Mary Young

Jar of encouragement

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What is life as a musician like? And how does faith fit in? I'm Mary Young a Classical Vioinist, and the idea of this podcast is to encourage anyone who like me is a Christian, and a professional musician (or a dedicated one), and sometimes needs encouragement and inspiration. I chat to a variety of musicians from Classical string players, to composers, to worship leaders and ask them to share encouraging thoughts and stories about their lives.

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Mary Young

Episodes

Louise Campion - Singer Songwriter and Worship Leader 02.11.2023 1:17:20

Louise shares her journey to becoming a musician and worship leader, how she came to record the song Hold me Father with All Souls Orchestra, thoughts about leading worship, and many more encouraging stories of God working in her life.

Katy Whittle - Cellist 20.10.2023 1:01:56

Katy talks about life as a freelance Cellist, playing with BBC Concert orchestra, what she chatted to Bono about, how faith helps her, and what it's like to play at the Proms. You'll notice by the difference in sound that we added some things in after. I sent Katy some extra questions and she replied via whatsapp voice note!

Steve Tait - Composer 06.10.2023 42:42

Steve talks about his journey to becoming a composer, how he saw God in this, how he makes contacts and initially got work, encouraging stories of how God used his music, and much more!

Mary Young - Violinist - How do you worship while playing Classical Music? 28.09.2023 19:03

How I worship while playing classical music, with stories and musical examples from my life. Thank you Merel van der Knoop, Constance Chow, Gerard Le Feuvre (Kings Chamber Orchestra) and David Hooke (Adoramus Orchestra) for letting me include music they own or are featured in! I'd love to make another episode like this with other peoples thoughts about how we can worship while playing music (c...

Gerard Le Feuvre - Director of Kings Chamber Orchestra - Cellist 21.09.2023 1:00:26

Gerard Le Feuvre founded the Kings Chamber Orchestra, a Christian Professional Orchestra, in 1985 and it has now been running for almost 40 years! Hear stories from his life involving faith, music, cornflakes, and a hoover.

Zac Guy - Worship leader - Guitarist 08.09.2023 1:11:04

What is the point of music? Is it a gift or something we work hard to achieve? How do you worship God while performing or at a gig? Zac Guy works as the Worship director at Everyday Church, is a singer songwriter and a freelance guitarist working regularly with Pax Cultura, Matt Perriment and Will Gray. Pax Cultura: https://linktr.ee/paxculturamusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Elaine Patience - Violinist 25.08.2023 1:12:09

Elaine is a professional Violinist and teacher who studied as a classical Violinist but also loves improvising. She has lots of interesting thoughts to share about life as a musician, improvising and faith. Sorry about some of the background noise in the middle section, it only lasts a few mins!