The Arts Society Corinium has approved a charitable grant to Gloucestershire Piano Trust in 2025.
The charitable grant will enable Gloucestershire Piano Trust to deliver three days of live piano concerts, given by the pianist Clare Hammond, at primary schools in the Cirencester area and at Paternoster School. The aim is for the concerts to take place this Autumn.
The concerts will be organised in collaboration with Gloucestershire Music. They will aim to include schools that have a significant proportion of children on Pupil Premium and which currently have very limited music provision. It is hoped that these live piano concerts will inspire and broaden the horizons of the children who experience the concerts as well as enhancing their appreciation of live music.
Similar concerts have been hugely successful in the past and have reached pupils that may never have experienced live music before.
Once dates have been confirmed a representative of The Arts Society Corinium will attend at least one of the concerts.