Annual Review 2010/2011 “Top class performers and inspired programming” Time Out WELCOME

Welcome to our annual review skill. A good number have been continued partnerships in 2011/12 for 2010/11. We hope you enjoy helping us for many years and their with all it holds for this part of reading about the charity whether loyalty and commitment to what – Olympic and otherwise. you know us well, or are finding we do is hugely inspiring. Equally out about us for the first time. appreciated are those who have Sir Alan Moses only just joined in with their new Chair What could be more vital in these curiosity and interest in our work. unsettled times than enabling The combination of long-term people to develop a skill, a passion, friends and fresh eyes is vital to a slightly different perspective, a our success. new friendship, the confidence to take the bus independently or to My thanks go to our dedicated take time out from the hurly-burly team at Spitalfields Music – we of city life to reflect or dream? All achieve enormous value out of of these have been cited by our all proportion to the small hard- participants and audiences this working staff, under Abigail’s year as effects of the charity’s inspiring leadership. In particular activity. Although we are small, this year I’d like to thank Sarah our reach is wide and we mean Macnee who steered us through many different things to different part of the year covering Abigail’s people. Serving the community of maternity leave. Thanks are also 2 AT A GLANCE Tower Hamlets in this way is at the due to my fellow board members core of our mission. And I’m proud for the time and energy they have 3 INTRODUCTION to say that despite the continuing given to the charity this year. CONTENTS 4 WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US challenge of finding funds we have maintained the highest quality And finally thank you to our 5 – 6 ABOUT US of programme. statutory funders who have all 7 LOOKING AHEAD maintained their support in these This would not be possible without choppy times. 8 LOOKING BACK the considerable efforts of a great 9 – 10 OUR PROGRAMME deal of people, not least our many Whilst only amounting to 20% artists and leaders who are an of our income, grants from Arts 11 IMPACT inspiration to work with, and all Council England, London Borough 12 – 13 REVIEW OF OUR 2010/11 PROGRAMME of our partners – from Spitalfields of Tower Hamlets and City of City Farm to the BBC – whose London are vital in forming a 14 – 15 LEARNING & PARTICIPATION collaboration ensures that our work bedrock from which we can build 16 AUDIENCES AND PARTICIPANTS sits within a wider network within the many other important funding the borough. relationships which enable us to 17 – 18 FUNDING put our annual programme together. 19 FINANCE I am grateful to our 100 plus volunteers who help us make our To these three bodies and to all 20 PEOPLE two festivals happen each year who support our work, very many 21 THANK YOU with good cheer and considerable thanks and I look forward to our

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 01 AT A GLANCE

People Programme Finance

Age range of our participants : Total festival events: 78 £1 2 DAYS TO 97 YEARS OLD from each of core supporters Total year-round workshops : 302 (Arts Council England, London Total number of people involved in Borough of Tower Hamlets and our work : 28,675 Total education performances: 24 City of London) is matched with £6 in fundraised income and £4.5 in Artists and teachers trained : 334 Total premieres: 18 earned income.

3% INCREASE in attendance £2.5 million numbers over 2010/11 of economic benefit to Tower Hamlets

68% OF OUR AUDIENCE attending for the first time.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 02 INTRODUCTION

2010/11 has been another fantastic London Hospital, to musical help us in kind that 95% of our year for Spitalfields Music. Our treasure hunts around Spitalfields spending went towards 2009/10 season broke records and City Farm. our programme. attracted a significant amount of attention, so the bar was high, but We are Shadows, our large-scale I am very grateful to our I’m pleased to report that 2010/11 community opera, receiving critical enthusiastic funders and donors proved equally successful. The and audience acclaim and more who have stuck with us despite the year encompassed a huge range importantly involving over 300 challenges that all face, particularly of projects, some of our biggest participants over its 18 month our three statutory funders ACE, audiences and more acclaim for our creation period. LBTH and City of London. I’m work, both critical and in the form also grateful to the Paul Hamlyn of awards. An expanding range of audiences Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn including more young attenders, Foundation who have supported The year was a mid point for our more tourists from outside London our new ways of programming – change programme, Stomping and more local families, thanks without their help we would not have Ground, through which we are to our No Strings Attached and managed as much over the past aiming to draw our Learning & Ambassadors schemes. two years. Participation Programme and our festivals closer together, mixing and Mica I hope that this review gives you a world class artists with local talent Levi rose to the high bar set by flavour of the year – no substitute and encouraging local people to get our first Associate Artists last for actually being there of course, involved with the way we run year and delivered two stunning and if you are not already familiar our programmes. series of events in our Summer with us, I hope it will entice you to Festival – each of which were find out more. quintessentially ‘Spitalfields’. Highlights from Abigail Pogson the year include We continue to put huge store by Executive Director sound budgeting and thanks to a A hugely successful Winter Festival huge fundraising effort and very spanning December and January tight financial management, we and reaching record audiences. have been able to achieve another break-even year – our third in a A maturing family programme row. We continue to run a very ranging from an award-winning lean organisation and it is thanks to project on the post labour the tenacity of the team and to the paediatric wards in the Royal significant number of people who

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 03 WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US

