London Sinfonietta hosts an exchange of ideas, expertise and experiences around approaches to multi-disciplinary collaboration. This event marks the beginning of a new phase of the Blue Touch Paper programme, and three of the day’s participants will be invited to create a new work with the London Sinfonietta for performance in May 2012.
London Sinfonietta hosts an exchange of ideas, expertise and experiences around approaches to multi-disciplinary collaboration. This event marks the beginning of a new phase of the Blue Touch Paper programme, and three of the day’s participants will be invited to create a new work with the London Sinfonietta for performance in May 2012.
Guests attending the day will include:
Richard Baker (Composer and Conductor)
Maria Bota (Director, Salisbury International Festival)
Elspeth Brooke (composer)
Andrew Burke (Chief Executive, London Sinfonietta)
Jeremy Deller (Conceptual video and installation artist)
Bushra El-Turk (Composer)
Maryclare Foa (Visual/sound/performance artist)
John Fulljames (Co-founder/Artistic Director, The Opera Group)
Anne Harild (Visual Artist)
Gavin Higgins (Composer)
Jordan Hunt (Composer/Performer)
Edward Jessen (Composer)
Ira Lightman (Poet/Text Artist)
Christopher Mayo (Composer)
Claudia Molitor (Composer)
Alasdair Nicolson (Artistic Director, St Magnus Festival)
Ailis Ni Riain (Writer)
Holly Pester (Poet)
Steve Potter (Composer)
Kate Sagovsky (Theatre & Movement Director/Choreographer)
David Sawer (Composer)
Prof. Ellen Solomon (Scientist, genetics)
Jeroen Speak (Composer)
Luke Styles (Composer/Sound Artist)
Michel van der Aa (Composer)
Philip Venables (Composer/Producer)
Carol Watts (Co-director, Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck)
James Weeks (Composer)
Nina Whiteman (Composer)
James Wilkes (Poet)
The London Sinfonietta is working closely with the Research and Academic Development team at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in order to identify and share examples of best practice in multidisciplinary collaboration.
Blue Touch Paper is generously supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
