Community Music Winners 2012
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Community Music Winners 2012 Organisation Name Amount Region Project Description Advent Community £ 9,000.00 London This project will create and record original performance pieces on the theme of ‘peace’ – featuring Association instrumental performers from RPO, and vocalists from Young N Gifted choir and local schools. Young N Gifted will work with the London Borough of Newham Integrated Youth Service and Newham Pathfinder Youth Club to organize a showcase event with themed workshops to celebrate the international Peace One Day Campaign. Aestaewast £ 1,000.00 Scotland To bring a high quality African drumming tutor to Shetland for an intensive weekend of tuition for our group members. Castaway Sing £ 6,736.00 Yorkshire and the Castaway Sing commissions York-based composer Emily Crossland to compose a piece for the choir, Humber which is rehearsed and performed with singers from East Yorks Federation of Women's Institutes, and professional and Castaway instrumentalists in Goole and Beverley. Cheltenham Youth Choir £ 8,550.00 South West NEW GLOUCESTERSHIRE SONGS A suite of new songs by Gloucestershire composers in a performance at the Cheltenham Music Festival. This concert would also feature CYC forming the backbone of a performance of Britten's Noye's Fludde Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile £ 4,600.00 Scotland We would like to produce a CD to mark the 10th anniversary of Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile. We feel that this would be an exciting challenge which would develop the Club and help to sustain it into the future. Core Music £ 9,350.00 North East The aim of this project is to create a new composition which is fully based in the Northumbrian music style and tradition while incorporating some of the musical influences and ideas created by, and reflecting the interests of, a diverse group of Core musicians. Cumbria Community £ 4,965.00 North West The purpose of our project is to establish the Cumbria Community Gamelan in its new home in Carlisle, Gamelan to attract and retain a new cohort of members from the local community, and create exciting and challenging performance opportunities for new and old members alike. We hope this project will create a buzz, putting our group on the cultural map and cementing our future in Carlisle. Dacorum Community Choir £ 5,000.00 South East Dacorum Community Choir performs Jonathan Dove’s Community Opera Tobias and the Angels at St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead. The performances will be the culmination of a long-term series of rehearsals and workshops, combining professional forces with amateur forces of all ages. Dales Jam £ 7,000.00 Yorkshire and the To produce an original extended 45 minute piece of music, with 4 - 7 movements, consisting of a Humber "Suite" developed out of improvisational workshops and then structured into a formal composition.The composition would be developed in workshop sessions with local partners, including young musicians from (a) local school(s), (b)the young participants in the 2013 RamJam project, and with (c) Dales Jam members.The sections centreing around local historical stories. The first performance to be at Grassington Festival 2013 by all participants and followed by performances at local venues. Dunbartonshire Concert £ 7,580.00 Scotland 2013 will mark the 40th 'birthday' of the Dunbartonshire Concert band. We want to have a unique piece Band of music to play at our celebratory concert in June 2013 which can then be shared with the Wind Band community. We really want to encourage new compositions for wind / community bands rather than adaptations or arrangements. Composers who understand windbands provide us with more challenging work which stretches us and provides the audience with a real treat - a wind band at full stretch. We have raised funds to cover the cost of other anniversary events but this would be the icing on the cake. Essex Marching Corps £ 4,677.00 East of England Providing advanced training and music materials to young leaders to develop the groups skills. Participating within a workshop and performance with a professional army band, workshops at local schools to promote our group and the performance with the army. Fascinating Rhythm £ 800.00 South West To produce another Winter Celebration including the same aspects as last year plus a new dimension. We will invite community members to perform in our show. In preparation they will take part in a workshop run by Fascinating Rhythm prior to the winter show. Fireflies Choir £ 6,700.00 North West The project is to commission an anthem celebrating the history and life of the local community, to be created and performed by as many members of the community as possible in a venue that is free and accessible to all, with Fireflies as the lead organisation. Friends of Wighton £ 5,000.00 