Timeline shows what we have been doing all these years.
Timeline shows what we have been doing all these years.
July 1997 Lichfield International Festival ‘Titanic’ Project. Combined arts performance project with 50 teenagers
Lichfield International Festival The Gaps Between Your Toes - performance by the musicians of new pieces by Matthew Barley
Lichfield International Festival Late night performance of pieces for music and dance
August 1997 Dartington International Summer School Teaching improvisation course
Nov 1997 Cornwall Research and development week
July 1998 Lichfield International Festival Journeys project. A combined arts performance project with 50 teenagers
August 1998 Dartington International Summer School Teaching improvisation course
April 1999 Schloss Elmau A week in Germany to write new music and give a concert
May 1999 ‘A Sharp Intake of Music’ at Battersea Arts Centre Roses Are Red - a new piece for cellist and dancer
July 1999 Cheltenham International Festival a schools music project writing new music with performance by BTN musicians
Sept 1999 Colourscape Festival, Clapham Common A performance of music, dance and storytelling
April 2000 Schloss Elmau A week in Germany to write new music and give a concert
May 2000 ‘A Sharp Intake of Music’ at Battersea Arts Centre a totally improvised show of music, theatre and storytelling
May 2000 Salisbury International Festival Making a Song and Dance A song writing project with 100 schoolchildren for the opening night of the festival with BTN concert
Sept 2000 Singapore Three concerts for the British Council
Oct 2000 Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo Journeys project with 25 theatre students
Jan 2001 St.George’s Brandon Hill, Bristol Making a Song and Dance. Culmination of three year project with 25 teenagers from two local schools.
May 2001 ‘A Sharp Intake of Music’ at Battersea Arts Centre ‘What’s for Dinner?’ 3 shows of improvised music and storytelling with actor Niall Ashdown
June 2001 Salisbury International Festival Elements of Percussion A percussion project with 20 students from Salisbury College
Sept 2001 Sydney Opera House - The Asia-Pacific Orchestra Summit BTN to appear as special guests for workshops, talks, and a concert.
January 2002 Schloss Elmau 4 days in Germany to write new music and give a concert
February 2002 Marathon All Day Improvisation at the Royal Festival Hall Ballroom for 11.5 hours without a break! Special guests included Julian Joseph, Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Antony Turnage, Marque Gilmore and Paul Clarvis
Tour of 17 community venues in London, including schools, libraries, Pentonville Prison, the Evergreen Old Persons Club, a Malcolm Sargent home for children in remission from cancer, and Royal College of Music.
Performances in Bush Hall London, including 3 world premieres by Fraser Trainer, Dave Maric and Nikki Yeoh, and a major song-writing project with teenagers funded by the National Foundation for Youth Music, supported by Overtones.
Launch of www.betweenthenotes.co.uk
Live recording at Bush Hall
May 2002 A Sharp Intake of Music at Battersea Arts Centre What’s for Dinner 3 shows of improvised music and storytelling with actor Niall Ashdown
June 2002 Chester International Music Festival performance
Sept 2002 Croatia - Phase I of British Council Four Rivers Project
October 2002 ISCM New Music Days in Hong Kong, including world premiere of Heathen Road by Paul Griffiths for BTN and 1,000 school children.
October 2002 Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts performance(Leicester)
January 2003 Croatia - Phase II of British Council Four Rivers Project
April 2003 Croatia - Phase III of British Council Four Rivers Project, with performances in Karlovac and Zagreb
July 2003 Cheltenham International Festival UK premiere of Heathen Road by Paul Griffiths
City of London Festival world premiere of Knots by Fraser Trainer for BTN and solo violin with Viktoria Mullova
Kimberley Festival dance music project
August 2003 Toroella de Montgri BTN + Viktoria Mullova recital in Spanish Festival
Sept 2003 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 3 performances with dancers of the Royal Ballet for Cathy Marston’s choreography of Broken Fiction by Dave Maric.
