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.
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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.
©BirminghamHippodrome
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!
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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.
©TurtleKeyArts
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.
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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".
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