On Saturday the 18th January members were delighted to entertain Sylvia Schwarzenbach, a Swiss Soroptimist, who was in Manchester for the weekend attending a conference.
Sylvia is a founding member of Club Berne Arcadia and is a clarinettist, music educator and an honorary life member of the International Society for Music Education. She was in Manchester to attend a conference at the Royal Northern College of Music on the subject of researching into and caring for musicians’ health.
She was presented with an SI Manchester pennant and she presented the club with a CD called ‘Edelweiss and Paprika’ featuring herself and two other Soroptimist musicians from Switzerland and Hungary. The sales of the CD raise funds for a music therapy project for special needs children. She also brought us some gingerbread and macaroons from Berne which were enjoyed by all.