ANNUAL REVIEW 2013/14 “ Uplifting, thought-provoking... the joy of seeing community art so eloquently enthroned without the need for trained voices.” t h e t i m e s on crow d ou t “ In terms of historical reach, this year’s Spitalfields Festival is certainly impressive. It ranges all the way from concerts exploring those ancient forms of classical music known as ‘early’ music to new works that use multi-media” da ily t e le g ra ph on spi talfie l d s m u sic sum m e r fe st i va l 1 4
Takeover at Shapla Primary School
SPITALFIELDS MUSIC 2013/14 AT A GLANCE DELIGHTED over 29,000 audience
members and participants
SHARED 150 free tickets
donated by audience members
Led over 250 INSPIRING MUSIC ASKED ABOUT THE FUTURE of our workshops and projects with people cultural and civic life in a series aged 6 months to 97 years-old of What Next? downloads
TRAINED 200 musicians, parents, library and children’s centre staff in community music-making
Introduced 800 babies to opera through our GROUND-BREAKING opera series Musical Rumpus
ENABLED primary school
WON the Arts, Culture & Heritage category at the CHARITY AWARDS
children to fill their schools with music through our INNOVATIVE approach to IMMERSIVE
CREATIVE LEARNING
Attracted 98% of participants from
EAST LONDON
(and were shortlisted for the RPS MUSIC AWARDS)
Raised £9 FOR EVERY £1 received in core public funding
FUNDRAISED 66% of our income, Worked in PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER and GENERATED 16% through ticket sales and other sources 20 ORGANISATIONS from the arts, health and education sectors
Presented 34 NEW MUSIC PREMIERES Firefly Burning at Wilton’s Music Hall
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CONTRIBUTED OVER £2.5 MILLION in economic impact to the local area
2013/14 INTRODUCTION Welcome to our review of 2013/14. It has been another highly successful year for the charity, full of artistic highlights; unusual, ambitious and innovative creative learning activity; a growing public profile and a strengthened financial position. Spitalfields Music has two roles – as a creative charity serving east London and as an innovator in the arts sector, finding new ways of working which others might adopt and which might influence policy.
Our programme includes: Two annual music festivals of over 130 events taking place in 12 venues in the borough. The festivals have an international reputation for their quality and are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. They have a marketing reach of 2 million and we have an active base of 40,000 bookers. An award winning music education programme with over 250 music workshops each year in schools, hospitals, parks, children’s centres, Spitalfields City Farm and local markets. We benefit Tower Hamlets residents between the ages of 6 months and 90 years and train both musicians and non-musicians to use music in their regular work. We tour work around the UK so that other boroughs can learn from the charity’s best practice. Looking back on 2013/14 it has been another exceptional year with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Arun Ghosh as Associate Artists, providing a thread for our programme, supported by a range of other world class artists and a wide spectrum of involvement from local people. Highlights of the year include: The 25th anniversary of our Learning & Participation programme marked with Crowd Out, a new work for 1,000 untrained voices by David Lang, performed in our Summer Festival.
“ The festival is a great way to find out about new ideas in music and to try new genres/performers.” audi en c e m e m be r
Further expansion of our Takeover Festivals, which will lead to our first ever public festival made entirely by young people in 2015 – a Spring Takeover Festival becoming our third festival alongside our well established Summer and Winter Festivals.
Our biggest audiences ever for a Winter Festival and over 130 festival events through the year reaching the broadest classical music audience in London. Over 200 people were involved in our training, volunteering and apprenticeship programmes, ensuring that our impact reached well beyond our direct delivery. The charity’s reach is wide and deep within Tower Hamlets – contributing an economic impact of £2.5 million to the borough, shining a light on achievements of local people through our festivals, working in health settings to support health and wellbeing, acting as a lead partner for Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service and ensuring the borough’s young people have opportunities to develop their creativity and discover a cultural life for themselves, and in using music in local settings to encourage community cohesion. To achieve this in a sustained and meaningful way and to ensure that our focus on bringing the highest quality music to the widest possible audience is not lost, we work in partnership with other parts of the local civic infrastructure. We would like to thank our partners – across the public, private and third sectors, large and small – for our collaborations. It seems to us that, now, more than ever, the three sectors must find ways to work together towards the collective goal of an equal and aspirational society. Financial partnership is a crucial part of this and we are grateful to all who contribute financially to the charity. We have an unusually broad range of income sources, all of which play an important part in ensuring we can maintain our work. This includes statutory
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income from Arts Council England, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and City of London, many trusts and foundations, livery companies, individual donors and companies. We are grateful to you all and are proud that such a wide range of supporters want to come together through the charity’s work. Finally, huge thanks and congratulations are due to our fantastic board, team and volunteers for all of the commitment and energy they bring to the charity. We are lucky to have such a dedicated group of people involved at the heart of Spitalfields Music’s work. Thank you all for contributing to such a successful year. We hope that you enjoy reading about the Spitalfields Music year. Sir Alan Moses Chair
Abigail Pogson Chief Executive
ABOUT SPITALFIELDS MUSIC VISION Changing lives and aspirations through music.
