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Founded in 1882, we are a competitive Music, Speech & Drama Festival held every February in East London. It's incredible that we have been running since 1882!

The deadline for entries for our February 2023 festival is 30 December 2022.

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Founded in 1882, the Stratford & East London Music Festival is a competitive Music, Speech & Drama Festival with over 200 classes in various categories:

Choirs, Orchestras & Bands; Concerto; Instrumental Classes, including Recorders; Millenium & Confinemento Classes; Piano; Solo & Ensemble Singing; Speech & Dr

ama; Young Musician of the Year; and Composition. For further details, please visit:
www.stratfordmusicfestival.org.uk

Every year, musicians and actors of all ages and abilities come to the Stratford & East London Music Festival from the local area and beyond, to perform and compete in a friendly and supportive environment. Share the excitement of performing, obtain feedback and tips from experienced adjudicators, and win prizes, from our beautiful, collectable certificates and button badges, to medals, cash prizes and music vouchers. We are a charitable organisation and we exist because of our brilliant team of dedicated volunteers. Help us to keep going by supporting us in other ways...

BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FESTIVAL
For just £10 a year, you can get a membership that allows you FREE entry to all the competitions, plus a FREE programme, plus the satisfaction of knowing you have supported music-making and the arts. DONATE AN AWARD! Fancy seeing your name on a silver trophy and knowing that YOUR trophy will be awarded to aspiring performers for years to come? Get in touch to find out more. Cash prizes and music vouchers are also very welcome from both individuals and businesses. ANY SPARE CASH?? We can use any donation you can give, however small or large! These days, support for the arts is wilting, yet everyone knows that culture and artistic expression is something that people of all ages and backgrounds benefit hugely from! We need help towards our running costs (eg printing, venue hire, adjudicator hire, prizes, etc). Please contact us if you would like to donate! PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS! We have ad-space for sponsors on our website and in our programme. They'll be seen by hundreds of people, many local, typically parents of school-age children, musicians, performers, actors, and other audience members. Don't miss the chance! KEEP US ALIVE! Spread the word! Tell everyone about us and see you at our next festival! For more information on how you can take part or help out, please check our website: www.stratfordmusicfestival.org.uk

Or get in touch to find out more!

23/02/2025

We held our Young Musician of the Year Final last night.

We were very pleased that Madam Mayor - Sheila Bain - Mayor of Redbridge joined us as our special guest.

Our adjudicator for the evening was Richard Deering, a very experienced judge with a long career of performance and teaching.

The Young Musician competition takes the best 11-18 year old musicians from across all our solo musical disciplines over the 6 day festival and invites them to compete for the best of the best award. This year's final included pianists, singers, harp and recorder.

The winner was Daniel Tahmisyan on piano. Richard praised the talent shown by all the performers but felt Daniel moved him the most. Daniel combined technical ability with emotion. Well done Daniel. As well as the Young Musician Shield Daniel also received a first prize of £250.

Other important awards made by Madam Mayor - Sheila Bain were:

The Felix Marr award for the highest mark on piano in the open classes. This award is sponsored by the family of Felix Marr. Their wish is that their generous prize of £500 will further the studies of exceptional entrants. This was also won by Daniel Tahmisyan.

The EPTA Cup is awarded to the most outstanding pianist aged 18 or under and was won by Desmond Zee. Well done Desmond. Earlier in the week Desmond won our concerto class. The concerto class attracts entrants of the highest calibre and has a first prize of £200.

The Ron Parker Memorial cup was also awarded to Senaya De Silva for first place across all Harp classes. Well done Senaya.

Each year we have about 170 cups to award and many cash prizes. Our Festival has a very wide range of classes including Choirs, Bands, Composition, Solo and Ensemble Singing, Piano, Instrumental and Speech and Drama. We attract entrants of all ages from beginners to the highly accomplished.

As chair of the Stratford & East London Music Festival I would like to thank the 500 plus entrants we had, their teachers, parents, guardians and acompanists. I would also like to thank the Festival Committee and other volunteers who give up their time to make it happen each year. Finally thanks to the Redbridge Music School staff who always offer us excellent support.

Matthew Taylor: Chair

21/02/2025

🌟Congratulations Desmond on winning the Concerto Shield! 🌟

Well done to the other competitors for your wonderful performances as well 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

21/02/2025

🌟Thank you to those who came to The Concerto Class last night!
It is such an amazing Class with such talent. Congratulations to the Winner who won a £200 cash prize and the Concerto Shield.

If anyone would like to enter the Class next year, do start thinking about it and practising 😊 We would love to see you in 2026.

This morning from 10am we have the Millennium and Confinemento Classes where competitors perform 2/3 disciplines each! Imagine someone playing the piano, then singing and then acting out a drama piece. 😃

It is a another fantastic class to watch.
Do try and come 😊

20/02/2025

Final few photos from the piano sessions - hoping to see all our participants again next year! 😃

19/02/2025

Day three of the piano classes.....

18/02/2025

That's a wrap for Day 2 of the Singing classes and we had even more wonderful young singers. Well done to everyone. By the way we do have a lot of adult classes too!

Tomorrow we continue with our Piano classes and start 3 days of Instrumental classes.

18/02/2025

A few more photos, from a busy second day of the piano classes!

18/02/2025

Fantastic first day of Singing at the Festival. Excellent start from these young singers.

17/02/2025

A few pics from the first day of the piano classes!

11/02/2025

This years Stratford & East London Music Festival is well under way. We have completed our online Composition classes and we had a fantastic Choirs and Bands day yesterday. Thanks to everyone who took part.

Next week we have a full week of Singing, Piano, Instrumental and Speech and Drama. Finishing with our Young Musician of the Year on Saturday 22nd February.

31/01/2025

We trust that everyone has received their tickets and information. If not, please contact us (but check the Junk folder first 😀) looking forward to seeing you all soon!

19/01/2025

Entries Update!

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Founded in 1882, we are a competitive Music, Speech & Drama Festival with over 200 classes

Volunteer/ Enter/ Find out more: http://www.stratfordmusicfestival.org.uk/

Solo & Ensemble Singing; Choirs, Orchestras, Bands, Organ & Recorder; Piano; Instrumental Classes; Concerto; Recorder; Speech & Drama; plus Young Musician and Millenium Classes.