Annual Report 2008/09 Evolving through exchange and inspiration Page 2 Contents

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Review of the year 3 – 5 About us 5 – 6 The year in numbers Strategic objectives 7 Our programme 8 – 11 Total number of people involved in our work 23,357 Audiences and participants 12 Total performance events 127 Funding 13 Our supporters 14 – 16 Walks, talks and visits 18 Financial statements 17 Total outdoor events 20 People 18 Total free festival events 31 Total premieres 15 Radio broadcasts 10 Page 3 Review of the year

2008/09 has been a full and fulfilling year for Looking ahead Spitalfields Music – our first year with our new name. Our programme of activity has continued 2009/10 sees a number of new initiatives starting, to go from strength to strength and new plans which seek both to involve people even more closely which were forming at the time of writing last in our programme and organisation, and find even year’s report are now starting to come to fruition. more points of intersection between our Learning & Participation programme and festivals: 2008/09 programme • With a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation we begin Stomping Ground, a 2008/09 has been the final year under Artistic three year initiative to develop our whole Director Diana Burrell and her two festival programme to get even more people involved programmes have showcased the quality of her across the borough as volunteers, curators, programming. For our Winter Festival 2008 (spilling audience and participants for our work. into 2009) her invitation to the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot • We commission a new participatory piece Gardiner captured imaginations and drew in the for 250 voices for next summer’s festival Business plan largest audience ever for our Winter Festival. In – a piece which will celebrate different the Summer Festival 2009 her inclusion of three communities and involve young and old We enter 2009/10 in a strong artistic, educational substantial new pieces of commissioned music, people, city workers and local residents. and organisational position. The financial by Michael Finnissy, Jonathan Dove and herself, • We begin a new primary programme with position is more challenging, with unprecedented marked the highest level of attendance for new neighbourhood primary schools within a 15 economic conditions having contributed to both music in any of our festivals and the pieces drew minute walk of Spitalfields market. a shortfall in our fundraising and depletion in significant critical acclaim. I would like to thank the value of our reserves in the past 12 months. Diana for her inspiring and thoughtful leadership of • We develop our volunteering programme to Whilst the immediate impact of this is felt in the our festival programming over the past three years. involve more people in our festivals and to figures reported here, (to the end of 2008), we build volunteering through the year. have set a course to a ‘break-even’ annual budget Our year-round Learning & Participation for 2009 and taken steps to ensure our balance • We move from working with a single Artistic Programme continues to thrive with this year’s sheet position has every chance of recovery. focus on working with fewer people in a more Director to a series of Artistic Associates sustained and in depth way. In particular, offering the chance for artists to work with Whilst the finances from our July 2008 business our Special Education Needs programme us over a period of time and to be involved plan have been revised in the light of the last developed with partnership from Sing Up!; the in our festivals and year-round programme. 12 months, the overarching objectives and playingfields programme concluded after three individual project goals remain our focus and years; our choir Women sing East hit its highest despite significantly reduced resources we have level of membership and made its evening achieved 65% of our goals for the year across our concert debut in Wilton’s during our Summer programme, resources, marketing and fundraising. Festival and our Apprentice Artist Scheme expanded its reach significantly. In September we ran a first ‘mini festival’, working with local partners to celebrate the beginning of the Cultural Olympiad with a weekend-long programme called Spitalfields Opens Up! Page 4 Review of the year

Partners and collaborators Thank you

Our work is delivered in partnership with It is thanks to our many loyal and generous others, locally and nationally, and it is due to supporters, that we are able to deliver our strong and creative partnerships that we have programme. In particular we would like to been able to continue to deliver so much in a thank the Arts Council England, City of London challenging financial period. Our key venues: Corporation and London Borough of Tower Christ Church, Wilton’s Music Hall, Shoreditch Hamlets for their support of our work, both Church, Brady Centre and Bishopsgate Institute financial and with expertise and networks. have all supported us by allowing us to use We are very grateful to our founding group of their spaces without charge. We are extremely Champions, who established a new individual grateful to them for this support. Spitalfields supporters group during our Winter Festival 2008 Estates working with us on Arts Box and on our and to all of our individual supporters who have outdoor festival programme continue to work continued their support for us through the year. tirelessly to get the best from our partnership. Our project with The Monteverdi Choir and The There have been some changes to our Council English Baroque Soloists proved what can be during the year. Thank you to Sarah Kemp for achieved through artistic collaboration: bringing many years of energetic and creative contribution the highest quality music making to the borough as she steps down from the Council. Also to Wilf and offering ways for as many people as possible Weeks OBE who stepped down as Chair during to get involved. And our schools, our City of the year, following a period of ill health. His London Arts Partners, our Create partners and tenure at the helm was brief but the impact of his the THAMES team continue to be important efforts significant – laying the ground for many partnerships for us. of the developments which are now coming to fruition. Andrew Blankfield stepped in, initially as Acting Chair, and then taking over in November, steering the organisation on a steady course through a challenging 12 months. I’d like to thank him for his huge energy and effort. Going in to 2009/10 we welcome Sir Alan Moses as our next Chair, a role he begins in October. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our activities in 2008/09: none of this would have been possible without the staff, Council, volunteers, advisers, funders and partners whose vigour and enthusiasm are the core of our success. I look forward to the coming year and to the next phase. Abigail Pogson Executive Director Page 5 About us

