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You’ve found our archive of news up to December 2016. If you’re looking for our main site, head over to https://www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk See you there!
As our 40th anniversary draws to a close we are excited to announce that we will be working with André de Ridder as the Artistic Curator for our Winter Festival 2017.
Behind the scenes at rehearsals for Ailis Ni Riain’s work-in-progress
For artists, the opportunity to test new work whilst it’s still in development is invaluable. It gives them space to explore and enables them to take risks, try out different ideas and get feedback from audiences which will shape the development of their work. As the audience, it gives you a chance to see the…
Open Call artist Timothy Cape gives an insight into his new project, which will be presented as a work-in-progress event at the Winter Festival. I want to create a performance piece based on personal reflections on the value of work from across the economic spectrum of Tower Hamlets. The material for the piece will be…
Open Call artist Jackie Walduck talks about her work The Migration Game. Drawing on practices of immersive theatre and computer gaming, The Migration Game places its audience as migrants to London. To progress to successive scenes in different spaces, they must solve puzzles and clues which are embedded within the music itself. The goal is to find…
From April through to July, a period spanning our 40th anniversary Summer Festival, we had the pleasure of working with Martha. Martha joined us as our Learning & Participation Intern, working with us to help produce our Summer Festival and year-round Learning & Participation projects. Before she left in July to move onto the next stage…
Throughout the year, we run an extensive Learning & Participation programme offering creative music-making opportunities to local participants of all ages. For babies and toddlers, we present our award-winning interactive opera for babies Musical Rumpus. Across a network of 15 local schools, we deliver a programme of in-school creative music projects led by music workshop leaders…
We’re all familiar with evidence that indicates the significance of play in children’s development – it’s recorded in policy papers, discussed in the media and even enshrined in Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But what about the rest of us? “Grown-ups” are increasingly appreciating the importance of including…
This year we are adding a brand-new venue to our Summer Festival, The Octagon at Queen Mary University of London. Once a library, and once the home of BBC’s Question Time, and now the concert hall for the Schubert Ensemble. Built in 1887, it was originally part of the People’s Palace and is one of…