In our new podcast series, conductor and animateur Tom Seligman meets musicians and other performing artists with a personal mission: to channel their own passion and creativity into transformative experiences for people of every age and background.
A 2-minute teaser episode, featuring some of the voices you'll hear in the series...
Renowned choreographer Royston Maldoom has brought the exhilarating experience of dance to communities across the world.
Link to documentary: Rhythm Is It!​
Conductor John Lubbock and his Orchestra of St. John's bring live music directly to thousands of young people with autism and a huge variety of learning difficulties.  The effect is instant and powerful.
Click for video: OSJ workshop at Iffley Academy
Pioneering music animateur Richard McNicol has helped transform classical music’s engagement with its wider community, bringing orchestras into schools and helping them look well beyond the concert hall stage.
Click for video of Richard's Petrushka Fair in the Ruhr
More about the Duisburg-Marxloh schools project
Inspirational singer, coach and vocal animateur Mary King has spent a lifetime encouraging the voice in all of us to find its fullest expression.
When a full-scale symphony orchestra chooses to perform in a municipal car-park, it’s bound to create a stir. Composer Kate Whitley, conductor Christopher Stark and singer-songwriter Abimaro Gunnell talk to us about how the Multi-Story Orchestra has become an essential part of the community and given young people new ways of making their voices heard.
Hannah Conway's dazzingly varied musical collaborations range from the massive to the intimately personal – most recently a series of works exploring voice loss: Sound Voice.
“Art is energy," she says, "and you trust people will run with you...”
Bonus episode – in German:
​Tom Seligman talks about 'Musikvermittlung' (music outreach and communication) in the UK and Germany and discusses some of Five Senses Music's projects.