Bradley Creswick MBE, Leader Emeritus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia is the new Patron of The Children’s Foundation. This is his inaugural Patron’s Concert. He will be joined by friends in playing music he loves, pieces you will recognise and for which he has a reputation, alongside the Unknown Bradley, where he will surprise you with his love for a different genre… and instrument. Come and enjoy his boundless enthusiasm for the music, his charisma, and his unique rapport with the audience.

“ Bradley has become a regional treasure since joining the orchestra…..he is a class act…”

(Thorben Dittes, Director of Royal Northern Sinfonia and Classical Music Programme, Sage Gateshead)

He is supporting his charity The Children’s Foundation and their positive interventions for North East Children by , ‘Making Serious Stuff Fun’.

This concert forms part of the 2021 William Shield Festival. He is one of Tyneside's greatest composers, born in Swalwell, Co. Durham. He is little- known today but he was the 18th Century equivalent of Andrew Lloyd Webber!

This year Bradley will lead the William Shield chamber Orchestra in performing The Poor Soldier, on the 27th and 28th October at Jesmond United Reformed Church