Public Events

February

• Wednesday 4 February, 7pm
  Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Steven Isserlis – The Apex

March

• Thursday 5 March, 7.30pm
  Royal Northern Sinfonia - Prokofiev and Mendelssohn - Darlington Hippodrome

• Thursday 12 March
  Our Music Our Way Concert, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Freeborough Academy. Booking link to follow.
• Wednesday 18 March
  Musical Storyland: Ananse & the Monkeys, BBC Philharmonic
• Thursday 26 March
  New Connections: The Chevalier, Manchester Camerata, The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire. Booking link to follow.

Project activity

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

January

• Our Music, Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland
• Goole Creates workshops in Goole, East Riding
• Full of Surprises workshops for schools in and around the North Pennines
• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops
• Playing Out youth workshops in Barrowcliff area
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement
• Bolsover mini concert tour
• The Robot and the Bluebird schools tour in Norfolk & Suffolk
• Mahler & the Mountain Adventure schools tour in Southampton and Isle of Wight

February

• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops
• Goole Creates: Schools workshops with the Halle
• Our Music Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland, and workshops & concerts for schools in Middlesbrough
• Full of Surprises schools concerts with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bishop Auckland Town Hall
• Darlo Creates Royal Northern Sinfonia schools and college workshops
• Playing Out youth workshops & community sharing in Scarborough
• Collective Skywith the Four Suns concert and A Level activity in Nottingham
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement in Peterborough
• The Robot and the Bluebird schools tour in Norfolk & Suffolk

March

• Darlo Creates Royal Northern Sinfonia schools and college workshops
• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops and culmination
• Our Music Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough
• Musical Storyland: Ananse and the Monkeys with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra schools performance tour & workshops in North Yorkshire (Whitby, Pickering, Catterick, Richmond, Skipton Settle)
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement in Peterborough
• Musical Journeys: A Day at the Pond/ Mausam, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment schools tour in Lincoln and Gainsborough
• Culture Sounds training programme in Midlands-based virtual schools

Find out more about our projects

On-Demand

• Tea Break Episode Twenty-One In this episode of #OLTeaBreak, we chat with Aga Serugo Lugo, a vocalist, composer and workshop leader.
  Aga discusses his journey into music leadership, the power of collaborative music making, and his recent work on Long Shop Sound Machine, a heritage project in East Suffolk bringing the Industrial Revolution to life through music with seven local schools.
  Watch the full episode on YouTube
• Musical Journeys: A Day at the Pond / Mausam This is a multi-part digital musical resource for early years children. Featuring an ensemble from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and South Asian Arts-uk and narrated by Seetal Kaur, children can immerse themselves in music and dance through the world of the pond. Register for the resource
• 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