Education & Outreach
Sacconi Outreach and Education Work
We love taking our music outside the concert hall and into schools, hospitals, prisons and care homes because often these concerts end up being the most rewarding. When we started out as a young string quartet, we got a huge amount out of being on the Live Music Now programme. LMN took us to many schools for students with special needs and care homes for the elderly. Since then, we’ve always put a strong emphasis on outreach work. It is a great privilege to be able to have a positive impact on other people’s lives.
CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust –“brings young people to chamber music & chamber music to young people” Reg. Charity:1067716
The CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust has always been a huge support to the quartet, enabling us to play to thousands of school children from state schools in and around London. In addition to these school concerts, CAVATINA also set up family concerts in Swiss Cottage Library and Blackheath Concert hall. These are ideal for reaching and inspiring the parents as well as the children. We aim to do several CAVATINA Concerts in the Folkestone area before our festival. These have been very successful in the past, and the CAVATINA ticket scheme enables the children to come to our festival for free. www.cavatina.net
The start of the Sacconi Festival in Folkestone has meant that we have been able to initiate further projects, and each year we hope to be increasingly creative and effective in our pursuit to take chamber music to wider audiences.
The outreach programme of the Sacconi Festival has taken the quartet to a variety of different institutions. Canterbury Prison, Cheriton Age Concern and Kent Refugee Network Action are all places that they have visited, and hope to return to.
Sacconi Festival Outreach 2010
Kent Refugee Network Action
In the autumn, we’re hoping to do a project with Duncan Chapman, an eminent composer/workshop leader and Zirak Hamad, a renowned Kurdish violinist. The aim is for Duncan to facilitate the composition of a series of small pieces for the group to to perform with the quartet. Hopefully the compositions will be recorded and we will be able to showcase them at next year’s festival.
School Workshops
We’re collaborating with actor Tim Goldman to do a series of workshops in Folkestone Schools, inspired by Janacek’s ‘Intimate Letters’. The workshops will be filled with many activities that we hope will inspire the children. We will play them excerpts from Janacek’s life-changing piece and familiarise them with our interpretation of the piece and some of the compositional techniques that he used to express himself. Then they will be encouraged to write their own letters, which in turn will inspire the composition of their own pieces of music. This will culminate in performances of their compositions involving the quartet and the pupils.
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