A group of students from Newark College’s School of Musical Instrument Crafts will be putting their skills into practice when they take to the stage for a concert at Newark Town Hall.

The students, who are also members of the Trent Chamber Academy, will be playing in the concert on 1st and 2nd May using instruments that they have made as part of their course.

This year the annual town hall performance will feature works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wagner.

Resident conductor and former Master of the Song School at Newark Roger Bryan formed the Trent Chamber Academy in 2002 along with Catherine Jannsens, a former student at the School of Violin Making. Roger said the town hall concerts have become a popular annual event.

“Almost all of our town hall concerts have been sell-outs, which is why we’ve extended them to two nights each year,” he explained.

“The orchestra’s string players, most of whom are students at the Newark School of Violin Making, play on instruments they have made themselves, creating what has become known locally as ‘the Newark sound’.

“This year we are delighted to be collaborating once again with the internationally renowned conductor Nic Fallowfield from the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music. We are also very lucky to have the award-winning German soloist Lukas Stepp, who will be playing his Andrea Guarneri violin, which is on loan to him from the German Music Trust Fund (Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben).

“Having this level of talent in Newark is fantastic for classical music lovers in the town and we hope they will come along and enjoy what promises to be an exceptional musical experience.”

To purchase tickets for the Trent Chamber Academy May 2015 Concert at Newark Town Hall on 1st and 2nd May please visit http://www.violinmaking.co.uk

To find out more about the School of Musical Instrument Crafts please visit http://www.newark.ac.uk/school-musical-instrument-crafts

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About The Lincoln College Group:
• Founded upon a concept of ‘synergy’, The Lincoln College Group comprises a number of like-minded organisations with a shared purpose of providing exceptional education, training and related services to their students.
• Currently providing secondary, further and higher education, the Group includes Lincoln College (with its campuses in Lincoln, Newark and Gainsborough and operations in China) and two secondary school academies: The Newark Academy and The Gainsborough Academy. It also encompasses Deans Sport and Leisure, a commercial sports centre based in Lincoln City Centre.
• Lincoln College International, a project to develop and run three Colleges in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the latest addition to the Group.
• The Lincoln College Group is also the lead sponsor of the Lincoln UTC which opened in September 2014.