Our impact is measured by those involved in our work. Here are some of their comments:

The course has increased my general This project was really fun and satisfying Music is a fantastic medium by which we happiness and well-being, encouraged me to be involved with. I felt that the children can engage a community and improve to listen to a wider range of music and I’ve gained a great deal from the project – both people’s confidence, discipline and ability to made new friends. musically and in terms of self-esteem. communicate. Spitalfields Music continues Leadership was really inspiring and I learnt to offer the local community all of these Women sing East participant a lot from working with [her] and Jim. benefits, whilst providing a new and exciting engagement opportunity. Artist involved in workshop leading Paul Edwards, I really enjoyed the hands on experience of Head of Sustainability, Hammerson the whole programme. I was really proud to be involved. The kids were focused and really Excellent performance, wonderful venue, what willing to perform. It gave each of them a more could I ask for? More of the same! sense of achievement. A real treat for the Audience member Works commissioned by British music school and parents. festivals are often the size of a mouse. Yet Troy Gering, Teacher, Phoenix School the plucky Spitalfields Summer Festival managed to gather just enough funds to Last night’s concert was great - wonderful generate a major work by that abrasive choir and orchestra. The evening at maverick Michael Finnissy. A fun, interactive experience. The project Spitalfields was lovely as usual. It’s a great The Times – Geoff Brown built on their team working skills, self- venue, the programme is always excellent confidence and performance skills, enabling with performances of high standard. Wish I children to see their own potential and talent. could come more often. [The project helped in] building links with Audience member Herbert Smith has been proudly supporting [the] local community and other schools. community organisations in the local area The artists were great, inspirational, very for close to 20 years, and we are delighted enthusiastic and passionate about music. to have been able to extend that support to promoting live music performance. We Hurca Mohsin, Teacher, Osmani School would like to congratulate Spitalfields Music on their hugely successful programme this year and wish them all the best for 2010. Ian Cox, Partner, Head of Real Estate, Herbert Smith LLP Page 6 About us

2008/09 in summary Our programme has a local, national and international reputation Vision: Messy Songs for Messy Play • 500,000 people have been directly involved Changing lives and aspirations through music in to date. 3 million have heard our work London’s East End. Through our Learning & Participation through BBC Radio broadcasts. We have Programme’s 20 years we have developed a brought 46 new pieces of music to life specialism in bringing music to young people Mission: through our commissioning fund. with learning difficulties, working regularly in Spitalfields Music creates live music experiences three centres in the borough. One of these is in Spitalfields through performances, learning Our programme is accessible and affordable and our relationship with participants and Cherry Trees School in Bow (where we have been and participation. Everything we do is inspired by working for ten years), a small primary school the spirit of the area, its people and their global audiences is personal and friendly. We are responsible for many first introductions for boys with severe emotional and behavioural and local influences. Taking live music as our difficulties. For two weeks the whole school core, we explore music, performance, its artists to concert-going, making music or creating music timetable is turned over to music including and our communities. singing, trumpet and percussion and at the end • 65% of people involved in our work are of the fortnight, a performance showcases the based in Tower Hamlets Aims: results to families and the local community. • 50% of our tickets are free or £5 • 65% of participants are undertaking a • To produce music festivals for locally music workshop for the first time based people and visitors to the area, programming in a way which takes artistic • 40% of paying attenders are attending risk and offers something new to audiences for the first time and participants. Our audiences and participants are both local • To make year-round learning and residents and visitors to the area and our participation projects with the people of Summer and Winter Festivals have brought Tower Hamlets which encourage aspiration, consistent economic impact to the area over skill and fun. 32 years: • For every £1 of public subsidy a further • To nurture and find talent, to commission £4 is raised from private sources new work and to work with artists. • Economic impact, measured by Arts Council formulae, is £2.5million per • To be a catalyst and collaborator in music annum across turnover, goods and in Spitalfields and Tower Hamlets and to services offered, additional visitor engage in the life of the borough. spending and employment Page 7 Strategic objectives

Our goals for 2009/10 are to: Buy-one, donate-one build our festivals, learning and participation and events programmes into a new phase with This summer we asked for the help of our artistic associates audiences to provide an opportunity for a Tower Hamlets resident to come to an event for the first • continue to build our partnerships locally, time. When buying a ticket, audience members nationally and internationally were asked whether they would donate the • continue to develop the Spitalfields Music value of a second. So far 72 people have come brand and understanding of it locally for free for the first time, hearing a range of and nationally events from opera, to a steel pan band to string quartets. We worked together with Bishopsgate • manage our finances with low risk Institute, Linkage, Providence Row/Dellow Lane, through the continuing economic Spitalfields City Farm, The Atlee Centre, Magic challenges and support this with Me, Streetwise Opera and Aspirations at Tower a focused fundraising programme Hamlets College to reach first time attenders. • support and develop our people: artists, ‘I enjoyed it tremendously. The steel band was volunteers, staff members, advisers terrific!’ Vincent Felice, media group member and trustees ‘Got all the kids together, all nationalities – • explore possibilities for a long-term physical wonderful’ Vi Davis, media group member base for the organisation’s work All of those who attended the concert found it to be ‘interesting’ and ‘atmospheric’ and one person particularly liked ‘how the flautist started playing before he even came into view of the audience’. Another liked how the concert took her ‘out of the ordinariness of my day-to-day life’. From Spitalfields City Farm attenders. Page 8 Our programme

