Music For Youth (Birmingham Festival)

Music for Youth (MFY) was founded in 1971 and aims to provide young people with an opportunity to perform in one of its annual series of festivals and concerts. We have entered ensembles in the MFY festival in the past (by submitting an audio recording for assessment), but this is the first time we have been invited to perform live in front of a panel of judges.

The judges for our concert were the jazz musician Andy Grappy and the clarinettist Sarah Watts. KEVI HGS was one of more than 20 schools performing today and our woodwind ensemble was first to play. They performed extremely well, especially as the group included a number of year 7 boys who have only recently started a woodwind instrument. The clarinet quartet played ‘Yesterday’ and ‘A Klezmer Wedding’ – two very different pieces of music and delivered two solid performances.