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Menuhin's Annual Concert

Join us on Sunday, June 11th at 4:30pm at the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium, Cedarbridge Academy where our Annual Concert returns for the first time since 2019!  This concert is a celebration of where all of The Menuhin Foundation's students come together from all schools across the island to showcase their accomplishments through the year.

Admission is open to all.

Tickets are $20 for Adults, $10 for Seniors and Student and children under 5 are free of charge.

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Our Vision

In 1976, the world famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin performed at the inaugural Bermuda Festival. We are lucky that whilst here he took such an interest in the island, and took the initiative to fill a void in the lives of Bermuda's children by finding and bringing a string quartet to the island to teach in the schools across the island. He even helped with its initial funding by donating the proceeds of a special concert and by lending his name to the Foundation. With the then Governor, Sir Edwin Leather, John Ellison, John Campbell, Stanley Ratteray, Roy Ricketts and Rosalind Watlington, The Menuhin Foundation was formed by an Act of Parliament. Lord Menuhin, on returning to London, interviewed and recruited the Heller Quartet to come to Bermuda and they arrived in Bermuda in August 1976. They began giving concerts and worked their way into school to give group lessons. They were followed by a series of quartets over the early years and them more emphasis was placed on their teaching abilities.

The goal of The Menuhin Foundation is to “foster and develop an interest in classical and other music and the playing thereof” and “to recruit teachers and organize and produce programs and concerts and other forms of entertainment and musical education.” (The Menuhin Foundation Act 1976.)

Through the commitment and dedication of our Board of Trustees, teachers and donors, The Menuhin Foundation has made music lessons accessible to thousands of Bermuda’s school children since 1976. We are dedicated to ensuring that future generations of children will continue to receive the gift of playing a stringed instrument and experience the joy and sense of accomplishment in learning how to make music.

You can find out more about our history by watching the following video documentary here