Hi,

I was just wondering where you have had the privilage to play at?

I am lucky to live in south tyneside and we often give concerts at The Sage Gateshead (the brand new place). We are also embarking on a tour to Paris very soon!

Amonst many other places, our Youth orchestra has been asked by the BBC to be recorded for a short scene on TV, we are very excited!

Please feel free to share the wierd and wonderful places you have visited with your ensembles!

Wow, cool!

The most prestigious place I've played is probably Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham or the Town Hall in Cheltenham.

The best place I've performed at was York Minster with a brass band. We were briefly on the BBC's programme about the Minster running up to Christmas time!

well, i live in Singapore.
performed at:

1) Victoria Concert Hall (2 times)
2) Pei Chun Public School (countless)
3) Xinmin Secondary School (countless)
4) Anglican High School (1 time)
5) Alliance Francaise Auditorium (1 time)
6) Nangyang Academy of Fine Arts (countless)
7) Esplanade (1 time)
8) Singapore Conference Hall (1 time)

and many more schools, churches in singapore and Perth!

performed as:
1) Ballerina
2) Chorist
3) Solo Singer
4) Solo pianist
5) Accompanied pianist
6) Student choir conductor

I've not really performed anywhere amazing:-

Brighton Dome
Brighton Corn Exchange
Pavillion Theatre in Worthing (got my own dressing room lol!)
Assembly Halls in Worthing
Eastbourne Winter Gardens
Chichester Cathedral
Chichester Minerva Theatre
Bruges Cathedral

and various schools and churches

The best place I have perfomed at is Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Ooo, I used to live in singapore, for 8 years in fact...

Best place... well the Royal Festival Hall was quite good...

Royal Albert Hall
Royal Festival Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Birmingham Consrvatoire
3 Corn Exchanges
7 Schools
5 English Churches
2 French Churches

And probably some other places which I've forgotten...

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, RSAMD Concert Hall, RNCM Concert Hall, Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Hyndland Parish and St Brides churches, and various town and university halls not nearly as glamorous. I also played in the Winter Gardens on Glasgow Green, a bit different.

When I was at school our music centre band played at Old Trafford (Manchester United's ground) as pre match entertainment for a schoolboy international.
We also played on an open top bus for the Manchester taxi drivers trip to Blackpool ... they take disabled youngsters out for the day.
Jimmy Saville was on the trip.

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham (though that was ages ago when I was in a school choir)
And Nottingham Arts Theatre...

I live in north tyneside!! But I've never actually been inside the Sage.... how awful is that?? Anyway I haven't really performed anywhere very exciting... Whitley Bay Playhouse, Newcastle City Hall, my church, and various cathedrals around the country. But that was singing for services, so I don't know if that counts. Today we're going to Durham!! In about half an hour actually (oops). We're going to sing evensong this afternoon and then mattins, eucharist and evensong tomorrow. Exciting stuff.

Ive performed at:

The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde suite (twice)
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Main Auditorium (Once)
The City Halls (once)
The Tramway (once)
The RSAMD (once)
1 University
1 College
3/4 Schools
1 Church

Thats all I can remember.

Probs the best place in England I've perfoemed at was in Bury St Edmunds Cathedral. But the best place I've performed at was next to Johann Sebastian Bach's grave in Germany. That was amazing! The cathedral/church there was beautiful. And I've performed at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin, but I preferred the church with Bach.

I forgot:
15 English Cathedrals (chapel choir)
Notre Dame Cathedral
Disneyland Paris

Woooo, groovy. What when how why?

With my choir I have had the opportunity to sing in some fantastic places including:-
-Birmingham cathedral
-Warwick University
-Norwich Cathedral
-Portsmouth cathedral
-Churches all over Holland
-Chruches in Italy, (Florence) including Sainte Marie cathedral, which is just exceptionally beautiful!
-On television on programs like Songs of Praise, and many times on BBC radio.

I love writing these down! Reminds me of what a great time I had!!

Take care,

Becky

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Ages ago (1998?), school tour, singing. I hate singing.

Coolness. Awww I love singing. Pretty cool all the same though.