“Spitalfields Music’s festivals are “I have found the course really “Simply great fun – a lovely idea for a unique opportunity for young therapeutic – lifting me up when a concert and delightfully delivered.” people to perform alongside down and always making me feel Audience member, the very best artists in one of better no matter what.Marvellous!!!!” on An Alehouse Session, the leading UK music festivals. Participant, on Women Sing East Summer Festival 2011 Spitalfields Music’s work is a 2010/11 unique mix: its impact upon young people within the borough has “The community opera We are been far-reaching and its influence Shadows, the climactic display on music practice within arts of Spitalfields Music’s Summer organisations in the UK significant.” Festival, was exceptional.” Karen Brock, Director THAMES The Times 5***** on We are Shadows, Summer Festival 2011 “The Committee were very impressed by the musical “We had lots of fun and I enjoyed excellence and innovative character doing all the stuff really, because I of this project and its significant love this school and I love Spitalfields”. and moving outcomes for all who Participant, Cherry Trees School took part. [...] the public health April 2011 implications of your work are clear and substantial.” “Anyone looking for the still small Professor Stephen Clift, voice of calm among the Chair of the Royal Society for Public pre-Christmas bustle could not Health and Health Awards have done better than make their Committee, on the Lullaby project at way to Spitalfields.” the Royal London Hospital The Times 4**** on Carmina: An Icelandic Songbook concert, “Working with Spitalfields has Winter Festival 2010 made a significant impact on pupils’ enthusiasm, progress and musical “The whole performance performances across the school. absolutely sparkled. [...] the It has raised pupils’ self esteem children were magnificent, the and class confidence in projecting two choirs were stunning, the their voices.” principal performers outstanding. Judy Coles, Headteacher, The Sixteen singing brought a Hague Primary School, tingle to the spine. It was all just a on Neighbourhood Schools marvellous show.” Audience member, on We are Shadows, Summer Festival 2011

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 04 ABOUT US

Summer Festival VISION AIMS (two and a half weeks in June) Changing lives and aspirations To produce music festivals for Winter Festival through music in London’s East End. locally based people and visitors (two weeks in December/January) to the area, programming in a way MISSION which takes artistic risk and offers Learning & Participation something new to audiences Programme (year-round) Spitalfields Music creates live and participants. music experiences in Spitalfields We serve around 30,000 people through performances, learning To make year-round learning and a year through ‘live’ contact with and participation. participation projects with the a further 150,000 hearing our people of Tower Hamlets which work through broadcast. Our Everything we do is inspired by the encourage aspiration, skill and fun. programme comprises around spirit of the area, its people and To nurture and find talent, to 100 performances in venues and their global and local influences. commission new work and to work outdoors within Spitalfields and with artists. over 300 music workshops in Taking live music as our core, we schools, the Royal London Hospital, explore music, performance, To be a catalyst and collaborator in youth centres, out on the streets, its artists and our communities. music in Spitalfields and Tower on the Spitalfields City Farm and Hamlets and to engage in the life in community centres throughout of the borough. the year.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 05 Fables, a film opera In partnership with Streetwise “Thank you for the beautiful performance” Opera (the UK’s only opera company for homeless and previously homeless people) we presented the world premiere of four new film operas as a centrepiece for our Winter No Strings Festival 2010/11. Linking up with Streetwise Opera was an obvious Attached ticket choice for Spitalfields Music. Streetwise’s first workshops holder took place at Crisis Skylight in the This was the response of an heart of Spitalfields – they are as audience member after attending committed to commissioning new one of our concerts for the first music as we are, and they combine time. He is a resident of Tower opportunities for all to participate Hamlets but had not previously with artistic excellence. attended a Spitalfields Music event. One of our box office customers In one evening the Streetwise bought a ticket for this concert and Opera company, formed of 200 decided to donate the price of an performers from around the UK, extra ticket through the Buy One gave three sold out performances Donate One scheme. These tickets of these new works. The pieces by were distributed as No Strings Orlando Gough, , Emily Attached through local community Hall and Bellowhead were part groups such as Providence Row film, part live performance. Four and Crisis, and advertised in East and five star reviews followed and End Life. It benefited people such the film element of the project has as our audience member above. toured to film festivals around the This Summer, our ticket buyers UK, playing to an audience of over donated a record amount of 130 10,000 people so far. donated tickets. This scheme and their support allowed members of the local community to enjoy and be inspired by world class concerts for the first time.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 06 Folk at the LOOKING AHEAD Farm Folk at the Farm was Spitalfields Music’s Summer Festival Family Day hosted by Spitalfields City Our focus is on serving audiences Farm. The day was a celebration and participants – both local and of English and Bengali folk music visitors to the area – with world aimed at families with children class music and chances to aged 0-10. Over 300 people participate. We couple this with a braved the rain and participated commitment to encouraging artists in workshops in Bengali and to innovate and to try out new things English Folk singing, clog dancing, which respond to our unique location. Bengali traditional dance and tabla workshops, had their faces painted, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES enjoyed pop-up performances and FOR 2011/12 explored the farm with our specially designed Musical Treasure Hunt. In This year we plan to: the run-up to the festival the Young Farmers group had been recording Celebrate Spitalfields and its people sounds and designing the treasure through the prism of the Olympics. hunt. They worked with composer Duncan Chapman to stretch, record Increase our audience development and edit their sounds into ten initiatives to encourage families, exciting soundworlds hidden on the young adults and first-time attenders. farm for the families to find. The day ended with a rip-roaring ceilidh, Establish a series of new storytelling and performances that partnerships for our programme, captivated even the youngest of including a concert series outside ears as we danced the rain away. of our festivals.

In partnership with Explore plans for a shared physical Spitalfields City Farm. base with other charities. This area of our work is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Manage our finances with low risk and Youth Music. and support this with a focused fundraising programme. See the treasure hunt map

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 07 LOOKING BACK Baroque Boot Camp

