We are delighted to announce that Lorraine Womack-Banning of the Womack-Banning Piano Academy in Bedford will present the Raymond Banning trophy to the winner of the Junior Trophy class at the 5th annual Dulwich Music Festival.
Previous winners of the trophy include David Griffiths and Philip Balkan.
The Womack-Banning Piano Academy has been offering high quality piano, theory and musicianship lessons in Bedfordshire for more than 30 years at Head Teacher Lorraine Womack-Banning’s Private Piano Studio now based in Bedford. Lorraine Womack-Banning will adjudicate the 5th annual Dulwich Music Festival in June 2016.
The theme was career resilience and adapting to future life changes, giving insight and inspiration in case ‘Plan A’, or even ‘Plan B’ doesn’t go quite as expected. We showed them how as a strong individuals you can make the most of unexpected events and learn to take advantage of great opportunities out there if you go with them.
Myself and two local business owners, Claire Empson and Natasha Roe, talked about the challenges we faced, how we’d adapted when life threw some economic and personal changes our ways, and what had been the spark for us to set up our own very different businesses. We took the girls with us on our journeys from school to the present day, exposing some of the things that have gone right (and not so right) along the way! The overriding message was not to fear change but to look for the opportunities it offers.
My presentation was entitled ‘Making Music Work‘ and covered the varied careers that finally ended up in self-employment as a musician. I also discussed the different elements of my business which include running a 
