What’s in Your Repertoire? How a creative approach to repertoire and instrumentation can help all children to fulfil their musical potential
This session will be a mix of the discursive ‘fireside chat’ and the practical ‘come-and-have-a-go’. Siobhan’s will discuss her experience as a young musician with a hearing impairment, and her experience at the Royal Academy of Music before launching into a career as a performing artist and music facilitator. She will explore the different approaches she has used when working with ensembles, examining some of the more recent work she has done using a creative approach to repertoire and how that has allowed her to be uncompromising in the level of musicianship expected from people who might otherwise have been excluded from the joy of performing live music with others.
A full range of modern orchestral instruments (from traditional to digital) will be set up and ready to play, and delegates will have an opportunity to experience what it’s like to be in a modern, inclusive orchestra. Finally, Siobhan will provide some practical tools and resources she has found useful when preparing for and delivering her work at the Bristol NOYO Centre, whilst reflecting on how inclusive approaches to repertoire and instrumentation could help take all orchestral music to the next level.
Speakers
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Siobhan Clough
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Siggy Patchitt
Bristol Beacon
Siobhan Clough
Siobhan is a freelance musician who performs with RNS Moves, BSO Resound and Paraorchestra. Recent highlights include: BBC Relaxed Proms with BSO Resound, recording session with Paul Weller on album Fat Pop, ‘The Lost Thing’ at the Royal Opera House and Sky Documentaries ‘Reinventing the Orchestra with Charles Hazlewood’ and Paraorchestra. Education work has been hugely important to Siobhan as a result of her work with BSO’s Participate Department, which began in 2018. She is currently involved in discussions as a result of her work in England, with organisations such as, Disability Arts Cymru and National Youth Arts Wales, to improve accessibility to music in education within Wales. In 2020 she completed her LRAM violin teaching diploma at the Royal Academy of Music and this year has completed her Certificate in Music Education, ran via Bristol Beacon.
This year Siobhan has run a CPD session for Tri-Borough music service exploring how to support hearing impaired children, been appointed as the Music Leader for the Bristol NOYO centre and is looking forward to running a hearing impaired workshop in March at the Royal College of Music.
Siggy Patchitt
Bristol Beacon
Siggy Patchitt is Head of Strategic Change at Bristol Beacon. His job involves facilitating a range of change projects associated with the reopening of Bristol Beacon in Autumn 2023, including developing a new data model, improving the integration of education and artistic activity, and leading a community consultation on toilet signage. He was Chair of Sound Sense from 2017 to 2020 and, between 2018 and 2022, headed up the National Centre for Inclusive Excellence at Bristol Beacon, developing the HEARD model of inclusion and co-authoring Guidance for Music Education Hubs: Developing an inclusive approach to the core and extension roles.
His background in music practice is as a community musician, working primarily in schools and youth settings, using Music-Based Mentoring and Social Pedagogy to help young people from diverse backgrounds develop their personal and social skills, and foster a lifelong love of music.