Community Links

The JTPTrust works in partnership with various local organisations to deliver high quality musical performances and experiences in the Swindon area.

YOUTH ACADEMY CHORAL APPEARANCES: Our JTPTrust Concert Choir (SSA) and Chameleon Choir (SAB) take part in community choirs and events on request, including guest appearances with Swindon Male Voice Choir, Thamesdown Ladies Choir and Swindon Choral Society. Our Concert Choir are pictured above with the Swindon Choral Society at Steam Museum  and they have appeared on the Swindon Wyvern Stage in Swindon alongside local groups Ten in a Bar, Wessex Choir and Commonweal school.

ADULT WORKSHOPS The  JTPTrust is supported by adult Associates who sometimes take part in local workshops and fundraising concerts.  Past workshops have included s a visit from the late Dr Meribeth Dayme, of ‘CoreSinging‘™ and an Introduction to the Estill model with Holly Aisbitt EMT.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS/ COMPOSER COLLABORATIONS

• BETTY ROE MBE,   Over the years, the JTPTrust has enjoyed  wonderful community collaborations with composer Betty Roe , including the  JTPTrust youth opera Brunel: the Little Man in the Tall Hat'( for the Brunel 200 South West Celebrations in 2006, revived in 2016 as part of the Swindon 125 celebrations), with libretto by the late Marian Lines, and the  large scale community project ‘Swindon: The Opera’,  with libretto by Trustee  Matt Fox, (for which  the Trust received a £60,000 Jubilee grant from the Big Lottery Foundation, and received extensive national coverage). Other Betty Roe productions have included the one-act opera ‘Lunch at the Cooked Goose’ , which toured to the Truro Festival, and youth performances of of ‘The Barnstormers’ in 2011.
• Other AD HOC ADULT PRODUCTIONS (Swindon Community Opera) have included ‘into the Woods’ by Stephen Sondheim, ‘Dear Georgette’ by Viv Hendra and ‘The Beggars Opera’ by John Gay at the Swindon Dance Town Hall Theatre, also ‘Not in Front of the Waiter’ by  Offenbach and 12 Nursery Rhymes’  (with a Twist) by Geoff Westley for the Swindon Fringe Festival.
• ‘THE PIED PIPER The JTPTrust Summer Gala Concert will include a performance of ‘The Pied Piper’ by Bristol composer Derek Stuart-Clark, a work originally written for the Swindon Young Musicians Songsters in 1993