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Bristol Beacon Summer 2025 Concert Series: Online Concert Programme | 22 June - 6 July

Welcome to our Summer Concert Series.

Our ensembles and choirs have worked extremely hard this academic year and every young person must be commended for their tireless enthusiasm in all the projects.

On behalf of Bristol Beacon, we would like to extend our thanks to our dedicated team of music tutors, music centre assistants, and to all parents and carers who support our young musicians.

These concerts could not happen without all the ongoing commitment and support our young musicians receive. This Summer Concert Series features concerts from our Sparks Ensembles, Junior Ensembles, Senior Ensembles, and our flagship Bristol Youth Choir. Expect incredible talent. variety, and promise across all performances from our young musicians!

Ed Ashby & Tom Campbell
Ensemble Coordinators

Please choose the concert you are attending below to read an extended programme and list of ensemble, choir or group members.

Sparks Ensembles Summer Concert

22 June, 2pm

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Junior Ensembles Summer Concert

29 June, 1pm

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Senior Ensembles Summer Concert

29 June, 7pm

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Bristol Youth Choir Summer Concert

6 July, 5.30pm

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Bristol Beacon presents 

Sparks Ensembles Summer Concert

22 June 2025, 2pm

Welcome

Our Sparks groups are the first step in our ensembles pathway. You’ll be hearing players from String Sparks, Singing Sparks, Guitar Sparks, Brass Sparks, and String Group show you how far they’ve come this year!

Tom Campbell
Junior Ensembles Coordinator, Bristol Beacon

 

Thank you

Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with our ensembles for their hard work and dedication;

The Sparks Ensembles are supported by: Chris Reed, Will Frampton, Joe Bradford, Callum Spencer, Sophie Goveia, Rachel Whitworth, Sam Pradalie, Louise Herbert, Ewelina Frackowska, Ellie Rusbridge, Flo Taylor, Sandie Middleton, Andy Cowell, Dan Lawton.

Sparks Ensembles will return to rehearsals in September.

Programme

SINGING SPARKS 

Conducted by Ellie Rusbridge, accompanied by Sandie Middleton 

The Good Samaritan – Barbara Rusbridge 

True Colours – Cyndi Lauper 

Rhythm vs Beat – Oscar Wood 

 

BRASS SPARKS 

Conducted by Joe Bradford 

Sleep Song – Margaret Bonds 

Blow the Man Down – Traditional 

Abide With Me – H. F. Lyte 

Bella Ciao – Italian Traditional 

 

GUITAR SPARKS 

Conducted by Chris Reed 

Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz 

Tetris Theme – Hirokazu Tanaka 

Old Shanghai – Leo Turner 

Back to the 50s – Guitar Sparks 

A Message To You Rudy – The Specials 

STRING SPARKS 

Conducted by Sophie Goveia 

Tinga Layo – West Indian Traditional 

Bony Stegosaurus – C Lumsden & P Wedgewood arr. Goveia 

YMCA – J. Morall, H. Belolo, & B. Willis arr. Goveia 

 

STRING GROUP 

Conducted by Rachel Whitworth 

Hoe Down – Hilary Burgoyne 

Themes from Harry Potter – John Williams arr. Whitworth 

American Patrol – Meacham arr. Caponegro

March from Flavius – G. F. Handel 

Barbie Girl – Aqua arr. Whitworth 

 

STRING SPARKS & STRING GROUP 

Conducted by Rachel Whitworth 

 Heigh-Ho from Snow White – Churchill arr. Whitworth 

Ensemble Members

Brass Sparks

Cara Lanham 

Daniel Savage 

Joseph Archer 

Luca Manolescu Jones. 

