Early Music As Education

It’s not long now until this year’s LSA Summer Showcase! 🎻

On Saturday 20th June we’re hosting an afternoon of chamber music, games, with a cake sale and a chance to come and play with the orchestra!

There are activities from 1pm with a concert at 4pm. The whole afternoon is free to attend and we encourage anyone to come and support, with donations welcome!

We’re also inviting any students grade 7 standard or above looking to audition for the orchestra in July to come and learn a concerto in an afternoon, for the 4pm performance. You can find the music in our bio, or my scanning this qr code! We’ll be playing Handel’s Concerto Grosso op 6/1.

We can’t wait, see you there! 🎉

⛪️ St Faith’s Church Hall
Crosby Road North, Liverpool, L22 400

🕰️ Saturday 20th June, 1-5pm

We’re very excited to announce that the Liverpool String Academy Orchestra with be performing with Thelma Handy at the Wirral Chamber Music Festival! 🎻

On Friday 26th June at 7:30pm, join us for an evening of baroque music performed by the young musicians of the LSA alongside the Joint Leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Thelma Handy, following their critically acclaimed concert together at the Tung Auditorium in April.

There will also be a rare performance of Schreivogel’s concerto for solo violin and strings, edited specially for EMAE by Professor Michael Talbot.

Tickets can be found by following this link:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wirralchambermusicfestival/2174922

🎫 £20 (premium seating)/£15
🕰️ Friday 26th June, 7:30-9:30pm
📍 The Lighthouse Church, Heswall, CH60 OAJ

Applications Now Open! 🎶

You can now apply to be in the Liverpool String Academy starting in September 2026 by filling out the form at https://www.emae.co.uk/apply

We are accepting applications for all of our ensembles, but there is an audition required to be in our advanced group.

These will take place on the week of the 13th July, with a list of requirements available on this post. We invite everyone of approximately grade 7 level between the ages of 11-23 to get in touch. No formal grades are needed.

If you are thinking of applying to the Liverpool String Academy, we encourage you to come to our Summer Showcase on the 20th June to introduce yourself and get to know about what we do.

Those looking to be in the advanced ensemble can come and take part in a ‘Come & Play’ session, where we’ll be learning a concerto in an afternoon.

You can find more information about this on our other post below!

We looking forward to hearing from you! Applications close on the 1st July. 🙌🏻

You’re invited to the Liverpool String Academy’s Summer Showcase! 🎻

On Sunday 20th June we’re hosting an afternoon of chamber music, games, with a cake sale and a chance to come and play with the orchestra!

There are activities from 1pm with a concert at 4pm. The whole afternoon is free to attend and we encourage anyone to come and support, with donations welcome!

We’re also inviting any students grade 7 standard or above looking to audition for the orchestra in July to come and learn a concerto in an afternoon, for the 4pm performance. You can find the music in our bio, or my scanning this qr code! We’ll be playing Handel’s Concerto Grosso op 6/1.

We can’t wait, see you there! 🎉

⛪️ St Faith’s Church Hall
Crosby Road North, Liverpool, L22 400

🕰️ Sunday 20th June, 1-5pm

We’re so exited to announce our two concerts in Italy that we’ll be playing as the conclusion of our summer residency involving both our advanced and intermediate ensembles 🎻

With the amazing we’ll be playing Bach’s concertos for oboe d’amore and for violin and oboe and the Vivaldi oboe concerto in D minor RV454.

The first concert will take place in the beautiful Valtournenche village in the Aosta Valley and it’s been included in their summer events calendar.

The second concert will be in Chiesa di San Dalmazzo in the heart of Turin and it’s hosted by the prestigious festival Back to Bach organised by

The concerts will feature music by J.S. Bach, A.Corelli, G.F. Handel and A. Vivaldi.

“an accomplished and hugely impressive performance”🎻

Thank you so much to Catherine Jones from Arts City Liverpool for writing a review of our concert with Thelma Handy at The Tung Auditoirum last week.

We are so proud of our students and how brilliantly they performed. Here are some extracts from the article, but you can read the full review by following this link:

https://www.artscityliverpool.com/single-post/review-liverpool-string-academy-at-the-tung-auditorium

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We’re still thinking about how amazing last Wednesday’s concert was with Thelma Handy! 🎻

Our Liverpool String Academy Orchestra performed brilliantly and learnt so much over an inspiring week rehearsing and playing with Thelma.

It was so special to play a live premiere of a Concerto in D Minor for Solo Violin and Strings by Johann Freidrich Schreivogel, edited by Professor Michael Talbot.

Thank you so much to , Thelma Handy, Professor Michael Talbot, our sponsors and all our parent volunteers who made the evening such a success!

What an inspiring two days! 🎻

Our Liverpool String Academy Orchestra has been rehearsing hard for their concert at tonight with Thelma Handy!

It’s not too late to reserve a ticket, which you can do by following the link in our bio!

Our Intermediate Ensemble will next be playing this Saturday at our whole charity christmas concert at St Faith’s Church, Crosby! 🎻

Come and celebrate the closing of the year with the Liverpool String Academy’s three cohorts, Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner who will be playing a mixture of Baroque and festive repertoire in a gorgeous space.

It’s free to attend and begins at 6pm!

Please RSVP on our website to let us gauge numbers, we would love to see you there!