MISSION Spitalfields Music creates live music experiences in Spitalfields and east London through performances, learning and participation. Taking live music as our core, we explore music, performance, its artists and our communities.
AIMS
OUR WORK LEARNING & PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME
Year-round programme of workshops and performances in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs Barking & Dagenham and Newham
WINTER FESTIVAL 12 days in December
SUMMER FESTIVAL 15 days in June
To produce music festivals for locally based people and visitors to the area, programming in a way which takes artistic risk and offers something new to audiences and participants. To make year-round learning and participation projects with the people of Tower Hamlets and east London which encourage aspiration, build confidence and develop skills. To nurture and find talent, to commission new work and to collaborate with artists. To be a catalyst in music in Tower Hamlets and to engage in the life of east London.
Crowd Out at Arnold Circus
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“ It was lovely to be able to take a step back and watch the children join in with enthusiasm and engage really well. The children got the chance to be creative in a variety of ways and their confidence grew.” kobi nazrul primary scho ol te ache r on take ov e r
LOOKING AHEAD Our new three year business plan (2014/15 – 2016/17) sets out a refreshed vision for the charity and redefines its mission as a creative charity for the benefit of east London and as an innovator for the arts sector.
Our activity will be at its most intense in Tower Hamlets, with ripples throughout our neighbouring east London boroughs, the wider UK and beyond. Our strategic priorities for the next three years are to:
In the years ahead we will continue to produce world class festivals and an innovative and responsive Learning & Participation programme, in addition to refocusing our efforts to support artists and develop our audiences.
Develop our programme
We will concentrate on three key goals: Delight, inspire and bring joy through exceptional music to as wide a group of people as possible, focusing on points of access for people in east London. Model the role of the arts, specifically music, in the 21st century as a part of shared civic life. Support the development of artists as leaders within society.
Focus on young people as audience members, producers, creators and learners, and work with elders. Support artist development by expanding our training programmes and starting an administrative and producing hub for emerging ensembles. Develop our festivals by placing a renewed emphasis on: audience development; innovative commissioning and building new partnerships; and fusing digital activity into our work. Formalise our role as an innovation unit for the arts sector Actively share information about our innovative projects and models of work. Measure the impact of our activity in a consistent way. Establish a three year research programme in partnership with higher education.
TAKEOVER
Develop our financial model Maintain a focused fundraising programme and manage our finances effectively whilst looking at new models and opportunities for income generation. Find a home for the charity shared with others To combine office accommodation and access to workshop space.
CASE STUDY: TAKEOVER Takeover was designed to support Year 3 pupils’ transitions from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2, providing them with opportunities to establish themselves within the school and increase their self-esteem. By giving the pupils the creative freedom to develop their own festival, they needed to listen carefully to each other and make decisions as a team in order to direct the musicians and artists. As they saw their unique ideas develop into living songs, artworks and installations their confidence increased, encouraging them to take on new creative challenges.
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Takeover at Kobi Nazrul Primary School
Takeover was also designed to involve the children’s parents in the creative process, to demonstrate the importance of creative activities on their children’s education and to embed these activities into family life outside of school. By working closely with school Family Liaison Officers, a high level of parental engagement was achieved. “It was a great opportunity to work with such lovely, talented people. It is a project which would benefit many children and it would be fantastic if children get this kind of opportunity at least once a year!” shapl a primary scho ol teache r, decembe r 2013
AN INNOVATOR FOR THE ARTS Identifying a need
Partnership working
Over the past two years we have developed Musical Rumpus, our series of interactive multi-sensory operas for 0-2½ year-olds, and built up a micro-touring network of venues (libraries and community centres) in order to share this work with non-arts attenders across east London.
Sharing ideas, resources and expertise with other organisations allows us to achieve together what we would never be able to do alone.
This year Musical Rumpus has had its first international booking, and was presented at the Royal Opera House in June. It was shortlisted for the RPS Awards and won a Civil Society Charity Award, demonstrating the project’s reputational range – from the music ‘establishment’ to the wider charitable sector. Our experience in developing Musical Rumpus led us to also identify a lack of provision for imaginative, engaging concert experiences for children of an older age bracket, 5-7 year-olds. In December 2013 we successfully trialled Sound Explorers – an interactive concert for 400 Tower Hamlets schoolchildren. We intend to develop this model further and hope to make Sound Explorers concerts available to tour schools in east London and beyond. Another example of our approach to identifying a need and piloting and developing a response is Takeover, in which primary school school children take responsibility for programming and producing their own in-school festival. Takeover grew out of a pilot that we ran in early 2013, which highlighted the positive benefits of a pupil-led project in supporting Year 3 pupils’ transitions to primary school, and helping to establish a sense of school community.
Crowd Out exemplified our approach to community music-making, bringing together 1,000 participants from diverse backgrounds and communities for a large-scale singing project. Co-commissioned by BCMG, Spitalfields Music and Berlin Philharmonic and delivered in partnership with LSO, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Barbican, Crowd Out highlighted our skill in working in partnership to blend world class artistic activity and community engagement in the heart of east London. Motivating young people Providing a performance platform for young people within our festivals is important to us. It gives us great pleasure to welcome talented young musicians from Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES) to our festival stages each year. We recognise the value of these inspirational opportunities to motivate the youngsters at the early stages of their musical careers. This year’s Platform saw the young musicians performing alongside our Associate Artists the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, creating an opportunity for them to be inspired by some of the country’s finest musicians.