Mavis Bowley 

Oliver Boyce 

Reuben Ironside 

Sebastian Kendall 

Theo Lanham 

Zoe Funari 

Guitar Sparks

Amirah McKenzie 

Ben Morgan 

Daniel Mahdi 

Emyr Greenway 

Jack Rudolf 

Jackie Turner 

Jolyon Blake 

Jude Emerson 

Louis Bagwell 

Odette McGuire 

Sebastian Cornet Gaitan 

Wesley Nokes 

Singing Sparks

Arthur Zion Mutulescu 

Ava Clarke 

Blythe Costello 

Bryn Keegan-Phipps 

Cathryn LOVELL 

Edison Halll 

Eleanor Blackman 

Esmé Griffiths-Oduoza 

Ethan Norton 

Evan Williamson 

Ieun Kim 

Isabel Crompton 

Isabella Burleigh 

Isabella Townsend Browne 

Issy Watten 

Lydia HU 

Madeleine Jones 

Magdalena Belincheva-Yordanova 

Maggie Staples 

Marcel Thomas Sass 

Miya Rafferty 

Moksha Inurmarty 

Nina Sharp 

Otis Watson-Walker 

RAFAEL YAMAGUTI EBNER 

Roshini Inumarty 

Sapphire Egbuta 

Sienna Lucia Kung Walker 

Stella Dowty 

Thea Hart 

Tiina Brancher 

Victoria Colman 

XINHE (MAX) DAI 

String Group

Alixander Ellis 

Angie Ho 

Ashika Kanojia 

Aurora Patel-Beebe 

Chloe Wade 

Daisy Weng 

Edith Bunce Mercer 

Eloise Jamison 

Emmeline Lind 

Hannah Zhang 

Helen Shu 

Isla Gulaydin 

Ivy Chen 

Josephine (Effie) Griffiths 

Lillian Bond 

Lise Bonnet 

Matilda Conway 

Nina Carbis 

Nina Falkowska 

Rianna Shamoun 

Yarus Lee 

Zoe Miles 

 

String Sparks

Adoley Allotey 

Adrian Lam 

Beatrice Gormley 

Billy Drummond 

Caleb Hayhurst 

Camille Magnac 

Catlyn Williams 

Charlotte Beauvois 

Connie Moore 

Dorothea Wilshere 

Eilidh McNair 

Ella Everett 

Elowen Forrest 

Elsa Carruthers 

Gwyneth Hewlett 

Helen Shu 

Ivy Hill 

Josephine (Effie) Griffiths 

Juliette Bourg 

Keira Yip 

Layla Knowles 

Mabel Coughlan 

Matilda Morris 

Nathan Guidon 

Nina Carbis 

Phoebe Allen 

Rianna Shamoun 

Romy O’Keefe 

Sebastian Conolly Hill 

Sebastian Read 

Sofia Ormiston Staddon 

Sophia Ketton-Locke 

Teddy Booth 

Bristol Beacon presents 

Senior Ensembles Summer Concert

29 June 2025, 7pm

 

Welcome

Welcome to this afternoon’s performance featuring musicians from our Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band and Bridge Orchestra. We’re delighted to be back in the Lantern Hall, in this fantastic acoustic, to showcase what our ensembles have been working on this term.

Ed Ashby
Senior Ensembles Coordinator, Bristol Beacon

 

Thank you

Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with our senior ensembles for their hard work and dedication; Lynne McCabe, Vince Ford, Adrian Morton, Carole Fletcher, Alison Welch, James Gow, David Knight, Laura Wilson, Andy Hague, Katie Whitfield, Claire Rammelkamp. 

Senior Ensembles will return to rehearsals in September.

Programme

BRIDGE ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Vince Ford

Music from Carmina Burana ‘O Fortuna’ [strings only] Carl Orff arr. Stephen Bulla

The Pink Panther – Henry Mancini arr. Richard Ling

Paul Simon Medley – Paul Simon arr. Richard Ling

Owner of a Lonely Heart – Trevor Rabin arr. Julian Hinton – (with guest vocalists: Eleanor Keegan-Phipps, Phoebe Pears, Ruby Lane, Astrid Campion Small, & Tilly Marlow)

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Lynne McCabe

Make up my Heart from Starlight Express – Andrew Lloyd Webber (soloist Sophia Davies)

Almost There from Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman (soloist Chloe Davies)

Piano Concerto 2 Excerpt from Mvt 2 (Adagio Sostenuto) – Sergei Raachmaninov (soloist Hickman Vann Jones)

