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COMMUNITY MUSICIAN

 

Her CD, Occasional Music, reflects the relationship between her own composing and the musical activity that she has led through projects for many organisations. In London in the 1980s she worked for organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, Gemini, Morley and Goldsmiths Colleges with such pioneers of arts-in-education as Peter Wiegold (first director of the Music and Communication Skills course at The Guildhall) and Jude Kelly (first director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse). She also taught on a number of arts holiday courses abroad. In 1987 she was appointed composer/musician-in-residence at a small arts centre in North Norfolk with support from the Arts Council, Eastern Arts and the Norfolk County Education Authority.  The initial residency evolved into the independent community music organisation, Norfolk Music Works, for which she was the central part-time project worker until 1994. From 1995-97 she worked as Lincolnshire’s County Music Worker managed by the Firebird Trust (this project has evolved into SoundLincs for the County). She returned to Norfolk in 1998 and has continued to run many projects as a free-lance musician both in Norfolk and further a field.
 


Holiday course on Skyros Island, Greece 1987


Sea Change project in King’s Lynn 1993


Voices Unplugged singing group in Spalding 2004
 

Recent Projects

  • Music facilitator of a short composition project for two affiliated small schools in the Norfolk fens where the teachers chose to involve around forty children in the creation, performance and recording of a school federation anthem.  Recorded and broadcast by their local radio station KLFM (2008).
  • Musician undertaking creative residencies in Cambridgeshire schools and communities for the Vital Communities participatory arts and research project.  Music-making within varied residencies at schools and communities in the city of Peterborough, the town of Ramsey and the villages of Fulbourn and Wisbech St Mary (2006-2008).
  • One of several artform practitioners leading a series of intergenerational projects for Norfolk Music Works in West Norfolk involving elderly residents at Ashville House and Year 9s from Downham Market High School.  Projects over three years included ‘Flashback-Flashforward’ (which won a County-wide Learning Communities Award) and ‘Falling About’ with Green Candle Dance Company (2005-2007)
  • Practitioner involved in an action research project for Creative Partnerships with drama teacher, Joc Mack at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk on the subject of creativity (‘Breaking The Rules’). Project culminated in a site specific music and dance performance and a 13 page research report (2005).
  • Artistic adviser to North Norfolk District Council for its TAKE OFF residency run in partnership with Britten Sinfonia; musician leading some of the in-school and community music-making sessions. Currently leading a monthly creative music-making workshop for non-beginner adult and 13+ musicians (2003-05).
  • Project leader with Derek Paice (musician) for The Rondo Project in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, which brought together children from four primary schools to learn a refrain and create original episodes around the theme of April Fools. Culminating performance at Mablethorpe Primary School.
    (Through the Firebird Trust, 2002).
  • Collaboration with the multi-cultural musicians of the visiting Grand Union Orchestra to involve two ongoing community music-making groups run through Norfolk Music Works in the creation and performance of pieces as part of full evening shows at the King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. (In Vocal Mode singing, 2001; Beat That Beat percussion, 2002 through Norfolk Music Works).
  • Musician on a multi-arts team working with children in 5 different primary schools to create episodes that were included in village hall performances of A Songline for East Anglia with Hugh Lupton (writer/storyteller), Helen Chadwick (composer/singer), Sian Croose (singer) and Liz McGowan (visual artist).
    (Through the Peddars Way National Trail, 1999).
  • Creative direction of Listen In Sound, a project inspired by Terry Riley's In C for the Norwich Festival involving around 100 Norfolk people from ages 7 to 85 in creating original pieces alongside a performance of Riley's In C
    (through Norfolk Music Works 1999).
  • Musician leading the Time and Tides project on a Huntingdon estate involving older people and top primary children together making puppets, art objects and music during a five day residency with puppeteer, Meg Amsden
    (through Cross Border Arts and the Firebird Trust 1999).
  • Instigator and director of a series of three events under the title of Music In Unusual Places (in a swimming pool, at a stately home and in a Grantham shopping centre) involving around 150 children and some adults and partly supported by a PRS Composers-in Education award
    (1996).
  • Musician working on the Sea Change project with Linda Cotterill (storyteller) and Denise Turpin (visual artist) involving primary and secondary school students (including some with learning disabilities) in creating an installation in the Fermoy Gallery at King's Lynn Arts Centre
    (through the King's Lynn Festival 1993).