Connecting organisations and making things happen Shine, a music-making project for young people with and without learning disabilities, was the result of a three-way partnership between Spitalfields Music, Drake Music and Toynbee Hall. By connecting our three organisations we were able to draw upon the expertise of Drake Music in working with young people with disabilities and recruit teenagers from Toynbee Hall’s Inspire programme as mentors. The project addressed the inequality of music provision for young people with learning disabilities as well as encouraging cohesion between communities within the borough. By introducing these young people to artists who specialised in music technology and live performance, we provided opportunities to gain new experiences and learn new skills. Over the course of Shine, young people took part in a Disability Awareness Training session, learnt how to work alongside participants with a range of disabilities, and developed their technology and event management skills. Platform: Music for a King at Shoreditch Church
MUSICAL RUMPUS
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LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME This year we celebrated the 25th anniversary of our pioneering Learning & Participation programme. Since its inception in 1989 we have reached over 105,000 people from across Tower Hamlets and east London through creative music making. A recognised innovator within our field, we focus our activities on the following areas: In School Our Neighbourhood Schools programme reached 2,444 children. Through 116 workshops and 14 performances in schools and other venues, the programme has brought in-depth, high quality music projects into some of the most disadvantaged schools in the country, developing children’s creativity and music skills, increasing their confidence and self-esteem and supporting their educational attainment. In the autumn and spring terms, Year 3 pupils at two Tower Hamlets schools, Shapla and Kobi Nazrul, programmed and produced their own in-school festivals as part of our ongoing Takeover initiative. In 2014/15 we intend to present three Takeover Festivals in two further primary and one special educational needs schools in Tower Hamlets. In the Community Over the Easter holidays we brought together disabled and non-disabled 13-18 year olds for Shine. A collaborative project involving Spitalfields Music, Toynbee Hall and Drake Music, it included workshops on song-writing, singing, music-making and how to turn everyday objects into musical instruments, culminating in a final sharing to friends, family and members of the public. In April and May, two five week projects took place at the Jagonari Centre – a community educational resource centre for women – and its sister centre Wapping Playzone, where we worked with under 3s to use singing and percussion to support their creative and cognitive development.
CASE STUDY: CROWD OUT
Now in its 10th year, our female community choir of 120 local residents, Women sing East, further developed their singing skills during workshops and performed as part of the festivals. In September, with composer and community activist Omar Shahryar, we set up a multi-faith men’s choir, East End Notes, which later performed alongside our 2013/14 Associate Artist Arun Ghosh at a performance in our Winter Festival. Early years In 2013/14 we reached over 1,000 young children and parents by presenting two new Musical Rumpus shows at our festivals and at venues within our east London micro-touring network. In the summer we took Musical Rumpus to the Royal Opera House and Antwerp Festival.
We provided continuing professional development to the core group of workshop leaders who deliver our work, offering opportunities for additional training and broadening experiences.
CROWD OUT Crowd Out at Arnold Circus
Training for the future Over the past ten years we have developed a national reputation for providing high quality training to musicians who wish to work in community and education settings. Highlights of our leadership development programme over the past year include: Three young musicians joined our Trainee Music Leader scheme and received training by shadowing and supporting our regular professional workshop leaders across a range of projects, and received year-round mentoring from established educationalists. We provided free training days throughout the year to 25 young musicians. Led by experienced workshop leaders they received training on project planning, leadership and workshop delivery, while supporting the delivery of our projects.
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2014 marked the 25th anniversary of our Learning & Participation programme. As part of our celebrations we presented the London premiere of Crowd Out, a new work by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang. Over 10 weeks of workshops and rehearsals, 1,000 people of various ages and abilities, including pupils from six local primary schools, worked with 21 vocal leaders to learn the piece, which encompassed whispering, shouting, singing in harmony and chanting. “I’ve never done anything like that before and felt privileged to be able to take part in something so remarkable and special. It wasn’t simply the piece itself, which was beautiful, powerful and dynamic but the people taking part, I mixed with people I wouldn’t ordinarily cross paths with and so for me it was an entirely positive experience. I even made some new friends!” crowd ou t participant
WINTER FESTIVAL (6 – 17 DECEMBER 2013) Premieres and commissions: Guy-Olivier Ferla Gott des Himmels und der Erden; Vincent Paulet Ich dank’ dir, lieber Herre; David Coonan Jesus Christus unser Heiland; Francis Pott Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele; Arun Ghosh Winter Rasa; Roger Marsh Poor Yorick.
Young ears were treated to a reimagining of Monteverdi’s music in Musical Rumpus at Rich Mix, whilst our all-ladies choir Women sing East joined forces with The Tubthumping Chorus at Bishopsgate Institute for a programme of protest and political activist songs.