As part of their Associate Artist As we enter our 36th year, here is a look back at our history. programme, The English Concert conceived the jauntily named Founded in 1976 by the late From the original short series Baroque Boot Camp. Beyond the conductor Richard Hickox to bring of concerts, a Summer Festival fun of its title lay a serious intention music both to an underserved developed and now takes place in to support learning and professional part of London and the fantastic around 12 different venues development for three groups: acoustic of Hawksmoor’s derelict each year. The English Concert musicians; Christ Church. a group of up and coming young • In 1989 an education programme professional musicians; and The spirit of renewal, regeneration was added and it soon began to a group of aspiring musicians at a and championing an under-rated attract attention for its innovative secondary school. and deprived part of London have projects and its strong roots into prevailed alongside an ethos of the community. The project spanned our Summer being ‘off-mainstream’ and distinct Festival with this mixed group from other parts of London. • In 1996 a Winter Festival was of musicians - from seasoned added and soon became an international performers to aspiring alternative offering in the seasonal teenagers from Whitechapel music programme. – working together with improvisation and composition • In 2009 Spitalfields Festival using the music of Henry Purcell changed its name to Spitalfields as inspiration. The goal for each Music to reflect the equal value of participant was to develop their its year-round programme and its own skills, techniques and two annual festivals. musicianship. At the end of the project the group gave two • Spitalfields Music has strong concerts – one to students’ peers associations with living artists. A from Swanlea Secondary School series of distinguished composers and one to our festival audience and musicians have been Artistic following one of The English Director up to 2009 and now Concert’s evening events. Associate Artists shape and contribute to the programme The project was supported by each year. The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust and M&G Investments • The charity has twice in the last five years won prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 08 OUR PROGRAMME

Our focus is on serving audiences and participants – both local and visitors to the area – with world-class music and chances to participate. We couple this with a commitment to encouraging artists to innovate and to try out new things which respond to our unique location.

Our programme is characterised by : Working in partnership with the borough and influencing Artistic excellence for change We bring world-class composers We tailor our year-round Learning and musicians to Spitalfields and & Participation Programme to local offer the highest quality training in needs and support the borough creative leadership. We couple this to develop its services (e.g. with a determination to reach new Tower Hamlets Arts and Music audiences through programming, Education Service, the Primary Care pricing and location. Trust, elders’ centres, the youth service). Learning and Participation at our heart Being of and for the area 50% of our programme through Local people are engaged in our the year and within our festivals programming through the year, and focuses on projects for local our festival artists make people aged from 2 days old programmes specifically for through to 97 years old. Spitalfields in all its diversity.

Commissioning the best, both Reach new and established Our work reaches a broad section We have a strong tradition of of society – for example our premiering new classical music Buy One Donate One scheme (promoting around 30 premieres encourages those who can each year) and commissioning afford it to donate the value of a annually from our New Music ticket, which we can then offer Commission Fund (52 commissions for free to a local resident who to date). has not previously attended. As a consequence our audiences Innovation in music and creative are diverse in age, ethnicity and learning practice economic background. We commission regularly, invite Associate Artists to make Media work which is new to them for • Total number of Summer Festival our festivals and support the articles, previews and reviews: professional development of 126 musicians working in education and • Broadcasts on BBC Radio 3: community settings. 8, reaching a further 100,000 audience members per broadcast • Estimated print and online media reach: 3.5 million Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 09 Restaurants, London Philharmonic Tom McKinney, Camille Maalawy, , Osmani School, Phoenix Jonathan Manson, Stephanie Awards School, Raven Row Gallery, Marshall, Bruno Martinez, Jessie Royal Academy of Music, Royal Maryon-Davies, Paul McCreesh, • RPS Nomination, 2010, for best Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Sonia Mehta, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Commission for Concerto for Violin Philharmonic Society – Encore, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, with Singer and Three Ensembles St Anne’s School, Shoreditch Natalie Murray, Tim Murray, Neil by Diana Burrell Church (St Leonard’s), Shoreditch Cowley Trio, Debs Newbold, Town Hall, Sound and Music, New London Chamber Choir, • Commendation from the Royal Spitalfields E1, Spitalfields City Nonclassical, Orchestra of the Age Society for Public Health’s Arts and Farm, Stitches in Time, Streetwise of Enlightenment, Ski Oakenfull, Health Awards for Lullaby, 2011, Opera, Swanlea School, TeaSmith, Roberto Ortiz, Gameshow our project in the Royal London Ten Bells, The English Restaurant, Outpatient, Zoe Palmer, Parallel, Hospital bringing music to the neo Thomas Buxton School, Tower Tom Parkinson, Polar Bear, Gabriel natal ward Hamlets Arts & Education Service, Prokofiev, Mercury Quartet, Tippett Village Underground, Vital Arts Quartet, Eliane Radigue, Ellie • Shortlisted for the Tower Whitechapel Bell Foundry, YCAT, Rees, Lawrence Renes, Jack Ross, Hamlets Third Sector Awards in the Wigmore Hall Retrospect Ensemble, Caroline category of Arts 2010 Ritchie, Carole Robinson, Graham Artists and leaders Ross, Royal Academy of Music , students, Kathryn Rudge, Sankorfa Jean-Claude Acquaviva, Isabelle Ensemble, Betty Steel, Yann Adams, Rob Adediran, A filetta, Seznec, Manjeet Singh, Spitalfields Paul Agnew, Aldeburgh Young Singers, Dominic Stitchbury, Musicians, Azalea Ensemble, Subeena, Alex Sutton, Laurel , Alistair Swift,THAMES musicians, The Appleton, Arte dei Suonatori, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Our programme involves a James Baillieu, David Bates, BBC The English Concert, The Imaginary range of local, national and Symphony Orchestra, Sophie String Band, The Lappetites, The international partners and artists. Bevan, Harry Bicket, Sarah-Jane Pukes, The Simon Sound, The Brandon, Peter Broadbent, Bunty, Sixteen, Renell Shaw, The Society Partners Mara Carlyle, Cakes & , of Royal Cumberland Youths, Elin Andaz Hotel, Aspirations at Tower Carmina, Jim Cartwright, Luis Manahan Thomas, Thomas Buxton Hamlets College, A Team Arts, Carvalho, Claudio Cavina, Laurence Sam Glazer, Udichi Shilpi Gosthi, & St Anne’s Schools, Kasper Atlee Centre, Barbican, BBC Crane, Cries of London, Caius Hazel Gould, Larry Goves, Adam Toeplitz, Daisy Vatalaro, Chahine Symphony Orchestra, BBC Radio College Choir & Consort, Duncan Green, Peter Gregson, Adam Yavroyan, David Watkin, Geoffrey 3, Barts and the London Hospital, Chapman, London Bulgarian Green, Mia Thiel Have, Peter Webber, James Weeks, Charlie Barts and the London NHS Trust, Choir, CHROMA, Gamelan Lila Hainsworth, Heath Quartet, de Wet, Julian West, John Webb, Brady Arts and Community Cita, Oliver Coates, Mary Collins, Matthew Herbert, Carl Herring, Bryan White, Jonathan Williams, Centre, Canon Barnett School, Consortium5, Joseph Crouch, Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini, Mark Withers, Women sing East & Charnel House, Christ Church Laurence Cummings, Charles Arni Heimir Ingolfsson, JigJaw, Laka D, Justin Woodward Spitalfields, Cherry Trees School, Curtis, Tim Davy, Rhodri Davies, Joyful Company of Singers, Juice Christ Church School, Citizens Dal’Ouna, Tim Davy, DJ Switch, Vocal Ensemble, Mikhail Karikis, UK, Community Music, CREATE, Will Dutta, Mahan Esfahani, Kwakebass, Stuart King, Kwes, Crisis, Denis Severs’ house, EXAUDI, Marcus Farnsworth, Joao Richard Lannoy, Dan Laurin, La English Folk Dance and Song Fernandes, Shiva Feshareki, Fifth Nuova Musica, La Venexiana, Leon Society, Guildhall School of Music Quadrant, Jem Finer, Edmund Michener Trio, , & Drama, Hague School, Hanbury Finnis, Christopher Fox, Gabrieli Marina de Liso, Mica Levi, Ligeti Hall, Idea Store Whitechapel, Kobi Consort & Players, Rachel Gannon, String Quartet, Longplayer, Nazrul Centre, Leila’s Shop, Leon Francis Gardner, Robert Gardiner, The Lorelles, Nick Luscombe,

