Arts Council England grant supports Orchestra of the Swan
Orchestra of the Swan, the Stratford-upon-Avon based chamber orchestra, is to receive a £65,000 grant from Arts Council England G4A to support its core programme of work in Stratford, which embraces the Orchestra’s profound commitment to commissioning new work, and develop the Orchestra’s wide reaching community programme in 2008/09.
The award enables Orchestra of the Swan to further its commitment to nurturing new talent with no less than five new works in the 2008/09 season including: Philip Herbert’s Peace for our time and Roxanna Panufnik’s Tibetan Winter for Violin and Orchestra. It also supports the development of the Orchestra’s highly successful Spring Sounds Festival in May 09 and a new Summer Proms series in Stratford in July 09.
"Orchestra of the Swan’s 2007/8 season came to an overwhelmingly successful close with the Orchestra performing to the very highest standards" |
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David Curtis, Artistic Director of Orchestra of the Swan commented:
“Orchestra of the Swan’s 2007/8 season came to an overwhelmingly successful close with the Orchestra performing to the very highest standards in our first series at Town Hall Birmingham and at home in Stratford, followed by the virtual sell out of the Spring Sounds Festival, and finally, no less than two national television appearances on CH4’s ‘How to Look Good Naked’ and in Tasmin Little’s ‘South Bank Show’ on ITV.
We are therefore extremely appreciative of the Arts Council’s substantial award, this year in particular, which allows us the confidence to develop our ideas for a new opera project with Welcombe Hills Special School in Stratford; a new community programme of events and activities in around Stratford running alongside the next Spring Sounds Festival; and finally to cultivate our relationship with students at Birmingham Conservatoire in an exciting new programme of ‘Shorts’ which would combine four iconic works with newly commissioned works from the students, as well as sustaining our commitment to new commissions and our core programme of work in Stratford and at the Town Hall Birmingham.”
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