Left: Yamaha 2008 jazz scholars, Zem Audu (sax) and Rick Simpson (piano)
Centre: A secondary school performance by the Yamaha 'Vision' band, 2005-06
Right: Chetham's-Yamaha piano competition, summer 2009
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Education News
Artur Pizarro, Murray McLachlan and the AvantGrand N1 hybrid piano
Two new videos on YouTube feature top international pianists putting Yamaha's acclaimed AvantGrand N1 hybrid piano through its paces. International concert artist Artur Pizarro and Murray McLachlan, head of keyboards at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and a tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, each make the case for the AvantGrand N1, both from a performance and an educational perspective.
New app to help improve sight reading
Wessar is to launch its read@sight iPad app in December 2011, providing the complete answer to piano and keyboard sight reading problems, direct to your iPad. A retired Trinity Guildhall examiner, Dr Christopher Wiltshire helped pioneer the groundbreaking examination syllabus for Yamaha's Play for Keeps keyboard course. He developed the app to help examination candidates who perform poorly in sight reading tests.
Catch the great Liane Carroll in Northampton!
Yamaha is again supporting the Liane Carroll charity gig at the superb Black Bottom Club in Northampton on 24 November, 2011. The event is a fundraiser in aid of local charity CAN, which works for people with drug, alcohol and homelessness problems. Liane is acclaimed as one of the most gifted artists of her generation and admired by the likes of Tom Jones, Natalie Williams, Michael Parkinson, Jamie Cullum and Kevin Spacey. Tickets £15.
UK teachers experience the Yamaha Jazz Experience
On Thursday 27 October 2011 the second Yamaha Jazz Experience programme began with a workshop tour, starting in Bolton, Lancashire, and hosted by Bolton Music Service. Instrumental, classroom and PGCE trainee music teachers from the Greater Manchester region took part in the workshop, which was desgned for those who are new to jazz, who want to improve their own improvising skills and take ideas back to their own teaching.
Yamaha announces new recital series at Chappell's, London
Following the outstanding success of the hugely popular lunchtime recital programme, Yamaha Artist Services Europe (London) has announced its eleventh and most significant series of the critically-acclaimed Lunchtime Conservatoire Concert Series at Chappell of Bond Street on Wardour Street, Soho, to showcase the very best upcoming young piano talent from UK conservatoires.
Yamaha extends Piano Upgrade Bonus programme to education
Yamaha Pianos has extended its highly successful 'Piano Upgrade' scheme to the educational and charitable sectors. Now in its third year, the programme has previously only been available to individual customers. Offering guaranteed trade-in values of up to £2,500 toward a new Yamaha piano, for a limited time only, the Yamaha Piano Upgrade Bonus Scheme ends 31 January 2012.
Nominate your Music Teacher of the Year, now!
Classic FM has teamed up with Yamaha, Avid and Music for Youth once again to recognise and reward the nation's most inspirational music teachers. Do you know of an inspirational music teacher? Somebody who makes music lessons feel like more than just a lesson? Well, Classic FM is giving you the opportunity to reward a music teaching hero.
Yamaha takes AvantGrand and Clavinova showcase days to conservatoires
Yamaha Music UK has announced details of a tour of leading conservatoires during September. The tour takes Yamaha's new AvantGrand and Clavinova pianos to Birmingham Conservatoire on 13 September, the Royal Northern College of Music on 15 September and the Royal Academy of Music on 20 September. Piano teachers and piano professors are cordially invited to join us at one of these three events.
Jamie Cullum & Kit Downes to Perform at Chappell's
As part of its two-hundredth anniversary celebrations, Chappell of Bond Street (now actually in Wardour Street, London), will feature the Kit Downes Trio and international artist Jamie Cullum in two special close-up-and-personal concerts in the store's beautiful and intimate recital room, to raise money for the Centrepoint charity for the homeless.
Jazz unites the House as Yamaha UK honours its 2011 jazz scholars
The hugely successful, high-powered and influential partnership between Yamaha in association with Jazzwise, PPL and the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) celebrated the fifth year of its Parliamentary Jazz Scholarship programme at APPJAG's annual 'Summer Jazz' event in the Atlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons on Wednesday 13 July.
