Total raised

In 2008

 

£5,700

Welcome!

 

This website will tell you all about Music in the Brickhills.  Who we are, what we do and how you can get involved as either a musician or a concert-goer.  Please take some time to look around the site.

 

The Brickhills

 

The area stretches from Great Brickhill in the West, across and south of Milton Keynes, embraces Woburn and surrounding villages, and reaches to Stewartby in the East. In the area there is a long tradition of music-making, a tradition that has been augmented by the arrival of Milton Keynes. In 2007 a group of local musicians (singers, and members of local orchestras) put on a highly successful performance of Handel's Messiah - a performance that has become an annual tradition.

 

Concerts this year

 

This year (2009) the Musicians of the Brickhills plan to perform a series of three concerts, all to be given in local churches and culminating in the 2009 Messiah. The proceeds of all concerts will be given to local charities.

 

In early May, a choral concert including Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’, some music by Purcell and Vivaldi’s wonderful ‘Gloria’ was given to great critical acclaim. June will see an ensemble instrumental concert featuring the well-known local Kasznowski String Quartet, who with other local Brickhill musicians, will perform the superb Beethoven Septet, Debussy’s G Minor quartet and other music. This is not to be missed!

 

The year finishes, traditionally, with Handel’s ‘Messiah’.  Now in it’s third year, ‘Messiah’ sees the culmination of Music in the Brickhills’ year and is performed in Great Brickhill church with a full choir and orchestra.

 

This year’s charities