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Welcome

6 Timetable 7 Programme 12 Speaker biographies 17 Exhibitors and sponsors 22 Music Matters

It’s wonderful that Making Music is celebrating its annual conference in Wales.

A warm welcome to Cardiff from Making Music Wales – croeso cynnes i Gaerdydd o Creu Cerdd Cymru.

I hope that you will enjoy the weekend of musical activity and events that we have planned for you. It all starts with having a go, so why not try your hand at something new – be it singing barbershop or learning about traditional Welsh music?

Making Music has invested heavily in our Wales-based activity in recent years, so please do visit our Wales website for full details of all our recent and forthcoming endeavours. Together with our partner organisations we look forward to continuing our work to help voluntary music thrive in ‘the land of song’.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and here’s to a super conference all round – rwy’n gobeithio y byddwch yn cael penwythnos gwych.

Wales has been home to a wealth of music making from ancient Celtic times to the present day. In line with this historic tradition, performance will be at the centre of this year’s conference. We feel passionately that the more music people make together, the healthier and happier we all are, and we hope the next two days will see this belief being put into action.

Making Music exists to support and encourage all kinds of voluntary music groups – bands, festivals, orchestras, music clubs, and choirs – and we welcome those from any background. It’s our aim to give you the support necessary to run a successful group, while offering you ways of becoming involved in the wider musical community.

We have a flourishing structure in each nation and region of the United Kingdom, but it’s here that we can all meet together.

I wish everyone a most enjoyable conference.

Hwyl fawr!

Craig Roberts Wales Development Manager www.makingmusic.org.uk/wales

Welcome and supporters

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Peter Lawson Chair, Making Music

To find out more about Making Music – the UK’s number one organisation for voluntary music – please visit www.makingmusic.org.uk.

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NOTES All refreshments and meals will be served in the foyer and café.

A range of organisations is represented at a trade exhibition held throughout the day in the foyer (see page 17 for a list of exhibitors). Music will also be performed throughout the conference in the foyer, with performers including the 4getmenots, the Cobweb Orchestra, Harmarni and Opera Anywhere.

SATURDAY 15th Concert Hall

Bute Theatre/Studio 1

Studio 2

Foyer

10.15

Coffee and registration

10.50

Welcome address

11.00–12.00

Orchestral workshop: The Cobweb Orchestra

12.00–13.00

(11.00-11.45) Female voice workshop: Richard Williams Singers Harmarni

(12.00-12.45) Male voice workshop: Pendyrus Male Choir The 4getmenots

(12.00-12.45) African drumming workshop: Community Music Wales

Lunch

13.00–14.00 14.00–15.00

(11.00-11.45) Samba workshop: Community Music Wales

Welsh National Opera workshop (including male and female voice workshop participants from morning)

(14.00-14.45) Brass band workshop (including samba and African drumming workshop participants from morning)

(14.00-14.45) ‘Joining in’ discussion and Q&A Speakers: Colin Bennett (BABS) Andy Jackson (Cobweb Orchestra)

15.00–16.00

(15.00-15.45) DJ workshop; (15.00-15.45) Welsh Community Music Wales traditional music workshop: trac

16.00–16.15

Coffee Showcase and sharing event

16.15–16.45

Making Music Council meeting (open to council members only)

17.00–19.00

Buffet supper

18.45–19.45 19.30

Concert: doors open

20.00–20.45

Concert: first half

20.45–21.05

Concert: interval (20 mins)

21.05–21.45

Concert: second half

SUNDAY 16th Concert Hall

Bute Theatre/Studio 1

Studio 2

Registration

9.00–9.30 9.30–10.30

Making Music AGM

10.30–11.00

Coffee

11.00–11.30

Keynote speech: Paul Mealor

11.35–12.45

Music Education Hubs (applicable to England only)

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Music Partnership Forum Wales launch

Lunch

14.00–15.00

Panel discussion

15.00–15.30

Q&A with Robin Osterley and Peter Lawson

15.30

Foyer

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Saturday 15 September 2012 10.15 Registration opens Foyer Tea and coffee will be offered to delegates on arrival, and the college café bar will be open for other refreshments 10.50 Welcome Robin Osterley, Chief Executive, Making Music

Foyer

Morning session 11.00–13.00 Orchestral workshop Concert Hall The Cobweb Orchestra The Cobweb Orchestra is an open-access ensemble that welcomes players of all instruments at every stage of their development. This session, led by Creative Director Andy Jackson, will offer both novices and experienced players the chance to experience the thrill of playing in an orchestra.