The festival was heralded with the iconic Arnold Circus illuminated by lights designed by Turner Prize-winning artist and local resident Rachel Whiteread, and pop-up performances by Spitalfields Music’s new all-male choir East End Notes and local community singing project The Crowd. Associate Artist Arun Ghosh made his festival debut with a Winter Rasa whilst The Hilliard Ensemble celebrated their 40th birthday with a celebratory programme. New music included Claudia Molitor’s immersive mini opera Remember Me at INIVA’s Rivington Gallery, and Geraldine Pilgrims’ site specific exploration of the history of Toynbee Hall. Alongside a performance of Handel’s Messiah by The English Concert sat performances from poet Kate Tempest and folk luminaries Martin Green and Becky Unthank.
Audiences enjoyed free pop-up performances given by folk and jazz artists in Spitalfields Market. The festival culminated with Shapla Primary School’s Takeover Festival – an entire day of inventive and joyful music-making.
WINTER FESTIVAL
SUMMER FESTIVAL Arun Ghosh at Shoreditch Church
SUMMER FESTIVAL (6 – 21 JUNE 2014)
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Premieres and commissions: James Weeks & Sam Belinfante Mural; Arun Ghosh Spitalfields Suite; Jonathan Woolgar Cello Suite; Joss Smith Aftermath; Lloyd Coleman Rhythm-Has-Your-TwoHips-Moving; Francis Grier Cantemus in omni die; Bryn Harrison & Tim Head Passing Light; Michael Parsons Concertante; James Saunders I tell you what to do; Catherine Kontz Sea Sponges; John Lely Ensemble; Chris Newman Berlin Bed; John Barber Song of Songs; Valgeir Sigurðsson No Nights Dark Enough; Brett Dean Was it a voice?; Giles Swayne God is gone up; Graham Ross Ascendo ad patrem; Nico Muhly Let all the world in every corner sing.
were commissioned from Royal Academy of Music composers to celebrate the Geffrye Museum’s 300th anniversary. The festival made a return to Wilton’s Music Hall, with performances by Firefly Burning and Club Inégales alongside a daring new work by Opera Erratica.
Associate Artists Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offered a vibrant series of events ranging from a concert programme of Praetorius and Schutz, to The Mountain Shakers, a new Musical Rumpus production. A collaboration between the OAE and fellow Associate Artist Arun Ghosh explored their artistic approaches and culminated in a contemporary reworking of baroque originals at Village Underground. Alongside this, Arun Ghosh explored the sounds and songs brought to the area by successive waves of immigrants with a new commission. The festival celebrated fusions of technology with contemporary music, showcasing Matthew Herbert’s 20 Pianos in which he crafted the sounds and stories of pianos from around the world, and Bryn Harrison’s collaboration with digital artist Tim Head. In addition, curators Ed McKeon and Sam Belinfante celebrated the relationship between voice and camera.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Arun Ghosh
David Lang’s Crowd Out brought the Summer Festival to a spectacular close when it was performed by school children and adults on Shoreditch’s iconic Arnold Circus bandstand to an audience of over 2,000. During the festival we released a series of downloads in which we asked local community leaders, artists, politicians and thinkers to comment on ‘what’s next’ for arts and culture in the UK. In addition to a number of pre-concert insights we also held a series of engaging post-concert talks throughout the festival.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Folk in a Box made a return to Spitalfields Market and offered free one-to-one performances, whilst members of the OAE gave impromptu “ Arun Ghosh’s Spitalfields Suite was spectacular. performances in and around the market. A new Brilliant blast of sounds, emotion, history, series, Spitalfields Salon, offered audiences the talent... I heard and felt the sweep of history.” opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the au dience me mbe r, spitalfie lds mu sic leading lights in opera during intimate recitals in summer festival 1 4 the home of a Spitalfields artist, and new works
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OUR BENEFICIARIES Our beneficiaries are a unique mix of first time attendees, loyal regulars and active participants. We aim to offer the best experience to everyone who participates in or attends an event.
PARTICIPANTS 98% from east London postcodes. The age of our participants range from 6 months to 90 years old.
FESTIVAL AUDIENCES 26% increase in our Winter Festival audience from previous year. 52% first time attendees for our festivals. 19% from east London postcodes. 50% from other London postcodes. 31% from national and international postcodes.
This year we continued to run and develop initiatives to help make our work even more accessible for people of all backgrounds: We maintained discounts for multiple event bookers, offering reductions of 15%, and included concessions for Jobseekers, under 26s and students. We continued to offer £5 tickets to nearly all our concerts, as well as other events including lunchtime performances in the market, free of charge. Our school-orientated concerts enabled local school children to experience and participate in creating innovative music for free. As part of our diversity action plan we ensured that each and every venue where our work and performances took place were accessible to all. As an innovator within our sector we have developed, piloted and shared new approaches to engage 0-7 year-olds with projects such as Musical Rumpus and Sound Explorers. We offered free tickets to Tower Hamlets residents who hadn’t previously attended a Spitalfields Music event through our award winning audience development scheme, Buy One Donate One.
