My Story

Orchestras for All is a fantastic charity that sets up and runs orchestras for keen young musicians with complex lives and from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping young people from all over the country to come together and share in the joy of making music as an ensemble. 

Musical Chairs is a fundraiser for Orchestras for All, with musicians coming together to play in a real-life symphony orchestra for a day, BUT not playing their own instruments! I'll be working with a team of professional music tutors and members of the National Orchestra for All to perform a variety of pieces from OFA's season of music making, including Verdi’s Anvil Chorus and an arrangement of a traditional Ghanaian song, A Keelie Makolay, all conducted by the eminent conductor Sian Edwards (no pressure!).

I've chosen percussion because of my well-known counting abilities! Those of you I have sung with will know what I mean. Maybe John Adams will be easier after this intensive day training to bash a drum or tinkling a triangle?! 

Please sponsor me generously, so that in my moments of extreme embarrassment I will know it is all in a good cause! Thank you.