At the recent Happy Music Festival 2021, Our Student Hayley won 1st Place (Junior Category) for her first ever Violin Competition. (She also plays the piano)
CLICK HERE for the Video hosted by The Happy Violinist. Please help to click LIKE on the video for encouragement to Hayley ^_^
More About Hayley who has just recently turned 8 in October:
Plays a 1/4 Size Violin (Uses a 1/2 Size BB7 Carbon Bow) Total Duration of Learning: About 2 years Started at BVMS Since: December 2020
Hayley is a relatively new student at our studio and started with us in December of 2020. In a short 6 weeks she prepared and completed her ABRSM Grade 3 Violin examination from scratch with a Distinction. As an added challenge for the examination, Vivienne taught her as the self chosen 4th piece, Natalja Baklanova’s Concertino in D minor which was a long piece with a cadenza. She played at the April Recital this year, all three movements of Seitz Violin Concerto in G major. As we are preparing for the ABRSM recording for Grade 5 in December, we decided to take part in the Happy Music Festival with our fourth chosen piece, The Boy Paganini Fantasia. The Winner's Concert took place live on 19th December.
Together with other students at Belcanto Violins Music Studio, she participated in the most recent SMTA Le Petit Performer's Festival in December where she received a silver award for her solo performance and also this year, in both Grade 3 and Grade 5 ABRSM Examinations received distinctions for both exams.
In her free time when she is not practising her violin or at school, she loves eating cheesecake, playing piano and tennis, enjoys reading Geronimo Stilton and Roald Dahl series of books.