Orchestras Live Annual Review 2007/08

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ASPIRATIONS

In our first newsletter to partners in March this year, I told you about the successful launch of Orchestras Live. I’m delighted now to present Achievements and Aspirations to you which is our review of our work during 2007/08 – the first year of Orchestras Live’s work as the national development agency for orchestral music throughout the country.

It’s been an incredibly busy year by any standards and the range and reach of our work is borne out by the summary of key achievements starting on page 07. The map on page 19 also shows the extent to which our work is enabling audiences from across England to have access to orchestral music of the very highest quality.

We said goodbye to our retiring Chief Executive, David Richardson, in July and much of the credit for our successes in 2007/08 are down to his outstanding leadership. But this report doesn’t just dwell on the achievements of the past.

Most importantly it also starts to map out our plans for this year and beyond, led by our new Chief Executive, Henry Little. Henry has an impressive background in the music profession and joined us after ten years at Arts Council England. He has already made a considerable impact and tells you about our future aspirations elsewhere in this document.

Finally on behalf of my fellow Trustees, I would like to record our thanks to the whole Orchestras Live team for their dedicated and committed efforts. I look forward to seeing Orchestras Live go from strength to strength in future.

Martin Gent Chairman

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Contents01 Chairman’s statement02 Chief Executive’s statement04 Our mission and aims 06 How we work07 Our achievements19 National reach20 Financials22 Our aspirations23 Orchestras Live team24 Further reading

REFLECTING AND ANTICIPATING

“ On behalf of my fellow Trustees, I would like to record our thanks to the whole Orchestras Live team for their dedicated and committed efforts.”

Chairman’s statementMartin Gent

Cover photo: James Redwood leads children from Monks Abbey Primary School and St Faith and St Martin Church of England Junior School, Lincoln in a performance of Journeys created by the children with sinfonia ViVA and soundLINCS at Lincoln Drill Hall, October 2007. Photo by John Thompson.

In our first newsletter to partners in March this year, I told you about the successful launch of Orchestras Live. I’m delighted now to present Achievements and Aspirations to you which is our review of our work during 2007/08 – the first year of Orchestras Live’s work as the national development agency for orchestral music throughout the country.

It’s been an incredibly busy year by any standards and the range and reach of our work is borne out by the summary of key achievements starting on page 07. The map on page 19 also shows the extent to which our work is enabling audiences from across England to have access to orchestral music of the very highest quality.

We said goodbye to our retiring Chief Executive, David Richardson, in July and much of the credit for our successes in 2007/08 are down to his outstanding leadership. But this report doesn’t just dwell on the achievements of the past.

Most importantly it also starts to map out our plans for this year and beyond, led by our new Chief Executive, Henry Little. Henry has an impressive background in the music profession and joined us after ten years at Arts Council England. He has already made a considerable impact and tells you about our future aspirations elsewhere in this document.

Finally on behalf of my fellow Trustees, I would like to record our thanks to the whole Orchestras Live team for their dedicated and committed efforts. I look forward to seeing Orchestras Live go from strength to strength in future.

Martin Gent Chairman

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Orchestras Live is the national development agency for orchestral music. Our vision is to enable the widest range of people to have inspirational experiences of high quality live orchestral music.

Contents01 Chairman’s statement02 Chief Executive’s statement04 Our mission and aims 06 How we work07 Our achievements19 National reach20 Financials22 Our aspirations23 Orchestras Live team24 Further reading

REFLECTING AND ANTICIPATING

“ On behalf of my fellow Trustees, I would like to record our thanks to the whole Orchestras Live team for their dedicated and committed efforts.”

Chairman’s statementMartin Gent

Cover photo: James Redwood leads children from Monks Abbey Primary School and St Faith and St Martin Church of England Junior School, Lincoln in a performance of Journeys created by the children with sinfonia ViVA and soundLINCS at Lincoln Drill Hall, October 2007. Photo by John Thompson.

It’s always exciting to take on a new challenge. And leading the future development of Orchestras Live is no exception. In its first year, Orchestras Live has already received a strong signal of support from Arts Council England when they renewed our core funding to 2011 and consolidated our lottery funding for chamber orchestra touring into our regular funding package.

This really does give us a mandate to fulfil our mission to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through their experience of live orchestral music. The combination of our work with 95 partners and the national coverage of our Chamber Orchestras Live touring circuit confirms our position as the national development agency for orchestral music in England.

And uniquely we’re well placed to create a wide range of strategic relationships with organisations including local authorities, festivals, venues, voluntary promoters, education providers, musicians, composers and orchestras.

We’re particularly keen to advocate the value of our work. Throughout this year we will be developing a new evaluation framework that will show our stakeholders how we are achieving our aims. We will focus on working with young people and families – building upon the strengths of our recent Messin’ with Mozart project in partnership with City of London Sinfonia, Medway Council, schools in Medway and both local and national funders.