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 10 The English Concert IMPACT In 2010/11 we welcomed The English Concert, one of the world’s leading baroque ensembles, as Associate Artists. The ensemble, under Artistic Director Harry Bicket, embraced our challenge to create Financial Community a tailored series of concerts that £2.5million economic benefit for 450 participants across our made use of the interesting local Tower Hamlets within the year. inter-generational and family venues and involved our audiences programmes have reported a in new and exciting ways. They greater understanding of their local serenaded diners with a programme Numbers area and community. of ‘table music’ during dinner 30,000 people involved in our at The English Restaurant, programme directly; a further collaborated with I Fagiolini on 150,000 indirectly through And finally… a new staging of Purcell’s King broadcast or on-line involvement We worked for ten weeks with 150 Arthur at Shoreditch Church, and in a project. babies and their families on the gave an exquisite performance of paediatric and post-labour wards Handel’s Aci Galatea e Polifemo in the Royal London Hospital. This at Christ Church. Alongside these Influence partnership with Vital Arts received performances they established Our programme has led to six a Commended award from The our first Baroque Boot Camp. An new programmes of activity being Royal Society for Public Health’s audience of more than 1000 heard commissioned by other bodies to Arts and Health Awards who The English Concert perform during be run as mainstream borough- praised the programme as one our Festival and an estimated wide provision. Over three years for other Trusts to follow. Medical further 150,000 heard them these programmes will reach a research has shown that music via broadcast. further 25,000 people. can strengthen the ties between parent and child, help with feeding The project was supported by and sleeping and even shorten The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Employment the length of hospital stay. “When Trust and M&G Investments Three strands of our programme musicians come onto the ward, have supported transition of there is an immediate, perceptible See Sophie Bevan’s interview. participants into professional change in atmosphere – it becomes life: 30 young adults from the quieter, calmer and everyone Aspirations Programme at Tower seems at ease – and the effect Hamlets College; 10 young lasts well after their departure.” volunteers who have trained with Christine Wood, Baby-friendly us; 20 musicians and teachers who co-ordinator. A number of families have followed training and INSET from this project now attend our programmes with us. Storytime early years sessions at Idea Store Whitechapel and have become founding members of our Education Family Ambassador group. Over 1,000 pupils reported the positive influence of our music programme on areas such as numeracy and literacy as well as general levels of confidence and communication. Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 11 REVIEW OF OUR 2010/11 PROGRAMME

