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Philharmonia Orchestra, The Last Plantagenet
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Wigmore Hall, Ben Ealovega
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Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Create, Cultivate, Orchestrate – with Joshua Bell
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Philharmonia Orchestra
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Buckinghamshire Music Service, Into The Light
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National Theatre Learning, The Girl Who Never Looked Up, Ludovic Des Cognets
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Wigmore Hall, Teacher Training
About me
I am a freelance composer, animateur, educator, conductor and writer. My work aims to encourage creative participation in music making: to enjoy it as an enlivening group activity for all-comers, and one in which participants can discover their own creative musical identity.I’m always interested in taking part in unusual, creative projects, collaborating with creative people from all artforms and in a variety of contexts.
Browse the website to see the sorts of things I do, or go straight to the other work and media page for a selection of audio and video extracts!
And get in touch: it would be lovely to hear from you!
READ a blog here about my NCO project There’s no place like….. NCO. Written by Arlene MacFarlane.
WATCH a brief video of Take Flight – the Royal Ballet commission for community dancers in Hull.
CLICK HERE for a music show reel with a few clips of my pieces set to picture (lasts under 3 minutes!)
WATCH Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions – my music for this was shortrlisted for a 2017 Music and Sound Award. NOT FOR CHILDREN (or possibly the faint-hearted!)
Winner of 2016 Education or Community Award
Finalist in 2017 Music & Sound Awards
coming up
- Click here for a music show reel with a few clips of my pieces set to picture (lasts under 3 minutes!)
- AUGUST 13th!!! Performance of The Lost Box of Stories at Kings Place. Early Bird tickets available until JULY 10th
- Leading Early Years training for Harrow Arts Centre as well working with Wigmore Hall and Tri Music Together
- Working with the Philharmonia Orchestra on their Virtual Orchestra project in Bedford (July 2018)
- Leading musicians’ training for Live Music Now!
- Teacher training for the National Theatre’s Let’s Play programme (autumn 2018)
- Bright Sparks A-level seminar with LPO orchestra (Autumbn 2018)
- Working at Leonard Cheshire Disability Centre’s on the LPO’s wonderful ORCHLab project in conjunction with Drake Music.
- Oxford Lieder songwriting project (performance 12th October 2018)
- Leading sessions and training in Lancashire with Hackney Music Development Trust on their TIME project
- A year 1 Music an numeracy (and Bach!) extravaganza for City of London Sinfonia
recent work
- Great fun working with National Children’s Orchestra facilitating a new piece There’s no Place Like … NCO. Fabulous performance at The Anvil, Basingstoke!
- Performances of my new show The Lost Box of Stories premiered in mid-Wales very successfully! 2000 children enjoyed the show – great audience reactions!
- Leading and developing a new project for London Sinfonietta based on Tansy Davies Cave
- LPO project at Highshore School in South East London, looking at Stravinsky’s Petrushka
- Teacher training for the National Theatre’s Let’s Play programme
- The wonderful Arts Adventures project visiting children’s hospital wards and hospices for Create
- Bright Sparks A-level seminar with LPO orchestra
- Broadcast of Radio 4 documentary about the Take Flight project in Hull to be broadcast on November 6th at 4.00pm. Click here to link to the programme page
- A day of workshops in Huddersfield for London Sinfonietta on Deborah Pritchard’s Music Maps
- New 22-minute documentary made by ABC about my project in Sydney with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields has just been broadcast. Watch it here
- Premiere of Take Flight in Hull
- Working at Leonard Cheshire Disability Centre’s on the LPO’s wonderful ORCHLab project in conjunction with Drake Music.
- Primary School project with Oxford Lieder Festival. www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/education
- Sing a Story with Mid-Wales Music Trust
- Mentor for LEYMN (London Early Years Music Network) www.sound-connections.org.uk
- Lead artist for Create’s Nurturing Talent intiative http://createarts.org.uk/
- Further international screenings of Roger Allen’s Theatre of Apparitions
- Working on the Wigmore Hall’s Partner Schools Programme
- Leading Orchestra Unwrapped sessions for Philharmonia Orchestra in Bedford and Leicester