11.00–11.45 Samba workshop Bute Theatre/Studio 1 Community Music Wales Community Music Wales is a highly-regarded community arts charity that has operated across Wales for 20 years.

This workshop will be an introduction to samba drumming. Participants will be given the chance to improvise, experiencing and expressing themselves in sound and music.

11.00–11.45 Female voice workshop Studio 2 Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers A voice workshop organised by the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers (LABBS). Your chance to try your hand at a variety of singing styles, including with Harmarni – an up-and-coming ladies barbershop quartet – and with established women’s choir the Richard Williams Singers.

12.00–12.45 Male voice workshop Bute Theatre/Studio 1 British Association of Barbershop Singers A voice workshop organised by the British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS). Your chance to try a variety of singing styles, including with open-access barbershop quartet the 4getmenots and Pendryus Male Choir, one of the foremost Welsh male voice choirs.

12.00–12.45 African drumming workshop Studio 2 Community Music Wales This workshop will use the instruments and rhythms of West Africa as an introduction to different musical styles, instruments and cultures. Participants will also be given the chance to improvise.

13.00–14.00 Lunch Foyer and cafe

Afternoon session

14.00–16.00 Opera workshop Concert Hall Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera has run participative singing projects for all ages for many years through the WNO MAX scheme. The morning’s singing session participants can feed into this workshop to result in a showcase piece to be presented at the end of the afternoon … create a concert in a day!

14.00–14.45 Brass band workshop Bute Theatre/Studio 1 City of Cardiff Brass Band Members of Wales’ longest-running brass band will share how they managed to pull the organisation out of the doldrums, as well as inviting you to participate in their brass band magic. The morning’s drummers can also join in to create a piece to be performed later in the afternoon.

14.00–14.45 ‘Joining in’ discussion and Q&A Studio 2 Andy Jackson (Cobweb Orchestra) and Colin Bennett (BABS) A discussion about musical participation, providing tips on how to get anyone singing and playing. Learn from Andy Jackon and Colin Bennett’s vast experience of getting communities and those considering themselves not even musical to enjoy the fun of making music.

15.00–15.45 Traditional Welsh music workshop Studio 2 trac trac exists to stimulate interest, access and participation in Welsh traditional performing arts. This session will be ideal for those who wish to work with community groups that use traditional music within a wider regeneration context.

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15.00–15.45 DJ workshop Bute Theatre/Studio 1 Community Music Wales This workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn DJ techniques including beatmatching, scratching, cutting and beat juggling. Using pro equipment participants will learn basic techniques as well as more complex methods.

16.00–16.15

Coffee

Foyer

16.15–16.45 Showcase sharing event Bute Theatre/Studio 1 Many will hopefully have taken the plunge to try something new from the day’s menu of workshops – whether orchestral playing, a new way of singing, samba drumming or traditional Welsh music. This session will be half an hour at the end of the day to put new-found skills into practice and come together with all other workshop participants to share what has been achieved.

Evening session 17.00–19.00 Making Music Council Studio 2

The council is one way that Making Music communicates with its members, and it includes representatives from the various genres and regions within Making Music’s membership. Making Music staff and Board members attend to discuss and consult on important issues. This session will be the second of two annual Making Music Council meetings. Please note this is open to Making Music Council members only.

18.45–19.45

Buffet supper

Foyer

20.00 Evening concert Concert Hall

An evening of varied and exciting music, including two world premieres. Among the performers will be Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society, Abergavenny Borough Band and two of Making Music’s 2012 Young Concert Artists. Paul Mealor’s 2011 Christmas number one, Wherever you are, will be performed alongside the world premiere of his Jubilate! Jubilee!, specially commissioned by Making Music and the British Council in honour of the Diamond Jubilee.

