The next concert of West Wight Arts Association's 2025/26 season will be held on Saturday November 8th in Freshwater Memorial Hall, starting at 7.00pm.

It will be given by Amiri Harewood. Amiri is an exciting young classical pianist who is currently combining his concert career with postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music. His recent solo recitals include concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Conservatorio in Venice, and the Mozart Music Festival in Forli, Italy. His Royal Festival Hall concerto debut with Chineke! Orchestra was universally acclaimed, the Financial Times commenting that he brought “confidence and a touch of grandiloquence to Grieg’s Piano Concerto.”

Amiri was recently named a Classic FM Rising Star, featuring on their acclaimed 30 Under 30 List.

“A debut of considerable panache, and the enthusiastic audience immediately treated him as a friend. His future should be worth watching.” — The Times

Amiri’s typically adventurous programme for the Memorial Hall concert includes works by Shostakovich, George Walker, Granados, Bach and Brahms.

Tickets at £17.00 (£3.00 for students and children) which includes the £1.00 booking fee, are

available from www.westwightarts.co.uk or Totland Parish Office on 756028.

Please note the concert starts at 7.00pm.

End of Season concert May 10th 2025

The End of Season concert in May was given by six recipients of West Wight Arts Association’s winners of the 2024 Bursary.

The next Bursary will be held in the spring of 2026 and details will be posted on to this website.

Steinway Grand Piano

The Steinway ‘B’ grand piano in the Memorial Hall, Freshwater, which belongs to West Wight Arts Association, is available for hire by arrangement with WWAA.

Please check the availability of the Memorial Hall with the administrator Debbie McAteer on memohall1960@gmail.com or 01983 752956 in the first instance and then email Richard Wilkins on wilkins.r@btinternet.com for further details.

West Wight Arts Association Bursary

West Wight Arts Association has a long tradition of promoting promising young musicians through our bursary scheme, which we run every two years. The next one will be held on February 28th 2026 .

To encourage talented and aspiring local music students who would welcome financial support to further their studies, a sum is set aside every two years to provide bursaries for young Islanders aged between 11 and 21 years at the time of auditioning.