Creative Music Projects
I create music and creative arts projects for all sorts of people on a small and large scale, all over the UK. I often collaborate with other musicians and artists and if you would like to discuss ideas for a project please get in touch and we can shape it together.
Here are some of the projects I have been involved with over the last few years...
If you would like your own tailor-made creative music project, just go the contacts page and get in touch...
with: adults - schools - teachers - hospitals - special needs - soundbeam
BCMG Education:
Music Maze creative music workshops for 8-11 year olds
Music Maze4A creative music workshops for grown ups
Families and Schools Concert Plus 2007 - 2012
June 2011
Presteigne Festival Outreach - Sounds New
2007 ongoing
King Edward VI Girls, Handsworth
Composition coaching with sixth form music students writing for AS and A2
composition briefs.
May - July 2010
Creative Partnerships - Changing Minds, Changing Practice: working with
teachers and students at St John's Special School, Bedford using Soundbeam,
samplers and the school's media suite to create multimedia experiences for
students with multiple sensory impairments and/or autism.
January - April 2010
BCMG - Schools' Concert Plus: Serenade to a Satellite: exploring the
fascinating soundworld of BCMG's concert programme through practical
composing workshops with children at KS2.
October 2009 - July 2010
BCMG - Banded About: a year long project working with City Road Primary
School and Our Lady Of Fatima RC Primary School creating our own class "band"
and creating our own music. Featuring The Banjitos (CR 6J), The Elastic Band
(OLOF Y5), The Banana Band (CR 6B), The Bandoholics (OLOF Y6) and the
Banned Bandits (OLOF After School Club). "I've loved every second!" Y6 pupil
City Road.
April - June 2009
Keys2Music: a collaborative project with dancer Gill Callaghan with 2 Primary
schools leading to a performance in June 2009:
Mighty Mountain - Chase View Primary
The Magic Carpet - Etching Hill C of E Primary
May 09
NIACE Adult Learning Week "Composing is Easy" sessions
"Very inspiring!" session participant
June 2008
Sonic Connection: a multimedia performance involving disabled students
(16-20 years) at Beaumont College, Lancaster incorporating
...film, digeridoo, koto, cello, soundbeam, samplers and more...
April - July 2008
Songlines: working with 60 primary children, elders from Handsworth Age Concern
alongside poet Mandy Ross and musicians from WNO and Birmingham
Conservatoire, funded by WNO MAX and Birmingham Hippodrome
July 07
Soundbeam - The Rainbow Fish with Key Stage 1 autistic/language delayed
pupils at Rushall JMI School, Walsall, funded by Creative Partnerships.
June 07
MusicMakers A 3-day intensive project with teenagers from the National Assoc.
of Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY)
March -June 07
CovCoolKids Warwick Arts Centre Arts: a creative project leading to a
performance with 500 children at Warwick Arts Centre ...Alien Environments....
April - July 06
Carnival Multicultural Music Project at Windsor Nursery School, Wolverhampton
with 3-4 year olds. ....Tingalayo, Brown Girl In the Ring, Abeeyo abeyo, and more...
January -May 06
Soundbeam Acoustic Mix Transition Project with Y6 and Y7 pupils from 4 schools
funded by Sound Futures.
October 04- May 05
Earth From The Air - creative composition and performance project with GCSE
Music students with a performance at the Adrian Boult Hall, funded by the
Birmingham Chamber Music Society and Making Music.
Autumn 04
Transformations working with an actor and visual artist to transform Surestart
nursery spaces through creative play with parents and toddlers
Spring 04
Soundbeam at Birmingham Children's Hospital Arts Council funde
d project
working with the most severely ill children at BCH in oncology, liver
and neurology wards