This year long musical theatre project for children between 7 -11 culminates in a performance of the glittering galloping musical of Roald Dahl's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by By Helen MacGregor and Stephen Chadwick

 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a highly entertaining production which children and audiences love in which Snow White cleverly schemes to scoop up the Magic Mirror in a dash for freedom and fortune, aided by the turncoat huntsman and abetted by seven ex-jockeys, leaving the meanest queen, as ever – heartless.

As with every one of these great Roald Dahl musicals, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is based on an orchestral commission by the Roald Dahl Foundation. The concert work, from which the schools' musical is derived is by Eleanor Alberga.

COURSE PRESENTERS

Eve Hirsch is an experienced concert and stage vocal artist and has performed in Australasia, Continental Europe and the UK. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music (University of Auckland) she went on to complete a Graduate Diploma of Vocal Performance (Queensland Conservatorium) and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1999. She has performed solo with many orchestras, including: Queensland Pops Orchestra (Aus). Brandenburg Sinfona (London) and, to an audience of 6000, with the New Zealand Symphony. On the theatrical stage, she has appeared in professional productions of both musical and operatic works, ranging from South Pacific and Wonderful Town to Merry Widow, Madam Butterfly and La Bohème.

Eve has enjoyed an international teaching career and is an experienced teacher, having worked for 35 years with students of all ages from 3 months to seniors. Since moving to Toulouse she has been running her own private music studio Butterfly Vocal as well has being employed by the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Toulouse, the International School of Toulouse and by the Mairie de Pibrac to direct 2 musical theatre productions in English with children from local primary schools. She is active as a musical director, stage director and choral conductor of a pop/rock choir Vocal 31.

Sarah Bushnell is an experienced orchestral musician, conductor and teacher. In 1995 she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow with a Master of Music . Concurrently, she performed with several orchestras, including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, string quartets and session work for bands and television. She has performed with orchestras throughout the UK, Ireland and Spain, including the South bank Centre with the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sarah has also organised and led many orchestral tours in France and Germany with teenagers and coaching staff.

Her teaching career spans almost 35 years with students of all standards and ages with several past students graduating to Music college and careers in music themselves.
Sarah, has also had extensive experience in the theatre, having begun performing in plays and musicals as child and growing up acting in school and local Theatre group productions.  She has continued as an adult in France appearing in Oliver in 2015 and most recently in numerous Secret Panto Society's (SPS) Pantomimes and in Viva La Vie Bohème with TMA 31 and Scaramouche in TMP, Pibrac.