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    • Our People
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  • Media
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The Yorke Trust

Developing high quality music education in the community...
Welcome to the Yorke Trust!

Music can make an enormous contribution to a happy life. It is something which should be available to all young people, above all to those who have musical talent which might otherwise remain unfulfilled.  

Our aim at the Yorke Trust is to provide opportunities for students and children from all walks of life to study and to perform in the un-pressurised atmosphere of the North Norfolk countryside, away from the competitive environment of university and school.  We have been doing this to the highest possible standards since the foundation of the Trust in 1984, and we have been doing it virtually free of charge.  
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Our work began with the Yorke Mini-Bass Project, an innovative scheme to enable children to play the double bass, for which we received generous funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.  Acquisition of premises in Norfolk enabled us to broaden our horizons and focus on singing as well as providing facilities for instrumental courses and workshops for children.
Trustees invite you to join them in planning for the future and help continue this valuable work in the years ahead.  You can do this in a number of ways: by coming to events; by making a donation or by remembering us when making your will. 

Thank you for your support!

   -  Rodney Slatford, OBE
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                                Strozzi! 

     Saturday 8th October 7pm St Mary's Church, South Creake.

                                        Tickets £15 U16 Free

      Box office: 07899771366     carol.jennings2@btinternet.com


                 Payment by BACS The Yorke Trust sort code 52 41 29 a/c 44630417


Jennifer Hamilton, the Yorke Trust’s Director of Opera, has devised a pasticcio in words and music that received its highly successful première in July at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where she is Head of Vocal Studies. Her new opera brings together the intriguing world of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi.

Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619 and studied with Francesco Cavalli. A gifted lute player, she became well known as one of the best singers of her time. As a single mother of three children, her extraordinary career is all the more remarkable as she was the first woman to have her music published in her own name.

The production, involving the Trust’s community Chorus working with promising young students from Trinity Laban, brings to life some of the most beautiful and progressive music of the baroque era. 





                   





The Tempest by Henry Purcell  Summer Opera 2019

Photographs by Samuel McMullen 

Erard Grand Pianoforte, No 732, London, ca. 1840

​We are proud to promote this unique instrument we have in our Chapel!

Privately owned, this wonderful instrument is on loan to the Yorke Trust and, having been completely restored, resides in our Chapel ready for concerts.


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Adam Johnson plays 1840 Erard from NLSO on Vimeo.


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The Sunday School Room has a new roof!

Many thanks to a generous private donation and grants from Geoffrey Watling Charity, Shelroy Trust and Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk (the latter two administered by Norfolk Community Fund), the leaky Sunday School Room roof, guttering and drainpipes have been completely replaced.

This room is vital to the work of the Yorke Trust as it provides storage for the props, costumes, lighting and staging used in the Yorke Trust productions.  It sprung a leak during a storm a couple of years ago and was patched up as a temporary measure having  not had any major repairs since it was built a hundred years ago. The builder recommended a full roof replacement and is now completely water tight, the timbers have been treated and hopefully the roof will not need any more repairs for another hundred years!

We are very grateful to the valiant volunteers from Wells-next-the-Sea Men’s Shed, Mark, Richard, Peter and Terry who helped to clear the Sunday School Room ready for the repairs and then returned three weeks later to put everything back and  to Robert McNaughtan for providing cake to keep us all going.
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The Yorke Trust launches a new Friends scheme!

Our aim at the Yorke Trust is to provide opportunities for students and children from all walks of life to study and to perform in the un-pressurised atmosphere of the North Norfolk countryside, away from the competitive environment of university and school. We have been doing this since 1984 and we have been doing it virtually free of charge.
Trustees invite you to join them in helping to continue this valuable work in the years ahead.

By becoming a Friend of The Yorke Trust, you join a group of supporters whose generosity provides a regular income to help us fulfil our aims.

For more information, visit our "Become a Friend" page on the website or download the Friends Application Form which has all the information you need.


The Yorke Trust           |          UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. ​1158927          |           Phone: +44 1328 823501
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