St Paul’s Suite – Gustav Holst

  1. Jig
  2. Ostinato
  3. Intermezzo
  4. Finale (The Dargason)

CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Adrian Morton

John Williams: Movie Themes for Band – John Williams arr. M. Sweeney

Hawaii Five – 0 Theme – Mort Stevens arr. M Sweeney

Ensemble members

Bristol Beacon Bridge Orchestra 

Violin 

Ayansa Dharmarathna
Cecily Talbot
Emilia Brown
Evelyn Richards
Sarah Hoviat – Doust
Sofia Davies
Stella Broadbent
Sylvana Chapman
Theo Cobb
Zhi Yu You

 

Cello

Adela Peiris
Esther Biggs
Matilda Kemp
Mesandu Edirisinghe
Theo Phull

Flute

Alice Minns
Alice Reid
Osian Boggon
Ruby Cormack

Clarinet

Alvis Wu
Amy Owens
Naomi King
Rachel Taylor

Bassoon

Hoi Long Adam Wu

Double Bass

Willow Baines

Saxophone

Kai Norton

French Horn

Livia Sokolaki Phillips
Rachel Hall-Green

Trumpet/Cornet 

Ace Reynolds
Clara Lucking
Haemon Tsapas-Gavrielis
Peter Burley
Sophia Miles
Thomas Owens

Trombone

Elliot Spencer

Percussion

Buck Reynolds

Bristol Beacon Concert Band 

Flute

Amelia Motley
Bob Steggle
Eleanor Rose Grey
Ho Yee Shum
Oscar Valentine
Tin Yan Nicole Ma

Saxophone

King Kai Himus Liu 

Trumpet

Ernest Boggon 

Trombone

Sophie Van Hoeve 

Percussion

Isaac Pawsey
Miro Ivanovich

Bristol Beacon Chamber Orchestra

Violin

Arianna Harris
Ava Hickman Vann Jones
Bahar Solhjoo
Beth Foster
Brynmor Harris
Ellie Slator
Molly CAO
Niamh Chivers
Ruby Lane
Saffi Lane
Sebastian Ford
Tin Yu YIU
Viola Veronesi
Ziling Guo

Viola

Chloe Davies
Eunice Sum Yu Ho
Rosie Davidson
Eva Bourlard-Rodriguez
Finley Beacon
Ida-Mae Dietz
Jemma Wong
Joy-Ching Gabrielle Ho
Keira Howdle
Leighton Sun
Liam Harvey
Likla Mayanglambam
Lucas Lee
Lydia Webb
Mairi Carver-Brown
Miranda McCarthy
Molly Blundell

Cello

Anaiya Shah
Elena Shlimon
Gemma Davies
Leila Nadin
Pippa Gibbs
Sam Tozer
Sophia Davies

Double Bass

Rosie Pitts

Bristol Beacon presents 

Junior Ensembles Summer Concert

29 June 2025, 1pm

Welcome

Young musicians from our Junior String Orchestra and Junior Wind Band will be playing the music they have been working on in their rehearsals over the Summer term. Enjoy!

Tom Campbell
Junior Ensembles Coordinator, Bristol Beacon

 

Thank you

Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with our ensembles for their hard work and dedication; Rachel Killick (JSO lead tutor), Katherine Denny (JWB lead tutor), Rachel Whitworth (String Group lead tutor), Sophie Goveia (String Sparks lead tutor) Ian Vorley, Helen Pidoux, Helen Stevens, Sarah Williams, Vince Martin, Joe Bradford, Sam Pradalie, Ewelina Frackowska, Maretha van der Valt, Andy Cowell, Katie Axelson, & Harry Bone.

Junior Ensembles will return to rehearsals in September.

Programme

JUNIOR STRING ORCHESTRA & JUNIOR WIND BAND

Conducted by Rachel Killick

Dambusters March – Coates arr. Andrew

 

JUNIOR WIND BAND

Conducted by Katherine Denny

Procession from The Water Music Suite – G. F. Handel arr. Peason & Gott

Wallace & Gromit – Julian Nott arr. Vinson

 

JUNIOR STRING ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Rachel Killick

Sinfonia in C major 1st movement Allegro con spirito – Marianna Martinez arr. Freestone

Irish Tune from County Derry – Grainger arr. Alsop

Danse Macabre – Saint-Saens arr. Kenny & Alsop

JUNIOR WIND BAND

Conducted by Katherine Denny

Zoot Suit Riot – Steve Perry arr. Sweeney

Mexican Holiday – Philip Sparke

Arabian Nights – Alan Menken arr. Vinson

 

