Hello everyone!

Atéas writing from London. 

We wanted to do one more little blog to say again a BIG THANK YOU to The Tunnell Trust for an amazing course! 

Thank you to all coaches - Tim, Jonathan, Charles, Dickie and Jeremy for being so inspiring! 

We have missed very much Neil Black, another fantastic coach, but who sadly couldn't come this year, but we very much hope to see you again soon Neil!

Thank you to Milton Trio, Cygnus Trio and Ruisi Quartet for being such great company! - it was so nice to meet you all, spend time with you and hear your great playing! 

Thank you to all the catering staff and particular shout out to the wonderful chef -we absolutely looooved the food! And already missing it..

And thank you too all who came to the concerts! It was great to perform the works that we were working so much on during the course! Thank you for being such welcoming and warm audience!

We came away inspired and we feel these 10 days have been very beneficial to us as an ensemble and we are ready to reach new heights! 

We miss everyone already and hope to see you all in the near future!  - Coll reunion in London at some point?:)

Much love,

Atéas x x x x x

Hello everyone! It's the Atéas here reporting from the Bunkhouse.

Yesterday was a 'work hard, play hard' day, with intensive rehearsals on Schönberg and Nielsen. The great thing about this week is not only getting great advice from esteemed wind players but also fantastic insight from string player's perspectives too - it helps us see the bigger picture as well as stop being quite so lenient with ourselves and the difficulties of our instruments.

It may not have been the sunniest day, but lunch was followed by a trip to the beach - a much needed refresher for all!  Some guys even plucked up the courage to swim...

After our final coaching of the day, we made the first quintet trip to the pub, to celebrate Schönberg being done for the day (a much deserved celebration).

As always dinner was fabulous, salmon and lemon risotto, followed by the most gorgeous sunset and full moon.  Musically, physically, mentally and spiritually fulfilled!!

This morning has already started with sunshine and we look forward to seeing some of you at tonight's concert!!

Much love,

The Atéas xxxxx

Here comes the sun...and lost lamb adventures

Good evening from the Milton trio!

What a fantastic day - the sun is shining (the mercury almost hit 20 something today...!).

We spent most of today rehearsing a work by Menotti which we shall be performing on Sunday.  Jeremy and Tim gave us some excellent advice on this and our Stravinsky is becoming more and more characterful.

The Atéa quintet and Ruisi string quartet performed in the children's concert this afternoon. The children seemed to really enjoy themselves and didn't hesitate to get involved in the action!  Our favourite part was Ateas's arrangement of Chariots of Fire.  Apparently we will be making a special video to put with the recording of it when we visit the beach tomorrow afternoon.. watch this space!

After an amazing joint of Highland beef for dinner, we went to visit the horses at the top of the hill.  The horses wouldn't come and see us, so we took a path to try and get closer to them.  We were really surprised to find a poor little lamb stuck in the fence half way down the track.  We picked him up and sent him back to his family - lamb savers!

Good night - let's see what adventures tomorrow has to offer.. Off to the pub!

A very grateful lamb