We will strengthen our already strong relationships with promoters – particularly with the aim of increasing their capacity to develop and maintain concert performances of the highest quality.

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Since 2004, our Chamber Orchestras Live promoter network has grown to its present state where it covers the whole country from Dartington in the South West up to Penrith in Cumbria.

Our core priority has always been to reach those audiences outside major population centres that don’t have easy access to orchestral music and we’re also keen to support the performances of work by living composers.

The work of Orchestras Live and its predecessors over the last 40 years gives us a unique understanding of the dynamic in music between artists, promoters and audiences. I think that this is also one of the main ingredients behind the success of Orchestras Live.

I’ve inherited an organisation that isn’t afraid of asking searching questions about its work, that genuinely works with and develops partnerships in everything that it does and is fit for purpose to develop the most vibrant and sustainable national market for orchestral music.

I hope you enjoy and are inspired by reading about our work in 2007/08 and our exciting plans for the future.

Henry Little Chief Executive

Our understanding of the dynamic in music between artists, promoters and audiences is one of the main ingredients behind the success of Orchestras Live.

“ I’ve inherited an organisation that isn’t afraid of asking searching questions, that genuinely works with and develops partnerships in everything that it does and is fit for purpose to develop the most vibrant and sustainable national market for orchestral music.”

Chief Executive’s statementHenry Little

VIBRANT AND SuSTAINABLE

It’s always exciting to take on a new challenge. And leading the future development of Orchestras Live is no exception. In its first year, Orchestras Live has already received a strong signal of support from Arts Council England when they renewed our core funding to 2011 and consolidated our lottery funding for chamber orchestra touring into our regular funding package.

This really does give us a mandate to fulfil our mission to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through their experience of live orchestral music. The combination of our work with 95 partners and the national coverage of our Chamber Orchestras Live touring circuit confirms our position as the national development agency for orchestral music in England.

And uniquely we’re well placed to create a wide range of strategic relationships with organisations including local authorities, festivals, venues, voluntary promoters, education providers, musicians, composers and orchestras.

We’re particularly keen to advocate the value of our work. Throughout this year we will be developing a new evaluation framework that will show our stakeholders how we are achieving our aims. We will focus on working with young people and families – building upon the strengths of our recent Messin’ with Mozart project in partnership with City of London Sinfonia, Medway Council, schools in Medway and both local and national funders.

We will strengthen our already strong relationships with promoters – particularly with the aim of increasing their capacity to develop and maintain concert performances of the highest quality.

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Since 2004, our Chamber Orchestras Live promoter network has grown to its present state where it covers the whole country from Dartington in the South West up to Penrith in Cumbria.

Our core priority has always been to reach those audiences outside major population centres that don’t have easy access to orchestral music and we’re also keen to support the performances of work by living composers.

The work of Orchestras Live and its predecessors over the last 40 years gives us a unique understanding of the dynamic in music between artists, promoters and audiences. I think that this is also one of the main ingredients behind the success of Orchestras Live.

I’ve inherited an organisation that isn’t afraid of asking searching questions about its work, that genuinely works with and develops partnerships in everything that it does and is fit for purpose to develop the most vibrant and sustainable national market for orchestral music.

I hope you enjoy and are inspired by reading about our work in 2007/08 and our exciting plans for the future.

Henry Little Chief Executive

Our understanding of the dynamic in music between artists, promoters and audiences is one of the main ingredients behind the success of Orchestras Live.

“ I’ve inherited an organisation that isn’t afraid of asking searching questions, that genuinely works with and develops partnerships in everything that it does and is fit for purpose to develop the most vibrant and sustainable national market for orchestral music.”

Chief Executive’s statementHenry Little

VIBRANT AND SuSTAINABLE

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Our mission is to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through live orchestral music.

An independent charitable organisation, our aims are to:

Inspire To increase the number and diversity of people experiencing live orchestral music;

To support and develop the market for live orchestral music activities;

Motivate To support the highest standards in the creation, planning and performance of music;

EmpowerTo play an active part in policy implementation at local, regional and national level;

To manage and develop the organisation and its resources to fulfil its mission.

Working with its partners, Orchestras Live creates excellent and sustainable programmes of live orchestral music, the foundations of which are built on strong, diverse strategic partnerships of individuals, organisations, promoters and orchestras in order to:

Promote sustainabilityCreate a vibrant and sustainable market for live orchestral music;

Increase experiences Increase the number and variety of people who experience live orchestral music;

Improve valueEnsure by action and advocacy that live orchestral music is valued by policy makers, our partners and the public as a vital art form and a valuable tool in addressing wider social agendas.

Through its Programme Agreements, Orchestras Live also contributes to key policy areas including Every Child Matters, Skills Development and Training, Community Cohesion and Economic Regeneration.