Sunday 16 September 2012 9.00–9.30

Registration

Morning session 9.30–10.30 Annual General Meeting Concert Hall 77th Annual General Meeting of Making Music, the National Federation of Music Societies. There is business to be got through, but this is also an opportunity for all members to get an overview of the running of their membership organisation.

10.30–11.00

Coffee

Foyer

11.00–11.30 Keynote speech: Paul Mealor Concert Hall We are delighted that this year’s keynote speaker will be Professor Paul Mealor, described by the New York Times as ‘one of the most important composers to have emerged in Welsh choral music since William Mathias’. Mealor’s motets, songs and cycles have been performed, broadcast and recorded by artists around the world. His motet, Ubi Caritas, was premiered at the Royal Wedding in 2011, and in November 2011 he composed Wherever You Are as part of the BBC Two television series The Choir: Military Wives.

11.35–12.45 Music education hubs Concert Hall Robin Osterley (Making Music Chief Executive), Sue Bradley (Making Music Regional Manager, Yorkshire and North East) This session will explain the background and future of the new Music Education Hubs in England, and what they can mean for Making Music members and voluntary groups in general. General discussion of music education, partnerships and young people’s projects will also be part of this session. Please note this section is applicable to England only.

11.35–12.45 Music Partnership Forum Wales launch Studio 2 Craig Roberts (Development Manager, Making Music Wales), Rhian Hutchings (Director, Welsh National Opera MAX), Zoe Smith (Head of Ensembles, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama) Music Partnership Forum Wales is a working group comprised of some of the lead organisations working within music and music education across Wales. This session will focus on the activity of the group to date, plus plans and open debate around its future work.

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11.35–12.45 Concert Promoters’ Group Bute Theatre/Studio 1 Edmond Fivet (CPG Chair), George Wolfe (CPG Co-ordinator), Stephen Leeder (CPG Secretary), Stuart Isaac (Making Music Regional Manager, West), Chris Hodgkins (Director, Jazz Services) The Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group (CPG) is a national resource for concert promoters. This session will cover the CPG’s annual Guide to Concert Artists, while also focusing on promoting societies in Wales and the place of jazz in concert promotion.

12.45–14.00

Lunch Foyer

Afternoon session 14.00–15.00 Panel discussion Concert Hall Chair: Peter Lawson (Chair, Making Music). Panel: Rhian Hutchings (Director, Welsh National Opera MAX), Suzanne Hay (Education and Community Manager, BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales), Kathryn Deane (Director, Sound Sense), Robin Osterley (Chief Executive, Making Music) This session will look at how groups can best widen their pool of participants, encourage greater engagement from the larger community, and allow would-be musicians to get involved. There will be plenty of opportunities for members to put their questions to this panel of experts.

15.00–15.30 Q&A with Peter Lawson & Robin Osterley Concert Hall Making Music members’ chance to quiz the Chair and Chief Executive about anything and everything to do with their membership organisation.

15.30 Finish The college and its splendid café bar stays open if you would like to spend time talking to members of staff, friends and colleagues after the official programme ends.

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David Alston, Arts Council OF Wales David Alston is the Arts Director of the Arts Council of Wales. He is responsible for developing and promoting the arts in Wales, as well as building on the Arts Council of Wales’ commitment to authority, leadership and excellence. He has more than 25 years’ experience in managing, leading and creating successful arts organisations.

Colin Bennett, British Association of Barbershop Singers Colin Bennett is Vice Chairman of the British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS), of which he has been a member since 1993. He has been responsible for setting up and managing a series of Learn to Sing Courses, run in partnership between BABS, Making Music and Choir of the Year. Colin also sings with various barbershop quartets, including the 4getmenots and the Great Western Chorus of Bristol.

Sue Bradley, MAKING MUSIC Sue Bradley is Making Music’s Regional Manager for Yorkshire and the North East. She has extensive experience of working for and with a wide range of voluntary and community organisations, both at local and national level.

