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    • Harp and Percussion Performer Series

    As part of this year's Creative Arts Festival, our Harp and Percussion Performer Series will take place on Thursday 3rd July at Kendrick School's Main Hall, from 4pm – 6pm.  

    This will include three masterclass sessions for both harpists and percussionists, followed by separate harp and percussion ensembles for all attendees. It culminates in a short concert in which we hear from our professionals, masterclass students and harp and percussion ensembles. Family and friends may also attend this concert for free. 

    This event is for students of grade 4+ standard and is free to all Kendrick students (you still need to sign up) and only £5 for students in the local area. Music for the harp and percussion ensembles will be sent ahead of time, so please book early to ensure you have enough time to practise. We have a limit of up to three masterclass spaces, so please contact Mrs Cooper – ccooper@kendrick.reading.sch.uk for more information if you’re interested in this. 

    The closing date for entries is Tuesday 24th June. All applications for entry, including both masterclass and ensemble players, should be emailed to Mrs Cooper with their name, parent/carer email, instrument type (drum kit and/or the name of orchestral instruments studied or harp) and standard (rough grade), as well as whether they would like to be considered for a masterclass space (with the name and composer of the piece you’d like to play), so that we can send the relevant material ahead of the event. Payment, where applicable, will be made via an external ParentPay link which will be sent upon application. 

    Eluned Pierce 

    Principal Harpist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Eluned performs as a chamber music and solo harpist within her post and elsewhere. Often invited as guest principal with most of the British Orchestras, she has performed in the U.S. Japan, and most of the European countries with maestros such as Muti, Sanderling, Salonen, Maazel, Ashkenazy, Dutoit, Jarvi, Rattle, Karabits. Other thrilling moments have been working with Pavarotti and Lady Gaga!  

    Eluned occasionally plays for various television and radio programmes - she has been involved in the soundtrack of some of David Attenborough's series and a documentary about Beyoncé!  It was a great honour on Christmas Day 2014 to be broadcast on Classic FM from Buckingham Palace performing some of Britten's Ceremony of Carols with the Choristers of the Chapel Royal.   

    Frequently asked to examine at some of the British Music Conservatoires, adjudicate instrumental competitions, Eluned tutors the harp with The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, NYOGB and NCOGB. Earlier in her career she was Harp Professor at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Senior and Junior Department, followed by 10 years of the same at the Junior Royal Welsh equivalent in Cardiff.  

    She studied Harp at the Royal  College of Music London as a Foundation Scholar with Marisa Robles.   

    Keith Price 

    Keith Price is a freelance timpanist and percussionist who lives in Leighton Buzzard with his wife, Kate, his son, Oliver, and Luna the cat.  

    He earned a BMus (Hons) from the Birmingham Conservatoire, which included an Erasmus exchange to the Hochschule Für Music ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar, before going on to receive a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Music.  

    Keith is a member of Covent Garden Sinfonia, and the baroque orchestra Spiritato. Keith plays timpani and percussion at Southwell Music Festival, as well as fixing the percussion section of St Endellion Summer Festival. His career highlights include playing the soundtrack to E.T. the Extra Terrestrial at the Royal Festival Hall, performing in Der Rosenkavalier at the Konzerthaus in Vienna with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and being hit over the head with a plastic tube by Dame Evelyn Glennie. He enjoys a varied freelance schedule, playing timpani and percussion with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Concert Orchestra, New London Orchestra, Rainer Hersch Orkestra, London Mozart Players and Chameleon Arts Orchestra.  

    Outside of music, Keith is developing into a coffee nerd, watches sports played with an egg-shaped ball, and a keen golfer.