Just remembered, I've played at Alton Towers, hehe

It was in a flute choir, and it was very windy

Oh yeah, I forgot about that! I was on it when I was seven, and I'd only just joined the choir. The cameraman thought I was cute so a close-up of me singing the hymn got beamed around the country

Talking about singing. About 5 years ago there was a house in my town on a program for the BBC where they discovered an old abbey type thing in the cellar below the house. Seeing as the owner of the house used to teach at my school, we went down into the cellar and sang loads of plainchant stuff. It was really freaky, but good fun. My friend still has the picture of us in the newspaper from that.

errm.. the more major ones (ie, the ones i remember the names of! ):
*St David's Hall (Cardiff)
*Brangwyn Hall (Swansea)
*Hereford Cathedral
*St David's Cathedral
*North Wales Theatre
*Brecon Cathedral
*National Botanic Gardens
*Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin

Also numerous other venues in wales / ireland / england / praque / france / poland / germany & switzerland.. from touring

Tv-wise, we're currently being filmed in rehearsals and concerts for a 6 part BBC documentary on a local amateur orchestra, which is kinda odd, and paranoia-inducing.. you just feel sort of under the microscope the whole time.. lenses and mikes everywhere!!

Also off on a NYOW course soon to record a cd, and prepare works for the BBC Welsh Proms, in St David's Hall. Scary stuff! Owain Arwel Hughes conducting, and we'll be performing with Julian Lloyd Webber!
Maybe i should start practising now! lol....
Should be awesome though!

Was that tour last year?
wow

Oh, you must let us know if that is airing nationally - how cool

Blimey - loads of cool places! I've performed in....the Bath Pavillion......and my school hall - that's about it...

We performed there on tour too! And the Band played at Jardin de Luxembourg. Notre Dame is so difficult to sing in though - I doubt I will ever sing somewhere as big again!
Otherwise:

School
Numerous Churches
Albert Hall Nottingham - Not the Royal one!
RNCM Concert hall - It's hard for your playing to sound bad in there, though I have managed it one one occasion!

Lots of cathedrals (Liv, York Min, Chest, Ex, Truro, Chich, Bangy)

St David's Hall Cardiff
City Hall Cardiff
concert halls in Austria and Bavaria
Cowbridge Leisure Centre
Royal Academy of Music London
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Queenswood School, Herts
Brecon Cathedral
St. Edward's Church, Cardiff
St. Saviour's Church
The Cathedral School, Llandaff
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morganwwg, Barry
Llandaff Cathedral

....and about a million other churches and places I can't remember

In no particular order...

Meadway Nursery School
Garden Suburb Infant School
Garden Suburb Junior School
The Prevett Hall, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
The Music School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb
St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square
The Logan Hall, University of London
Lewes Town Hall
Various bandstands and parks in the south (Horsham, Eastbourne, Brighton, Burgess Hill etc)
Clair Hall, Haywards Heath
Martletts Hall, Burgess Hill
Lee Street Church, Horley
a DIY superstore somewhere near Swansea
a church in Camden, London
Brooklands Junior School
Youth Music Centre, at the Henrietta Barnett School
East Hoathly Church
Chiddingly Church
a school hall somewhere in Wales (where I was conducted by Charles Hazelwood)


and my favourite..... The Royal Albert Hall!!!!!

(actually sang a solo here at a concert sometime near Christmas 1988)

I have probably missed some venues off!!!! Wow, I didn't realise I'd done so many performances!

Erm....

Adrian Boult Hall Birmingham
Symphony Hall Birmingham
Birmingham Conservatoire
St John's Smith Square
Royal Albert Hall
Barbican
RSAMD Glasow
RCM
Guildhall
Cambridge Corn Exchange
Bedford Corn Exchange
Eton
Uppingham
Wellington College
Stowe
Bedford School
my cathedral - lots of times
my music centre theatre
my city's theatre
random chruches in birmingham
Birmingham Uni's great Hall
Edinburgh Festival venues

where's the weirdest place you've played? mine would have to be the opening of my town's vets!!!

Ive played in:
Birmingham symphony hall
Harrogate Conference centre
Dundee Caird Hall
wiltshire music centre
Bath festivals opening night main stage
many schools
many churches
outdoor events, fetes ect - usually vilage greens and country houses
dilton march and bratton memorial crosses
jubiliee hall bratton (not as grand as it seems)
hospital
old peoples home
corn exchange, devises
the forum, bath
melksham town hall
trobridge civic hall
westbury labour and conservative clubs
...

Excuse the general "local" mysteriousness...

Local high schools
A local church or two
The Elliott Hall (If I've spelt that correctly!)
The Royal Albert Hall (five times!)
This church near one of the parts of Thames Valley University
Various places in Brittany, France (nothing too huge)

There must be more places but I really can't think of them now! All going to plan, though, I should get a whole lot more opportunities soonish, from the Barbican to St Mark's in Venice

cool! *envy*

Well, as part of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra (SFO) under John Mason MBE I have been lucky to play at the following concert venues:

York Barbican
Edinburgh Usher Hall
Aberdeen Concert Hall
Inverness Eden Court

Edinburgh Queen's Hall
Edinburgh Usher Hall (I LOVE playing there!)
St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Various parks and a school in Paris.
My own school.