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Kathryn Deane, Sound Sense Kathryn ran community music projects across England before becoming director of Sound Sense (the UK professional association for community musicians) in 1995. Through her work at Sound Sense, Kathryn champions the importance of community music and supports community musicians’ professional development. In addition to this, she was an author of the Music Manifesto report Making every child’s music matter, and is an editorial board member of The international journal of community music.

Edmond Fivet, Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group Edmond Fivet is the Chairman of Making Music’s Concert Promoters’ Group. He was Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for eighteen years, and has also served as Director of the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Since retiring he has become increasingly involved in local music making, being appointed MD of the Aldeburgh Music Club Choir in 2007 and of the Phoenix Singers from 2007 to 2012.

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Suzanne Hay, BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Suzanne Hay is Education and Community Manager of the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. She oversees an extensive range of projects, workshops and concerts including the development of music resources for primary and special schools, and a new programme working with deaf and hearing-impaired children and adults. Suzanne was awarded the Arts Council of Wales Fellowship on the Clore Leadership Programme 2010-2011.

Chris Hogdkins, Jazz Services Chris Hodgkins is the Director of Jazz Services, a national organisation providing various services to the UK jazz community. Among his achievements are co-founding the Welsh Jazz Festival with Geoff Palser, and helping to establish the Welsh Jazz Society with David Greensmith.

As a professional trumpeter, Chris has toured the UK, Europe and the USA. In 2002, he was presented with the prestigious Services to Jazz Award at the BBC Jazz Awards.

Rhian Hutchings, Welsh National Opera Rhian Hutchings is the director of WNO MAX – the Welsh National Opera’s participatory, outreach and education projects connecting company and community. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and spent three years as a staff director at English National Opera. Her work for WNO MAX has included commissioning four major pieces for young people, developing the Street Songs programme with communities in Wales and creating WNO Extra – a bespoke audience insight programme.

Andy Jackson, Cobweb Orchestra Andy used to be an ethnomusicologist, guitarist and writer but now makes ends meet mainly by composing, conducting and organising extravagant exercises in musical mass participation. The multi-award winning Cobweb Orchestra is often involved in these events, which may result in performances in the sorts of places you might not expect to hear live orchestral music. Some of these are captured on film and are quite popular with YouTube audiences.

Peter Lawson, Making Music Board Peter Lawson is the Making Music Chair. Alongside an active career in senior management (including with IBM and pharmaceutical company Pfizer), he has been an amateur musician since learning the violin at school. He has been a member of the Stratford Orchestra, and is Chairman of promoting society Music in Lyddington. He joined the Making Music Board in 2008 with special interest in fundraising. Peter is also a School Trustee, a Trustee of the Peterborough Cathedral Trust, and Chairman of Arts for Rutland, a local general arts charity.

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Stephen Leeder, Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group Stephen Leeder is Secretary of Making Music’s Concert Promoters’ Group. As a member of promoting group Rhyl Music Club, he is responsible for organising 13 music concerts a year, as well as writing brochures and programmes, arranging contracts and liaising with musicians. He is retired from teaching, and his other interests are mountain biking and skiing.

Robin Osterley, Making Music Robin Osterley is Making Music’s Chief Executive. He joined the organisation in 1997, and is responsible for Making Music’s overall direction, including the implementation of the current five-year plan, Making Music for Everyone. He acts as an ambassador for Making Music, meeting with key personnel from local and national government, as well as the music, voluntary and education sectors. He also looks after our corporate partnerships, handles all political enquiries and acts as our key media spokesperson. Robin oversees the financial control of Making Music and is responsible for management of all staff.

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We welcome the following organisations and partners as exhibitors at this event. Please visit them in the foyer throughout the day, or take a look at the inserts they have provided in this brochure.

The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) is a registered charity and the umbrella organisation for male barbershop singing in the UK, with almost 2,500 members. BABS has run 200 of its own Learn to Sing courses, in addition to 12 courses run in partnership with Making Music and Choir of the Year.

