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Community and Engagement

Sami Small Pulls a Bus

Stan's Cafe

2024 | 20'

for trumpet, cornet and a +30 piece ukulele ensemble played by young people

Created collaboratively with Year 7 students as a STEAM project, with the challenge of creating a theatrical piece in which a double-decker National Express bus is pulled by a team of young people.

Sami Small - live
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Turtle Opera Birmingham 2024

Turtle Key Arts and Birmingham Hippodrome

 

2024     |     30'

for open instrumentation

 

Co-created collaboratively in 4 days in a row with a group of young people in the Autism spectrum using mixed techniques from music and theatre composition such as fluxus games or clowning.

Turtle Opera 2024 - excerpt
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Welsh National Opera -  Discovery Plymouth

Welsh National Opera & Infinite Opera

 

2024     |     30'

for a cast of participants, trumpet, violin, saxophone and piano

 

Co-created collaboratively with a group of Year 7 students loosely based on "La Traviata". The piece reimagines and recomposes Puccini's music into a murder mystery opera featuring seagulls!

Discover Plymouth - excerpt
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Turtle Opera Birmingham 2023

Turtle Key Arts, Birmingham Hippodrome, English Touring Opera

 

2023     |     45'

for open instrumentation

 

Co-created collaboratively meeting once a week during 9 weeks with a group of young people in the Autism spectrum based on the idea of day dreaming.

Turtle Opera 2023 - excerpt _Same Old_
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Stories of Hope and Home

Welsh National Opera & Birmingham REP

 

2023     |     60'

for participants (speakers and singers), baritone, soprano, clarinet, cello and piano

 

Music-theatre work co-created collaboratively with Stories of Hope and Home, a community and safe space in which Asylum Seekers and Refugees can explore and share their stories. Performed at the Birmingham Rep for over 200 children from different local schools.

Stories of Hope and Home - _There were colours_ (rehearsal)
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Welsh National Opera - Discovery Black Country

Welsh National Opera & Infinite Opera

2019     |     45'

for a cast of participants from three different schools from the Black Country (West Midlands) and a mixed ensemble (Wolverhampton Youth Orchestra).

 

Co-created collaboratively with three groups of Year 7 students from different schools in the black Country based on the idea of "freedom".

Discovery Black Country - _We think differently_ (excerpt)
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