Public Events

Online

• ON Tour
  ON Tour is a live orchestral performance from Skipton Town Hall that teachers can stream directly to the classroom. You can access the concert and accompanying resource pack until 17 May 2024. For more information and to register, visit the AMP website.

January

• Friday 26 January, 10.30am & 1.30pm
  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Life of the Sea (schools performances) – Lubetkin Theatre, East Durham College, Peterlee

February

• Monday 5 February
  Musical Journeys: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance - Catterick

• Tuesday 6 February
  Musical Journeys: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance - Whitby

• Wednesday 7 February
  Musical Journeys: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance – Skipton Town Hall (Skipton)

• Thursday 8 February
  Musical Journeys: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance - Bridlington Spa (Bridlington)

• Friday 9 February
  Musical Journeys: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performances - Pocklington Arts Centre (Pocklington)

• Saturday 10 February, 7.30pm
  The Hallé concert – Darlington Hippodrome

• Thursday 15 February, 7.30pm
  Academy of Ancient Music: Art of the Italian Concerto – The Apex (Bury St Edmunds)

• Saturday 17 February, 6pm
  Sinfonia Viva and Deep Roots Tall Trees performance of Eartheart - Corby Cube (Corby)

• Sunday 18 February
  Culture Café Makes Music (final performance) - Déda (Derby)

• Tuesday 28 February
  Mini concert with Music in The Round - Glapwell Centre (Bolsover)

March

• Wednesday 13 March, 6:30pm
  Our Music: Our Way culmination concert with Royal Northern Sinfonia - Kirkleatham Walled Garden, Redcar

Project activity

We have a number of ongoing community and learning projects continuing throughout Winter including:

January

• Mid Suffolk Memories: Britten Sinfonia workshops
• Darlo Creates Halle/Durham Music Youth Orchestra project workshops
• Our Music: Our Way project workshops with Royal Northern Sinfonia
• OAE Life of the Sea: KS2 Song Cycle workshops
• Creative Journeys, South Holland with Sinfonia Viva
• Eartheart schools workshops and Corby Music Centre workshops with Sinfonia Viva

February

• Culture Café Makes Music sessions
• Our Music: Our Way project workshops with Royal Northern Sinfonia
• ON Tour: stream premieres with NYMAZ/Skipton Town Hall
• Creative Journeys, South Holland with Sinfonia Viva
• Eartheart rehearsal, Corby Music Centre with Sinfonia Viva
• Bolsover Cultural Corridor project schools workshop, Bramley Vale Primary, Doe Lea

March

• Mid Suffolk Memories culmination event
• Creative Journeys, South Holland with Sinfonia Viva
• Bolsover Cultural Corridor project workshop with Doe Lea Rocks
• Robot and The Bluebird Schools Tour with Britten Sinfonia and Peterborough Music Hub

Find out more about these and all our other projects.

On Demand

• Breathe preview This ground-breaking musical film from director Mathew Beckett combines the Manchester Camerata, composer Daniel Kidane, poet Roma Havers, music creator Ben Nobuto and community groups from across the country, to explore the theme of togetherness. The film, a culmination of our Create Space project, is currently touring venues.
  Watch the Breathe trailer
  
• Destinies film"Destinies" is a co-created filmed theatre piece created with young people with care experience and unaccompanied asylum seekers across Derby and Derbyshire in partnership with Sinfonia Viva, Derbyshire Virtual School and Orchestra Live. Ava Hunt Theatre produced "Destinies" across a two year period 2019 to 2021 navigating the Covid restrictions. Young people worked with artists specialising in writing, character creation, performing, animation, musical composition and lyric writing exploring how to trust, make new friends and what is home - 'Better to be friends together than strangers alone'.
  Watch The Destinies film
  
• Tea Break episode thirteen In episode thirteen our Regional Producer for the North, Becky West, chats with Nii Kwartey Owoo, our 2022-23 Trainee Music Leader. They discuss the traineeship in detail touching upon motivations for applying and the role of a music leader working with Orchestras Live. The discussion explores Nii’s background prior to the traineeship, the diverse opportunities provided, professional development and overcoming obstacles along the way.
  Watch Tea Break episode thirteen