JUNIOR STRING ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Rachel Killick

Concert Grosso in G minor – Adagio & Allegro – Vivaldi

Game of Thrones Theme – Djawadi arr. Larry Moore

 

JUNIOR STRING ORCHESTRA & JUNIOR WIND BAND

Conducted by Rachel Killick

Sesame Street & The Muppets Show Medley – Rapso, Henson, & Pottle arr. Killick

Ensemble Members

Junior String Orchestra

Alice Gormley 

Amelie Rowlands 

Annabel Coxson 

Beatrice Davies Ferguson 

Beatrix Douglas 

Charlotte Harris 

Charlotte Slator 

Chiara Tam 

Eden Forrest 

Eleanor Mills 

Elise Lewis 

Ella Gardiner 

Elodie Hirt 

Emily Polkinghorne 

Emma Li 

Eric Weng 

Evan Churchill 

Harry Shu 

Helena Steggle 

Hugo Chapman 

Isobel Coote 

Jasper Kodurand 

Joe Marsh 

Kyra Roy 

Lydia Phull 

Lyla Rajanah 

Rosie Davies Ferguson 

Rowan Darwen 

Samuel Harvey 

Siaana Shah 

Sion Dathan 

Sofía Lucio-Corbin 

Sophie Zhang 

Summer Xiao 

Sunniva Scudder 

Taaryann Brobbey 

Thesandi (Thesi) Edirisinghe 

Thomas Ford 

Yanran Cui 

Junior Wind Band

Barnabas Major 

Beatrix Feilding-Crawley 

Emma Parsons 

Evelyn Riley 

George Walton 

Harriet Upton 

Henry Douglas 

Henry Roys 

Imogen Scott 

Jasmin Lawson 

Joe Reakes 

Mollie Baker 

Ori Sivayokan 

Pascoe Herniman 

Robert (Bobby) England 

Roderick Garrard 

Sacha Garrard 

Theodore Harniman 

Zoe King 

Bristol Beacon presents 

Bristol Youth Choir Summer Concert

6 July 2025, 5.30pm

Directors: David Ogden, Martin Le Poidevin, Lucy Hughes, Jenna Brown and Mircea Mutulescu and Ellie Rusbridge.

 

Welcome

Welcome to this evening’s performance featuring singers from our Junior & Intermediate Choirs and Upper Voices and Lower Voices. We’re delighted to be back at Lantern Hall to showcase what our choirs have been working on this year, alongside some guest performers. A blend of different genres and musical styles are highlighted in this end of year concert, culminating with Chilcott’s  ‘A Little Jazz Mass’, again blending two very distinct genres: the jazz idiom and the Latin mass.

Ed Ashby,
Senior Ensembles and Choirs Coordinator, Bristol Beacon

 

Thank you

Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with Bristol Youth Choir for their hard work and dedication; David Ogden, Martin Le Poidevin, Jenna Brown, Mircea Mutulescu, Ellie Rusbridge, Sandie Middleton (piano), Katie Axelsen and Claire Rammelkamp.

Bristol Youth Choir will return to rehearsals in September.

Programme

Bristol Youth Choir directed by Jenna Brown, Martin Le Poidevin, Mircea Mutulescu David Ogden and Ellie Rusbridge.

This evening’s performance is accompanied by Sandie Middleton on Piano and Andy Hague on Drums.

UPPER VOICES

Sound the Trumpet – Henry Purcell

Moonlight Katherine England

Faith is the bird that feels the light – Elizabeth Alexander

LOWER VOICES

Libertatum – Jim Papoulis

SOLO: IMOGEN GREEN

Pie Jesu – Gabriel Fauré

INTERMEDIATE CHOIR

Linden Lea – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Consider Yourself – Lionel Bart, arr. Norman Leyden

SOLO: ANNABEL RIMMINGTON

JUNIOR BOYS

Think Positive – Leslie Bricusse

JUNIOR & INTERMEDIATE CHOIRS

On the Road of Life Chris Artley

INTERVAL

INTERMEDIATE BOYS

You’ve got a friend in me Randy Newman

INTERMEDIATE GIRLS

Silver – Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

JUNIOR BOYS

Raindrops keep falling on my head Burt Bacharach and Hal David

JUNIOR GIRLS

I’d do Anything – Lionel Bart

Chattanooga Choo, Choo – Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

LOWER VOICES

The Year’s at the Spring – Amy Beach

Blowing in the Wind Bob Dylan arr. Gwyn Arch

UPPER & LOWER VOICES

Little Jazz Mass – Bob Chilcott

  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Sanctus
  4. Benedictus
  5. Agnus Dei.

