Concert Showcase, June 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000 is a Stevenage Arts Guild Enterprise and has been sponsored by Stevenage Borough Council, Stevenage Community Trust, The Comet and Herald Newspapers, ABB Automations Ltd, Alta Image, John Lewis, Glaxo Wellcome and the Millennium Festival.

Sponsored by ABB Automation Ltd

A showcase of talent for young musicians in the area. Ensembles based at Stevenage Music Centre will perform in the first half of the concert, with groups as diverse as the Junior Gamelan Ensemble, (Tutor Nikil Dally), the Saxophone Quartet (Tutor Philip Brunton), and massed strings will show off their skills. The North Herts Youth Orchestra (Conductor Mierion Williams, Leader Tim Sykes) will play Dvorak’s 8th Symphony and the Bruch Violin Concerto in the second half of the concert. The soloist in the concerto will be Katrine Parker.