ENDYMION has a well-established reputation for engaging and innovative education projects, including several long-running schemes such as our Playthrough workshops, The Rising Generation, the BBC-Guardian Young Composers Prom and several projects in association with spnm - promoting new music.PLAYTHROUGH WORKSHOPS
THE RISING GENERATION
BBC–GUARDIAN YOUNG COMPOSERS PROM
In the original workshops, in association with the SPNM, we selected works from the SPNM shortlist and invited composers to come and hear their pieces played through and discussed by experienced Endymion musicians.
Endymion will run another series of Playthrough workshops in November 2005. This will be for a larger ensemble, consisting around 14 players and a conductor (Bruce Nockles). One or two of the pieces from the workshops will be selected to be performed in our 60th Birthday Portrait Concert of Vic Hoyland, 23rd November 2005, in the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London. We are pleased to receive funding for this project from the PRS Foundation.
Some composers’ comments about Playthrough:
John Alexander, composer
Ian Dickson, composer.
The UK is proving itself to be a world leader in its initiatives for developing compositional activity, and there is some fine work being initiated by teachers and music educators across the country. As a result, some astonishing talent may emerge.Consequently, Endymion hosted a celebration of outstandingly talented young UK composers under the age of 18. This series of three concerts in the Purcell Room on 21st Feburary 2004 featured 30 short chamber works performed by Endymion accompanied by brief, fascinating interviews with each young composer.
As well as the concerts, young composers were invited to attend seminars where they met publishers, the SPNM and BMIC, professional composers and performers and were given a great deal of advice and information in a series of lively workshops and lectures throughout the day. The project was generously funded by the PRS Foundation and several private benefactors.
Due to the enormous success of The Rising Generation we are planning to run it again. Sign up to our e-mail newsletter to be first to hear about it, and how to apply.
For several years Endymion has worked with the BBC Proms in this high-profile competition, run in association with The Guardian Newspaper, to select talented British composers under the age of 18. Each year a BBC Proms concert of selected works has been presented annually in the Victoria & Albert Museum Lecture Theatre. In 2005 the concert is moving to a larger venue, Cadogan Hall, ioff Sloane Square, London. Each year the concerts are recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and there is coverage by The Guardian.Although there are only a small number of selected composers each year, the competition also provides opportunities for many other young people who express an interest in composition, including a full day of lectures, concerts, demonstrations and seminars about musical composition for young people, held in the Royal Albert Hall.