Bristol Beacon Summer 2025 Concert Series: Online Concert Programme | 22 June - 6 July
- Extended Concert Programme
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.
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
- Jig
- Ostinato
- Intermezzo
- 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
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- 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.