Listen again to the Spring Concert which was held on Wednesday 31 March 2018 on the concerts section of our website.  Previous concerts are also accessible on their individual pages.

Thanks to Abby Hickman and Rebecca Mackenzie for filming the Spring Concert 2017.

This composition started off as a piece for piano. My inspiration to compose it came from hearing James Galway playing ‘Annie’s Song’ by John Denver on the flute. After listening to it over and over again and falling in love with this song, I decided to try and compose my own short piece for piano, using the main melody as my starting point but altering it to make it my own. A good friend of mine suggested that I should try composing it for an orchestra, and I thought why not? I can always try and see where it takes me! Over time, I came up with new ideas, creating new rhythms and experimenting with them on different instruments. I wanted to ensure that all parts of the orchestra played the main melody or important themes at some point during the piece as I wanted to share out the...