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We receive
many requests for sponsorship and are able to respond to a limited number
each year.
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Young players discovering the unique sound of the viola.
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Stentor Supports more Music Making
Stentor has loaned violas and double basses to an outreach programme organised by the National Children's Orchestra (NCO). Over 600 children in the North East of England were offered the chance to play an instrument for the first time, under the guidance of experienced tutors, discovering the sound of these instruments and broadening their musical knowledge. As a result of this successful project, young players were selected to attend a five-day residential course that will hopefully recruit new players to the NCO.
Stentor is proud to be part of such exciting and successful projects, building the future for stringed instrument playing. |
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English
Chamber Orchestra
Earlier this year, Stentor was able to donate several instruments to an
education programme run by the English Chamber Orchestra in Bristol. A teaching
programme run in primary schools aimed to sow the seeds of a community band
'ECHO' which would loan out instruments to children who wanted to take part.
The band is now taking off this autumn, with coaching from ECO members.
South
African Music Trust
Through our South African distributor, we have supported a project which
was first launched in 4 years ago by the South African Music Trust (SAMET).
It began with just 20 children and now about 120 children learn instruments
through the project which loans out instruments to learners. Moagi Tom Mpshe,
age 16, is now South Africa's finest young violinist, having started to
learn on a Stentor violin donated to the project. |
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For several years, Stentor Music Company has supported a project
which provides violin teaching to children in the former Yugoslavia.
Stentor provided Stentor Student violins to Harriet Longman,
an English teacher who directs the project. It aims to bring new hope
and a sense of achievement to children living in orphanages as a result
of the conflict. Harriet Longman now teaches small groups of children,
giving them the opportunity to experience the thrill of music-making
and the discipline of learning to play the violin.
Feedback from the children's performance to SFOR troops:
"Watching the SFOR soldiers interacting with the children was a wonderful
sight to see...I am sure the children enjoyed themselves but we, the
SFOR soldiers, got much more out of this day than the children."
(William S. Haberlach, CJ CMTF CSM, MSG USA, Sarajevo) |
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