School children will pull more than a few strings when they perform their annual concert next month.

Scores of youngsters, aged nine to 18, will perform at Warwick Academy in the Menuhin Foundation of Bermuda’s annual concert.

“This is the culmination of a year of hard work and practice,” said Menuhin Foundation Chairman Terri Allison. “The concert represents the highlight of the Menuhin Foundation’s year-long work in the community.”

Primary schools from across the Island will be taking part in the event which will also feature the Menuhin Foundation Adult Ensemble, the Sandys Project Ensemble and the Menuhin Foundation Scholarship Winner 2013-14 Gabriel Jones on the violin and Jonathan Kightley on the piano.

It will culminate in a Grand Finale with everyone joining to perform the Hoe Down composed by Stanley Fletcher and conducted by Charles Knight.

“In 1976, Lord Yehudi Menuhin was in Bermuda to perform in the Bermuda Festival,” Mrs Allison said. “His visit to the string group at Warwick Academy sparked his interest.

“Out of it grew the idea to establish a string quartet in Bermuda that would provide instruction in stringed instruments to all of Bermuda’s schoolchildren. To take this dream to fruition, the Menuhin Foundation was created.”

Now the Foundation employs five string musicians who carry out group or individual teaching and its Schools Free Programme is in every Government primary school. Its Saturday Centre runs three orchestras.

The concert will be held on June 7 at 6pm at the Warwick Academy. Ticket Price $20 adults, $10 for children and are available at the door.

For more information about the Foundation visit: http://www.menuhin.bm.