Premieres Winter Festival Summer Festival Michael van der Aa 13-18 December 2010 and 5-7 10-25 June 2011 Spaces of Blank January 2011 John Barber/Hazel Gould Events: 70 We are Shadows Events: 18 New music premieres: 18 Laurie Bamon New music premieres: 5 Live audience 11,457 Charnel House Live audience: 4200 Paul Burke 12 indoor venues and four outdoor Flutemaster Taking Monteverdi’s famous books locations played host to festival Phil Dawson of madrigals as a starting point, the events. The English Concert and On Tenterhooks festival in Christ Church explored Mica Levi, as Associate Artists, Jonathan Dove song with artists from across provided an artistic thread through Full many a glorious morning Europe, from the extraordinary the festival. This was matched by Shiva Feshareki Icelandic choir Carmina to the our usual mix of early and new untitled piece for handbells acclaimed exponents of the music combining performances Hollie Harding madrigals La Venexiana. Alongside by world-class artists alongside Triangles and Circles our visitors were some of the performances and participation by best groups from the UK, and our local people. Our central weekend Spiel Learning Programme embraced took place on Spitalfields City Rolf Hind the theme through the autumn Farm featuring English and Bengali Sit, Stand, Walk term resulting in a premiere called folk music and included a range Gameshow Outpatient Madrigals and Fables by a group of of workshops, performances, a Dead Reckoning our Neighbourhood Schools – an musical treasure hunt made by Robert Peate incredible achievement, led by the Young Farmers, rides on the Hymnus Sam Glazer and Isabelle Adams. ponies and a ceilidh. Despite the Antony Pitts A centrepoint for the festival was rain it drew a large attendance! Who is my neighbour? the world premiere of four new The festival culminated with the Eliane Radigue pieces collectively called Fables, by world premiere of We are Shadows Naldjorlak Streetwise Operas. our large-scale community opera Eliane Radigue involving over 300 participants, Occam I This was our second festival to our 2009/10 Associate Artists The James Weeks span December and January. Sixteen, and composed by two The Freedom of the Earth Audiences came enthusiastically exceptional young artists John to both parts and we reached our Barber and Hazel Gould. We are second largest Winter Festival pleased to report that it sold out audience in our history. and received ecstatic five star reviews! Premieres Streetwise Opera, Mira Calix, Associate Artists Flat-e, Andy Mellon & Paul Sartin, The English Concert Tom Marshall, , Gaelle Artistic Director Harry Bicket Denis, Orlando Gough, Ian Finlay Mica Levi Fables Sam Glazer, Hague and Christ Church Primary Schools: Madrigals & Fables Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 12 Mica Levi Associate Artist Mica Levi is a rising star in contemporary music. Alongside her universally acclaimed debut album ‘Jewellery’ (Rough Trade), she has received commissions from the Barbican, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, and has toured with her band Micachu and The Shapes throughout Europe, the US and Australia. As Associate Artist, she curated a series of events which brought together several young composers and performers to present performances inspired by and reflective of their Spitalfields settings. She commissioned three new works, transformed Spitalfields Market back to the 1970s, worked with the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and presented our first ever ‘secret’ concert – which was held inside the fully working office of the Citizens UK headquarters. She also worked with over 100 young pupils from Tower Hamlets, to arrange one of her album’s songs to be performed en masse in Platform – Power of the Voice. Her series of events was full of experimentation, risk and lots of fun and surprised and delighted both newcomers and our frequent attenders.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 13 LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION

September 2010 – July 2011 Workshops: 302 Performances: 24 Leaders & Teachers: 334 People involved: 15,000 IN SCHOOL

Just under 15,000 people were (THAMES) and two key areas of Neighbourhood Schools – Professional Development students performance platforms, involved in our year-round this programme advanced during a year-round creative music Platform – a showcase within mentoring by world class musicians programme, the youngest was 2 the year. Our programme with programme for the 15 schools our festivals for the borough’s and training in working in education days old and the eldest was 97 families and very young people within a 15 minute walking young musicians to perform in and community settings. years old. Between them they matured – we established a distance of Spitalfields Market partnership with Tower Hamlets spoke over 50 languages and all family advisors group to help us – combines projects involving Arts and Music Service – this year Music Animateur Apprentice Artist live within the four square miles of develop this work further and our world-class artists for young celebrating the diversity of singing Scheme – a 12-month training Tower Hamlets. programme in the Royal London people, networking and training initiatives across the borough. programme for six postgraduate Hospital received a commendation. for teachers and opportunities for musicians who want to work in A centrepoint for our programme Alongside this we continued our parents to get involved. Young Programmers – a year-long education and community settings. this year was our community commitment to local schools training programme for young opera We are Shadows which through Neighbourhood Schools Special Education Needs people from Tower Hamlets who Continued Professional Development involved participants (adults (for schools within a 15 minute programme – tailored programmes want to develop skills in producing weekend – a weekend of reflection, and young people) from across walking distance of Spitalfields in three centres at primary, secondary and programming music. peer learning and training for the our Learning Programme as Market) and continued our work and further education level to experienced freelance leaders with performers, costume and prop in three Special Needs centres integrate music into regular activity and Partnership with Royal Academy of whom we work on a regular basis. makers, stewards and composers within the borough. This work is to create connections between the Music – an ongoing partnership and writers. rapidly gaining respect beyond the centres and the wider community. offering Royal Academy of Music borough and we plan in 2011/12 to Our work with young people is establish links between our SEN developed with our partner Tower programme and our mainstream Hamlets Arts and Music Service Neighbourhood Schools. IN THE COMMUNITY

Spitalfields in Residence – a series professionals. Written over of projects in the Royal London two years, in collaboration with Hospital working in different wards participants, by John Barber and with staff and patients on projects Hazel Gould. which connect back into the wider community. Rocking Horse creche – a series of weekly workshops in Idea Store Spitalfields Singers and Women Whitechapel for new families to sing East – two community choirs encourage singing from a very meeting weekly and performing in early age. our Summer and Winter Festivals. Family Days – workshops, We are Shadows – a commission performances and musical fun for of an hour-long opera for young families in our festivals. performance by 300 local participants, Associate Artists The Sixteen and a group of other Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 14 We are Shadows A central part of Stomping Ground, our programme of change which seeks to draw our Learning Programme and our festivals closer together and to involve local people much more in the way that the organisation is run, We are Shadows was a huge community effort over 18 months.

The project culminated in June with three performances by over 300 local participants, costume and set designers, professional and non professional. A new commission from young composer John Barber and librettist Hazel Gould, the brief was to work with singers from The Sixteen, young performers from our Neighbourhood Schools, two community choirs, a small band of instrumentalists and two professional singers and two dancers.

The piece was designed as a collaborative composition and libretto, with 100 hours of workshops and nearly 150 of rehearsals held right across Tower Hamlets. Set was designed by Stitches in Time and knitted by a team of people across local elders centres & schools, The Crisis Milliners Group worked on costumes for the rats. All drawn together by director Mia Theil Have, designer Luis Carvalho and conductor Natalie Murray.

The project was supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, M&G Investments and Spitalfields Music’s New Music Commission Fund.

