Day 25 - Kirsty!

I had a donation so had a new person to dedicate a practise session to! Kirsty is a fellow musician and teacher who has already featured on the blog a few times as her and her now-husband Derek did their grade 5 trombones in 2012 for which I accompanied them. Just knowing this alone is enough to suggest that the have a particularly unique sense of humour! This time Kirsty is on the tuba and Derek is on the euphonium. Kirsty is a great director and organiser and can often be found shouting (in an encouraging way) at groups of drums, djembes, boomwackers, hand chimes and ocarinas. Sometimes there are even some people to play them! She also runs an adult choir called Harmonia Singers and harmonia African Drummers and the concerts they do will involve another musical group. In the past these have included Huntingdon Big Band, Prime Brass, Simply Reeds and of course the ones that I have been involved with so the Christmas concert with harps mentioned here last year and Carnival of the Animals for which I was a cuckoo, a donkey and a small fossil. We are also going to take the world (or just Huntingdon for starters) by storm as we have started a clarinet and bassoon duo. Our one practise session which was just before new year was quite good considering the amount of dust we had to blow off the instruments. I might as well give her groups a plug so more info can be found here: www.harmoniamusic.com If you are interested in any form of music and live in the Huntingdonshire area she's your gal!

Kirsty clearly concentrating very hard

Kirsty's practise session was actually very good. After a very hectic week with just ten minute bursts I was able to sit down for a good half an hour and really get into it. Finally I had a little breakthrough with the Scarlatti and felt quite comfortable playing it all the way through. It is still under tempo but it has movement that it didn't have last week so I'm happy with that. Bouyed by that I whizzed through the other two pieces and was quite happy with how they felt. Next week is a very busy one so practise will have to be in short bursts again.