TWITTER Rachel Podger & Brecon Barque at Christ Church Spitalfields
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FUNDING This year, 66% of our income was fundraised from trusts, public project grants, companies and individuals, with 11% from core public funding, split between support for core costs and for community and learning based projects. Our three statutory funders Arts Council England, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and City of London maintained their grants to us despite strains on their own budgets. We recognise the strain on public funding and subsequent effect on support from trusts and foundations and are actively looking to develop this funding profile and increase our level of philanthropic support and earned income.
SUSTAINABILITY We are committed to reducing our environmental impacts across our office-based and festival activities. With an environmental policy in place we aim to measure, improve and communicate our environmental performance. We monitor, measure and aim to reduce our water and energy use and our carbon footprint using IG (Industry Green) Tools, developed by Julie’s Bicycle. As tenants in a shared office building we have little control over energy suppliers or other fellow tenants’ energy use, and accurate energy and water reporting is challenging. However, we have been successful increasing the amount of materials we recycle by 25%, thus reducing waste to landfill.
Core statutory funding 11%
Other statutory grants 17%
Ticket sales, fees & investment income 16%
Donations in kind 7%
Trusts & Foundations 24%
Individuals 19% Companies 6% spita l f iel d s m usic 10 a nnua l review 2013 / 1 4
FINANCE In a year packed with innovative programming, partnership working and high quality musical experiences, we generated just over £1 million, our highest level to date. 94% of our expenditure was directed towards activity – our two annual festivals and year-round Learning & Participation programme. Our income sources remained varied and balanced, showing strong partnership with funders, particularly individuals who generously supported and helped us celebrate 25 years of our Learning & Participation programme. Our activity generated a deficit for the year, however a gain on the valuation of the charity’s investments resulted with a balance sheet gain of circa £34,000.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
BALANCE SHEET
As at
As at
31 Aug 14
Income
£ £
Statutory Fundraising Earned income Investment Other
31 Aug 13
290,035 193,630 587,366 543,943 161,898 136,249 733 6,704 142 — 1,040,174 880,526
Expenditure
£ £
Festivals 540,209 503,895 Learning & Participation 448,637 304,382 Fundraising & governance 68,368 69,432
1,057,214 877,709
Surplus (deficit) for the year before revaluation on investments
-17040
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2817
Fixed assets Tangible assets Investments
31 Aug 14
31 Aug 13
£ £ 300 868 986,416 935,462 986,716 936,330
Current assets Debtors Cash at bank and in hand
104,594 34,575 156,683 171,382 261,277 205,957
Creditors Amount falling due within one year Net current assets
305,021
233,228
43,744
27,271
Net assets
942,972
909,059
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds: Christopher Vaughan Legacy Fund Endowment: New Music Commission Fund
653,056
635,228
137,970
129,739
151,946
144,092
Total charity funds
942,972
909,059
Funds
PEOPLE Spitalfields Music is run by a motivated board, a group of knowledgeable and skilled advisors, an energetic and close-knit team of employees and a dedicated and passionate group of volunteers. Council Remi Atoyebi, Helen Fraser CBE, Sarah Gee, Lindsey Glen, Nick Hardie, Keith Haydon, Michael Keating, Simon Martin, Jasmine Mathews, Sir Alan Moses (chair), Nicky Oppenheimer, Katie Tearle MBE, Judith Weir CBE Finance & legal committee Nick Hardie (Chair), Simon Martin, Jasmine Matthews, Sir Alan Moses Development Group Mark Anderson, Chris Carter, Nick Hardie, Janice Liverseidge, Nicky Oppenheimer, Nick Macrae, Simon Martin, Sir Alan Moses, Jim Peers, Liz Phillips, Libby Young Programme Advisory Group Zoinul Abidin, Tom Armitage, Richard Baker, Ruth Churchill Dower, Patrick Dickie, David Gallagher, Adey Grummett, Maija Handover, Rosie Hunter, Julia Lawrence, Elizabeth Lynch, Carien Meijer, Sara Mohr Pietsch, William Norris, Stuart Whatmore, Jane Williams