Read composer John Barber’s reflections on the project Watch some of the participants’ footage collected during the production See cast list

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 15 Sit, Stand, Walk For the Summer Festival 2011, Spitalfields Music techniques and measured the positive impact on commissioned composer and pianist Rolf Hind their music-making. Students joined Rolf, along with to write a piece of music for solo clarinet and other meditation experts who had taken part on the 13 musicians to be performed by contemporary project, to talk about their experiences in a pre- ensemble CHROMA and clarinettist Stuart King. concert symposium. Sit, Stand, Walk was performed The result was Sit, Stand, Walk, a 20 minute alongside a programme of music exploring ancient concerto inspired by the classic positions in which Eastern ritual and spirituality, which included one can meditate. The piece came out of a research works by Jonathan Harvey and Param Vir, and was AUDIENCES & PARTICIPANTS project Rolf had led at the Guildhall School of Music complemented with an early morning mindfulness and Drama throughout the 2010/11 year, in which session in Shoreditch Church. 30 volunteer students learnt mindfulness meditation

Our audiences are a unique mix of Festival audiences first time attenders, loyal regulars and participants. • an increase of 4% in total numbers attending • 68% first time attendees for our festivals Our aim is to offer the best • 46% from E & N postcodes experience to everyone who • 28% from other london postcodes participates in or attends an event. • 26% from beyond london Participants:

• 97% from E postcodes • age range of our participants from 2 days to 97 years old • 57% adults • 43% young people • 175: number of music leaders trained who within 2 years will each reach a further 1000 participants

During the year we ran a number Our family activity in the festival of initiatives to make it as easy as was programmed in collaboration possible for people to get involved: with a new group of family advisers recruited through our year-round One quarter of our tickets were family programme. Their brief is to available at £5 each. One third of help us make this area of our work our events were free. accessible to the whole Tower Hamlets community. No Strings Attached, our free ticket scheme for first time local We continued our Student residents, offered 150 tickets and Ambassadors programme. was funded entirely by festival audience members. We have continued to persuade a high number of people to attend for A 15% discount was offered the first time: 67% of our audience. across ‘series’ tickets. 12 of our festival events have Each lunchtime a free outdoor attached Insight events and most concert attracted audiences of 300- of our Winter Festival events were 500 people. introduced from the stage. Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 16 FUNDING

Our income spreads across a broad Income Sources In %: range of sources, testimony to the range of partnerships which we have and the breadth of STATUTORY FUNDING 31% our programme. In the year we EARNED INCOME 17% raised 71% of our income from INVESTMENT INCOME 2% companies, trusts, individuals and statutory sources for projects. In DONATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS 10% addition to this, 17% was earned DONATIONS FROM COMPANIES 10% and 12% came from core statutory grants. DONATIONS FROM TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS 30% During the year we continued to feel the impact of the economic challenges to some of our corporate and to a certain extent trust supporters. In the short-term this gap is supported through an additional grant from Arts Council England through their Sustain initiative, to enable us to maintain our programme by closing the gap left by lost income over two years. Throughout the year income from individual donors has been steadily increasing and we have been grateful to a number of trusts which have maintained or added their support.

Our three statutory funders Arts Council England, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and City of London maintained their grants to us despite strain on their own budgets. Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 17 A donor’s story John and Moyra have enjoyed coming to Spitalfields Music Festivals over the years. They also recently found out about the charity’s ground-breaking work with the Tower Hamlets community and found it inspiring. After visiting some of our workshops – seeing particularly young people achieving amazing things through musical and composition activities – they decided to make a donation towards our work. They chose to support our work with young boys with Special Educational Needs from The Cherry Trees School. For them, it is extremely “rewarding and moving” to see young people overcoming difficulties and being able to focus, create and perform music of such a quality in front of their friends and family. Our projects with the school develop the boys’ confidence, and a sense of pride and achievement. John and Moyra are delighted to be part of it.

At Spitalfields Music, we like our donors to meet our artists and see what’s happening behind the scenes, whether in a music venue or in a school, a library or a hospital .... and they are at the heart of the Spitalfields Music family.

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 18 The financial statements cover broadly balanced with a small remained similar to previous years- a 12 month period (the previous deficit after transfers between spread across a broad range of report covered an 8 month period funds. Expenditure was split almost sources. The charity’s policy is to as the charity changed its year-end evenly between our two festivals invest its reserves with low risk. FINANCE to align with its planning cycle and our year-round Learning and The balance sheet shows a loss on and the academic year). Turnover Participation Programme and the the charity’s investments, largely is £904,691 and income and majority of our expenditure being incurred in the last quarter of expenditure within the year were directed towards activity. Income the year. Income and expenditure account Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2011 2011 2010 As at 31 August 2011 2011 2010 31/08/2011 For the 8 months ended 31-Aug 31-Aug 31-Aug £ £ £ £ INCOME FIXED ASSETS Statutory 314,215 191,008 Tangible assets 1,852 1,388 Fundraising 422,622 278,969 Investments 748,204 800,000 Earned income 150,365 83,457 750,056 801.388 Investment 16,827 5,369 CURRENT ASSETS Other 662 250 Debtors 71,147 35,939 904,691 559.053 Cash at bank and in hand 251,749 370,255 EXPENDITURE 322.896 406.194 Festivals 489,639 323,106 CREDITORS Learning 355,138 182,591 Amount falling due within one year -259,068 -340,141 Fundraising and governance 61,675 40,700 Net current assets 63,828 66,053 906,452 546,397 Net assets 813,885 867,441 Surplus (deficit) for the year before revaluation on investments -1761 12.656 FUNDS Unrestricted funds 482,826 503,765 Restricted funds: – Projects 2,251 4,337 – Christopher Vaughan Legacy Fund 117,940 140,266 – Property Fund 75,000 75,000 – New Music Commission Fund 135,868 144,073 Total charity funds 813,885 867.441