New music

Christian Wolf For 1, 2, or 3 People Catherine Kontz Tea Ceremony Michael Parsons Constellations Rhodri Davies Cresis Anton Lukoszevieze H.ARP James Weeks Tide Bryn Harrison Present Form Jennifer Walshe This is why people o.d. on Pills/And jump from the Golden Gate Bridge John Barber Skies may be blue A word from our Artistic Summer Festival. It also meant a great deal to Finn Peters New works me that the first performance of my Concerto for Jonathan Dove Piano Quintet Director, Diana Burrell Violin with Singer and 3 Ensembles was able to happen in our festival, just as it also means a lot Michael Finnissy The Transgressive Gospel It has been my privilege and joy to have had the that through our New Music Commission Fund it Diana Burrell Concerto for Violin Plus post of Artistic Director of the festival for the was us that brought into being the beautiful new May-kay Yau Four Nightmares last three years and to have worked alongside pieces by Morgan Hayes, Naomi Pinnock and Nicholas Sackman Fantasia the wonderful composers and artists that have Matthew Shlomowitz during recent festivals. given us such great concerts. It has been a Over the last three years there have been many time of exciting developments and change for wonderful concerts - far too many to list here the organisation and East London. Given these - and I am confident that all this will continue. factors and the current economic climate, we Thank you to every single person involved for could be forgiven if we had been tempted to play making my task of programming the concerts a little bit safe, sitting still for a while and taking so pleasurable and to those who have backed stock. Not a bit of it! That simply isn’t our style. them with their support and partnership. I Instead, during the last 18 months, we’ve been realise that as I leave Spitalfields, I am leaving exploring all sorts of new directions, new venues, an organisation that is in extremely good health, new ways of working with young people and the bold and confident in its approach to the future. local community and continuing to commission I can’t wait to see the programmes for future new works. festivals, and I am really looking forward to One thing hasn’t changed, and that is our coming back to my favourite corner of London, commitment to the best music and performers. where I can sit and listen to music in my The memory of John Eliot Gardiner and his favourite venues as a member of the audience. musicians performing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Diana Burrell in Christ Church last December/January will stay with me for the rest of my life, as will Michael Finnissy’s moving account of the passion story - The Transgressive Gospel - given by Kate Westbrook, Richard Jackson and Ixion in the intimate space of Wilton’s Music Hall during the Page 9 Our programme: Festivals

Cultural Olympiad: The programme involved the following The programme involved the following Spitalfields Opens Up! artists and groups: organisations as partners: 15 & 16 September 2008 Isabelle Adams, Aspirations, Aurora Orchestra Artsadmin, Aspirations, Barbican, Bishopsgate (Henry Baldwin, Tom Barber, Elena Jauregui, Institute, BBC Radio 3, Brady Arts & Community Total events: 10 Francesco Jauregui), John Barber, Jim Cartwright, Centre, Cherry Trees School, Christ Church Total attenders: 1561 City of London Sinfonia (Tim Gunnell, Spitalfields, Christ Church Primary School, Alison Hayhurst, Beth Randall), Community Music, Cultural Olympiad (LOCOG), CYM main centre, Hannah Conway, Laka D, Suzi Digby, EAST, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Together with local partners and in co-ordination David Frankel, firefly, Francis Gardner, Hague Primary School, Halley Primary School, with the national Cultural Olympiad, we ran a Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Kath Gilfoy, Sam Glazer, Harbinger Primary School, John Scurr Primary weekend of activities based around Spitalfields Paul Griffiths, Igloo Artists (Bruno Martelli and School, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School, Market aimed at celebrating the spirit of Ruth Gibson), Gawain Hewitt, Carly Lake, Museum of Childhood, Malmesbury Primary the Olympics. Spitalfields Music produced a Pete Letanka, MagicMe Media Group, School, Old Palace Primary School, Olga Primary series of open singing workshops through the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra (Robert Kendell, School, Osmani Primary School, Phoenix borough, culminating in a performance in the Howard Moody, Nicholas Mulroy), Secondary School, Rich Mix, Royal Academy market on Sunday afternoon.1,500 people were Monteverdi Choir Apprentice Scheme of Music, Shapla Primary School, Shoreditch involved. Other partners included Spitalfields (Zoe Brown, Christopher Borrett, Church, Spitalfields City Farm, Spitalfields E1, Bishopsgate Institute, Barbican, Artsadmin, Susanna Fairbairn, Chloe Morgan, Robyn Parton, Development Group, Spitalfields E1, Kinetika, Idea Store, Whitechapel Gallery and the Simon Ponsford, Lucy Roberts and Emma Walshe), St Anne’s Primary School, St Matthias Primary Royal London Hospital. Matthew Moore, Phil Mullen, Roshi Nasehi, School, Stebon Primary School, Stewart Headlam Richard Newby, Zoe Palmer, Simon Pearson, Primary School, Sundial Centre, Streetwise Issy Postill, Alison Rayner, James Redwood, Opera, THAMES, Vital Arts, Wilton’s Music Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Jack Ross, Whitechapel Gallery. Spitalfields Music Animateur Apprentice Scheme (Tim Davy, Chris Dowding, Sophia Efthimiou, Bobbie Gardner, Helen Smith and Ayanna Witter-Johnson), Daisy Vatalaro, Julian West, Chris Wilson, Jonathan Williams, Suzi Zumpe. Page 10 Our programme: Festivals

