THE 2024 FESTIVAL IS NOW OVER!!

 This year's festival was very successful with over 1300 school-age students performing in over 150 classes across more than 29 different categories, covering all ages from 4 to 19 (with a few older adults too!!).

The Young Musician of the Festival winner was flautist Alannah Saphir who was awarded the Chairman's Trophy and £250 generously donated for the purpose by the Finzi Trust (www.geraldfinzi.org). The Trust has supported the Festival over the last three years and we are very grateful for that support.

The winner of the Speech & Drama Championship was Isabella Withy. She was awarded the Festival Speech & Drama Trophy and £250 funded by the Festival itself.

Planning for 2025 has already begun. Congratulations to everyone who took part this year and a big THANK YOU to all the volunteers and donors who generously give of their time and money to keep this very valuable local festival going. It wouldn't happen without you.

We always need more volunteers and donors. Please contact me for more details.

Alan Connell

Treasurer (treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk)

The 2024 Programme

 At long last the 2024 Programme is now available for purchase at Music House , Cheltenham Parade, Harrogate. Or you can get a hard copy from the Treasurer at treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk for £4.00 + £1.95 postage. Please supply a postal address. Payment should be made via PayPal to Harrogate Competitive Festival for Music, Speech & Drama

’Harrogate Competitive Festival 

    for 

Music, Speech and Drama

 

PROGRAMME 2024

March 1^st-3rd,

9^th&10^th,

16^th&17^th 

 

Harrogate High School

Ainsty Road,

Harrogate

HG1 4AP 

 

Harrogate Competitive Festival for Music, Speech and Drama,

 Registered Charity 510706, was established in 1936. 

Affiliated to the 

British and International Federation of Festivals  

Programme £4.00  

www.hcfmsd.co.uk 

 #HCFMSD

 HCFMSD

Schedule for the 2024 Festival

Alan and I are working through the schedule. 

The first draft is out to the committee and the section leaders for review and for any adjustments / corrections. We hope to finalise this by the end of the weekend (28th January), so that next week we can send correspondents their personalised schedule. 

Please bear with us. 

Kind regards 

Alan & Derek

Alan Connell & Derek Starling
Festival Secretaries (Temporary and Volunteers)

PS If you think you could do the Festival Secretary role, we'd be very happy to hear from you.

2024 Entries - change to deadline date

 Please note that the closing time and date to submit entries for the 2024 Festival has been put back to midnight on the 15th January

Alan Connell

Treasurer 

TROPHY RE-HOMING

 In the spring this year we reluctantly decided not to award most of our trophies any more. We simply do not have the volunteer human resources needed to manage the logistics of their collection and allocation to classes so the decision was taken only to award 5 of the 203 trophies we have been given over the years. Next year we will award a couple more than we did this year but the rest of the trophies require re-homing.

We are hoping initially to return trophies to their original donors or their heirs where they can be found and some donors have generously given their trophies to previous winners whose names are engraved on them.

We still have 182 trophies to deal with, 61 of which we have no provenance for, other than in a few cases the name of the trophy itself, which isn't always any practical help. The list is set out below and any information about any of the trophies listed there will be gratefully received. Please send it to me at treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk

Alan Connell

Treasurer

2nd Storyteller Trophy

Alastair Pollard Cup

Alex Johnson Cup

Apollo Gold Medal

Arthur Atkinson Trophy

Beryl Gledhill Trophy

Big Country Chorus Cup

Brass Cup (under 19s)

Burton Shield

C E Matthews Shield

Cherry Bratkowski Shield

Claro Challenge Cup

Cober Hill Trophy

Cossar Silver Trophy

Dan's Cup

Devised Drama Cup

Dixon Memorial Shield

Dorothy Gilbertson Trophy

Dragon Novice Woodwind Trophy

Duchy Cup

Ebor Cup

Elizabeth Anderson Salver

European Piano Teachers Association Trophy

Festival Cup

Gardner Trophy

Harlow Cup

Jennings Folk Singing Cup

Jennings Vocal Duet Cup

John Dickinson Tankard Trophy

John Dunford Trophy

John Heseltine Memorial Trophy

Johnson's Motorcycles Trophy

Jubilee Trophy (1977)

Ken Brooks Memorial Trophy

Maggie Chippendale Memorial Trophy

Margaret Dimmick Memorial Cup

Marie Challenge Cup

Mike Hine Shield

Millennium Trophy

Moldur Trophy

Nicola Bickler Cup

Nigel McClusky Trophy

Pannal Trophy

Paula Harris Trophy

Paula Harris Young Singers Cup

Purcell Trophy

Rosemullion Shield

Scheerer Trophy

Silver Goblet

Spa Cup

St Martins Reading Cup

Stamford Bridge Trophy

Stellar Trophy

Swale Cup

Wagner Shield

Walcot Trophy

Weissenborn Cup

Wensley Cup

William Freeman Trophy

Wolfe Jensen Plate

York Trophy

2024 Syllabus

The 2024 Syllabus has now been completed and is available on the website, http://hcfmsd.co.uk Printed copies will be available from Music House on Cheltenham Parade by the middle of October and will also be available through all North Yorkshire Libraries by around the end of October.

The Annual General Meeting 2023

 It has been necessary to move the AGM from the 10th June to the 24th June at 10:30am in the Friends Meeting House, 12A  Queen Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5PP.

If you know anyone who might attend please let them know.

Alan Connell 

Treasurer