Ten Tors

Ten Tors success for the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for Girls training group

Ten Tors success for the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for Girls training group.

All four teams in the Ridgeway and Devonport High School for girls training group are celebrating success following the annual Ten Tors event. The training group comprising of combined teams from both schools all completed well within the allocated time. With teams entered at all distances for the 35...

Schools combine for Ten Tors event

Better together – Ridgeway School and Devonport High School for Girls combine for the Ten Tors event in 2016. Once again the combined Ten Tors training group from Ridgeway School and Devonport High School for Girls have entered a strong set of teams at every distance for this year’s event. It is now thirteen years since former Ridgeway School Headteacher John Didymus introduced the Ten Tors event...

English String Renaissance: Ten Tors Orchestra

Venue: 
Minister Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 19:30
Category: 

Simon Ible, conductor Andrew Knights, oboe

Holst: St Paul’s Suite Delius: Two Aquarelles Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto Elgar: Serenade for Strings Pitkin: Whispering, clamoring Britten: Simple Symphony

A renaissance in English music emerged toward the end of the 19th century. The new musical style identified with folk song and Elizabethan dances that revitalized the genre of the chamber orchestra. This is a selection from our best-loved British composers and includes Jonathan Pitkin’s Whispering, clamoring commissioned by Ten Tors Orchestra in 2005.

Tickets: £17...

Thousands prepare for Ten Tors challenge

Thousands of young people will set off on the 2014 Ten Tors challenge this weekend, spending two days in small self-sufficient teams walking through some of the most stunning scenery Dartmoor has to offer.

Dartmoor National Park Authority has been working closely with the Army in terms of route changes and providing training to team managers to ensure that the event has minimum...

Ten Tors teams finish amid tough conditions

The first teams began crossing the finishing line in this year's Ten Tors challenge on Sunday morning (12 May) with the last arriving some three quarters of an hour beyond the usual finish time of 5pm.

The first to finish was a team from Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School in Bristol at appoximately 9.40am.

Weather conditions with rain and restricted visibility prevailing, were...

Teams prepare for annual Ten Tors challenge on Dartmoor

Approximately 400 teams from across the South West will undertake the annual Ten Tors challenge on Dartmoor this weekend.

The teams of young people who are drawn from schools, colleges, cadet squadrons, scout and guide groups and independent organisations across the region, have been training hard for the challenge. They will be arriving today (Friday 10 May) ahead of the start of the...