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Our mission and aims2008/09

Below: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – one of 35 professional British orchestras we worked with during 2007/08. Photo by Eric Richmond.

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Our mission is to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through live orchestral music.

An independent charitable organisation, our aims are to:

Inspire To increase the number and diversity of people experiencing live orchestral music;

To support and develop the market for live orchestral music activities;

Motivate To support the highest standards in the creation, planning and performance of music;

EmpowerTo play an active part in policy implementation at local, regional and national level;

To manage and develop the organisation and its resources to fulfil its mission.

Working with its partners, Orchestras Live creates excellent and sustainable programmes of live orchestral music, the foundations of which are built on strong, diverse strategic partnerships of individuals, organisations, promoters and orchestras in order to:

Promote sustainabilityCreate a vibrant and sustainable market for live orchestral music;

Increase experiences Increase the number and variety of people who experience live orchestral music;

Improve valueEnsure by action and advocacy that live orchestral music is valued by policy makers, our partners and the public as a vital art form and a valuable tool in addressing wider social agendas.

Through its Programme Agreements, Orchestras Live also contributes to key policy areas including Every Child Matters, Skills Development and Training, Community Cohesion and Economic Regeneration.

insPirinG, MOtivatinG anD eMPOWerinG

Our mission and aims2008/09

Below: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – one of 35 professional British orchestras we worked with during 2007/08. Photo by Eric Richmond.

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SuPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT

Orchestras Live works primarily with promoters to develop audiences and the market for live orchestral music across England. By enlarging the market, orchestras can present the best of their work to more people in new places.

Orchestras Live forms strategic partnerships with a wide range of organisations, including local authorities, festivals, venues, voluntary promoters, education providers, musicians, composers and orchestras. We help partners plan and carry out programmes of orchestral work that are relevant to their communities, stimulating interaction and learning for people from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Orchestras Live offers financial support towards the cost of orchestral activities from its Arts Council England grants and other charitable income, and – where appropriate – assists partners in their own fundraising.

This image shows Ensemble intercontemporain, the first international orchestra to appear in the 2007/08 Chamber Orchestras Live series. Several orchestra members played at the 2008 Sounds New festival in Canterbury. Photo by Thierry Martinot.

How we work

The following pages feature a selection of our work from 2007/08, demonstrating the impact we have made through creating diverse partnerships.

MAKING AN IMPACT

Our achievements

We work with promoters to develop audiences and the market for live orchestral music.

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SuPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT

Orchestras Live works primarily with promoters to develop audiences and the market for live orchestral music across England. By enlarging the market, orchestras can present the best of their work to more people in new places.

Orchestras Live forms strategic partnerships with a wide range of organisations, including local authorities, festivals, venues, voluntary promoters, education providers, musicians, composers and orchestras. We help partners plan and carry out programmes of orchestral work that are relevant to their communities, stimulating interaction and learning for people from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Orchestras Live offers financial support towards the cost of orchestral activities from its Arts Council England grants and other charitable income, and – where appropriate – assists partners in their own fundraising.

This image shows Ensemble intercontemporain, the first international orchestra to appear in the 2007/08 Chamber Orchestras Live series. Several orchestra members played at the 2008 Sounds New festival in Canterbury. Photo by Thierry Martinot.

How we work

The following pages feature a selection of our work from 2007/08, demonstrating the impact we have made through creating diverse partnerships.

MAKING AN IMPACT

Our achievements

We work with promoters to develop audiences and the market for live orchestral music.

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Our achievements

JourneysOrchestras Live worked with four partners in Lincoln to deliver a long-term pilot project aimed at enriching music-making provision in primary schools in the city centre. 60 pupils, aged 10 –11, took part in a creative music project on the theme of Journeys in autumn 2007, including workshops and a public performance with sinfonia ViVA.

This image: Journeys audience at Lincoln Drill Hall. Photo by Phil Crow. Left: Journeys project participant. Photo by John Thompson.

Derby For some time Derby City Council had been promoting several strands of orchestral and classical music activity including a Classical Concert Series, two sinfonia ViVA residencies, the UK’s largest free outdoor classical music concert at Darley Park and other events such as small-scale chamber recitals.

These had mostly been separately planned, organised, branded and marketed by the City’s Arts & Events team, venue management and sinfonia ViVA staff.

The process of making a Programme Agreement with Orchestras Live brought the opportunity to look afresh at how things are done, leading to a key aim being agreed that the classical music offer in Derby should be planned and marketed as a whole so that the benefits of synergy are greater than the individual parts.

Through a series of meetings and discussions, a shared vision for a more holistic strategy of orchestral activity successfully evolved with joint artistic planning, coherent branding, incentives to encourage crossover and a shared audience development research project.

Creation project with sinfonia ViVA in Derby.

