The Big String
The Big String is returning for 2023!
Mon 20 February to Tues 21 February 2023 welcoming young string players from grade 1 to post grade 8, including a performance at Tewkesbury Abbey.
The Big String is back!
GAM is delighted to present our seventh annual Big String project on the 20th and 21st February 2023.
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Last year, a hundred and forty-three young players aged from 5 to 18, from grade 1 to post grade 8 spent a day at Dean Close school and then moved to Tewkesbury Abbey to prepare for their well-attended 3pm concert.
They worked together on a newly commissioned piece (in honour of our 40th anniversary) by Jeff Moore, The Comet Stone, and Jon Trim’s Celtic Fantasia. The children were supported by tutors from Gloucestershire Academy of Music and Make Music Gloucestershire. GAM’s Artistic Director, Glyn Oxley, conceived and developed this project and directed the project alongside Jonathan Trim, conductor of Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra.
The Comet Stone was a world premiere, especially commissioned by GAM for the occasion and generously supported by The Radcliffe Trust.
Photo Gallery: TBS 2022
'The Comet Stone' by Jeff Moore
Commissioned in honour of GAM's 40th anniversary, this performance in Tewkesbury Abbey was the world premiere of Jeff Moore's piece.
'Celtic Fantasia' by Jon Trim
Conducted by the composer, Jon Trim, and performed in Tewkesbury Abbey.
