Music Making Meetings

Drake Music is supporting Orchestras Live and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in building a programme of work within Essex that supports and cultivates the skills of disabled musicians or artists to work as professional music leaders, whilst being positive role models for participants, audiences and the orchestral sector.

Orchestras Live and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra both work extensively within the region and want to make sure their creative workforce reflects the participants and audiences with whom they work. Therefore we invite disabled musicians to attend one of the upcoming Music Making Meetings.

Event dates:

• Tuesday 31 January 2017, 5.00pm–7.30pm, Chelmsford
• Wednesday 1 February 2017, 2.00pm–4.30pm, Colchester
• Wednesday 1 February 2017, 5.30pm–8.00pm, Colchester

The Music Making Meetings will be an opportunity to network, meet other musicians and try out accessible music technology with Drake Music and are open to disabled musicians, producers, sound artists, singers and composers.

The meetings aim to create an environment which supports creative experimentation and growth. So we are extending an open invitation to disabled artists (in the widest musical sense of the word) to come along, get involved and take the floor; share current work, discuss your creative process, join in a jam session and exchange knowledge and ideas. The meetings will also be a place to find out about future professional development opportunities with orchestras and the potential of setting up an Essex-based inclusive orchestra.

The meetings will be hosted by: Tim Steiner, a renowned composer and conductor with a specialty in devised and collaborative performance; James Rose, a disabled conductor and musician who’s starting a traineeship with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra this year, and Charles Matthews, an electronic musician, gamelan player, and music technologist.

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