High Wycombe music centre
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Buckinghamshire Music Service teachers visit schools in the High Wycombe area. We complement this teaching by offering a carefully structured range of ensembles at the Music Centre. Young people have great fun making music with others of similar age and ability. Around 700 young people from the age of six to nineteen visit us each week.
We offer:
- A variety of orchestras, wind bands and big bands
- Six classical guitar ensembles
- Three recorder ensembles
- Two choirs
- Chamber music groups
- General musicianship and theory classes
Concerts and festivals
We promote a large number of concerts including at least two each year at the Wycombe Swan Theatre. In 1993, 2000, 2005 and 2010 we gave gala concerts in the Royal Albert Hall in London. Many of the ensembles and choirs have distinguished themselves in national competitions. In April 2008, the Concert Band was presented with a Gold Award in the National Concert Band Festival in Warwick. Our musicians are frequent visitors at the National Festival of Music for Youth and in recent years, the Clarinet Choir and the Guitar Consort have received Outstanding Performance Awards. Groups from the Music Centre have undertaken foreign tours and in summer 2008, five senior ensembles gave a series of concerts in Northern Italy.
Buying an instrument
Students who learn an instrument in school or at the Music Centre with a Music Service teacher can purchase an instrument at a reduced cost. We have discounts with suppliers and the scheme is exempt from VAT. Typically, we can get your child's instruments for 20-40% less than the retail price.
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
We have an active PTA that:
- Promote and run social and fund-raising events
- Run our tuck shop
- organise refreshments at concerts
- Stage manage concerts
Contact us
High Wycombe Music Centre, Millbrook Combined School, Mill End Road, High Wycombe HP12 4BA
All parents should be aware that on the rare occasions when it is necessary to close the Music Centre or cancel an event at short notice a message will be posted on the Schools Closures page of the Bucks County Council Website.
Scroll down to High Wycombe Music Centre or look under Today’s Closures
For more information call 01494 475166 or email hwmusic@buckscc.gov.uk
Downloads (you may need Acrobat Reader to open)
- Auditions Letter 2012 (PDF 31KB)
- Auditions Schedule 2012 (PDF 9KB)
- Chamber Music Entry Form 2012 (PDF 34KB)
- Senior Concert Letter (PDF 27KB)
- Recorders Rehearsal Letter (PDF 28KB)
- Venice 2012 Updated Concert Itinerary (PDF 6KB)
- Bucks Music Service Scholarship Brochure - March 2012 (PDF 125KB)
- Scholarship Application Form 2012 (DOC 129KB)
- Newsletter Spring 2012 (PDF 199KB)
- Stage Choir Letter (PDF 45KB)
- Letter outlining 2012 Tour to Veneto, Italy (PDF 60KB)
- 2012 Tour - Parental Consent Form (PDF 39KB)
- Marlow Junior Band Invite (PDF 35KB)
- VAT Free Forms (PDF 11KB)
- Group activities at the High Wycombe music centre (PDF 37KB)
summary of the range of exciting opportunities for young people up to the age of 19+