October 2003 Cyprus - Phase I of BTN in Cyprus project, with 30 instrumentalists
Nov 2003 Cyprus - Phase II of BTN in Cyprus project, with 30 percussionists
Jan 2004 Cyprus - Phase III of BTN in Cyprus project with choir of 60
Jan 2004 Schloss Elmau – BTN + Viktoria Mullova
Feb 2004 Recording Knots and Love Action with Viktoria Mullova for Black Box at Champs Hill, Sussex
Feb 2004 Concertgebouw, Brugge Recital with Viktoria Mullova
April 2004 Cyprus – Phase IV of BTN in Cyprus project all previous groups, new song-writing group, and choir of 800 for Heathen Road.
May 2004 Sharp Intake of Music, two performances of Note to Tale, improvised music and storytelling with Niall Ashdown at Battersea Arts Centre.
June 2004 Goldsmiths University project with schoolchildren and students
Sep 2004 Royal Opera House, Festival of Firsts Three performances of Note to Tale at Linbury Theatre, with Niall Ashdown
Sep 2004 Bangladesh – concerts in Chittagong and Dhakar, project with students and local musicians. World premiere of A Place So Quiet by Pete Whyman
Sep 2004 Spitz London premiere of A Place So Quiet by Pete Whyman
Oct 2004 Recording Tangerine Dance, Lucky and ID for Black Box at Champs Hill, Sussex
Oct 2004 Crucible Theatre Sheffield Recital
April 2005 Turner Sims Southampton, BBC Proms project,
April 2005 Heidelberg Germany BTN + Viktoria Mullova recital in Heidelberg Festival
April 2005, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham Note to Tale with Niall Ashdown
May 2005 Champs Hill Matthew’s 40th birthday concert with BTN, Viktoria Mullova and Julian Joseph
May 2005 Salisbury Arts Centre at Salisbury Festival Note to Tale with Niall Ashdown
June 2005 Cheltenham International Festival BBC Proms project
July 2005, Berkshire Young Musicians Trust BBC Proms project
July 2005 The Sage, Gateshead BBC Proms project
July 2005 Royal Albert Hall BBC Prom performance of Invisible Lines, live on BBC Television and radio
Oct 2005 Winchester, Festival of Art and Mind improvisations with Poet, Ruth Padel.
Jan 2006 Kazakhstan project with students and professionals
April 2006 Uzbekistan performance with DJ Cyclone in nightclub (called Club…), and two performances of Magic River with Omnibus ensemble at the Navoi Theatre
May 2006 Cologne first phase of project with Gürzenich Orchestra and Köln Philharmonic Hall preparing for their 20th anniversary celebrations, to include new concerto by Fraser Trainer for BTN and orchestra.
June 2006 London Festival of Art and Mind – and evening of improvisations based on etchings inspired by grain surgery by Susan Aldworth.
August 2006 Cologne second phase of project with Gürzenich Orchestra and Köln Philharmonic Hall
September 2006 Cologne final phase of project with Gürzenich Orchestra and Köln Philharmonic Hall, including world premiere of Fraser Trainer’s concerto for BTN and orchestra, Gadget, and music written by BTN, orchestral members, and students from Musikschule and Hochschule.
October 2006 Champs Hill recording of CD for FMR of improvised music, based on winners of a BBC Music Magazine competition to give inspiring ideas to use as improvisation.
February 2007 Leicester Richard Attenborough Centre, Enough Space For Everyone, a composition project for local musical school students, and young adults with special needs.
March 2007 Salisbury Arts Centre project with Howard Moody and the Sarum Orchestra. to write new work.
May 2007 Cologne Performance in the Philharmonie of Gadget by Fraser Trainer with the Gurzenich Orchestra and Markus Stenz, and improvisation with young people, the Gurzenich Ensemble and the full orchestra, for closing concert of the Köln Trienalle.
July 2007 Lichfield Festival 10th Anniversary Project at the festival where we started
August 2007 Filming for BBC 1’s Classical Star doing improvisation workshops for the students
July 2008 Barbican Young Orchestra BTN working with a group of creative musicians inventing new music, and Sir Colin Davis with another group working on Dvorak 8th
