Sunday 29 October 2023 11am - 3.30pm

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED

 

Senior Instrumental Taster Day

Sunday 26 November 2023 11am - 3pm

Friday 24 November 2023 1.30pm to 4.30pm

 

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St Mary’s Music School is one of the nine specialist Music and Dance Schools the UK (and the only one in Scotland)  funded by the UK Government and providing the finest training in Britain. It is a co-educational, non-denominational specialist music school, offering a world class standard of music and academic education to musically gifted children aged 9-19 years. It is also the Choir School of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. It attracts day and boarding pupils from across Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Europe and internationally. 

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