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2021
21st March 2021 - The Piano Syllabus is now available for download. (No hard copies this year).
1st July 2021 - Should the need arise, a decision to cancel the Piano Festival will be published from this date.
12th -15th October 2021 - Piano Classes at Christchurch, The Grove, Ilkley.
15th October 2021 - Piano Classes Celebration Concert at Christchurch, The Grove, Ilkley.
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2021 Piano Festival Syllabus now available
The Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Committee is pleased to announce that the Syllabus for the 2021 Piano Festival (12th-15th October, subject to COVID-19 requirements) is now available for download.
Please note, this year, there are no hard/printed copies available, this is available only via the website and the links below. Thank you.
Click to download the PDF to complete:
2021 Speech and Drama Festival
It is with regret that the Committee of the Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts has had to make the decision that once again to postpone the May Speech and Drama Festival for 2021 due to lockdowns and school closures leaving no time to polish performances so we must look towards the end of the year.
Let us hope that we may experience a more settled 2021. We are planning to be able to run the Festival of Piano in October 2021 providing we are not limited by Covid restrictions. The syllabus will be online by April 1st and we will...
2021 Piano Festival
The committee of the Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that we plan to hold our 2021 Piano Festival at Christchurch, The Grove, Ilkley between the 12th and 15th of October 2021. Obviously should the situation over Coronovirus deteriorate again then we would announce any decision to cancel on this website by July 1st which should be adequate notice for teachers and performers alike. The safety and wellbeing of staff and performers alike will be our highest priority.
However, we are optimistic and looking to arrange another festival to attract young pianists from far and wide.
The...
Secretary's Report 2021
Secretary’s Report to the AGM on the 114th Year (2020) of the WFPA
Zoom Meeting held on 27/1/21 at 2pm
Thank you all for being available for this Zoom AGM.
In common with everything which happened to us all in this last festival year of 2020, nothing has been at all usual. In fact, the last normal event we experienced was probably our AGM for 2019, followed by the Management Meeting, both held at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Mrs Wailes in Harrogate on March 2nd 2020. At that time we were looking forward to a May festival to...
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