Springboard - Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Festival - provides a unique platform for Music and Drama students to perform in a friendly and encouraging environment.

We should like to extend a very warm welcome to performers, teachers and parents to the 88th Springboard Performing Arts Festival.

We were delighted with the feedback we received after the 2011 Festival and have incorporated many of your ideas and suggestions into our plans for 2012.

There are new classes and free workshops planned for the coming Festival - do join us!

If you haven't taken part before, read what others have said about us - you will find their comments throughout the website - and be a part of Springboard in 2012.

Piano Recital at the High School given by former students of Christine Pembridge including Yuri Paterson-Olenich, Howard Blake, Eugenia Cheng and Gaspar Hunt on Monday March 12.
Christine was a pivotal member of Springboard's Piano Committee for nearly fifty years.
All proceeds will go to the Martlets Hospice.

Full details to follow

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ENTRIES CLOSE JAN 16!   PLEASE SEND YOUR CHEQUES TO THE RELEVANT SECTION SECRETARY  -  DETAILS ON SYLLABUS PAGES

If you are making an online entry, please send the cheque for your fees to your Section Secretary within a week of the final entry date, at the latest by January 23.

STOP PRESS - we will accept  late online entries up until  January 23 but NO LATER

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FESTIVAL DATES 2012

Piano: March 9-11 & 16-18
Woodwind: March 9-10
Brass: March 11
Strings: March 16-18
Concerto: March 18
Speech & Drama: March 18 & 23 - 25
Classical Singing: March 23 - 25
Guitar: March 17

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NEW PATRON

We are delighted to announce that Dame Felicity Lott has become a Patron of Springboard.

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CONGRATULATIONS

... to  Springboard stalwarts, Jacob Swindells and Daniel Baboulene, who have both been offered places at the University of Oxford this year. And Miriam Shovell has won a Choral Scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. Well done to you all!