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 19 PEOPLE

Spitalfields Music is run by a TEAM Mok, Yasmine Movsisjanova, Alice motivated board, a group of Helen Bailey, Cathy Birch, Northgreaves, Richard Palmer, knowledgeable and skilled Camille De Groote, Ellie Folkes, Alexandra Paulino, Margaret Pitt, Volunteer story programme advisors, an Kate Kelly, Clare Lovett, Uju Sarah Robson, Stanley Rondeau, Our volunteers are incredibly energetic and close-knit team of Maduforo, Sylvain Malburet, Peter Salter, Anne-Marie Sharman, important to us and are employees and a dedicated and Tamsin Oldham, Abigail Pogson, Elizabeth Shaw, Maggie Stockton, instrumental in helping us to passionate group of volunteers. Mia Roberts, Rebecca Steel Sophia Stovall, Barbara Strong, produce a smooth-running and Mahiedhara Sumathipala, Caroline During the year we held five friendly festival. This year has Taunt, Clare Thompson, Lara volunteer training sessions VOLUNTEER STEWARDS seen our volunteers represent us and between them the staff Ali Arman, Charlotte Austin, Thomson, Jan Thornton, Allison at a huge variety of events, from undertook 64 days of training. Alexandru Belciug, Amanda Bodley, Tyous, Jenny Vernon, Eleanor family days on Spitalfields City David Borrill, Neil Bowman, Arianna Ward, Mary Watkinson, John Farm to lunchtime market events COUNCIL Castiglione, Fay Cattini, Amelia Wetherell, Delia Whitbread, Susan to intimate concerts in little-known Sir Alan Moses (Chair), Andrew Charman, Noel Chow, Catherine Whitehead unusual venues. David Borrill was Blankfield, Helen Fraser, Sarah Clambaneva, Alessandra Conte, one of our new recruits for 2011 Gee, Nick Hardie, Keith Haydon, Sue Coulbeck, John Critchley, and volunteered for the Michael Keating, Shanara Matin, Sandy Critchley, Jay Crossland, Summer Festival: John McCuin, Nicky Oppenheimer, Camille De Groote, Magdalena Judith Weir Dembiñska, Jane Dunnage, “I volunteered at the Spitalfields Bianca Elliot, Jennifer Emptage, Music Festival to get some PROGRAMME ADVISORS Liz Floodgate, Shirley Foulkes, experience of working on a large- David Bates, Karen Brock, Thalia Elizabeth Goldman, Christine scale music festival as part of a Cassimatis, David Gallagher, Goodwin, Kezia Gorman, Helen wider ambition to work in the arts Shreela Ghosh, Michael Keating, Hackney, Mary Hempstead, Maria and creative industries. I was made Julia Lawrence, Sonia Mehta, Hughes, Lee-Anne Inglis, Marianne very welcome by the full-time Rachel Morse, William Norris, Janosi, Megan Kim, Mitzuki time staff and was very impressed Zoe Palmer, Louise Pulford, Julian Kitagawa, Felicity Lane, Pheng by their professionalism and West, Deborah Williams, Lay, Annabelle Lee, Christine organisational skills during a busy Jane Williams Lewis, Carole Mahoney, Cui Yin schedule of concerts.”

“I gained a valuable insight into how the concerts were staged and how each member of the team contributed to a successful festival for audience and performers alike.”

Spitalfields Music ANNUAL REVIEW 20 We are extremely grateful for the support from those who wish to remain anonymous and those who are listed below. Our work would not be possible THANK YOU without the help which these people offer so generously, continuously and enthusiastically. Thank you!