Winter Festival 5 December Summer Festival 2008 – 9 January 2009 7 – 19 June 2009

Total events: 36 Total events: 41 Total attenders: 7993 Total attenders: 5677

Media coverage Media coverage • Total number of cuttings 50 • Total number of cuttings 45 • Reviews 11 • Reviews 9 • Listings 28 • Listings 15 • Articles/previews 11 • Articles/previews 19

A longer and fuller Winter Festival took place The Summer Festival included a series of than has been customary. This happened evening events in Wilton’s Music Hall and Christ to accommodate our partnership with The Church, Spitalfields, outdoor lunchtime events in Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque the market during weekdays, weekend activities Soloists to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio for families, talks and a debate to explore ideas as it was written, in six separate cantatas for within the festival further. It included three new feast days either side of Christmas. Around this commissions from Michael Finnissy, Diana idea a full residency was created, with learning Burrell and Jonathan Dove. Whilst the overall programmes in local schools, insight and debate festival period was shorter than has been events for audiences, broadcasts and talks. customary, more events took place within the Alongside this residency the festival included two weeks and afforded many opportunities for A Spitalfields Christmas Carol (an alternative audiences to extend their visit with talks and history walk), Contemporary Explorations, participatory events. Outdoors, our lunchtime a series of solo events in Toynbee Hall and programme expanded to fill the whole festival Spitalfields Soundings, an outdoor stage in the period and during the middle weekend a market showcasing local musicians. programme of free activity took place for all ages in Spitalfields Market, at the Brady Centre and at 36 events took place, of which ten were learning Idea Store, Whitechapel. events. Nine premieres of new pieces of music took place. Box office income was five times the average level of Winter Festivals in the past five years. 20% of the audience attended an insight event, talk or open rehearsal and 45% of those attending free ticketed events went on to book for a paid event. Page 11 Our programme: Learning and Participation

