CONCERT GRAND PIANO for LYMINGTON
A TRANSFORMATIVE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THE FINEST PIANO AND THE GREATEST MUSIC FOR GENERATIONS TO COME
Enhancing Music at Lymington
Lymington is rapidly becoming established as an important centre for classical music in Hampshire and Dorset.
Lymington hosts a number of concerts featuring world class musicians. It has a professional orchestra, the Nova Foresta Players, based here. It has a church with fine acoustics and a superb organ which provides a great venue for concerts of all kinds. It has a number of outstanding musicians and a core of music enthusiasts devoted to organising musical events.
What Lymington needs is a concert grade piano suitable for piano concertos, chamber music or piano recitals to consistently attract musicians of the highest standard.
A Concert Grand for Lymington
The St Thomas Piano Project has been established by the Friends of St Thomas Church to acquire a piano to meet this need with the following objectives:
- To purchase a Steinway Grand piano - the best for which we can raise sufficient funds
- To make this piano available to all types of user from orchestras of international standing to talented pianists who simply want to practice on a superlative instrument.
- To have such a piano installed at St Thomas Church by the end of 2024.
An excellent pre-owned Steinway model D piano (the top of the range) has been identified for a price of £55,000, less than half the cost of a new equivalent, and we have an option on this until the end of September.
Some substantial donations totalling £40,000 have already been committed. We are confident of reaching the required total, but if we don't achieve this a cheaper but still excellent piano can be bought instead.
We invite you to make a donation and join the group of music enthusiasts who will add so much to the quality of music in Lymington.
Organizer
Phil Daish-Handy
Organizer
England
THE FRIENDS OF ST THOMAS CHURCH LYMINGTON
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