CORE SUPPORTERS Esmée Fairbairn Foundation INDIVIDUAL DONORS George & Anne Law, Jeremy Eva de Meza, David & Nicola de Salmon, Maggie Sandell, Richard Golsoncott Foundation George Law, Peter Wakefield, Lindon, Doris Lockhart, Sir Colin & Quincey Souden, Donna DeWick, & Margaret Sax, Henrietta Shields, Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Geoffrey Collens, the late Rosie Mackay, Nick Macrae, Janet Di Stefano, Brian & Judy James Shillingford, John Simpson, Holst Foundation Christopher Vaughan, the late S W Massil, John & Judy McCuin, Dobbs, Annie Edge, Elizabeth Julia Singer, Richard Slack, Richard John and Susan Bowers Fund Peter Lerwill, Andrew Blankfield & His Honour Judge Michael & Mrs Fowler, Sue Gardener, Stephen & Jenny Smith, Grace Spence, J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Bernadette Hillman, Chris Carter & Nicky Oppenheimer, Sir Robert & Garner, Christine Garrett, Mr & Norman Start, Bernard & Linda Kirby Laing Foundation Stuart Donachie, Michael Cutting, Lady Owen, John & Terry Pearson, Mrs George, Mary Gilchrist, Brian Steel, S F M Steer, Dr Colin Stolkin, PUBLIC FUNDS Lord Phillimore Charitable Trust Mr & Mrs Spencer & Lucy De Abigail Pogson, Ruth Rattenbury, Girling, Nigel Glendinning, Bill & Allan Sutherland, Pat Sweet, Capacitybuilders Lynn Foundation Grey, Alex & Susan de Mont, Mr & Brian D Smith, Vincent Yorke Erika Gloyn, Dr J M Gooding, Don Hilda Taylor, Richard Thomson, Dr Find Your Talent The Mercers’ Company Mrs Nigel Dutson, Albert & Rowan Gorman, Diana Morgan Gray, Ann Jeffrey Tobias, Howard Towson, Sing up! Michael Marks Charitable Trust Edwards, Helen Fraser CBE, Nick & SILVER PATRONS & Nick Gray, Adey Grummet, Ulrich Mr J Utting, Heike Waldmann, THAMES Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Emma Hardie, Keith & Sarah Jane Miss C J Apperly, Roy Blackwell Haemmig, Freda Harcourt, Virginia John C Walton, Mr Simon Youth Music Musicians Benevolent Fund Haydon, Rosalind Hedley-Miller, & Jennifer Jones, Ken Blakeley, Harding, Vanessa Harley, Colston Wedgwood, Alan & Lyn Williams, New Court Charitable Trust John & Moyra Horseman, Peter Judith Borrow, Delia Broke, Hartley, John T Harwood, James Professor Gwyn Williams, Charles COMPANIES Paul Hamlyn Foundation & Sarah King, Sir Alan & Dinah Caroline Burton, John & Sandy Hastings, Nora Heard, Mr Hearn & Wilmot-Smith, Muriel Wilson, Allen & Overy Peter Cruddas Foundation Moses, Richard Syred & Brian Critchley, Leopold de Rothschild, Dr Williams, Andrew Hinchley, Dr Daniel Wise, Valerie Wise Ballymore Properties Ltd Polish Cultural Institute Parsons, The Ten Bells Charlie de Wet, Charles C Duff, Anthony Hobson, Julia Hodgkin, Christ Church Spitalfields PRS for Music Foundation Mary Dufty, Olwen Evans, Mavis Anna Home, Dagna Horner, Linda HELP IN KIND Clifford Chance Radcliffe Trust PARTNERS AND ALUMNI FROM Fabling, Jo-Anne Fraser, James Howell, Kimberly Hutchings, Andaz Hotel, Ballymore Properties, Hammerson Rayne Foundation ALLEN & OVERY Golob, Bella Hobson, Kate Jenkins, Stephen A Jack, Molly Jackson, Bishopsgate Institute, Le Bouchon Man Group plc Charitable Trust Rothschild Ian Annetts, Guy Beringer, Andrew Arabella Lee, Christine Lewis, Sue Jackson, Alice Jacobs, Gill Breton, Brady Arts & Community M&G Group RVW Trust Blankfield, Mark Friend, Ceris David & Mary Pears, David Preddy, James, Frank Jeffs, Professor & Centre, City of London, Christ News International St Katharine & Shadwell Trust Gardener, Duncan Gibbons, Colleen Mizanur Rahman, Alan Sainer, Mrs C Jenks, Helen Jenner, Eva Church Spitalfields, Crepe Affaire, Spitalfields E1 Thistle Trust Keck, Don McGown, Joanna Page, Derek Sugden, Allan Sutherland, Kaluzynska, Bridget Kitley, Paul John & Sandy Critchley, Dennis Trust For London Andrew Sulston, David Wootton Nicholas Warren & Catherine & Karen Lasok, John Lavagnino, Severs’ House, Charlie de Wet, FOUNDATIONS, TRUSTS AND Walter Guinness Charitable Trust Graham-Harrison, Charles William Longland, Kathleen Chris & Sarah Dyson, The English LIVERY COMPANIES Worshipful Company of Armourers CHAIR OF PATRONS Whiddington, Colin Wolfe, Malbon, Alexi & Michael Marmot, Restaurant, Eyediology, Field Fisher Aldgate & Allhallows Barking and Brasiers George Law John P Wotton Professor & Mrs Michael M Marsh, Waterhouse LLP, Fiona Atkins, Exhibition Foundation Worshipful Company of Deborah Marson, Sue McCarthy, GBK, Imagist, Marianna Kennedy, Britten-Pears Foundation Chartered Surveyors HONORARY LIFE PATRONS PATRONS Milton Grundy Foundation, Graham Pascale Lacroix & Roy Adams, The City Bridge Trust Worshipful Company of Coopers Diana Burrell, David & Julia Cade, Iain & Fiona Allan, Bob Allies & Morrison, Sylvia Moys, Deirdre Leon Restaurants, London Borough Clore Duffield Foundation Worshipful Company of Cutlers Jonathan Dove, Dr & Mrs Anthony Jill Franklin, Mrs Bridget Asprey, Munro, Linda Neal, George Nissen, of Tower Hamlets, Mazars, Reed Coutts Charitable Trust Worshipful Company of Girdlers Henfrey, George Law, Chris Leonard Attewell, RA Bailey & PJ David Norgrove, Jennifer Oxley, Smith, The Royal Society of Derek Shuttleworth Educational Trust Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Sayers, Judith Serota OBE, Judith Cameron, Dr Ian Basnett, Richard Alison Parkinson, Joyce Parsons, Cumberland Youths, Shipleys LLP, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Worshipful Company of Grocers Weir CBE Bawden, Anne Bearne, Stephen Dr & Mrs M Parsons, Barbara Shoreditch Church, Spitalfields Embassy of the Kingdom of Worshipful Company of Haberdashers Benson, Alison Bernal, Penny Patilla, Veronica Plowden, Ann Development Group, Virgin the Netherlands Worshipful Company of Ironmongers GOLD PATRON Berryman, Graham Betts, Sally Porter, Dr Clive Potter, Nigel & Active UK, Simon Wedgewood, Embassy of Sweden Worshipful Company of Leathersellers Byrne Charitable Trust, Francis Bridgeland, Cynthia Butterworth, Vivien Prevost, Sue J Prickett Wellington Markets, Whitechapel Eranda Foundation Worshipful Company of Mercers Carnwath CBE, Michael Godbee, Andrew Ceresa, Suzi Clarke, & John Bryer, Mary M Quigley, Bell Foundry, Wieden + Kennedy, Ernest Cook Trust Worshipful Company of Musicians Andrew Hill, Sue & Tom Imber, Susan Collinson, Joseph Coten, Hugh & Clare Richards, Ann Ross, Williams de Broë, Yamaha Music Ernst von Siemens Foundation Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Colleen Keck, Michael Langton, Sue Coulbeck, Janet Davies, Sue Rowlands, Ted & Jenny Europe GmbH (UK)

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