Last year’s iPad Orchestra performance at City University is now available for public viewing. Over three months, pupils from three schools created and shared musical ideas and material with their counterparts in other schools to create a suite of music that reflects their converging and contrasting notions of place and identity. The rivers that run nearby each school – the Humber and the Thames, both of which flow into the North Sea – were used as the starting point for each composition, with three distinct movements emerging: ‘First Rain’, ‘Flow’ and ‘Estuary’.
This performance is the culmination of the project. The three schools met face to face for the first time during rehearsals in the morning, then performed to an audience of the public and their peers in the afternoon.
We are immensely grateful to Dr Diana Salazar and her team at City University for hosting the project, and to the fantastic staff and performers from Thornhill, Chiltern and Sandringham primary schools
The project is co-facilitated by Ben Sellers from Transformance Music in London and Matthew Hogg in Hull.