Year-round playingfields: The Lizard’s Tale – led by Hannah Find Your Talent Festival – participation in the Conway, the resulting interactive animation was launch festival at Museum of Childhood. This Music Animateur Apprentice Scheme – an annual installed as part of the Spitalfields Music Winter included percussion workshops and the installation scheme, which helps to develop a dedicated group Festival residency with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, The of The Lizard’s Tale project. of musicians interested in pursuing a career in Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists learning and community settings. at Christ Church Spitalfields. Based on J S Bach’s Summer Term Christmas Oratorio and Brandenburg Concertos the Women sing East – a regular choir, led by pupils from Year 5 Christ Church Primary School Platform – our annual performance event for young Laka D. The group worked termly towards the developed their own oratorio which explored stories musicians in Tower Hamlets and across London as development of a concert in the Summer and of celebration, how things get their names and the part of the Summer Festival. This year we included Winter Festivals. Rehearsing at the Brady Arts meanings behind them. the amazing Steel Pan Orchestra from Sir John & Community Centre, it comprises women from Cass Secondary School and ensembles from Tower playingfields: Monteverdi Apprentices – a across East London. This year was the first Hamlets Arts and Music Saturday Music Centre. lunchtime concert for an audience of mostly primary evening concert, at Wilton’s Music Hall as part of The concert was presented by cellist, Sam Glazer, school children presented by the Monteverdi the Summer Festival. and featured a range of ensembles and choirs, Apprentice Artists with the Winter Festival. Mentored Sing for your Lunch – Laka D led two lunchtime culminating in the massed voices of all performers by Julian West, the Apprentices were guided through singing courses, with performances in the Winter and audience at Christ Church Spitalfields. the process of designing an appropriate concert and and Summer Festivals. City workers, local the best way to present it to this audience. Family Day – following Spitalfields Music’s initial residents and keen singers from further afield spent Family Day in the Docklands Museum, this playingfields: Interactive Bach – a lunchtime their lunch-breaks learning a variety of popular year’s Family Day in the Summer Festival was an concert presented by Hannah Conway delved into songs. Some participants featured as soloists with exploration into early years music provision in Tower Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and parts of the Learning & Participation performances in Bishopsgate Institute. Hamlets, focusing on singing. Christmas Oratorio. The audience of mostly primary playingfields – a four year long creative music Programme school children from across Tower Hamlets were playingfields: Dreaming with your Feet – in project working in 10 primary schools across able to get up close to the baroque instruments partnership with the City of London Sinfonia (CLS), Tower Hamlets. Total performances – 40 from the orchestra and take part in an enthusiastic the whole of Halley Primary School, led by John Total workshops – 151 concert performed by members of The English Barber, produced an outdoor performance as part Total participants – 6932 Autumn Term Baroque Soloists. of the Summer Festival based on dance music from composer legends Bartok, Warlock and Stravinsky. Total leaders – 139 Seams and Songs – led by Sam Glazer and in (36 apprentice artists) (20 teachers) partnership with the Museum of Childhood Spring Term playingfields: MAAS final projects – a new element (Bethnal Green); Spitalfields Music ran a short Cherry Trees – to the training scheme this year was the opportunity Just under 7000 people from babies to elders at this primary school for boys with music workshop in response to the Museum of severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, singer for our trainees to design, plan and led their own took part through our ten month programme. Childhood’s tour around their Top to Toe Fashion for primary school projects. Working with two of our Our specialisms in singing, creative music Roshi Nasehi, and percussionist Jim Cartwright, Kids exhibition. worked for an intensive two weeks towards a partner schools, Osmani and Hague primary making, innovative work with the local schools, in two teams our trainees created the playingfields: Monstrous Melodies – one year 5 performance for parents and siblings. Inspired by community, and projects with young people projects Dazzling Dreams and Nasty Nightmares class from each of Hague and Osmani primary the school’s innovative outdoor play strategy, they with special needs, continue to be recognised and Maui’s Myth. nationally. Over the course of the next years we schools worked with James Redwood and a team of created Messy Songs for Messy Play. The project will be experimenting with new ways of working, musicians to create a musical response to the myth was a case study for the Sing Up programme, within new and existing settings. Our mission of Hercules. Performed at The Brady Arts Centre in Beyond the Mainstream. is to drive deeper into projects, making an even the Winter Festival. Continuing Professional Development – our greater impact on the lives of the people who are playingfields: Royal Academy of Music Community team of animateurs working with us year round, inspired by Spitalfields Music. As you will expect, Concerts – biannual project developed with the attended a weekend of workshops with Phil Mullen, our passion remains to bring inspiring music Royal Academy of Music, mentored by oboist, Julian Suzi Digby and Paul Griffiths. This is a regular to people across Tower Hamlets and beyond, West. Students from RAM learnt about performing commitment from Spitalfields Music to support shining a light on the extraordinary creative within education settings, delivering a series of the professional development of our regular achievements of people across East London. school concerts across Tower Hamlets. workshop leaders. Page 12 Audiences and participants

Our audiences are a unique mix of first We continue to run our own box office and during time attenders and loyal regulars as well the year we have achieved our goal of increasing use as participants. Our aim is to offer the best of online booking (by 6%), and reduced our postal experience to everyone who attends an event booking (by 2%), increasing use of our website, or participates. beginning our own e-newsletter and using social networking sites to feature some of our work. Age of audiences 20% 34 & under; 61% 25-64; 19% 65+ Box office method of buying tickets: Age of participants 7% in person 66% 0-25; 44% 25+ 5% by post Ethnic profile of audiences 29% by internet 65% White; 5% Black; 15% Asian 58% booked Ethnic profile of participants by telephone 15% White British; 55% Asian Bangladeshi Geography of audiences 36% E & N postcodes Household income of audiences 18% less than £20,000 52% £20,000 – £59,999 22% £60,000 – £109,999 8% £110,000 or higher During the year we ran a number of initiatives to develop our audiences: Audience for ticketed events 9685 • a new buy-one, donate-one scheme was introduced encouraging existing bookers to Regularity of attendance donate the price of a ticket which we then 63% once gave to a Tower Hamlets resident who had not 17% twice attended previously 20% 3 times or more 161 patrons, who constitute 8% of our audience • one quarter of our tickets were available at £5 each The Lizard’s Tale Dreaming with your Feet Our main composition project for the Summer • a 25% discount was offered across ‘series’ – an interactive oratorio Festival saw Halley School and the City of tickets, leading to an increase in frequency Pupils from Christ Church School, members London Sinfonia take over Spitalfields Market of attendance of The English Baroque Soloists and The one summer lunchtime, entertaining the Monteverdi Choir, composer and leader Hannah • our free outdoor events increased from two per crowds of lunchtime visitors with a series of Conway and digital artists Igloo used Bach’s festival week to five per festival week and we songs they had created together during the Christmas Oratorio as a starting point for a have piloted the use of a mobile box office in Spring term, inspired by the dance music of term-long creative music project. By the end Spitalfields Market in the lead up to festivals Stravinsky, Bartok and Shostakovich. The of term a 20 minute interactive animation had project was led by musician and leader, been created which was installed in the foyer of • we have continued to persuade a high number John Barber. of people to come for the first time Christ Church during the Winter Festival for our 7,000 audience members to encounter as they came in and out of the building. Page 13 Funding

