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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.
- WATCH a 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
- 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
- Open Sound with the London Philharmonic Orchestra: see the call for participants here
- Working with Wigmore Hall on their Partner Schools Programme
- Developing plans with London Sinfonietta
- Working at Leonard Cheshire Disability Centre’s on the LPO’s wonderful ORCHLab project in conjunction with Drake Music.
- Working with the Philharmonia Orchestra on their Virtual Orchestra project in Basingstoke and developing new work for their Leicester residency.
- Leading musicians’ training for Live Music Now!
- Teacher training for the National Theatre’s Let’s Play programme (Summer 2019)
- Storymaking with groups for City of London Sinfonia
- Song-writing with older adults for Create and mentoring talented, young artists on their Nurturing Talent Scheme
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!
- Bright Sparks A-level seminar with LPO orchestra
- Primary School project with Oxford Lieder Festival. www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/education
- Sing a Story with Mid-Wales Music Trust
- Leading Orchestra Unwrapped sessions for Philharmonia Orchestra in Bedford and Leicester
- Leading musicians’ training for Live Music Now!
- Oxford Lieder songwriting project (performance 12th October 2018)
- A year 1 Music an numeracy (and Bach!) extravaganza for City of London Sinfonia
- Song-writing with KS1 pupils with the Little Missenden Festival.
