Community

1996 - A nine day camp in the Jackdaws' garden, for forty 12 year olds from all ethnic backgrounds from a very deprived area in Bristol. The children worked at the choruses from Monteverdi s Vespers and gave an hour long performance in Latin and from memory at a local church. This project was the inspiration and forerunner of the Illuminations Projects.

ILLUMINATIONS PROJECTS - 10 Week Projects in Schools

2001 - Sing Messiah for children from Frome Schools - choruses from Handel's Messiah with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

2002 - Jazz Project with three Frome schools

2002/3 - The Magic Flute for children with learning difficulties. Discover Your Voice for four Frome schools. Medieval Music for five Frome Schools with the Dufay Collective

2003 - Stravinsky's Ballet Music for three Frome schools

2003/4 - Rhythmically Speaking for four Frome schools

2004 - Songs from Andulucia a classical guitar project for four Frome schools

2004 - Wagner's The Flying Dutchman for children with learning difficulties

2005 - Pergolesi's Stabat Mater for girls choirs from four schools

2006 - Wagner 'The Ring' - a project working with 4 schools and professional musicians. Review

2007 - Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale - a project working with three Frome schools

2008 - The Handel Mix with The Brook Street Band www.brookstreetband.co.uk; and 3 Frome schools

FLIGHTS OF FANCY - Arts Weeks with seven artists - painter, two potters, willow sculptor, glass painter, musician and poet - who work with 30-40 children for five days. The week ends with a presentation to parents and invited guests.

1997 Water Birds

1998 Willow Whistler

1999 River Song

2001 Reflections of the Valley

2003 For children with learning difficulties

2004 For children from a deprived area of Frome

2005 Here, There and Everywhere - for children from a Middle School in Frome

2006 Maybug Madness

2007 No funding

2008 Repeat (by public request) of Maybug Madness

 

SONGBIRD -Funded by The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - This is a continuous project which started in 1996. It takes place in all the primary schools in Frome and teaches musicianship through the voice with the Kodaly method. Parents have now started to join in and have formed their own choir. A teacher training programme was launched in 2005 and school music teachers introduced to ways of teaching this method.