Welcome

Spires Music is an organisation that exists to give Coventry, Warwickshire and the local region greater access to the riches of the classical repertoire from musicians performing at a professional level.

It was founded in 2005 by Colin Touchin, formerly Director of Music at Warwick University, as a means of fulfilling a desire to create the opportunity for professional and advanced non-professional musicians to work together to provide high quality choral and orchestral performances. It has given typically three or four concerts a year, usually in city centre locations that are convenient to access, but has expanded in the last year to other Warwickshire locations and to a larger number of performances. In 2012-13 about fifteen performances will be given including those of the new Spires Youth Orchestra.

From 2005 to 2011 Spires Music comprised the Spires Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) and the Spires Philharmonic Chorus (SPC). In 2011 a new venture, the Spires Youth Orchestra (SYO) was created, to allow young musicians between 11 and 21 to perform at the highest level possible in the region. The large catchment area ensures access for as many good young musicians as is practicable.

For further background detail see this page here, and for all other information about the organisation, please use the links at the top and bottom of each page.

It's a Mystery!

Schoolchildren in Coventry will be playing a key role in creating a major new piece of music for this year’s Coventry Mysteries Week Festival on 16th June.

Spires Music has been commissioned by the Mysteries Company to write and perform a new choral work inspired by the extraordinary Doom painting in the city’s Holy Trinity Church – and they will be involving about 100 children, aged 9-13, from at least four city schools in the project.

Coventry Mysteries — further details >>

Forthcoming concert dates

Date and programme details for the remainder of the 2011-2012 season are as follows:

Saturday 16th June 2012 - Celebration: The Doom Painting (above) 
Tuesday 10th July 2012 - SYO concert with Synergy
Saturday 14th July 2012 - SYO invitational appearance at Bagington Prom in the Park (7.30pm)

Other dates:

Monday 16th - Friday 20th July 2012 - SYO/Synergy tour to the Loire Valley

Concert archives

An archive of all previous Spires concerts has now been prepared and can be accessed from the Concert Archives page.

Concert Reviews

For a review of the King Henry VIII concert on 31st October 2009 by Clive Peacock, published in the Leamington Courier, see this page here.

For a review of the Spires Youth Orchestra Inaugural Concert on 3rd January 2012 by Clive Peacock, published in the Leamington Courier, see this page here.

 

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