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Manchester Camerata is one of the UK's leading Chamber Orchestras with concert series at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and at the Royal Northern College of Music - where we have a residency - but also regularly in Ulverston, Colne, Crewe and Stafford, and across the North West of England and Cumbria. We also have a vibrant education project with a special relationship with schools in Chester. Visit our main website at www.manchestercamerata.co.uk to read more about the orchestra and its plans and projects, for podcasts and vodcasts and to read news from the classical music world.



Friday, 22 October 2010

Designing a Symphony

Manchester Camerata Learning Manager Jonathan Price with an update on a hectic week for some Manchester kids.

Year 6 children from St Philip's Primary school have just finished a hectic week of preparations for their pre concert performance at Camerata's concert tomorrow night (Saturday).  Their week started with a whistlestop tour of some of Manchester's most distinctive buildings focussing on the neo-classical Manchester Art Gallery and Central Library. Drawing, filming with mini-cams and making models under the expert guidance of Dave Green and Stefan Trebicki of Ian Simpson Architects, they also played on the Town Hall organ and heard Camerata musicians perform in the lofty entrance hall of the Art Gallery. The following days were devoted to composing music to reflect the architecture they had seen, and editing the film to accompany it-the results can be heard and seen at the RNCM at 6.30 tomorrow. Not to be missed!

Read more about this project

Details of Saturday's concert
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