COMMUNITY MUSICIAN

Project Examples

• Project leader for the first year of Norfolk Music Work’s two year programme, Rural Rhythms. Music-making is taking place with children, young people and families in Mundesley led by a team of musicians from Norfolk Music Works and the City of London Sinfonia. Funded by Youth Music through Powerplay. (2009-)
  
  
• Co-project leader with Rowena Whitehead for ‘Heart of the World: Celebration in Sound’, a ‘world music’ themed vocal project run by Vital Communities in Cambridgeshire with funds from Youth Music through Vocalise. (2009-)
  
  
• One of two composers working for Britten Sinfonia on educational music-making as part of Huntingdon District Council’s Great Fen project. Sessions took place with families and Year 2s in Ramsey Infant School and a series of four ‘Little Songs for the Great Fen’ was created and performed and is available from Britten Sinfonia as a publication. (2009)
  
  
• 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, Parson Drove and Wisbech St Mary (2006-2009).
  
  
• Project instigator and director of ‘Crossing The Line’, an innovative multi-art form project for Norfolk Music Works with a focus on experimentation involving musicians, a visual artist, swimming coaches and a group of around 100 participants working over a summer holiday period towards a final performance in Dereham Leisure Centre swimming pool.
  
  …”the project is very unusual and that’s what makes it appealing”…”a wonderful experience and the happiest group of singers I have sung with” (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).
  
  
• One of five coach-mentors working on a pilot scheme run by the Firebird Trust facilitated by Edwina Parker-Brown with Sibyl Burgess to support the work of younger community musicians in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire (2004-05 )
  
  
• 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. (involved In Vocal Mode singing group in 2001, and Beat That Beat family percussion group in 2002).
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• Project leader of Project Remix with the East of England Orchestra involving Year 7 secondary students and youth club attenders (latter working with Mat Anderson) playing original songs and instrumental pieces frameworked within the orchestra's concert at the Birchwood Community Centre in Lincoln (through Lincoln City Council and with the Firebird Trust 1997)
  
  
• Instigator and director of a series of three events under the title of Music In Unusual Places 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).