Team Kathryn Allnutt, Elizabeth Bacon, Helen Bailey, Cathy Boyes, Linda Cairns, Philip Chandler, Camille De Groote, Jessica Denning, Michael Duffy, Yvonne Eddy, Laura Fensom, Ashton Fulgence, Danielle Green, Alex Groves, Jo Harris, Amy Hinds, Sally Hollingworth, Kate Kelly, Tom Kelly, Wallis Leahy, Clare Lovett, Uju Maduforo, Janet Marshall, Anne-Marie Norman, Abigail Pogson, David Reynolds, Richard Scandrett, Rachel Shipp, Chloe Shrimpton, Phil Swan, Jessica Wadey, James Waterhouse, Katee Woods, Kate Wyatt Rebecca Driver Media Relations
Volunteers, festival stewards Callum Anderson, Emel Ancin, Dorothee Assiga, Robbie Atkinson, Nafisa Azimi, Dave Baines, Richard Barclay, Andy Barrett, Nyanna BenthamPrince, Gilly Blachford, Neil Bowman, Denise Brewster, Dawn Cameron, Cheryl Chan*, Carolina Rodr íguez-Chinea, Joyeon Choi, Ashwani Chopra, Manisha Chopra, Bill Colverson, Sue Coulbeck, Michael Coyle, Marina Crespo, John Critchley, Sandy Critchley, Natasha Day, Elisa De Marchi, Magdalena Dembinska, Giuliana Di Monaco, Denise Domfe, Kal-ean Dunlop, Jane Dunnage, Jennifer Emptage, Charlie Firth, Jemima Forbes, Wendy Forrest*, Alex Godfree, Elizabeth Goldman, Claire Grant, Mariangela Graziano, Helen Hackney, Grethe Hauge, Mary Hempstead, Yujin Heo, Ruth Hibberd, Sue Hibberd, Jane Hills, Sally Hollingworth, Beverley James, Marianne Janosi, Bernadette Kanengoni, Julia Kowalle, Julia Kuznecow, Yating Li, Ting Liu, Sarah Macnee, Carole Mahoney, Paul McGrail, Nuria Miguel, Jane Miller, Stella Morris, Roshni Nagaria, Alice Northgreaves, Germaine Nyack, Richard Palmer, Phuong Pham, Margaret Pitt, Emily Rampat, James Riley, Isabel Robson, Stanley Rondeau, Peter Salter, Katie Seaborne, Melanie Seagall, Hasina Sharaf, Anne-Marie Sharman*, Elizabeth Shaw, Anna Sizova, Bee Smith, Sharon Spencer, Eve Taylor, Lara Thomson*, Lonica Vanclay, Jenny Vernon, Jessica Wadey, Mary Watkinson, Barbara Wheeler, Carol Wilson, Joanna Wilson, Nileema Yesmin, Fiona Young, Alevtina Yushkevich *additional office support and research We would also like to thank those stewards who joined us after we had gone to print. Festival Steward, Spitalfields Music Summer Festival
“ It is satisfying altogether that Spitalfields (Music) so calmly maintains its tradition of historically minded concerts whose blend of often austere scholarship and performance brilliance makes them uniquely enjoyable” su n day tim e s on spi ta l fi e l d s m usi c sum m e r f e stiva l 1 4
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THANK YOU Core supporters Arts Council England City of London London Borough of Tower Hamlets PRS for Music Foundation Public Funds Creative Works London London Borough of Barking & Dagenham National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service Youth Music Companies Allen & Overy Bircham Dyson Bell Clifford Chance M&G Investments Macfarlanes News UK Simmons and Simmons Spitalfields E1 Warner Bros UK Wellington Markets Trusts & Foundations 29th May 1961 Charity 95.8 Capital FM’s Help a Capital Child Alison Wetherfield Foundation Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Baily Thomas Charitable Fund Boltini Trust Britten-Pears Foundation Bureau Export
Childhood Trust John S Cohen Foundation Coutts Charitable Trust Derek Shuttleworth Education Trust D’Oyly Carte Charitable Foundation Ernest Cook Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Fenton Arts Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust The Fishmongers’ Company The Goldsmiths’ Company Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Hinrichsen Foundation Holst Foundation John and Susan Bowers Fund John Horseman Charitable Trust John R Murray Charitable Trust Leche Trust Lord Phillimore Charitable Trust Loveday Charitable Trust Merchant Taylors’ Company Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Nugee Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation PRS for Music Foundation Radcliffe Trust Rothschild Royal Victoria Hall Foundation RVW Trust Sir John Cass’s
Foundation Sobell Foundation Tanza Trust Tesco Charity Trust Wessex Youth Trust Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors Worshipful Company of Leathersellers Worshipful Company of Tax Advisors Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers Individual donors Hugh Arthur, Andrew Blankfield & Bernadette Hillman, Katie Bradford, Chris Carter & Stuart Donachie, Geoffrey Collens, Sarah Gee, Spencer & Lucy de Grey, Alex & Susan de Mont, David Dimbleby, Nigel & Ruth Dutson, Albert & Rowan Edwards, Helen Fraser CBE, Keith & Sarah Jane Haydon, Michael Keating, Colleen Keck, Peter & Sarah King, George & Anne Law, Nick Macrae, Simon Martin, Jane Martineau, Jasmine Mathews, Don McGown, Alan & Dinah Moses, Richard Syred & Brian Parsons, Helen
