Britten Sinfonia presents community music day in Thetford

In 2021 and 2022 Britten Sinfonia ran a series of pilot events called Music On Your Doorstep, which took its players to Ely (Cambridgeshire), Diss (Norfolk), Stowmarket (Suffolk) and Bourne (Lincolnshire) for day-long events packed with sessions for parents and toddlers, workshops for older children, and an evening concert for adults. The events were successful, with many people moved and enchanted by having the chance to experience a concert with a professional chamber orchestra in their own town, and also by the chance to introduce their children to live orchestral music.

The orchestra’s Thetford residency, from November 2023 to March 2024, is a further development of Music On Your Doorstep. Focusing on a single location has allowed the orchestra to embed itself more deeply and over a longer period of time to make a greater impact.

The aims of the project are to use music to bring together diverse groups of local people, to introduce the joys of experiencing and making live music, and to leave behind a legacy of these groups from in and around the town continuing to work together in the future.

Musicians from Britten Sinfonia have performed for toddlers at four nurseries and worked with school pupils at Thetford Academy and Diamond Academy, as well as with members of the local community at Cloverfield Community Church and Ancient House Museum. They are also working with Bury Friendly Orchestra and Thetford Singers. The different partnerships and strands of the project come together in a day of public events celebrating Thetford on Sunday 17 March at The Carnegie.

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Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Music

Price:
Free: GBP 0.00