Plymouth Music Zone
Tue 4 Jun 2013
Continuing a partnership developed during our Anthem project last year, this April, OAE musicians Katherine Spencer, Katie Heller and Iurii Gavryliuk went to Plymouth Music Zone (PMZ), for a three day creative music course with disabled young adults and local secondary school students.
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Ellie Cowan
Education Officer
Hi, I’m Ellie, the Education Officer for the OAE. Thanks to the range of projects we deliver in the Education Department, my day-to-day job can be very different. From booking players and rehearsal spaces, liaising with schools to organising workshops or trips to the concert hall, collating and organising music for projects, compiling and creating…
Read MoreFinishing the Donkey
Sat 27 Apr 2013
One of the joys of working in OAE Education is the variety of projects you get to work on.
Read MoreOAE Tots go Strings: what you heard
Mon 15 Apr 2013
We had great fun in our OAE Tots go Strings concert on Saturday and hope you did too. If you’d like to know a bit more about what we played, read on: Most of our concert was made up of Telemann’s Don Quixote pronounced ‘Don Keyshot’. See what we did there with our donkey theme!…
Read MoreHalf term musings from the Education team
Mon 18 Feb 2013
So much happens in the OAE Education department and as it is just little old me, the only office-based member of the team, I hardly get any time to sit down and blog about what I’ve been up to. My track record of broken blog promises for Team Comms is horrendous but today, the first…
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Current Distractions
Thu 14 Feb 2013
So this week, I’ve been charged with writing the Current Distractions blog. For those of you have haven’t caught any of these blogs yet, members of the OAE staff are asked to comment on artsy things that have caught their eye of late. So here are my current distractions…
Read MoreJoyous voices and spelling stumbles
Thu 22 Nov 2012
It is a widely known fact amongst those who know me that I can’t spell. I’m the person to play Scrabble against but always the last to be picked for a game of Cranium. I did warn the OAE in my interview that spelling was not my forte but as a competent computer user I…
Read MoreBig Draw
Wed 24 Oct 2012
Last Saturday we took part in the Guardian Big Draw, a really lovely day where families come to Kings Place to get involved in lots of different art activities. The OAE’s part in this day is always slightly abstract and I love the creativity that it generates. On a Big Draw day, two OAE musicians…
Read MoreOAE TOTS: Going on a Journey (with hats this time)
Tue 18 Sep 2012
As part of the Kings Place Festival at the weekend, we hosted two TOTS workshops, led by violinist Hetty Wayne and bassoonist Rebecca Stockwell. Ticket holders were told to bring a hat as we were all going on a journey and our audience didn’t disappoint us, we saw many splendid hats during the day. My…
Read MoreAnthem on film
Tue 4 Sep 2012
Here’s a short video about the huge Anthem project that we undertook this year in OAE Education.
Read MoreA big thumbs down to noise abatement!
Wed 16 May 2012
You may have read about our adventures back in March where we took a 20-piece OAE orchestra around the country to deliver workshops and concerts under the banner Anthem for a Child. (If not, you are missing out: read about the cake, tandems, 5000 children, concerts and kettle bells here). The pinnacle of each concert…
Read MoreAnthem: The final day
Mon 2 Apr 2012
Unbelievably, the last day of the Anthem tour has arrived and we find ourselves in the beautiful city of York. As it was the final day we had to go out with a bang and so had organised a complicated day starting in the University and ending in the National Centre for Early Music. Today…
Read MoreDay Seven: Anthem in Chesterfield
Fri 30 Mar 2012
On Sunday evening we drove from Bury St Edmunds to Chesterfield after the terrific family fun day at the Apex Centre. You know you are approaching Chesterfield when you see the crooked church spire that punctuates the skyline. This magnificent landmark can be seen from the motorway and I was instantly reminded of a picture…
Read MoreAnthem: The Prologue
Mon 19 Mar 2012
Our huge Anthem for a Child tour kicks off today in Plymouth, where we’ll be visiting schools for workshops in the morning and then off to the Devonport Guildhall for a concert in the afternoon. OAE Education Officer, Ellie Cowan will be blogging for the whole tour and here’s her first post: “Today started in…
Read MoreAnthem for a Child…a resolution
Wed 21 Dec 2011
So it might be a little early for this seeing as it isn’t quite Christmas yet, but, looking ahead to the New Year, here is my OAE New Year resolution: I will be a better blogger.
Read MoreHalf term at OAE Education
Tue 15 Nov 2011
For those of us involved in education, autumn half term is a time to take stock. The first half of the new term has been and gone and pupils and teachers alike are just about back into the routine of waking up early, getting into school and being in class all day. As the crisp…
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