Sinfonia Viva UK - Melton Mozart

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• published: 04 Feb 2016
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Melton Mozart was a partnership project with LeicesterShire Music Education Hub, Orchestras Live and Sinfonia Viva, supported by LeicesterShire Schools Music Service and Leicestershire County Council, and inspired by the BBC Ten Pieces scheme. A project was developed which ultimately involved workshops in three mainstream school settings (Brownlow, Sherard and St. Francis’ Primary Schools) and Birch Wood School, an SEN specialist. Each of the groups took Mozart’s 4th Horn Concerto as the starting point for a project which combined new and old instruments and techniques to create new original pieces of music. The project was led by three Viva workshop leaders, Natasha Zielazinski, Detta Danford and Jo Wills, and involved teams of Viva musicians working together to support the development of the new material. The project began with a performance of the horn concerto by horn player David Tollington and a string quartet, and culminated in two performances by the participants – a small scale performance at De Montfort Hall for LeicesterShire Music Education Hub, followed by a full ensemble performance at St. Mary’s Church in Melton Mowbray, led by conductor David Lawrence. The performances included new material written by the participants, Mozart’s 4th Horn Concerto and a new version of the concerto including a scratch DJ. Melton Mozart was generously supported by Leicestershire County Council, Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service, Leicester-Shire Music Education Hub, Orchestras Live, Brownlow Primary School, Sherard Primary School, St Francis Primary School, Birchwood School, and John Ferneley College. Sinfonia Viva is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.