News Archives
- Dauntsey's School chooses Yamaha M7CL digital mixing console, July 2011
- Young Scottish Jazz Musician 2011 wins Yamaha masterclass with Peter Ind, July 2011
- Yamaha & the European Guitar Teachers Association unveil new bursary, July 2011
- YolanDa Brown supports Class Band pilot, July 2011
- Hayley Elton nurseries piano tour, July 2011
- Halle and Yamaha Silents Strings project in Oldham, June 2011
- Yamaha helps Rock the House, February 2011
- UK's 2011 YMFE piano scholarship winners, February 2011
- Yamaha and music services launch Class Band pilots, January 2011
- Yamaha Jazz Scholars impress at 'Yamaha New Jazz Sessions' CD launch, December 2010
- Tomorrow's Warriors plays inspiring Jazz Experience gig at Ronnie Scott's, December 2010
- Hayley Elton & Yamaha launch UK classical music nurseries tour, November 2010
- Yamaha Jazz Experience presents more jazz talent at the 606 Club, November 2010
- Tomorrow's Warriors get Yamaha Jazz Experience gig at Ronnie Scott's, November 2010
- Jazz Experience winners from Dumfries, 2010, play London jazz gig, October 2010
- Public voting opens for Kemble's amateur Chopin piano competition, September 2010
- MusicQuest final report, August 2010
- Yamaha Jazz Scholars record Yamaha New Jazz Sessions 2010 CD, August 2010
- Kit Downes, a former Yamaha jazz scholar, gets Mercury nomination, July 2010
- Yamaha supports the Trinity/OU 'Perform!' event at Nottingham Arena, July 2010
- Yamaha's 2010 jazz scholars play in front of MPs in Westminster, July 2010
- Yamaha Jazz Experience patron Peter Ind to run Scottish jazz masterclass, June 2010
- YMFE celebrates 20th anniversary, June 2010
- Royal College of Music features Yamaha percussion in showcase concert, June 2010
- 'Yamaha More Music!' launches, June 2010
- Yamaha Jazz Experience Finals 2010, Cheltenham, May 2010
- FMS Wider Opportunities Evaluation, February 2010
- YMFE Ireland 2010, February 2010
- MusicQuest 2010, February 2010
- Yamaha Gigajam music classroom of the future, February 2010
- Artur Pizarro 2010 Chopin piano series on Yamaha pianos, January 2010
- Warwickshire Music Service launches Yamaha drum course, December 2009
- Jamie Cullum's exploding piano, December 2009
- YBAYA 2009 winner, December 2009
- Yamaha New jazz Sessions CD launch at the 606 Club, December 2010
- MusicQuest teacher workshops, December 2009
- Yamaha and ChildLine Rocks, October 2009
- Bull's Head Jazz Club at 50, October 2009
- Backbeat at Leeds College of Music, 2009, October 2010
- The Power of Music - research published, September 2009
- North-west Music Service and Yamaha recorders, September 2009
- Yamaha's free guides for selecting music technology, for educators, September 2009
- RLPO's first In Harmony concert, July 2009
- East Sussex Electric Strings impro workshop, July 2009
- Yamaha 2009 Jazz Scholars, July 2009
- Yamaha-Chetham'spiano competition, June 2009
- Yamaha supports Music for Youth at LIMS 2009, June 2009
- Pianocircus chooses Yamaha CP33 stage pianos, June 2009
- Yamaha works with FMS on jazz impro competition, June 2009
- Richard Michael wins Parliamentary Jazz award, May 2009
- Birmingham International Piano Academy 2009
- Report - Yamaha Jazz Experience workshop, London Mar 09
- Julian Joseph joins Yamaha Jazz Experience team, March, 2009
- Yamaha's Guildhall Piano Scholarship, 2009, March 2009
- Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe 2009 Scholarships, February 2009
- Yamaha Supports Cheltenham Jazz Festival, February 2009