Sounds New Education Outreach Projects 2009
Good Copy
Throughout the festival local people of any age or ability will be encouraged to respond to the programme through written reviews, photography, visual art, poetry, video and other media. Work will be printed in local papers and exhibited at a post festival retrospective. Anyone can take part by emailing Peter Cook. People taking part will receive one free ticket for the concert they review or respond to.
Open Rehearsals
The public will be encouraged to attend rehearsals, where appropriate, to find out how musicians refine their art ready for performance. Please contact the Sounds New festival office for rehearsal schedules.
Creative Construction
As part of the Sidney Cooper Gallery Exhibition, primary and secondary school children from Sturry Primary and the Chaucer Technology School worked with artist Andrew Baldwin to create an extraordinary new musical instrument. Look and listen at the Sidney Cooper Gallery each day of the festival to see and hear it.
24th and 25th April
Funfanfares For Canterbury
Local secondary schools write new fanfares to be performed by music students from Canterbury Christchurch University live from balconies in the City Centre’s Whitefriars on Friday and Saturday. Look up and listen! Performed on the hour throughout the day from 10am to 4pm.
Pictures at an Exhibition - Canterbury Cathedral Quire
Artist Sara Wicks, working with a local special school, has helped to develop new work which will be presented during the concert exploring the idea of new pictures at an exhibition.
Also, you can sketch during the open afternoon rehearsal of Mussorgsky’s
Pictures at an Exhibition (for details of rehearsal schedule, please contact the Sounds New office).
After Feliks - 7.15pm Canterbury Cathedral Quire
Composer Stephen Clee has been working with a school in Ramsgate to develop new pieces connected to tonight’s concert and the Polish artist Feliks Topolski. They will be performed immediately before the main concert.
Saturday 25th April
Walk to Music – 11.00am Whitefriars Shopping Centre
Clang, Boom and Steam (music students from Canterbury Christchurch University) will perform Louis Andriessen’s
Workers Union in Whitefriars Shopping Centre the heart of the city.
In Motion – 7.30pm Gulbenkian Theatre
Dance school students will perform to the music of the Motion Trio to the piece
Sounds of War as part of the Gulbenkian Theatre performance.
Sunday 26th April
A Soldiers Tale – 7.30pm St Gregory’s Centre for Music
Artist Sara Wicks, in collaboration with Herne Bay High School art students, have developed visual art pieces to complement the suite from
A Soldiers Tale by Stravinsky. The resulting work will be shown at the concert.
Monday 27th April
Composer Pyramid Day – 10.30am St. Peter’s Methodist Church
This is the start of a far reaching composition project which connects composers of different experience and ability and of all ages, today we hear secondary school students’ compositions and four primary schools pieces.
Nicholas Reed Masterclass – 2.30pm St Gregory’s Centre for Music
Nicholas Reed puts some outstanding young percussionists though their paces.
Petrushka 3D - 7.30pm St. Gregory’s Centre for Music
Prisoners from an open prison have collaborated with artist Nikki Dennington to make 3D models inspired by Petrushka. They will be displayed at the concert given by Rolf Hind.
Tuesday 28th April
Walk to Music – 11.00am St Peter’s Methodist Church Canterbury
Oran Marshall performs works on his tuba. Although this is a schools’ performance there will be some space for the general public on a first come first served basis.
Wednesday 29th April
Film 120
Film makers are invited to make brief films (no more than 2 minutes long) about an aspect of this day which will be shown as part of the Good Copy exhibition. We encourage film makers to use mobile phone technology although any film media is also invited.
Email your finished film to Peter Cook (
(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) with the subject Film 120.
Thursday 30th April
Walk to Music – 11.00am St Peter’s Methodist Church Canterbury
Drum Blondes perform to an invited audience of school children but there are some seats for the general public on a first come first served basis. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Saturday 2nd May
Allcomers Day in association with CoMA – 10.00am to 6.30pm St. Gregory’s Centre
Still Life With a Violin - 1.15pm Sidney Cooper Gallery
Violinist Sulki Yu performs Hanna Kulenty’s
Still Life with a Violin. Leading up to this concert, we will hold an event which explores the violinist as a still life model. Photographs will be displayed at the concert.
Sunday 3rd May
Family and Friends Day - 2.30pm Gulbenkian Theatre
CoMA at Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival
A unique opportunity for musicians of all abilities to take part in practical explorations of Polish music culminating in concert performance as part of the Sounds New Festival.
In Residence - Thursday 30th April – Saturday 2nd May
Gregory Rose ensemble conductor
Sarah Leonard voices director
Instrumental and choral rehearsals leading to world premieres of specially commissioned works by Pawel Lukaszewski, Hanna Kulenty, Joe Cutler and Zbigniew Rudzinski plus workshops with Joe Cutler and Stephen Montague on the music of Bosuslaw Schaeffer and other Polish composers.
Cost: £160 (£95 concs) includes Sounds New 3 Day Rover ticket
Booking: www.coma.org or 020 7193 9787
Allcomers day
Saturday 2nd May
St Gregory’s Centre for Music
Rehearsals from 11am, concert at 5:45pm
Stephen Montague Chorale for the Cauldrons of Hell
Robert Szymanek I Can’t Do This without You
Instrumentalists and singers are invited to join the CoMA residency orchestra and choir to rehearse and perform these powerful works for audience and performers alike.
Cost: £12 (£6 concs)
Booking: www.coma.org or 020 7193 9787
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