Education & Creative Projects Graham Coatman Infinite Music

Education & Community: Current & Recent Projects

1999 Songs of the Stones: Composer in Residence in Flintshire creating children's music-theatre on history/legends of Flintshire castles (Sept-Oct 1999)

1999 Thus The Whirligig Of Time: composer, leader & conductor: Orchestra da Camera & Coventry Performing Arts Service in major schools composition project in Coventry: workshops in six schools (Secondary, Primary and Special) culminating in combined concert with ODAC and 180 children at Bedworth Civic Hall (Jan-Mar)

1999 Tune-In/Wigmore Hall: song composition & performance project with A-level students, culminating in recital of 20 new songs at Wigmore Hall (Mar-May)

1999 S marks the Spot . . . : devised and led composition days with University of the Third Age at De La Warr Pavilion for Sinfonia 21 residency (Jan)

1998 English Touring Opera: Fidelio: composer and musical director on A level and GCSE creative music-theatre project at Cooper's School, Chislehurst, with director Martin Lloyd-Evans, singers and instrumentalists, devising and performing a new work (Sept-Nov)

1998 English Concert/Wigmore Hall: Baroque Builder: composition and performance project with Westminster Primary schools and players from The English Concert , creating new works based on Baroque structures, etc (Nov)

1998 Prestatyn Festival of Youth Arts: composer/animateur on music-theatre project based at Prestatyn High School with GCSE students, creating the work "Flight" (July 1998)

1998 Warwick Road Junior School, Batley: led creative music workshops (Years 2-6), developing voice work and composition, leading to performances of created work: aimed at devising Music Curriculum for use in Muslim school communities (with Kirklees Music Service) (May-Jul)

1997-8 Travelling Through The Paradise Fields: composer and musical director on mega multi-media music-theatre work, with writer Michael Mayhew, for the Batley Experience: 200 Batley residents in 90-minute work for soloists, choir, children's chorus, orchestra, industrial scrap band, rock band & ensemble of "whistles", electronic soundtrack + video projections (Sept 1997-May 1998)

Other major projects include:

1998 When The Sun Rises: composer, project leader & conductor: major schools composition and art project on the planets, based on Graham Coatman's symphonic variations of same name, with Orchestra da Camera in Primary, Secondary and Special schools, culminating in a concert with ODAC and 180 children (Jan -Mar) [4 projects undertaken 1995-8 in Dudley, Burton-upon-Trent, Coventry, Warwick]

1997 "Music in the Meadows": Wrexham Country Parks; composer-in-residence creating music-theatre works, in five schools, working with Park Rangers and creating made instruments, leading to major performance of new work with 150 children (Sept-Oct 1997)

1997 Oxford City Play Association/Orchestra of St John's Smith Square; summer project "Make Time for Play"; director/composer with 9 playschemes & Playday performance (Jul-Aug 1997)

1997 York Early Music Festival; director/composer on Through the Arches project, storytelling and creating music-theatre around architecture with York Primary Schools, performance at Bishopthorpe Palace (Apr-Jul 1997)

1994-6 Sinfonia 21; composer/education director; led, devised, admin & fundraising for all projects/performances, including; Eugene Onegin at SBC/QEH; Music & Science project; Great Music in Motion Commotion (3-year London Underground Jubilee Line Extension series of creative music-theatre projects); Baltic Voices Secondary schools voice project at SBC; Lichfield Festival (The Swimmer art, drama & music with installation) & Michelham Priory (Miller of Michelham children's opera) Festivals; Hidden Voice (Jonathan Harvey/Westminster) & In-Communicado (Richard Rodney Bennett/Crawley); projects on London premieres of own works Thus The Whirligig Of Time, Rude Encounter, (Southwark Festival) & Island Games (Greenwich & Docklands Festival); etc, etc;

there are many other projects too numerous to add to the list, such as those with:

Leicester Haymarket/Glen Parva Young Offenders Centre; 1994 & 1995;
BBC Philharmonic; Horse Tooth White Rock, Bradford Jan-Mar 1994;
Wakefield Prison Summer School; composer with Opera North 1993;
Altenburger Musik-Theater Akademie; (east) Germany for British Council 1991 & 92;
Resident Composer; Leeds Festival/Yorkshire Dance Centre 1990;
Guest Composer Bretton Hall/EU Music Year Summer School 1985