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Our achievements

JourneysOrchestras Live worked with four partners in Lincoln to deliver a long-term pilot project aimed at enriching music-making provision in primary schools in the city centre. 60 pupils, aged 10 –11, took part in a creative music project on the theme of Journeys in autumn 2007, including workshops and a public performance with sinfonia ViVA.

This image: Journeys audience at Lincoln Drill Hall. Photo by Phil Crow. Left: Journeys project participant. Photo by John Thompson.

Derby For some time Derby City Council had been promoting several strands of orchestral and classical music activity including a Classical Concert Series, two sinfonia ViVA residencies, the UK’s largest free outdoor classical music concert at Darley Park and other events such as small-scale chamber recitals.

These had mostly been separately planned, organised, branded and marketed by the City’s Arts & Events team, venue management and sinfonia ViVA staff.

The process of making a Programme Agreement with Orchestras Live brought the opportunity to look afresh at how things are done, leading to a key aim being agreed that the classical music offer in Derby should be planned and marketed as a whole so that the benefits of synergy are greater than the individual parts.

Through a series of meetings and discussions, a shared vision for a more holistic strategy of orchestral activity successfully evolved with joint artistic planning, coherent branding, incentives to encourage crossover and a shared audience development research project.

Creation project with sinfonia ViVA in Derby.

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Flights of Fancy. Photo by Stuart Bruce

“ This project has had a very positive impact on me professionally. It has helped me build my confidence in implementing music activities with the children.”

Early years practitioner

Our achievements £60 k awarded to the Cumbria Partnership from the Northern Rock Foundation, securing the project until 2011

CumbriaA partnership with four voluntary promoters in Keswick, Penrith, Cockermouth and Egremont has led to the establishment of an annual Chamber Orchestras Live programme in Cumbria’s cultural calendar. This year, supported by Orchestras Live, they were awarded £60,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation, securing the programme until 2011 and enabling them to introduce concerts for families and young people.

Orchestras Live’s active support of chamber orchestras brings world-class orchestral music to under-served and rural communities

Theatre by the Lake, Keswick which presented one of dozens of successful concerts as part of Chamber Orchestras Live.

350 children aged 3 –5 were involved with our Flights of Fancy project in Suffolk

Flights of FancyA unique developmental project involving over 350 children aged 3 –5 at children’s centres and nurseries in three parts of Suffolk, exploring the effects of regular music-making in early years settings, with an emphasis on skills development for musicians, practitioners and parents.

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Flights of Fancy. Photo by Stuart Bruce

“ This project has had a very positive impact on me professionally. It has helped me build my confidence in implementing music activities with the children.”

Early years practitioner

Our achievements £60 k awarded to the Cumbria Partnership from the Northern Rock Foundation, securing the project until 2011

CumbriaA partnership with four voluntary promoters in Keswick, Penrith, Cockermouth and Egremont has led to the establishment of an annual Chamber Orchestras Live programme in Cumbria’s cultural calendar. This year, supported by Orchestras Live, they were awarded £60,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation, securing the programme until 2011 and enabling them to introduce concerts for families and young people.

Orchestras Live’s active support of chamber orchestras brings world-class orchestral music to under-served and rural communities

Theatre by the Lake, Keswick which presented one of dozens of successful concerts as part of Chamber Orchestras Live.

350 children aged 3 –5 were involved with our Flights of Fancy project in Suffolk

Flights of FancyA unique developmental project involving over 350 children aged 3 –5 at children’s centres and nurseries in three parts of Suffolk, exploring the effects of regular music-making in early years settings, with an emphasis on skills development for musicians, practitioners and parents.

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Our achievements

Picture ThisPicture This was a two-year strategic project initiated by Orchestras Live which brought together six local authorities in Hertfordshire in a shared approach towards collaborative work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Following a series of projects and performances across the county, Picture This culminated in November 2007 with a major performance of music devised for visual images.

Some 160 people from eight groups including schools, adults with additional needs and a youth wind band joined forces with the RPO for the public concert at Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre.

“ At first I was a little apprehensive I confess. The project appeared somewhat ambitious and so many things could have gone wrong, but it all came off, and what a wonderful musical experience we enjoyed!”

John, aged 92

This image and left: Picture This by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Our achievements

Picture ThisPicture This was a two-year strategic project initiated by Orchestras Live which brought together six local authorities in Hertfordshire in a shared approach towards collaborative work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Following a series of projects and performances across the county, Picture This culminated in November 2007 with a major performance of music devised for visual images.

Some 160 people from eight groups including schools, adults with additional needs and a youth wind band joined forces with the RPO for the public concert at Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre.

“ At first I was a little apprehensive I confess. The project appeared somewhat ambitious and so many things could have gone wrong, but it all came off, and what a wonderful musical experience we enjoyed!”

John, aged 92

This image and left: Picture This by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Turangalila projectA rare performance of Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphonie, by the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, provided an opportunity for Orchestras Live to initiate and support two projects in which young people explored Messiaen’s compositional techniques and created their own music.

