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EASY FUNDRAISING
Do you shop online?

If so, you could be donating to Pro Corda in the process. Retailers
including Amazon, John Lewis, Debenhams, M&S, Boots, B&Q and hundreds more are signed up to a new initiative called Easy
Fundraising.

All you need to do is click here, register and then shop online in the normal way. There is NO cost to you or the purchaser and the retailer will donate a percentage of your transaction amount to Pro Corda. You can even add Gift Aid.

Through shopping online, your donation will support the bursary scheme for the next generation of young musical talent and also the “Create Together” performing arts project for young people with
special educational needs across the country.

Activities Unlimited
In partnership with Scope, Pro Corda has established a special programme for the most disadvantaged young people in our immediate community of Suffolk. Workshop days & two day residential courses take place at Leiston Abbey. The curriculum is based on our "Create Together" performing arts programme and allows those most disadvantaged to access artistic and performing opportunities.

BBC Children in Need
Supported by BBC Children in Need, Pro Corda has established a special programme for the most disadvantaged young people. These two day residential courses take place at Leiston Abbey & Shrubberies School, Gloucestershire. The curriculum is based on our "Create Together" performing arts programme and allows those most disadvantaged to access artistic and performing opportunities.

Pro Corda's National Chamber Music Festival For Schools
Pro Corda's annual Chamber Music Festival for Schools is a celebration of all that is great about ensemble playing: its central role in the development of young musicians, the wonderful chamber music repertoire, the endless possibilities for creative ensemble work and crucially the thousands of young people themselves up and down the country who get such a huge amount out of engaging with ensemble playing.

Song Unite
Song Unite is a new and exciting company offering children and young people including those with disabilities, learning difficulties and special educational needs an inclusive and creative, quality SONG WRITING and optional ‘mobile’ recording studio experience introducing, inspiring and bringing together children and young people of ALL abilities to work together, collaborate, create, write, record and produce their own 'original' song.

Pro Corda is delighted to work with Song Unite on a number of projects.

Leiston Abbey
Leiston Abbey is a beautiful historic site dating from 1363, set in the Suffolk countryside on the heritage coast. Nearby are the seaside towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold, and the RSPB Bird Reserve at Minsmere is just a short distance away.

High Tide
HighTide Festival Theatre was founded in 2007 to discover, produce and champion emerging playwrights.  Under Artistic Director Steven Atkinson, the annual HighTide Festival in rural Suffolk has become one of the UK's leading theatre events. HighTide's productions then transfer nationally and internationally  in partnerships that have included: the Bush Theatre (2008), National Theatre (2009), Old Vic Theatre (2010), Ambassador Theatre Group / West End (2011), to the Edinburgh Festival (2008/10/11) and internationally to the Australian National Play Festival (2010).  
 
In partnership with Pro Corda, HighTide is pleased to offer all Concert Passport scheme holders 50% off tickets to HighTide Festival 2012.
 
HighTide is committed to developing and inspiring the next generation of artists and audiences. Working with Pro Corda within the region creates significant opportunities to achieve this.


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WELCOME FROM THE CEO

AQ_piano_2Welcome to Pro Corda's website. If you are visiting us for the first time you will find links to the many programmes which make us Europe's fastest growing music school. From the International Chamber Music Academy to our ever growing term time programmes for Special Educational Needs. From Adult Courses to our National Chamber Music Festival for Schools which celebrates ensemble performance at schools up and down the country.

The last month has seen some stunning statistics for Pro Corda. A combination of the National Chamber Music Festival for Schools, three Special Educational Needs projects serving students from Cambridgeshire, Kent and Nottinghamshire scattered across the month and other GCSE/A level workshops saw Pro Corda serving over 550 students in 9 counties and visiting over 50 different schools.


Back at Leiston Abbey we have had an inspiring Easter course season and we are now gearing up for an exciting archaeological dig taking place at the Abbey in July. We are delighted to be welcoming Dig Ventures throughout July and can't wait to see the as yet uncovered areas of history they will be discovering at our special home. To watch the launch video for this project, simply click on the Dig Ventures news article on the right of our homepage.

Meanwhile, we look forward to inviting you to the Abbey, and to Pro Corda events throughout the country, very soon. Our new quarterly event cards @ Leiston Abbey can be viewed in the downloads section on the right of our homepage. For further information and to get involved do please contact us by phone 01728 831354 or email mail@procorda.com 


Andrew Quartermain
CEO & Artistic Director Pro Corda



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"For several years, The Leverhulme Trust has provided grants for chamber music training activities at Pro Corda, thereby establishing an excellent relationship with one of the UK's most unique and inspirational arts training organisations.  Pro Corda's ability to consistently provide the highest calibre of training to the young people who attend its courses is most commendable, and wholly consonant with the aspirations of the Trust, which include the wish to support excellence and talent, wherever these may be found.  The Trust is delighted to be associated with such a vital and innovative organisation."

Dr Anne Dean, former Assistant Director, The Leverhulme Trust, September 2010

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Discover the lost history of Leiston Abbey this summer with Dig Ventures
Dig Ventures will be conducting the first ever full programme of archaeological fieldwork amidst the striking ruins of Leiston Abbey. Join Dig Ventures this July and learn real,...
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Pro Corda launches new Violin course in August
Pro Corda is delighted to announce its inaugural Violin Course as part of Pro Corda Plus. Featuring renowned soloists and pedagogues Darragh Morgan, Simon Blendis and Sebastian Mueller,...
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Pro Corda is recruiting for the post of Orchestral Trainer and Conductor at Pro Corda's Young String Experience, London
This post will involve a term time weekly commitment on Saturdays of 1pm – 4pm. The Young String Experience orchestral trainer will be someone with significant experience working...