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Young Musician of the Year
The Results: The Final was on Wednesday 3rd March. In the junior category Daniel from the Woodwind won it. In the senior category Ben won. The first round (or heats) for the young musician of the year 2010 began on 20/1/10. There are two main categories: Senior and Junior and in that there are two more categories: Musician and Composer. In the musician section there are seven musical categories which are: Vocal Brass Guitar Piano/ keyboard Woodwind Strings Percussion
The competition is run every year in Bolton School. It consists of three rounds which are: The heats This is where around 600 boys perform a piece/ pieces of music in front of their form. From the 600 boys 86 of them are selected to go through to the semi-final. The semi-final 84 of the original 500+ are selected to go through to the semi-final. Instead of performing for Mr. R Eastham they perform for an external adjudicator. The adjudicator this year was Mr. Andrew Silver from Salford. Mr. Silver has done a lot of work with young pupils in schools. He was also the musical director of the opening to the 2002 commonwealth games in Manchester. The final The final is performed in front of Parents (and some pupils) in the great hall. The winners are decided on the night and the junior and senior musician each receive £100 and the junior and senior composer receive £50 each. There is also a prize for the most promising performer. This is given to a pupil who gave an excellent performance but didn’t get through to the semi/ final.
The Junior Finalists were: Daniel- Woodwind Matthew – Guitar Alex- Voice Joe- Brass Andrew Keyboard Nick-Percussion Hadley-Strings Before the final I decided I would interview one of the finalists (Andrew) to see what he thought about getting into the final. Andrew is a grade 6 piano player. Andrew entered last year and got to the semi-final although unfortunately he didn’t get through to the final. He said this about it when he got through to the final: “I didn’t expect to get this far.” However when he got to the semi-final he found out that most of the competition was a higher grade than him he said this about it: “The competition was tough I never thought I was going to get through” He was over the moon when he found out he got to the final, and was know determined to win he quoted this: “Even if I don’t win I will still join in again” He is clearly enthusiastic about the young musician of the year .I’m sure he will try his best to win He was obviously very excited when he found this out and I’m sure he will be determined to win. Ben who won the senior category was happy to take an interview so, I interviewed him. Ben has finished all his grades and did his 2nd diploma 2 years ago, he plays piano. He was nervous because it was the senior so everyone is more experienced than the ones in the junior competition. He had this to say about when he was lining up to play: “I played 2nd to last so I was quite nervous” He obviously wanted to do well and thought everybody else was very good. This was his last chance since he was in Y13 to win it’s a good thing he did. “It was my last chance to win the young musician of the year since I’m leaving at the end of this year” There was a lot of competition in his class since there were 5 people in the final who were also in his class. He was nervous about going 2nd to last so he wanted to do well he said this about how he felt after his performance: “When I went on I was very nervous, but at the end I knew I did well” The competition was tough so he thought that he wasn’t going to do very well but it seems he had done. It seems that Ben’s enthusiasm and determination showed off because he won. His piece was a short (surprisingly) modern jazz piece which as hard as it was, it was played extremely well and deserved to win.
By James
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