Potters Bar Community Music School

25/08/2026

Young Pianist opportunity🎹.
SuperStrings, our junior level string orchestra, is looking for a young pianist. This is a great opportunity for any student to learn to count, to follow a conductor and enjoy social music making. The ideal student might be aged 8-13 and grade 3-5, but any age is fine. The orchestra generally is for beginners to grade 3, but an orchestral pianist needs to be slightly more advanced for this role. We rehearse from 9-9:40 on Saturdays.
If your child is interested send us a message to [email protected].
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22/08/2026

We currently have spaces for flute🪈, saxophone 🎷, harp🪉 or double bass🎻 individual lessons on Saturday mornings at PBCMS.org.uk We offer individual lessons with the aim to progress to future training and lots of fun in our orchestras and bands.
(Please note that piano spaces are full). We may be able to help with affordable hire of instruments and can give a trial lesson before committing. All teachers are professionally trained musicians with DBS.
Contact and more information is on our website.

21/08/2026

Next up is a clip of our young players who attended our viola course in the summer term. These students had 20 minutes a week for just one term to learn alto clef; quite a stretch of the brain for these amazing young players! Here they are playing "Viva Violas" with Amber Strings. https://youtu.be/hvUmlLDfsao?is=rDbs_og3JXBJNmAZ

13/08/2026

Good luck for GCSE and A level results for all our students this summer. Remember, musicians are amazing whatever the outcome and what you have created together, even though it's fleeting, can never be taken from you. 🎺🎻🎶🎈

13/08/2026

Wonderful to see the promotion of children's music at our library (but violinists, don't copy that bow hold! 😂).

Meet Ezra – one of our Summer Reading Challenge: Read to the Beat characters! 🎶

Ezra loves both orchestral music and poetry. He likes how different elements come together, which also shows in his love of making food with his friends.

We’ve chosen three books we think Ezra would borrow at the library. You can reserve these books and more on the Hertfordshire Libraries catalogue.

• How to Build an Orchestra by Mary Auld:
https://herts.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4233409

• Mozart (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara:
https://herts.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2397533

04/08/2026

We hope everyone is having an amazing summer break! A reminder, that often the best learning is done out of school for fun! Do take the chance to listen to the kind of music we all love to play together on Saturdays. There are lots of summer classical music festivals and courses, not to mention the Albert Hall Proms of course!
Here is a clip of our students Vivaldi's Summer to get you in the mood.

Potters Bar Community Music School is a co-operative of parents, lo...

25/07/2026

Our youngest string players tell the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Superstrings is for beginners up to grade 3. This great little piece works on so many of the basic string techniques ( string crossings, pizzicato, spiccato, tremulo, harmonics, left hand slides...) which are the building blocks of good string playing. Our narrator is a parent helper who is in our adult orchestra, too, Helen Jeckells . This piece was a huge task for our children to learn. Conductor is Diane Darwish

Potters Bar Community Music School is a co-operative of parents, lo...

25/07/2026

Our Advanced Wind Band invites our more experienced teenagers and also some adults. Lead by our wonderful wind teacher Benjamin Adams

Potters Bar Community Music School is a co-operative of parents, lo...

18/07/2026

Here is our brand new Starter Wind Band, lead by Michele. We only started this term ! We accept kids who can play just a few notes up to grade 2.

PBCMS starter wind band's first ever concert. We are a co-operativ...

14/07/2026

Our wonderful kids played so incredibly well last Friday and Saturday! Amazing, and huge well done! ( Shared with permission from parents).

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