ALL

Sumer is A Comin’ in – Anon

Choir Members

Junior Choir

Alisha Lee
Amelie Salt
Aoife Mulcahy
Damaris Williams
Elodie Goodband
Emilia Gibbs
Emma Li
Frances Blake
Hannah Cattoz
Henry Cunningham
Hui Yuet (Emma) Chin
Imogen Scott
Isla Griffiths – Oduoza
James Houghton
Kiera Hunt
Max Minton
Michelle Tychicus
Rivers Gitsham-Mair
Robert (Bobby) England
Rocky Johnson Rubio
Sion Dathan
Solomon Stuart
Sophie Kennaway
Ben Jenkins
Kyra Roy
Ruby Bramwell
Elsa Carruthars
Sam Ray
Ella Parson

 

Intermediate Choir

Alberto Davila Aragon
Carys Weidner
Clara-Rose Rimmer
Daniel Smith
Dougie Davies
Ella Gardiner
Gethin Lowe
Jenna Ko
Josianne Barrow
Kaiya Dathan
Luna Castello
Peggy Laity-Gee
Polly Stubbs
Ruby Hingston
Tristan Keegan-Phipps
Ellen Atwell

Upper Voices

Amelia O’Reilly
Amelie Low
Amy Marson
Anna Cunningham
Annabel Rimmington
Ansen Yan
Astrid Campion-Spall
Carolyn Tang
Catalina Jalim
Clementine Stubbs
Daisy Hambidge
Daisy Peregrine
Eleanor Keegan-Phipps
Elizabeth Ogbolu De La Lastra
Ella Fannin-Bonura
Emilia Eggers
Emma Beasley-Suffolk
Eva Fletcher-Walsh
Francesca Blake
Hana Hapney
Harriet Marlow
Hebe Joynt
Imogen Green
Imogen Holmes
Iona Barker
Isla Middleton
Jeanie Doherty
Katherine England
Kiara Bukenya
Leila Bukenya
Lola Banning
Millie Waldron
Myra Rasheed
Nancy Ridd
Niamh Chivers
Nina Shute
Pearl McCormack
Phoebe Pears
Poppy Gibbs
Rayna Pang
Rea Christopoulou-Irving
Rebekah Collins
Rosa Carter
Rose Marson
Ruby Lane
Saffi Lane
Safiyya Walker
Shayla Halpenny
Sofiia Vatseba
Sumire Chan
Tilly Marlow
Violet Dean
Zoe Power

Lower Voices

Ben Lowe
Brynmor Harris
Ching Chi (Jeremy) Wong
George Green
Harold Schwarz
Laurie Gray
Milo Garnsey
Rafael Suzuki-Warlow
Rumi Rasheed
Seth Bennett

Thank You

We extend our thanks to all the tutors and staff who work with Bristol Beacon choirs and ensembles for their hard work and dedication: 

Rachel Killick, Katherine Denny, Ian Vorley, Helen Pidoux, Helen Stevens, Sarah Williams, Vince Martin, Harry Creffield, Andy Cowell, Katie Axelson, Harry Bone, Sophie Goveia, Chris Reed, Joe Bradford, Rachel Whitworth, Sam Pradalie, Ewelina Frackowska, Elea Mumford, Dave Thomas, Will Frampton, Rhiannon Bedford, David Ogden, Martin Le Poidevin, Jenna Brown, Lucy Hughes, Mircea Mutulescu, Ellie Rusbridge, Sandie Middleton, Claire Alsop, Javeon McCarthy, Chiara Tedeschi, Jack Waters, Kat Marsh, Miles Hutchinson, André Currie, & Sam Bland.

 

Thank you for joining us for these concerts and supporting our young musicians. Our choirs and ensembles will return to rehearsals in September.