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.
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A 2-minute teaser episode, featuring some of the voices you'll hear in the series...
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Renowned choreographer Royston Maldoom has brought the exhilarating experience of dance to communities across the world.
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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.
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Click for video: OSJ workshop at Iffley Academy
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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.
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Click for video of Richard's Petrushka Fair in the Ruhr
More about the Duisburg-Marxloh schools project |
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Inspirational singer, coach and vocal animateur Mary King has spent a lifetime encouraging the voice in all of us to find its fullest expression.
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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.
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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. |