35 music technology students at South East Essex College took part in workshops led by a team of Philharmonia musicians, whilst in Rochford a weekend project with 42 young people was held through the District Council’s Extended Schools programme. Many of the participants went on to attend the performance of Turangalila Symphonie.

Philharmonia Orchestra with Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen who conducted Turangalila in Southend. Photo by Richard Haughton.

“ This project opened my eyes to the possibilities in relation to constructing and performing music in a classical manner.”

BND Music Technology student SE Essex College

Our achievements

Making Tracks Following the success of our Making Tracks concert tour in 2007, further concerts were staged in March 2008 with the BBC Concert Orchestra in Stevenage, Grantham and Norwich. These entertaining, educational, interactive concerts for 7 to 11 year olds were attended by more than 10,000 children, many hearing a live orchestra for the very first time.

10,000 children attended our Making Tracks concert tour in March 2008

Orchestras Live creates unique partnerships in order to deliver meaningful projects with lasting legacies

This image and right: Making Tracks at Grantham. Photos by John Thompson.

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Turangalila projectA rare performance of Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphonie, by the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, provided an opportunity for Orchestras Live to initiate and support two projects in which young people explored Messiaen’s compositional techniques and created their own music.

35 music technology students at South East Essex College took part in workshops led by a team of Philharmonia musicians, whilst in Rochford a weekend project with 42 young people was held through the District Council’s Extended Schools programme. Many of the participants went on to attend the performance of Turangalila Symphonie.

Philharmonia Orchestra with Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen who conducted Turangalila in Southend. Photo by Richard Haughton.

“ This project opened my eyes to the possibilities in relation to constructing and performing music in a classical manner.”

BND Music Technology student SE Essex College

Our achievements

Making Tracks Following the success of our Making Tracks concert tour in 2007, further concerts were staged in March 2008 with the BBC Concert Orchestra in Stevenage, Grantham and Norwich. These entertaining, educational, interactive concerts for 7 to 11 year olds were attended by more than 10,000 children, many hearing a live orchestra for the very first time.

10,000 children attended our Making Tracks concert tour in March 2008

Orchestras Live creates unique partnerships in order to deliver meaningful projects with lasting legacies

This image and right: Making Tracks at Grantham. Photos by John Thompson.

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Our achievements

Britten Sinfonia – one of the 19 orchestras who performed as part of the Chamber Orchestras Live circuit.

Chamber Orchestras Live 2007/08

Chamber Orchestras Live enables people to enjoy high quality live orchestral music on their doorstep, and orchestras to tour their best work to new areas.

From April 2007 to March 2008, a network of 25 promoters worked with 19 orchestras across 29 venues, playing a total of 53 concerts to 11,900 people in small and medium-sized towns stretching from Devon to North Yorkshire and from Kent to Cumbria.

The enthusiastic response from promoters and audiences shows how much people value quality of performance and enterprising programmes.

New and recent music features strongly in Chamber Orchestras Live concerts; in the past year 23 performances of works by living composers were given, including 3 UK or World Premieres.

The demand for live orchestral music continues to grow and, as well as support from Arts Council England, other sources of funding help to secure the development of the network to new places and new audiences. Arts Council England has signalled its commitment to this strand of work by consolidating Lottery funding for Chamber Orchestras Live into our regular funding package until 2011.53

concerts played from April 2007 to March 2008

Musical Excellence in the Waveney ValleyA three-year residency relationship by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in part of South Norfolk and Mid Suffolk, explored the potential for social engagement, learning and audience development amongst communities facing cultural isolation in a very rural area. Activity included chamber orchestra performances, a cross-art form project with schools, coaching for amateur musicians and a Family Music Day.

Orchestras Live can help Local Authorities to deliver their priority social agendas

Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Photo by Mike Hoban.

This image and above right: Sounding Out Family Music Day in Eye, as part of the Musical Excellence in the Waveney Valley project. Photos by Stuart Bruce.

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Our achievements

Britten Sinfonia – one of the 19 orchestras who performed as part of the Chamber Orchestras Live circuit.

Chamber Orchestras Live 2007/08

Chamber Orchestras Live enables people to enjoy high quality live orchestral music on their doorstep, and orchestras to tour their best work to new areas.

From April 2007 to March 2008, a network of 25 promoters worked with 19 orchestras across 29 venues, playing a total of 53 concerts to 11,900 people in small and medium-sized towns stretching from Devon to North Yorkshire and from Kent to Cumbria.

The enthusiastic response from promoters and audiences shows how much people value quality of performance and enterprising programmes.

New and recent music features strongly in Chamber Orchestras Live concerts; in the past year 23 performances of works by living composers were given, including 3 UK or World Premieres.