Scotland To present a public concert featuring all the participants from all our various classes, workshops and Outreach programmes. The concert would provide a rich and varied journey through Andrew John Wighton's Collection. Glossop and District Choral £ 4,000.00 East Midlands Our project will take us out of our 'comfort zone' to increase our skills and confidence, it will attract Society new younger members and raise our profile in the community; culminating in a performance at a local festival in 2013. I Love Thunder £ 4,970.00 London We would like to develop our stage act to be one that people remember on its own merits, not just because of our disabilities. We want our audience to share in the happiness that we get from performing music. We will work towards producing a show specifically to encourage more organisers to consider hiring us for their mainstream events. Lochwinnoch Choral Society £ 1,298.00 Scotland To enhance the community aspect of the choir by identifying, encouraging and enabling local musicians to work with the choir in the production of future concerts Milton Keynes Chorale £ 2,500.00 South East As a challenge for our 40th anniversary celebrations, we shall plan, organise and recruit tutors and participants for a two-day workshop on 7 & 8 September 2013, to learn and perform Thomas Tallis' 40- part motet 'Spem in Alium'. Pagoda Chinese Youth £ 5,000.00 North West This project will be celebrating the youth orchestra’ s 30 years anniversary in August 2013. Through Orchestra the project, we will create 3 different elements:1. Produce a 20 min short film documentary on the 30 years of the PCYO, to promote the orchestra for recruitments, potential funders and future collaborations.2. A new piece to be featured in the film documentary and the live celebration performance;3. Outreach to a wider community (schools, youth clubs and interest groups) by our apprentices to promote the orchestra and recruit new participants using the film. Pink Singers £ 10,000.00 London On 7 April 2013, the Pink Singers will be 30 years old. This is no small achievement – as Europe’s oldest LGBT community choir, the Pink Singers has evolved against a backdrop of three decades of political and social change. We wish to celebrate and look forward to a bright future by commissioning a new piece of music and by organising a day of workshops to which as many LGBT choirs as possible are invited, culminating in a concert. The working title for this day is 'Sing Out'. Porthywaen Silver Band £ 5,000.00 West Midlands Porthywaen Silver Band wishes to work with composer Matthew Hall to create a new piece of music suitable for the beginners, youth and senior sections. The band members are excited at the idea of being involved in the process of composition. The new piece will tell the story of the band, why it has survived when other local bands have fallen, and it will celebrate the ‘intergenerational magic’ which makes this band so special. Readipop £ 4,900.00 South East Moving On will undertake an ambitious project to recruit more members and create a live band of other senior citizens who can accompany the group. Developing their performance to include live instruments will broaden their repertoire and the scale and quality of their performances, to include bigger stages and events. In turn this will help the group to continue to expand and recruit new members. Regent Brass £ 4,250.00 London Regent Brass proposes a low cost, high impact project comprising the commissioning of a major new work and its June 2013 launch at a concert which will, at the same time, celebrate the first anniversary of Regent Community Brass. ReSound Community Choir £ 4,650.00 North West To extend our current A-May-Sing programme by staging a large free (or very very cheap) performance at the Civic Hall, featuring music from war time and inviting participants and audience members from local care homes and homes for the elderly. RNCM Youth Perform £ 4,950.00 North West A Taste of Perform' will be a five week development project to encourage new members and raise the profile of RNCM Youth Perform within communities across Manchester. Through a series of targeted outreach workshops followed by an intensive half-term project, the project will encourage collaboration between local community youth groups, professional musical theatre artists and the RNCM, focusing particularly on reaching those organisations supporting young people (aged 13 – 18 years) currently marginalised and/or deemed 'at risk'. Rock It! Collective £ 4,770.00 North West There are two main parts to the development project we wish to undertake. 1) Music Leader, Trainee and Young Leader professional development 2) Composition project with classical music students from Bolton's Music Service. Sat'dy Allsorts £ 6,800.00 North West Sat’dy Allsorts’ would work together for the first time to create ten new pieces of urban music inspired by their lives.