♫ Musician of the Month ♫

As pupils come in and out of collective worship at Bosbury, they have the opportunity to listen to a variety of different pieces of music.

Through this, the children will learn about different composers and musicians, focusing on one artist or band per month with the piece of music changing every week.

Pupils will therefore listen to four pieces of music by the same composer or musician, enabling them to listen closely to the similarities and differences in a variety of pieces from the same artist. We hope that children (and parents!) find out something new, as well as enjoying and discovering some new and different styles of music.

Our final Musician of the Month of the school year for July is the Chinese singer, Alan Dawa Dolma (1987 - present).

Known mononymously as alan, she is a performer of Tibetan ethnicity and a graduate of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Art in Beijing, whose distinctive Tibetan Wail style consists of a soaring sound at very high pitches. As a practising Tibetan Buddhist, much of alan's work centres on the subject of 'love and peace'.

She released her first Chinese album, Shengsheng Zui Rulan in 2005, and, as well as singing, specialises in playing the piano and the erhu, a two-stringed bowed musical instrument also known as a spike fiddle, which she has played since childhood.

Further information, as well as some of alan's performances are available to view below.