01 July 2021 Update:
The group has been getting back to rehearsing since the beginning of June 2021. With restrictions lifting, the group is now looking forward to it's first in person workshop with Charlotte on 28 July 2021.
Details of the session will be posted after!
The group has been getting back to rehearsing since the beginning of June 2021. With restrictions lifting, the group is now looking forward to it's first in person workshop with Charlotte on 28 July 2021.
Details of the session will be posted after!
About the "Adopt a Music Maker" Project
The Adopt a Music Creator project 2020/21, run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music. The UK project is funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust. Adopt a Music Creator also includes the CoDI project, funded by Tŷ Cerdd in Wales.
Since it began in 2000, the Adopt a Composer project has inspired over 120 hugely diverse works and performances by music creators and leisure-time groups, from a piece based on the experience and sounds of a bike ride across Edinburgh to mandolin music for archival footage of childhood to adulthood, to a choral work inspired by composer Clara Schumann and many more. We’re delighted to be expanding Adopt a Composer this year under the new title, Adopt a Music Creator.
The scope of the project has broadened, with more opportunities for more music creators and music groups to take part. As before, the project pairs Making Music members with an emerging music creator for up to a year leading up to a premiere, a recording and a possible radio broadcast. This year, for the first time alongside the usual pairing of one group and one creator, we have added the Collaborate Pathway, through which two groups can work together with a matched music creator.
Groups have the chance to get actively involved in the creative process and discover new music. Music creators have the opportunity to form a close working relationship with their group, which is not always possible with professional commissions, allowing them to respond to a group’s personality and interests. Each pairing is assigned an experienced mentor to support and guide the music creator and group, and help the creative process run smoothly.
The Adopt a Music Creator project 2020/21, run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music. The UK project is funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust. Adopt a Music Creator also includes the CoDI project, funded by Tŷ Cerdd in Wales.
Since it began in 2000, the Adopt a Composer project has inspired over 120 hugely diverse works and performances by music creators and leisure-time groups, from a piece based on the experience and sounds of a bike ride across Edinburgh to mandolin music for archival footage of childhood to adulthood, to a choral work inspired by composer Clara Schumann and many more. We’re delighted to be expanding Adopt a Composer this year under the new title, Adopt a Music Creator.
The scope of the project has broadened, with more opportunities for more music creators and music groups to take part. As before, the project pairs Making Music members with an emerging music creator for up to a year leading up to a premiere, a recording and a possible radio broadcast. This year, for the first time alongside the usual pairing of one group and one creator, we have added the Collaborate Pathway, through which two groups can work together with a matched music creator.
Groups have the chance to get actively involved in the creative process and discover new music. Music creators have the opportunity to form a close working relationship with their group, which is not always possible with professional commissions, allowing them to respond to a group’s personality and interests. Each pairing is assigned an experienced mentor to support and guide the music creator and group, and help the creative process run smoothly.
About our Music Creator Charlotte Marlow
Charlotte has worked with groups including Streetwise Opera and Tête-à-Tête Festival. She is co-artistic director of Medusa Collective, a radical contemporary arts collective with whom she premiered her socially-distanced new opera Folk Tales. Charlotte’s interests lie in collaborative performance practice, and ways of challenging and engaging with gender narrative on stage. You can find out more about charlotte at the following links: Web: www.charlottemarlow.com Facebook: /CharlotteMarlowComposer Twitter: @charlottemarlow |
Message from our MD and founder
"I am very excited for the group to be part of this amazing project and to have a piece composed and commissioned by the very talented Charlotte Marlow. After meeting with Charlotte and finding out about about her work we are very excited to work with her and see what she has in store for us! We look forward to the collaboration and hope she enjoys it as much as we look forward to enjoying it."
"I am very excited for the group to be part of this amazing project and to have a piece composed and commissioned by the very talented Charlotte Marlow. After meeting with Charlotte and finding out about about her work we are very excited to work with her and see what she has in store for us! We look forward to the collaboration and hope she enjoys it as much as we look forward to enjoying it."
Newastle Under Lyme Community Orchestra (NULCO) 1st Blog.
Last October, we held the NULCO AGM, (later than usual due to Covid-19), via zoom, we announced that we, the group, has been selected to be part of Making Music ‘Adopt a Music Creator 2020/1’, which we are paired up with the fabulous composer Charlotte Marlow and mentor Colin Riley, which our members was excited and are up for the challenge. It also coincides the NULCO 5 years anniversary.
On November, the members had a ‘Meet and Greet’ meeting with Charlotte via zoom, and she suggested to set up friendly tasks, for a way for getting to know us, such as ‘go for a walk and record any interesting sounds’.
There have been a lot of challenges, understanding the Covid-19 rules for venues and for rehearsals. In the end, we just concentrated on compiling a Christmas concert, by recording their own parts, and then was brought together, by a talented member, into a concert format which was then publicized in our NULCO website.
Now we are starting a new term and we will be trying out online rehearsals and will do small repertoires in the coming months and also preparing for our Summer Anniversary Concert in whatever environment we might find ourselves. Hopefully we will be performing a piece or 2 of Charlotte’s work.
Look out for our next blog in April.
Last October, we held the NULCO AGM, (later than usual due to Covid-19), via zoom, we announced that we, the group, has been selected to be part of Making Music ‘Adopt a Music Creator 2020/1’, which we are paired up with the fabulous composer Charlotte Marlow and mentor Colin Riley, which our members was excited and are up for the challenge. It also coincides the NULCO 5 years anniversary.
On November, the members had a ‘Meet and Greet’ meeting with Charlotte via zoom, and she suggested to set up friendly tasks, for a way for getting to know us, such as ‘go for a walk and record any interesting sounds’.
There have been a lot of challenges, understanding the Covid-19 rules for venues and for rehearsals. In the end, we just concentrated on compiling a Christmas concert, by recording their own parts, and then was brought together, by a talented member, into a concert format which was then publicized in our NULCO website.
Now we are starting a new term and we will be trying out online rehearsals and will do small repertoires in the coming months and also preparing for our Summer Anniversary Concert in whatever environment we might find ourselves. Hopefully we will be performing a piece or 2 of Charlotte’s work.
Look out for our next blog in April.
18th November 2020
Tonight a zoom meeting was held for the members to meet our music creator Charlotte Marlow. This was a real good oppertunity for the members to get to know her and for her to get to know a little about the group!
We have agreed to do a little project game where Charlotte will give us a topic each day for the members to give a word, photo or sentence. once this has all be collated, Charlotte with then put a little arrangement together before Christmas.
we are really looking forward to what she creates for us and will be posting it online for you all to see!
Tonight a zoom meeting was held for the members to meet our music creator Charlotte Marlow. This was a real good oppertunity for the members to get to know her and for her to get to know a little about the group!
We have agreed to do a little project game where Charlotte will give us a topic each day for the members to give a word, photo or sentence. once this has all be collated, Charlotte with then put a little arrangement together before Christmas.
we are really looking forward to what she creates for us and will be posting it online for you all to see!
Update 3rd October 2020
Today we have met our music maker composer Charlotte Marlow and mentor Colin Riley.
Charlotte told us of her back ground in writing music for music theatre and operatic music and enjoyed telling a story in her music. This well suited the project as we were looking at
Today we have met our music maker composer Charlotte Marlow and mentor Colin Riley.
Charlotte told us of her back ground in writing music for music theatre and operatic music and enjoyed telling a story in her music. This well suited the project as we were looking at