Always a firm festival favourite, the annual Elgar for Everyone family concert brings over 100 young musicians from across Elgar Country together to perform a vividly varied programme alongside their teachers and mentors from English Symphony Orchestra, following 2 days of rehearsals and workshops. We’re delighted to welcome our Festival Patron Julian Lloyd Webber and Festival Artist-in-Residence Esther Abrami as co-hosts, working with and performing alongside our young musicians. The concert also includes the winning performance of the festival’s 2024 Young Composers Competition.
Tickets £10-£15. Family discounts available.
Wednesday 29th May at 7:30pm
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester WR1 2LA
Or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427.
Ticket prices: Full £15
ESO Youth Family Member: £10 (with code)
Under 18s Free but tickets must still be booked
ESO Youth Orchestras
Members of the English Symphony Orchestra
James Topp conductor
Programme to include music of Edward Elgar and:
ESO Youth Orchestra
Morfydd Owen: Morfa Rhuddlan
ESO Youth Harp Ensemble
Monika Stadler: Preseli Skies and African Reflections
Skaila Kanga: My Dancing Days
ESO Festival Orchestra (Beginners, Intermediates and Youth)
Ravi Shankar: Finale – Symphony
Winners’ pieces, Elgar Festival Young Composers’ Competition (performed by members of the ESO)
Sponsored by The Rainbow Dickinson Trust
The annual Elgar For Everyone Family Concert (E4E) has been one of the most beloved and highly anticipated events of the festival since its inception in 2018. Each year, approximately 200 young musicians from the three ESO Youth Orchestras, as well as members of other ESO Youth Groups, the Elgar Virtuosi and others take their music to an audience of families and young people, Elgar aficionados and newbies.
This year’s event is co-hosted by Julian Lloyd Webber, who will also be conducting a portion of the concert, and young violin superstar, Esther Abrami, who will also be soloing with the musicians.
Esther Abrami is passionate about teaching and inspiring the next generation of musicians. She has delivered masterclasses internationally at Universities such as the Texas Christian University, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and St. Dixie State University in Utah. Esther has been a music coach for orchestras such as the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia in Leeds, Passeur d’Art in Paris and given lessons to individual students and chamber groups at St. Paul’s Cathedral School in London.
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n 2007, at the invitation of the Secretary of State for Education, Julian Lloyd Webber founded the UK Government’s In Harmony programme, introducing the power of music to thousands of school children from the least privileged parts of England. Julian was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and is the recipient of a Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum (1998) the Classic FM Red Award (2005) and the Incorporated Society of Musician’s Distinguished Musician of the Year Award (2014). Julian has represented the music education sector on BBC1’s Question Time and The Andrew Marr Show, BBC2’s Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s Today, The World at One, PM, Front Row, and The World Tonight.
In 2014 Julian was forced to retire from playing the cello due to a neck injury which reduced the power of his bowing arm. In July 2015 he was appointed principal of Birmingham Conservatoire. During his five-year tenure he oversaw the move to a new £57 million building and the merging of the existing Conservatoire with the Birmingham School of Acting. In September 2017 the Conservatoire was awarded the Royal status by Her Majesty the Queen.