Payne, Jim Peers, Jennifer Silverstone, Susie Thomson, Judith Weir CBE, Hedley Wright, The late Peter Lerwill, The late Christopher Vaughan Partners Artsadmin, Aspirations at Tower Hamlets College, Barbican Guildhall, BarbicanGuildhall Creative Learning Division, Barking & Dagenham Libraries, Barts and the London NHS Trust, BCMG, Bedales, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bishopsgate Institute, The Boundary Restaurant, Brady Arts and Community Centre, Canon Barnett School, Canteen, Cherry Trees School, Christ Church Spitalfields, City of London Sinfonia, Community Music, Community Links, Crisis, Cryptic, Dark Music Days, Drake Music, The English Restaurant, Friends of Arnold Circus, Galvin La Chapelle, Geffrye Museum, Genesis Sixteen, Historic Palaces, Hoxton Hall, Idea Store, Jagonari Centre, Network, Kobi Nazrul School, Leila’s Shop, Leon’s Restaurant, LimeWharf,
London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra, Discovery, The Map Squad, Newham Libraries, Newham Music Hub, November Music, Old Spitalfields Market, Opera North, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Osmani Primary School, People’s Palace, Phoenix School, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Opera House, Rich Mix, Rivington Gallery, St Anne’s School, Sadler’s Wells, Shapla Primary School, Shoreditch Church (St Leonard’s), Shoreditch Citizens, Sound Connections: Early Years Practitioners Forum, Spitalfields City Farm, Spitalfields Community Group, Spitalfields E1, Stewart Headlam Primary School, Swanlea Secondary School, Village Underground, VoiceLab/ Southbank Centre, Tower Hamlets Arts & Education Service, Toynbee Hall, The Water Poet, Wigmore Hall, Wilton’s Music Hall Chair of Patrons George Law
Honorary Life Patrons Andrew Blankfield, Diana Burrell, David & Julia Cade, Jonathan Dove, Dr & Mrs Anthony Henfrey, George & Anne Law, John McCuin, Chris Sayers, Judith Serota OBE, Robert & Margaret Vaughan, Judith Weir CBE Gold Patrons Clifford & Fiona Atkins, Delia Broke, Michael Godbee, Nick & Emma Hardie, Sue & Tom Imber, Michael Langton, George & Anne Law, Jeremy Lindon, Stephen Massil, Judy & John McCuin, His Honour Judge Michael & Mrs Nicky Oppenheimer, Sir Robert & Lady Owen, Helen Payne, Abigail Pogson, Ruth Rattenbury, Imogen Rumbold, Brian Smith, Keith Wallace, John & Linde Wotton Silver Patrons Mark Anderson, Hugh Arthur, Ms C Apperley, Roy Blackwell & Jennifer Jones, Ken Blakeley, Caroline Burton, Byrne Charitable Trust, Craig Cleaver, John & Sandy Critchley, Charles Curry-Hyde & Cordelia Rushby, Charlie de Wet,
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James Hastings, Gary Hunter & Michael Light, Michael & Sylvia Jay, Charles & Tessa King-Farlow, Christine Lewis, Janice Liverseidge, Doris Lockhart, Dr & Mrs Graham Orpwood, Andrew Peck, Jim Peers, David Preddy, Stephen & Lucy Richards, Derek Sugden, Allan Sutherland, John Wilkins Members John Alexander, Bob Allies & Jill Franklin, Leonard Attewell, Jane Attias, Mary Banker, Deputy John Barker, Ian Basnett, Anne Bearne, Christopher Benjamin, Stephen Benson, Graham Betts, Paul Bowes, Jonica Bridge, G Brittain, Mary Brodrick, Neil Burns, Margareta Burrell, Alwen Butcher, Cynthia Butterworth, Adrienne Carr, Maggie Castle, Andrew Ceresa, Johan & Paris Christopherson, RJ Coleman, Mary Collins, Dr SR Collinson, Captain Nicholas Cooper, Deborah Cowles, Anton Cox, Jean Curtis-Raleigh, Belinda Davis, Camille De Groote & Arwel Davies, Dr John Davies,
Eve de Meza, Nicola & David De Quincey Souden, Donna De Wick, Janet Di Stefano, Brian & Judy Dobbs, Annie Edge, Juliet Edwards, Sohail Faruqi, Prof Rodney Fitch CBE, The Fischer Fund, Stephen Garner, Christine Garrett, Hugh Geddes, Duncan Gibbons, John Gibson, Mark Goodey, Dr J M Gooding, Diana Morgan Gray, Roy Griffiths, Adey Grummet & Kevin Skully, Peter Hall, Eamonn Hamilton, Jeremy Harding-Edgar, Virginia Harding, Vanessa Harley, Christopher Harman, Jonathan Harvey, Nora Heard, Mr Hearn & Dr Williams, Tim Hellings, Dr Anthony Hobson, Bella Hobson, Julia Hodgkin, Richard Hollis & Posy Simmonds, Michael Holter, Anna Home, Geoffrey Hooker, Dagna Horner, Eric Horner, Susan Hoyal, Kimberley Hutchings, Sir Raymond Jack, Stephen Jack, Sue Jackson, Molly Jackson, Alice Jacobs, Gill James, Kate Jenkins, Prof & Mrs C Jenks, William Joss, Lindsay Kaye, Gillian Keeler, Bridget Kitley, Paul & Karen Lasok,