Our income spreads across a broad range of Regular giving: sources, testimony to the range of partnerships which we have and the breadth of our Corporate donor circle – a committed group programme. Each year 60% of our income must of corporate donors works with us and directly be raised from companies, trusts and individuals. contributes to the local community through high During the year we have felt the impact of the quality and innovative projects. Members of their economic challenges to some of our corporate staff took an active role in delivering our two and trust supporters and this has resulted in a festivals this year, volunteering as stewards. decrease in our operational income. Conversely we have seen an increase in levels of individual Sponsorship – for businesses who want to donate support which has proved crucial to us. towards a special project, we can offer a range of tailored opportunities. This summer, one of our Income sources: generous sponsors organised a reception in a gorgeous antique shop in Spitalfields. 28% charitable Donors – Spitalfields Music is lucky to work trusts & with exceptional individual givers. From foundations supporting our box office costs to anonymously 16% earned sponsoring a concert, our major donors enable income us to run our organisation and produce the best music in East London. 5% other Champions – this year we have launched a income We run a series of schemes through which brand new scheme for people who want to get (investment) individuals, companies and charities can support involved with us at a higher level. 18% corporate our work: giving Patrons – patrons of Spitalfields Music are Families Special schemes: part of the Spitalfields family. Many of our 10% individual patrons have been involved for many years. Spitalfields Music has been exploring how giving Buy-one, donate-one – Spitalfields Music is We run a variety of schemes providing a range we can provide more for families in our local of benefits, from advanced booking to private neighbourhood. Our programme for families 23% public committed to reaching people who would events with artists. stepped into the foreground this year with a funding normally not have a chance to go to live music events. We successfully started our new scheme series of family-focused events, culminating ‘buy-one, donate-one’, asking our regular in a Summer Festival Family Day with Idea audience to donate so that people from our Store, Whitechapel. This included a children’s community can enjoy their first concert with us library concert by Aurora Orchestra, junk for free. percussion making and playing workshops, musical storytelling workshops and cafe New Music Commission Fund – our nine year old musical encounters, Magic Me Media Group Fund has helped us to offer a substantial and family photo portraits and early years music eclectic new music programme. We have nearly workshops led by Zoe Palmer. reached our target of £200,000 to produce the best of contemporary music. Future projects include continued work with Idea Store, a residency at the Royal London Legacies – legacy giving is a unique gift from Hospital to look at how Spitalfields Music one generation to another. Including Spitalfields can support parents, grandparents and Music in a will allows the contributor to offer families and a regular Family Day within the future generations what the contrtibutor can Summer Festival. enjoy today. Page 14 Our supporters

Companies Legacies Gold Patrons Allen & Overy The late Christopher Vaughan Katie Bradford Ballymore The late Peter Lerwill The Byrne Charitable Trust Clifford Chance Amelia Chilcott Fawcett CBE Major individual donors Foster + Partners Alex & Susan de Mont George & Anne Law Hammerson plc Nicholas & Emma Hardie Anonymous donors Herbert Smith LLP Sue & Tom Imber HSBC Insurance Champions Michael Langton Man Group plc Charitable Trust Andrew Blankfield & Bernadette Hillman George & Anne Law M&G Group Francis Carnwath Jeremy Lindon Spitalfields Estates Chris Carter S W Massil Geoffrey Collens John & Judy McCuin Foundations & Trusts Helen Fraser John & Terry Pearson Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust Milton Grundy Foundation Abigail Pogson Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust Keith & Sarah Jane Haydon Ruth Rattenbury Britten – Pears Foundation Rosalind Hedley-Miller Brian D Smith City Bridge Trust Peter & Sarah King Robin & Christine Whaite John and Susan Bowers Fund Sir Alan Moses Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Silver Patrons Richard Syred & Brian Parsons Garfield Weston Foundation C J Apperley John Twomey Hinrichsen Foundation Ken Blakeley Musicians Benevolent Fund Chair of Patrons Judith Borrow Our work would not happen without generous and PRS Foundation George Law Richard Brown regular support from the following who enable us Radcliffe Trust John Crisp to make it all happen. Thank you! Rayne Foundation Honorary Life Patrons Leopold de Rothschild RVW Trust David Cade Charles C Duff Public funding Sir John Cass’s Foundation Jonathan Dove Mary Dufty The Coutts Charitable Trust Dr Anthony W Henfrey Olwen Evans The Derek Shuttleworth Educational Trust George Law Mavis Fabling The Drapers’ Company Chris Sayers Jo-Anne Fraser The Holst Foundation Judith Serota OBE Mary Gilchrist The Idlewild Trust Judith Weir CBE L Hearn & A Williams The Foyle Foundation Life Gold Patrons Arabella Hobson The Mercers’ Company Michael Godbee Kate Jenkins The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Vic & Maggie Knope The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust Mary & David Pears Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers David Preddy Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths Keith Salway Worshipful Company of Coopers Susan & Charles Whiddington Worshipful Company of Cutlers Colin E Wolfe Worshipful Company of Ironmongers J P Wotton Worshipful Company of Musicians Page 15 Our supporters