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A project encouraging outdoor music marathons throughout the country is just another example of the valuable work carried out by Making Music. Fiona Clampin met chief executive Robin Osterley to find out more

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aking part in a marathon is such an exhausting enterprise that it is probably fair to say that many recreational runners limit themselves to just one a year. Maybe even a lifetime. Not Robin Osterley. The chief executive of Making Music, the organisation for voluntary music, is going for two this year. In April, he ran the London marathon (time: 04:53:10) and September will see him taking on a different kind of challenge – the Bandstand Marathon. I wonder whether this man feels he has bitten off more than he can chew.

‘Even after 15 years at the head of this organisation, I still love coming to work,’ says Osterley. ‘For me, the main thing is that it’s an opportunity to make a difference in an area that I consider to be so significant. And the more we discover, the more we know how incredibly important participatory music making is to such a large number of people.’

Bandstand Marathon is participatory music making writ large. On 9 September, more than 300 events are anticipated across the country, taking place in a bandstand or an open-air space such as a park. Making Music is encouraging its 3,000 members, and other amateur music groups, to put on a concert in their

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area. Like Osterley’s London marathon effort, each of the simultaneous Bandstand Marathon concerts is designed to last for around four hours. Spurred on by the success of events such as the BBC’s Music Nation this year (of which Making Music was a partner), Osterley is convinced such activities give people the chance to feel part of something extraordinary.

‘As a participant, you really benefit from the knowledge that it’s not just happening in your area, it’s happening all over the place,’ he says. ‘With our media’s ability to hook things together, with communications and Facebook and Twitter going on instantly, you can learn immediately that what you’re doing is not an isolated thing. And I think that creates a sense of community, a sense of solidarity that is greater than the sum of its parts.’

This was certainly the aim of Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whose officials arranged a meeting with Making Music and arts organisation Superact. The latter had been running the Bandstand Marathon since 2008 on a more modest scale. They discussed how Pickles’ department could support an event to mark the end of London 2012 that would give communities a focus, and the department

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The event will also allow Making Music to promote one of the many strings to the organisation’s bow, namely training. ‘We’ll be training up a group of event planners, which adds an enormous amount of value,’ says Osterley. ‘As a result, they’ll be reasonably skilled in that kind of work and able to demonstrate some experience of actually putting on events. Hopefully, they’ll then be able to do this kind of thing in the future.’

Although Making Music has often run training courses in the past, for the first time in its history the organisation now has a dedicated training manager who will be looking to develop opportunities around the country. It is part of a refocus that will also involve Osterley taking on more of the lobbying role that earlier this year scored his organisation a notable success with Wakefield Music Library. There were fears the collection of the UK’s largest music and drama lending library would be split up, but Making Music mobilised 2,000 of its members into writing letters of protest. Largely thanks to Making Music’s campaign, says Osterley, the group of local councils running the library reviewed their decision and the music items will now be housed in Huddersfield.

Reminding those in power of the importance of amateur music is an ongoing challenge, and while Osterley feels his organisation’s voice is being heard, he believes the pressure needs to be maintained.

That is particularly true, he points out, in the context of the National Plan for Music Education and the recently announced ‘hub’ winners. The latter, says the Arts Council, will ‘build on existing music services and be a collection of organisations working in a local area to create joined-up music education provision

for children and young people, both in and out of school.’ Here, says Osterley, is a golden opportunity for Making Music members to get involved.

Reminding those in power of the importance of amateur music is an ongoing challenge ‘The Henley report talked about the importance of involving community and amateur groups in the hub that you are creating. That was echoed in the National Plan, where there are a couple of references to partnerships working with existing community groups. Our view is that if you’re setting up a proper music hub, it really has to involve some of the amateur groups that are in that community. Of course, you can create a partnership with a professional orchestra, say, but there’s going to be a limit to the amount that a professional group can do for you. If you create a partnership with a local community-based group, that partnership can be very long lasting.’

Osterley is also hopeful that, as the hubs themselves become more remote from local authorities, they may look to Making Music for support in activities such as audience development and putting on concerts.

If Making Music’s chief executive maintains his eye to the future in this way, he can surely count on the support of the organisation’s members for years to come – both on and off the marathon trail.

www.makingmusic.org.uk This article was originally published in Classical Music magazine on 16 June 2012

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