The demand for live orchestral music continues to grow and, as well as support from Arts Council England, other sources of funding help to secure the development of the network to new places and new audiences. Arts Council England has signalled its commitment to this strand of work by consolidating Lottery funding for Chamber Orchestras Live into our regular funding package until 2011.53

concerts played from April 2007 to March 2008

Musical Excellence in the Waveney ValleyA three-year residency relationship by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in part of South Norfolk and Mid Suffolk, explored the potential for social engagement, learning and audience development amongst communities facing cultural isolation in a very rural area. Activity included chamber orchestra performances, a cross-art form project with schools, coaching for amateur musicians and a Family Music Day.

Orchestras Live can help Local Authorities to deliver their priority social agendas

Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Photo by Mike Hoban.

This image and above right: Sounding Out Family Music Day in Eye, as part of the Musical Excellence in the Waveney Valley project. Photos by Stuart Bruce.

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During 2007/08, Orchestras Live supported more than 270 events in partnership with 95 Local Authorities and other promoters in the East and East Midlands and a number of other areas of England, involving 35 British professional orchestras.

For more details please visit our website at www.orchestraslive.org.uk

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National reach

Orchestras Live makes orchestral concerts and projects possible across England.

Between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008, Orchestras Live worked intensively across the East and East Midlands regions, and with a further 25 promoters as part of the Chamber Orchestras Live scheme in counties as far afield as Cumbria, Devon, Shropshire and Kent.

Key to map Orchestras Live reach Specific activity

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During 2007/08, Orchestras Live supported more than 270 events in partnership with 95 Local Authorities and other promoters in the East and East Midlands and a number of other areas of England, involving 35 British professional orchestras.

For more details please visit our website at www.orchestraslive.org.uk

Far anD WiDe

National reach

Orchestras Live makes orchestral concerts and projects possible across England.

Between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008, Orchestras Live worked intensively across the East and East Midlands regions, and with a further 25 promoters as part of the Chamber Orchestras Live scheme in counties as far afield as Cumbria, Devon, Shropshire and Kent.

Key to map Orchestras Live reach Specific activity

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income Grants from funders including the Foyle Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Youth Music enabled Orchestras Live to deliver a range of high quality orchestral projects and to develop and extend our Chamber Orchestras Live touring circuit into new locations. Going forward, the consolidation of the Arts Council England grant has given us a stable platform from which we hope to develop and build new core and project funding streams in order to deliver the organisation’s 3-year business plan to its fullest potential.

expenditure Orchestras Live invests in orchestral activities through its Arts Council England grants and other charitable income, and – where appropriate – assists partners in their own fundraising. Offering grants in the form of guarantees against loss stimulates and maintains greater local investment and maintains the principle that concerts and events are promoted and owned within the communities where they take place. The level of our support is flexible and we respond to the quality and ambition of local initiatives.

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2008

2008 (£) 2007 (£)

incoming resources Investment income 91,333 67,441Grants – Arts Council England 807,571 864,183Local authority subscriptions 256,997 302,780Other grants 92,291 88,611total incoming resources 1,248,192 1,323,015

resources expended Cost of generating funds 32,919 33,904Charitable activities 1,230,171 1,205,682Governance 2,500 4,925total resources expended 1,265,590 1,244,511net incoming resources (*) -17,398 78,504exceptional item: transfer of fundsfrom eastern Orchestral Board 1,208,502

current assets Temporary investments (**) 1,131,052 1,293,158Debtors 84,729 43,057Cash at bank and in hand 9,192 14,013 1,224,973 1,350,228current Liabilities Creditors 33,869 14,908Defined benefit pension liability 0 10,300net current assets 1,191,104 1,325,020

non-current Liabilities One-off pension contribution 0 116,700net assets 1,191,104 1,208,320Represented by: Restricted funds (***) 1,024,701 1,130,199Unrestricted funds – General 106,403 18,121Unrestricted funds – Designated 60,000 60,000

total Funds 1,191,104 1,208,320

Notes on the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities This summary contains information extracted from the Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet for the period 6 November 2006 to 31 March 2008. There was no financial activity by Orchestras Live until 1 April 2007 when the Activities of Eastern Orchestral Board were transferred to it.

(*) The Net incoming resources figure represents a conscious deployment of reserves into enhanced activities for the benefit of our partners and to further our aims. By spending this money (rather than having it accrue as a reserve) we were able to deliver a greater programme of activity.

(**) This figure represents the balance of monies held on deposit with Birmingham Midshires and Essex County Council at 31 March 2008.

(***) This figure represents various funds which have been given for particular purposes and projects, primarily Local Authority Activities Fund balances and Chamber Orchestras Live.

This is not the full statutory report and accounts and may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding of the charity’s activities.

For a full copy of our Report and Accounts please contact Orchestras Live on 020 7629 9601.

FunDinG anD investinG

Financials2007/08

During 2007/08 Orchestras Live continued its three funding endeavours to:

Maximise and diversify our core funding sources;

Secure restricted funds to support specific orchestral projects and programmes;

Support and advise partners in their own fundraising efforts.

