marryat players holiday strings course and concert

Why join us?

The Marryat Players holds friendly and inspiring music courses featuring professional music coaching along with music students who support the players in each section of the orchestra throughout the course. Participants should have completed Grade 5 or above and are usually aged between 11 and 18.

Music making is interspersed with badminton in the garden and brownies in the kitchen. There will also be an opportunity to try out a potter's wheel with resident potter Cherry Tewfik.

Participants will be sent music in advance, in order to prepare.

Please email info@marryatplayers.com if you would like to join our mailing list to be kept informed of future courses.

Robert Max first conducted the Marryat Players in 2002 and since then has selected music by a wide range of composers including Tippett, Stravinsky, Elgar, Arensky and Tchaikovsky for the orchestra to play. He is Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra, principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra and has been the cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for thirty years. He was recently appointed as conductor of the North London Symphony Orchestra, and is also artistic director of the Frinton Festival.

Robert greatly enjoys working with young musicians and as well as teaching at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy for over twenty years, Robert coaches at MusicWorks chamber music courses.

April 2018 rehearsal in the Great Hall at King’s College School. Photos by Gabriel Isserlis.