Bardi Young Musician Joseph Geary the star of the show - Bardi Symphony Orchestra, Leicester

31 January 2023

Bardi’s latest Young Musician appeared with the Orchestra at a special concert in Leicester’s Holy Trinity Church at the end of January.

Joseph Geary, a flautist and Music Scholar at Loughborough Grammar School, was chosen as Bardi Young Musician 2023 after auditions last autumn. Holy Trinity is a new venue for this special concert and proved very popular with the large audience who heard him perform in Mozart’s Flute Concerto No 2. Joseph, from Barrow on Soar, has played the flute since the age of seven and the audience were treated to an extra bonus when he was promoted (for one piece only!) to the Principal flute desk for a performance of Fauré’s Pavane which has a substantial flute solo in the score.

Presenting his trophy, Vice Chair of the Orchestra Mary Moore told the audience that he had literally just heard the previous day that he had been awarded a performers diploma on the flute from Trinity Laban College of Music in London. Congratulations Joseph!

Aside from Joseph’s performances, the concert opened with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and the second half featured a wonderful performance of Mendelssohn’s Third ‘Scottish’ Symphony concluding a fantastic concert to warm a cold January evening.