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.
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Half 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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Shine a Light
Tue 22 Jan 2013
Hi from OAE Education! It’s been a busy time for us, so busy that I haven’t had time to write about everything we’ve been doing recently, so here’s a bit about our Shine a Light project.
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 MoreOAE at Whitechapel Gallery: Art, Music and Other Visible Things
Fri 9 Nov 2012
In collaboration with Community Music, Music Technology students have been given the opportunity to work with OAE players to create a soundscape to accompany The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce. Bringing together modern music production techniques and facilities with baroque instruments, the music created will be performed throughout the day of the festival…
Read MoreOAE TOTS go brass!
Sat 3 Nov 2012
Our TOTS concerts this Sunday at the Southbank Centre are fast approaching so we thought we’d give you a little idea of what to expect, especially if it’s your first TOTS experience.
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 MoreSecret Wishes
Tue 9 Oct 2012
After our mammoth Anthem for a Child project last season I spent the summer: a. Recovering and b. Looking to the future The questions I’m always asking of the OAE, our partners and the people we work with are Why? Where? What? and When? In developing our plans for 2012-2013, I’ve been meeting with our…
Read MoreA new Figaro
Wed 3 Oct 2012
At the end of September, OAE players visited St Laurence School in Bradford on Avon for our annual opera project with eight classes of Year 7′s who had just joined the school.
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 MoreGreenwich TOTS playlist
Fri 10 Aug 2012
Thank you to everyone who joined us and jumped, danced, sang, bumped and rowed their way round Europe with us at our TOTS Concert in the Little Top at Greenwich Summer Festival last Saturday (4 Aug). What an amazing atmosphere… For those of you who’d like to listen again to anything we played, here’s the…
Read MoreTeachers, towers and tidying up
Thu 9 Aug 2012
We piloted a new education project this year, when OAE musicians visited a special needs school, Willow Dene, in South East London during the Spring & Summer terms. Here’s a little taster of how the workshops went…
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TOTS playlist
Tue 3 Jul 2012
It was wonderful to see, and hear, so many of you at our Tots workshops last Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall. If you grown-ups would like to know what you heard and maybe listen again at home, here’s a summary.
Read MoreGoing on a journey with OAE Education
Fri 22 Jun 2012
I’ve been lucky enough to see loads of the wonderful Education work we’ve been doing over the last few months: going to Hastings to watch a fabulous Anthem for a Child concert, taking part in workshops at a special needs school in south-east London and going on a journey with OAE TOTS at the Southbank…
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 MoreThe Tandem Diaries
Tue 17 Apr 2012
So, a week after the end of the triumphant Anthem tour, it’s high time for the four tandemeers’ blog entry we promised Ellie and Ceri in the office. Firstly a few bald numerical facts, totted up on the train home from York as the tandem rested in the guard’s van, sleeping off its glut of…
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…
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