Patrons Diana Gray Norma MacMillan Dr Jeffrey Tobias Cynthia Akid Ann & Nick Gray Kathleen Malbon Howard Townson Colin & Judy Alexander David W Green Nicola Manby Mr J Utting Stephen Aris Hannah Griffiths & Chris Simms Kevin & Celia Mansell Alan & Lyn Williams Edward Armitage Adey Grummet Michael & Alexi Marmot Gwyn Williams Bridget Asprey Ulrich Haemmig Professor Michael Marsh Peter L Willig Leonard Attewell David Hansell Sue Marsh Charles Wilmot-Smith R A Bailey & P J Cameron Freda Harcourt Deborah Marson Muriel Wilson Ian Basnett Virginia Harding Graham McLanachan Valerie Wise Richard Bawden Vanessa Harley Sarah McLintock Rob N Wood Stephen Benson Christine Harris Graham Morrison Alison Bernal John Harwood Victor Morrison & Margaret Willes Penny Berryman D Hawkins Sylvia Moys Graham Betts Nora Heard Deirdre Munro Keith Billinghurst Andrew Hinchley Dr C W A Murray Roy Blackwell & Jennifer Jones Dr Anthony Hobson Elizabeth Nairn David Bradbury Julia Hodgkin Linda Neal Cyril Bryan Ruth Hoffman E A Newlands Michael Burbidge Diane Holt George Nissen Cynthia Butterworth Anna Home David Norgrove Andrew Ceresa Dagna Horner John Osborn S R Collinson Barbara Hosking Jennifer Oxley Margaret Coppack Linda Howell Alison Parkinson John & Claire Cornwell Dr Desmond Howlett Ann Porter Sandy & John Critchley Kimberly Hutchings Dr Clive Potter Anne Crosby Brian Innis Nigel & Vivien Prevost Janet Davies Stephen Jack Sue Prickett Nicola & David de Quincey Souden Molly Jackson Mary Quigley Jenifer Deco Sue Jackson Martin Redfern John Delorey Alice Jacobs John Robertson Janet Di Stefano Gill James Ann Ross Brian & Judy Dobbs Frank Jeffs Sue Rowlands Patricia Eaton Lance & Brenda Johnson Alan Sainer Spitalfields Soundings Annie Edge Olivia & Marc Jordan Ted & Jenny Salmon – December 2008 Sian Evans & Oliver Hatch Raymond Joscelyne Maggie Sandell E J Field Ms J Keech Richard & Margaret Sax Spitalfields Market came alive with the Hazel Ford John Kent Marianne & Barry Scheer sounds of the Allen & Overy Choir, the Shirley Foulkes Peter & Sarah King Henrietta Shields Women sing East Choir and young local Elizabeth Fowler Bridget Kitley Richard Slack bands including Purple Socks and Zombies Sue Gardener John Knight Richard & Jenny Smith for Hire. With food and drink supplied by Christine Garrett Frank Krikhaar Katie Smith Leon Restaurants, local people were treated Mr & Mrs George Claire L’Enfant Grace Spence to an early evening winter warmer event, Brian Girling Paul & Karen Lasok Norman Start which included a massed and alternative Nigel Glendinning John Lavagnino S F M Steer version for audience and performers of James Golob Peter Lerwill Colin Stolkin Handel’s rousing Hallelujah Chorus, all Jean Gooding Christine Lewis Hilda Taylor arranged and presented by Pete Letanka. Don Gorman Maria Longo Claire Tighe Page 16 Our supporters

Help in kind Rodney Archer hospitality Fiona Atkins hospitality Bryony Bainbridge photography Ballymore Properties Ltd office space, storage space Bishopsgate Institute meeting space The Brady Arts & Community Centre project space, schools mailings Christ Church, Spitalfields hospitality, venue City of London car parking for artists Eyediology Opticians eye tests John Cornwell & Claire Veillard Cornwell hospitality John & Sandy Critchley hospitality Chris & Sarah Dyson hospitality Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP legal advice, postage, photocopying Eleanor Jones & Chris Legg hospitality Marianna Kennedy hospitality Leon Restaurants hospitality London Borough of Tower Hamlets rate relief Hector Macandrew recruitment Mazars payroll, storage Gerard Moloney research Musicians Union publicity Shipleys LLP VAT, consultancy Shoreditch Church meeting space, storage, venue The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths bell ringing Spitalfields Development Group meeting space Uncorked catering Virgin Active UK gym membership Waitrose Wine catering Charlie de Wet hospitality Wieden + Kennedy communications Wilton’s Music Hall hospitality, venue Page 17 Financial statements

Income and Balance sheet expenditure account As at 31 December 2008 For the year ended 31 December 2008

