Nottingham
Beginner-Friendly
String Orchestra

(covid-careful)

At blueprint stage - seeking interested players

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If you enjoy classical music...

If you play violin, viola, cello or double bass,
or wish you did, or used to & would like to again...

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If you think it's a good idea to avoid catching covid -
or you don't care on your own account, but you believe in supporting the people who need to be careful...

Then this might be the orchestra for you!

"Keep me updated" form for players & interested people

The blueprint

Yet to be worked out

The big question is, would there be enough players who want it -

(Most amateur orchestras have a committee, although I would get it started without that. More about the practical organising.)

Right now, this is the "Kickstarter-ish" kind of stage, where we need to leap over the financial unviability of having 3 players in a hall that costs money :-) My initial aim is to find about 24 players to get started. How soon it's feasible to launch will depend on how quickly those people turn up.

[Update, May 2023: so far the list of interested people includes 13 violins, 2 violas, 4 cellos and 2 basses! If all those people could actually come on the same evening, we'd be pretty much ready to start :-) In reality that isn't how event organising ever works, but it shows the enthusiasm is there, yay, and now we probably just need to find about the same number of people again. Also, a few people have asked about adding an afternoon group in due course, which I'm considering.]

Next steps

If you're interested - either for yourself or for someone else, for now or maybe for later - then please drop your details here:

"Keep me updated" form for players & interested people

And please tell your friends :-)

More info

(for people who like knowing the details - no need to read this if you know enough already :-) )

More about the musical plans

"Covid-careful" - what does it mean?

More about the practical organising

Who's running this?

Update: The venue

Update: A page for people new to reading music