Three Schools, Two Rivers, One Sea
1-2pm, Tuesday 19th May, at College Building, St John Street, City University London.
Join us on 19th May for the culmination of a unique six month composition project: Three primary schools from Hull and London have been working together to compose and perform music using iPads, and will premiere their work live at an event hosted by City University’s music department.
The project, shortlisted for the Randstad/Guardian News Education Awards and the first of its kind in the UK, recreates the journey of two rivers – the Humber in Hull and the Thames in London – from source to sea through music. As part of the compositional process, pupils explored their own identity and sense of place, and shared the resulting musical ideas and motifs between schools, providing a rich and meaningful musical tapestry that will be presented to an audience of their peers, family, and members of the public.
The project has been developed by musicians and educators Ben Sellers and Matthew Hogg, bringing together 28 pupils from diverse backgrounds to create, write and perform their musical ideas as one piece. Ben Sellers:
“Pupils explored a variety of genres before developing their own compositions. The inspiration for the project is taken from Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and, like in this orchestra, we hope that participants will learn that great music comes from cooperation, careful listening, and mutual support.”
The event is free and open to the public. Email ben@transformancemusic.org for more details.
