On Saturday, 12 July 2008, was a summer end of term concert of Musica Nova Russian-British Music Academy in the presence of the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Nurul Islam. It was the seventh one since Musica Nova was founded and exceptionally interesting.
What immediately and pleasantly attracted attention? The atmosphere of enthusiasm and full understanding between teachers, pupils and their parents. It is important as in this school education is offered to children from vary many different families. From Russian speaking families, which came to London from Russia and Ukraine, from families, whose mother tongue language is Spanish, French, Finnish, Lebanese as well as from families of native English Londoners. All these, so different, families are united at the Musica Nova by an aspiration to give children an opportunity to submerge into the world of music, to understand and learn it in order to widen the perception of the world as a whole, to get accustomed to the good taste, to give directions for the future development.
A child, who at the age of 7 – 10 years old is performing compositions by L. Beethoven, P. Tchaikovsky, singing songs from classical jazz, will be able as a teenager to distinct good from bad in all spheres of youth culture. This will allow to avoid distraction of a "one day" empty culture offered by mass media and cult.
Teachers of Musica Nova are professionals of the highest level, enormous enthusiasts of what they are doing. They could captivate children and their parents. It was evident from the preparations for the concert and rehearsals at the concert hall. The most special words were found by the teacher for the pupil to calm down, stop worrying, to concentrate and to feel as a real artist. It was evident that the teachers are the Real Teachers! Talented, very dedicated, kind and sensitive.
Parents were not only supporters of the event, providing beautiful costumes and preparing wonderful after party, but also active participants of the concert numbers! That was really a unique achievement of the teachers when father, not at all a musician by profession, sat down at the piano with his own son and started performing with him a piece arrange for four hands! We can be absolutely sure that in the future this father will become the main authority for his son, with whom the boy will share his secrets and will get an advice in a difficult moment, which will be able to lead him towards the right decision.
Of course, teachers' performances gave us an enormous pleasure. Outstanding jazz improvisation by Y. Verevkine (piano) and Z. Dzagnidze (guitar), vocal of Evgeniya Terentieva – her performance of the Russian romance was very moving, performances of Julia Dovgiallo (violin) and Lilia Rogova (piano) added to the wonderful impression of this evening. It is great that musicians of such level are doing teaching work: they can offer a lot to their students.
In the end I would like to wish Musica Nova a further growth and development. I also would like to attract the attention to the wonderful opportunity of teaching children music, to accustom them a good taste, to develop their creative talents. The 21st century is not a time of boring analytics. It is a time of creative personalities, who do not count their life success on the calculator, instead they develop one’s creative process through feelings, intuition and art.
Natalia Tsvetkova
Doctor of psychology and physics.
The Academic of Pedagogical and Social Studies.
The Director of Counselling Family Centre
The author of more than one hundred scientific articles.
The author of two books:
"Open the door to success" and
"Mirror for the hero"
