West London Strings

Our aim is to enjoy playing mainly classical music on Monday evenings

 meeting at St Mary's Church Hall, West Kensington 

Conductor : Robin Wedderburn

No auditions; Grade 3 upwards welcome. Age 18 to 80+. Music is chosen and arranged to suit the membership. Our main aim is to experience the enjoyment of working at worthwhile music. The chief aim is for the enterprise to be serious, non-pressurizing and enjoyable.

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We ended the Spring Term with an informal workshop on Monday evening March 26 in the Church Hall, which was, in fact, a recording session from which we plan to extract some sound clips for addition to this website.
The Summer Term started on April 23 when we were able to welcome two new members.

Dates & Times

We meet on Monday evenings. Aim at arriving soon after 7pm for a prompt start at 7.15pm. We continue till 9.30pm with a 15 minute break. Coffee, tea, and biscuits are available for a small charge to cover costs. Please BRING A MUSIC STAND and, if possible, a 2B pencil and plastic rubber (the sort that does not smudge).

Future Dates


Summer Term
23, 30 April
7, 14, 21, 28 May
half term 4 June
11, 18, 25 June
2 July
Concert  Sunday July 8


Robin Wedderburn

Robin Wedderburn, who is certain that a childhood obsession with (and enduring weakness for) trains has a good deal to do with his love of music, began his violin and viola studies at school with Maxwell Ward before studying with Manoug Parikian at the Royal Academy of Music and taking a music degree at King's College, Cambridge. Having started his teaching career at Malvern College, he retired in the summer of 2009 from St. Paul's School in London, where he had been Head of Strings since 1981. Since 1992 he has also worked as string tutor and as a conductor for the Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust. As a composer his output has been varied, much of it stimulated by his teaching; a number of his pieces for string orchestra, aiming to provide less experienced players with something technically approachable yet musically worthwhile, are published, and a concert march by him has been performed and recorded by the band of the Grenadier Guards. He is the violist of the London-based Rasumovsky Quartet.

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St Mary's Church

We rehearse in the church hall, which is a well-heated modern building at the corner of Edith Road and Hammersmith Road. The exact address is 2 Edith Road, West Kensington, London W14 9BA It is 5 minutes walk from Barons Court tube station on the Piccadilly and District lines. It is 10 minutes walk from Hammersmith bus/tube station. Buses  9, 10, 27 and 391 stop near the church in the Hammersmith Road. Limited car parking is available in the evenings within the church grounds. Parking is free on Brook Green from 6.30pm.  A map may be found at http://www.smwk.org/contactus.htm

Charges

£80 per term averaging 10 sessions, payable at the first or second session at the latest. Cheques should be made payable to West London Strings and may be sent to Riq Willitts, 53 Nassau Road, Barnes, London SW13 9QG. Alternatively, transfer money directly to the West London Strings bank account (details on Member Pages)

Contacts

If you are interested, please contact

Riq Willitts 020 8748 8401 or

or

Robin Wedderburn 020 8878 9840 or

If we are oversubscribed, members will be accepted in order of receipt of payment, subject to maintaining a balance of instruments and abilities.