2008 2007 2008 2007 £ £ £ £ Income Fixed assets Statutory 150,702 181,221 Tangible assets 84,460 74,061 Fundraising 320,907 353,571 Investments 522,649 716,651 Sales 135,917 92,714 607,109 790,712 Investment 13,347 21,833 Other 23,655 47,911 Current assets 644,528 697,250 Debtors 28,228 101,395 Cash at bank and in hand 60,650 101,395

Expenditure 88,878 176,781 Festivals 347,345 382,949 Creditors The Transgressive Gospel Learning 284,192 248,370 Amount falling due within Commissioned by Diana Burrell to mark her Overheads and governance 92,479 96,037 one year (155,099) (157,657) sixth and final festival as Artistic Director, Other 40,267 20,867 Net current assets (66,221) 19,124 The Transgressive Gospel was an evening- long work by one of the UK’s leading 764,283 748,223 Net assets 540,888 809,836 composers. The result of the commission was a significant new work which achieved Surplus (deficit) for the Funds both audience and critical acclaim and will now reach a further audience through year before revaluation Unrestricted funds 228,284 409,926 on investments (119,755) (51,003) broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Bringing new Restricted funds: works into the world is a cornerstone of – Projects 1,406 7,842 Spitalfields Music’s activity. – Christopher Vaughan ‘Finnissy’s piece is a model of integrity, which Legacy Fund 123,395 171,766 is why it is so powerfully moving. I’ve been – Lottery Assets 53,346 58,327 to many more “exciting” premieres in recent – New Music Commission years, but none more important.’ Fund 134,457 161,975 Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph Total charity funds 540,888 809,836 Page 18 People

Our work is made possible by a unique mix of Abigail Pogson Executive Director Sarah Harvey people including an energetic Council, a group of Kate Wyatt Programme Director: Festivals Nora Heard experienced programme advisers, a dedicated and Mary Hempstead Volunteering Festivals creative team of employees and a motivated and Marianne Janosi Natalie Bidouj Technical Crew Over 80 people volunteered for Spitalfields passionate group of volunteers. During the year Ben Jefferies Music during 2008/09, 21 of those for the we increased our volunteer training to four days, Rob Gooch Technical Crew Briony Jones Ellie Folkes Box Office Assistant first time, helping us with a range of tasks employees undertook 44 training days between Julia Kowalle including recruitment, research, IT advice, them and the Council and its sub-groups increased Christine Lewis Office Volunteer Danielle Lemon Anne-Marie Norman Front of House Manager documenting events, shifting furniture and their number of meeting days by 33% in order Christine Lewis stuffing envelopes. The vast majority of our to support the organisation through challenging Joanna Petkiewicz Concert Manager Andrew Liddell Jana Phillips Festival Events Manager volunteers appear as stewards at festival economic times. Jeremy Lindon events. This is an invaluable resource to us Michael Ramsay Technical Manager Carole Mahoney Council Lara Thomson Office Volunteer (our festivals couldn’t operate without them) Sylvia Marland and a great chance for people to make Andrew Blankfield – Chair Emma Seach Box Office Assistant Tony Marland Francis Carnwath CBE Kasia Sobucka Programme Intern new friends, learn new skills and practise Anita Miller old ones, to hear music they would not Helen Fraser James Waterhouse Concert Manager Gerard Moloney Nick Hardie normally encounter and to give something Stewards Ian Morrison Keith Haydon back into the community. Anne Adamson Jo Muller Michael Keating Rodney Archer Alice Northgreaves Sir Alan Moses (Chair from October 2009) Kate Ayres Richard Palmer Sarah Gee Sarah Bannock Joan Payne Bilkis Malek Alexandru Belciug Morwenna Pestell John McCuin Neil Bowman Anna Piet Finance and Legal Committee Colin Brooking Kelvin Piper John McCuin – Chair Liza Castellino Francesca Pisani Andrew Blankfield Fay Cattini Margaret Pitt Francis Carnwath CBE Julia Chalkley Ann Porter Nick Hardie Shanel Chandra Ray Prior Keith Haydon Noel Chow Adrian Prockter Mathurot Chuladul Francis Pugh Programme Advisors Marie Collett Sheila Rawlins Michael Keating – Chair Aine Cook John Robertson Karen Brock Tricia Cox Amelia Robinson David Gallagher John Critchley Peter Salter Bilkis Malek Sandy Critchley Anne-Marie Sharman Clare Stevens Carol Davie Elizabeth Shaw Jane Williams Rebecca Davies Maggie Stockton Administration Tim Davy Ann Thomas Helen Bailey Office Manager Charlie de Wet Lara Thomson Tamsin Bainbridge Programme Manager: Jane Dunnage Delia Whitbread Learning & Participation Jennifer Emptage Susan Whitehead Barbara Evans Finance Manager Sascha Fourel Serena Wong Clare Lovett Programme Director: Elizabeth Goldman Toby Young Learning & Participation Denise Grafe Alexandra Marshall Communications Officer Bill Green Sylvain Malburet Development Officer Helen Hackney Constance Haken Page 19

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Photographs by Ben Ealovega Peter Findlay Bryony Bainbridge Michael Watson/Aldeburgh Music Matthew Andrews Noel Chow