Concert with talented Kimmy will inspire musicans for competition
» GIFTED Kimmy Kwok will be inspiring a new generation of violinists when she launches the 2023 Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year contest at her winner’s concert in Pittville Pump Room on Sunday, November 20 at 3pm.
The 16-year-old Cheltenham College student will be performing Bruch’s famous Violin Concerto in G Minor with Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra under Glyn Oxley’s baton. Tickets are free for under-18s from cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
Kimmy, who passed her music diploma at the age of 14, hails from Hong Kong where she gained a string of awards before winning
Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year as its youngest entrant in 2022.
Her matinee concert will see the formal launch of the 2023 competition. It has been organised by GSO since 2014.
Kimmy will be encouraging all young musicians to enter the 2023 contest, which is open to piano, string, woodwind, orchestral percussion, and brass musicians, under the age of 22 years on or before March 1 2023, of at least Grade 8 standard, who live in or go to school in the county or receive musical tuition in a recognised musical organisation in Gloucestershire. Entries are now open and close at midnight on Sunday December 11.
Auditions take place on Sunday January 8, 2023 at Gloucestershire Academy of Music’s Gloucester headquarters at Barbican House and the Finalists’ Concert is being staged at Pittville Pump Room on Sunday March 5 at 3pm.
The sponsors who have made this contest possible include Gloucestershire Academy of Music, The Brimpsfield Music Society, The Summerfield Charitable Trust, Make Music Gloucestershire, the Carducci Trust and Ann Heron, mother of 2016 winner Adam.
For more visit: gloucestershire symphony.org.uk or ring Viv Hargreaves on 07740 448262.