Music Factory 09 - November update

After the huge success of our Masterworks performance week and visits to schools, there's no rest for the wicked. Our composition project 'Music Factory' is the next stage for Advanced Higher Music pupils from the 6 participating Local Authorities. Stephen Deazley is working with Fife, Edinburgh, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire and Alasdair Nicolson is leading workshops in Moray and Aberdeenshire. These composers have both begun this 4 month composition project with 16 pupils coming together in each Local Authority, working closely with a trio of SCO players at each session. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for these pupils, as they have at their fingertips a trio of professional musicians to play back their ideas and give them immediate feedback. Our composers themselves admit they'd love to have musicians at their beck and call like this! From these initial sessions, it's quite clear that we have some inspired compositional ideas coming through and I for one can't wait to hear the progress at the next session.