Arts Council England grants £807,571 (64.7%)

Local Authority subscriptions £256,997 (20.6%)

Other grants £92,291 (7.4%)

Investment income £91,333 (7.3%)

Projects and Concerts £495,170 (39.1%)

Chamber Orchestras Live £398,458 (31.5%)

Programme and Promoter Development £169,317 (13.4%)

Administration, Governance and Overheads £155,917 (12.3%)

Fundraising and Communications £46,728 (3.7%)

income expenditure

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income Grants from funders including the Foyle Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Youth Music enabled Orchestras Live to deliver a range of high quality orchestral projects and to develop and extend our Chamber Orchestras Live touring circuit into new locations. Going forward, the consolidation of the Arts Council England grant has given us a stable platform from which we hope to develop and build new core and project funding streams in order to deliver the organisation’s 3-year business plan to its fullest potential.

expenditure Orchestras Live invests in orchestral activities through its Arts Council England grants and other charitable income, and – where appropriate – assists partners in their own fundraising. Offering grants in the form of guarantees against loss stimulates and maintains greater local investment and maintains the principle that concerts and events are promoted and owned within the communities where they take place. The level of our support is flexible and we respond to the quality and ambition of local initiatives.

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2008

2008 (£) 2007 (£)

incoming resources Investment income 91,333 67,441Grants – Arts Council England 807,571 864,183Local authority subscriptions 256,997 302,780Other grants 92,291 88,611total incoming resources 1,248,192 1,323,015

resources expended Cost of generating funds 32,919 33,904Charitable activities 1,230,171 1,205,682Governance 2,500 4,925total resources expended 1,265,590 1,244,511net incoming resources (*) -17,398 78,504exceptional item: transfer of fundsfrom eastern Orchestral Board 1,208,502

current assets Temporary investments (**) 1,131,052 1,293,158Debtors 84,729 43,057Cash at bank and in hand 9,192 14,013 1,224,973 1,350,228current Liabilities Creditors 33,869 14,908Defined benefit pension liability 0 10,300net current assets 1,191,104 1,325,020

non-current Liabilities One-off pension contribution 0 116,700net assets 1,191,104 1,208,320Represented by: Restricted funds (***) 1,024,701 1,130,199Unrestricted funds – General 106,403 18,121Unrestricted funds – Designated 60,000 60,000

total Funds 1,191,104 1,208,320

Notes on the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities This summary contains information extracted from the Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet for the period 6 November 2006 to 31 March 2008. There was no financial activity by Orchestras Live until 1 April 2007 when the Activities of Eastern Orchestral Board were transferred to it.

(*) The Net incoming resources figure represents a conscious deployment of reserves into enhanced activities for the benefit of our partners and to further our aims. By spending this money (rather than having it accrue as a reserve) we were able to deliver a greater programme of activity.

(**) This figure represents the balance of monies held on deposit with Birmingham Midshires and Essex County Council at 31 March 2008.

(***) This figure represents various funds which have been given for particular purposes and projects, primarily Local Authority Activities Fund balances and Chamber Orchestras Live.

This is not the full statutory report and accounts and may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding of the charity’s activities.

For a full copy of our Report and Accounts please contact Orchestras Live on 020 7629 9601.

FunDinG anD investinG

Financials2007/08

During 2007/08 Orchestras Live continued its three funding endeavours to:

Maximise and diversify our core funding sources;

Secure restricted funds to support specific orchestral projects and programmes;

Support and advise partners in their own fundraising efforts.

Arts Council England grants £807,571 (64.7%)

Local Authority subscriptions £256,997 (20.6%)

Other grants £92,291 (7.4%)

Investment income £91,333 (7.3%)

Projects and Concerts £495,170 (39.1%)

Chamber Orchestras Live £398,458 (31.5%)

Programme and Promoter Development £169,317 (13.4%)

Administration, Governance and Overheads £155,917 (12.3%)

Fundraising and Communications £46,728 (3.7%)

income expenditure

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Our priorities for the year are focused on young people, families and vulnerable people and increasing the number of people who have access to live orchestral music of all kinds.

Residency relationships will be strengthened, particularly building the capacity and skills of promoters to sustain concert performances and develop local music leaders and advocates.

We will continue our commitment to increasing orchestral music provision in under-served areas, and maintain the key partnerships to enable this to happen.

The Chamber Orchestras Live promoter network will continue to grow.

A new evaluation framework will be developed to enhance the quality of the evidence we need for planning and making the case for funding.

Orchestras Live will play a growing role in regional and national cultural development agendas and initiatives, such as Music Manifesto and Creative Partnerships.

Visit www.orchestraslive.org.uk or join our emailing list to keep up to date on our current and future projects.