Maria Laughlin, Carol Lindsay Smith, Andrea Liu, Deborah Logan, Hyacinth Lund, Lady Jean MacGregor, Sir Colin & Rosy Mackay, Kathleen Malbon, Michael & Alexi Marmot, Jo Marsden, Prof & Mrs Michael N Marsh, Helen MartinLeake, Simon Morris, Graham Morrison, Sylvia Moys, Deirdre Munro, Alan Nafzger, Robert Nelson, Sue Nelson, George Nissen, David Norgrove, Gavin Oddy, Bernard Oppenheim, Jennifer Oxley, Vivien Palmer, Alison Parkinson, Mary-Vere Parr, Heather Parry, Dr & Mrs Michael Parsons, Barbara Patilla, Veronica Plowden, Ann Porter, Dr Clive Potter, Nigel & Vivien Prevost, Toby & Teresa Prevost, Sue Prickett & John Bryer, Jenny Purkis, Mary M Quigley, Lord & Lady Rea, Michael & Laura Robarts, Sally Jean Roe, Sue Rowlands, Alan Sainer, Ted & Jenny Salmon, Richard & Margaret Sax, Elizabeth Saxon, Geoffrey Schott, Juliet Shield, Howard Shields, Richard Slack, Richard & Jenny Smith, Phil Simpson, Nicholas Spearing, Bernard &
Linda Steel, Dr Colin Stolkin, Jane Swift, Alis Templeton, Dr Jeffrey Tobias, Christoph & Marion Trestler, Siriol Troup, Malcolm Turner, J Utting, Donna Vinter, Mr & Mrs Walker, J C Walton, Richard Welton, Barbara Wheeler, Elizabeth White, Michele White, Prof Gwyn Williams, Alan & Lyn Williams, Charles Wilmot-Smith, Mr Wintersgill Help in kind Tom Armitage , Fiona Atkins / Town House, Barbican Centre, Bedales, Bishopsgate Institute, Brady Arts & Community Centre, John & Sandy Critchley , Canary Wharf Group, Canteen, Capita Asset Services, Chris Dyson, Christ Church Spitalfields, City of London (Whites Row car park), Charlie De Wet, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Olwen Evans, Eyediology, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, Galvin La Chapelle, Geffrye Museum, Hoxton Hall, Impress Print Services, IT4Arts, London Borough Tower Hamlets, Lime Wharf, Macfarlanes, Marianna Kennedy, Mazars, Pearson, Reed Smith,
Rich Mix, Rupert Hunt, Shoreditch Church, Martin Solar, Southbank Centre, Spitalfields City Farm, Spitalfields E1, THAMES, The English Restaurant, The Water Poet, Tower of London (Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, Town House, Toynbee Hall, Village Underground, Whitechapel Bell Foundary, Wigmore Hall, Alan Williams, Wilton’s Music Hall, Christine Waite, Diccon Wright Artists and leaders Isabelle Adams, Adriano Adewale, Alamire, Molly Alexander, Allen & Overy Choir, John Barber, Emily Barker & Dom Coyote, Alison Beck, Sam Best, Bishopsgate Singers – Gitika Partington, Polly Beestone, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Edward Blunt, Mark Burns, Brillig Ensemble, Britten Sinfonia, Caius College Choir & Barnaby Brown, Toby Carr, Jim Cartwright, Sam Chaplin, Duncan Chapman, Tania Chen, Cherry Trees School, Pete Churchill, City of London Sinfonia, Clare College Choir, Ben Clark, Company Kafig,
Lucy Crowe, The Crow’s Bones, Christian Curnyn, Anna Curzon, Gary Day, Dave Darch, Iestyn Davis, Penny Desbruslais, Amy Doyley, Laka D & Women sing East trio: Issy Postill, Alison Raynor & Dave Wickens, Karyma Ellis, The English Concert, EXAUDI, Tom Farmer, Fieri Consort, Firefly, Gallicantus, Arun Ghosh and Friends, Amina Gichinga, Sam Glazer, Hazel Gould, Abimaro Gunnell, Vicky Gunning, Tom Guthrie, Christina Hall, Simon Halsey, Katie Heller, Rebecca Herman, Gawain Hewitt, Hilliard Ensemble, Edwin Hind, Oliver Hunt, Thomas Kelly, Tom Kelly, Inês Lapa, La Nuova Musica, La Serenissima, Mhairi Lawson, London Sinfonietta, Jessie Maryon Davies, Ruth McElvanney, David Miller, Katie Minien, Claudia Molitor, Phil Mullen, Roshi Nasehi, Neighbourhood Schools pupils at Canon Barnett Primary School, Rick Nunn, Kobi Nazrul Primary School, Opera Erratica, Osmani Primary School, Shapla Primary School, Stewart Headlam Primary
School; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Zoë Palmer, Helen Papaioannou, Ruth Paton, Rus Pearson, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque, Will Pound, Quatour Debussy, Queen’s Revels, James Redwood, Revolutionary Drawing Room String Quartet, Jack Ross, Royal Academy of Music students, Namvula Rennie, Ruth Rosales, Adam Saunders, Scottish Ensemble, Omar Shahryar, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Jason Singh, The Sixteen, Anna Stephany, Dominic Stichbury, Students at Swanlea Secondary School, Kate Tempest, musicians from THAMES Saturday Music Centre, Pieter Theuns, Danny Thompson, Tim Travers Brown, John Wallace, John Webb, Julian West, Stian Westerhus, William Whitehead, Jonathon Williams, Christian Wilson, James Yarde
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