Chief ExecutiveHenry Littlehenry@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the future direction of Orchestras Live and for the sound and effective management of the organisation’s artistic, financial, operational and administrative operation.

Partnership Manager Stuart Brucestuart@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the development and delivery of strategic partnerships in Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.

Partnership ManagerJan Ford jan@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the development and delivery of strategic partnerships in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire and for the development of the Chamber Orchestras Live network.

Programme OfficerKate Newellkate@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for assisting the Partnership Managers with the delivery of projects and administrating Chamber Orchestras Live.

Funding Development ManagerCaroline Portercaroline@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for generating income from a wide range of sources including trusts and foundations.

Administrator and Company SecretaryNancy Buchanannancy@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for all administration and company secretarial aspects of the organisation.

Communications ConsultantMatt Carwardine-Palmer matt@marketingculture.org.uk

Responsible for all marketing and communications activities including website development, e-marketing, press and PR and publications.

THE FuTuRE

EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

Our aspirations2008/09

Orchestras Live teamOctober 2008

Orchestras Live will play a growing role in regional and national cultural development agendas and initiatives.

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Our priorities for the year are focused on young people, families and vulnerable people and increasing the number of people who have access to live orchestral music of all kinds.

Residency relationships will be strengthened, particularly building the capacity and skills of promoters to sustain concert performances and develop local music leaders and advocates.

We will continue our commitment to increasing orchestral music provision in under-served areas, and maintain the key partnerships to enable this to happen.

The Chamber Orchestras Live promoter network will continue to grow.

A new evaluation framework will be developed to enhance the quality of the evidence we need for planning and making the case for funding.

Orchestras Live will play a growing role in regional and national cultural development agendas and initiatives, such as Music Manifesto and Creative Partnerships.

Visit www.orchestraslive.org.uk or join our emailing list to keep up to date on our current and future projects.

Chief ExecutiveHenry Littlehenry@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the future direction of Orchestras Live and for the sound and effective management of the organisation’s artistic, financial, operational and administrative operation.

Partnership Manager Stuart Brucestuart@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the development and delivery of strategic partnerships in Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.

Partnership ManagerJan Ford jan@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for the development and delivery of strategic partnerships in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire and for the development of the Chamber Orchestras Live network.

Programme OfficerKate Newellkate@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for assisting the Partnership Managers with the delivery of projects and administrating Chamber Orchestras Live.

Funding Development ManagerCaroline Portercaroline@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for generating income from a wide range of sources including trusts and foundations.

Administrator and Company SecretaryNancy Buchanannancy@orchestraslive.org.uk

Responsible for all administration and company secretarial aspects of the organisation.

Communications ConsultantMatt Carwardine-Palmer matt@marketingculture.org.uk

Responsible for all marketing and communications activities including website development, e-marketing, press and PR and publications.

THE FuTuRE

EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

Our aspirations2008/09

Orchestras Live teamOctober 2008

Orchestras Live will play a growing role in regional and national cultural development agendas and initiatives.

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Visit www.orchestraslive.org.uk for concert listings, news updates, sound clips, resources, case studies, reports, policy documents and much more.

To sign up for our regular e-bulletin, please email info@orchestraslive.org.uk with subject line ‘subscribe’.

Further reading

ORCHESTRAS LIVE ONLINE

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Orchestras Live10 Stratford PlaceLondonW1C 1BA

020 7629 9601info@orchestraslive.org.ukwww.orchestraslive.org.uk

Registered company number 5988211 (England and Wales)Registered charity number 1117211

sinfonia ViVA. Photo by Marco Borggreve.

Orchestras Live’s trustees at 31 March 2008

Nicky AdamsonMark Bromley Martin Gent (Chairman)Jim GilliesTony GravesPhilip Herbert Keith Nimmo Peter Snelling Jane Wells Frankie Williams

The coated section of this document contains material sourced from responsibly managed and sustainable forests together with recycled fibre, certified in accordance with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council).

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Visit www.orchestraslive.org.uk for concert listings, news updates, sound clips, resources, case studies, reports, policy documents and much more.

To sign up for our regular e-bulletin, please email info@orchestraslive.org.uk with subject line ‘subscribe’.

Further reading

ORCHESTRAS LIVE ONLINE

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Orchestras Live10 Stratford PlaceLondonW1C 1BA

020 7629 9601info@orchestraslive.org.ukwww.orchestraslive.org.uk

Registered company number 5988211 (England and Wales)Registered charity number 1117211

sinfonia ViVA. Photo by Marco Borggreve.

Orchestras Live’s trustees at 31 March 2008

Nicky AdamsonMark Bromley Martin Gent (Chairman)Jim GilliesTony GravesPhilip Herbert Keith Nimmo Peter Snelling Jane Wells Frankie Williams

The coated section of this document contains material sourced from responsibly managed and sustainable forests together with recycled fibre, certified in accordance with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council).

The Foyle Foundation