Drake Music: Composer/Musical Director wanted

Connecting Across Difference
Drake Music in partnership with Furtherfield.org

Composer / Musical Director wanted

Approx 37 days
Start date – September 2008
End date – March 2009
Fee £6,660

Application deadline: Midday on 21 July 2008

Drake Music is seeking to commission a musician to compose and direct the performance of a new work on the theme of Connecting Across Difference. A central component of the composition process is the facilitation of a season of creative music workshops with young musicians, from mainstream and special schools, at primary and secondary level in the borough of Tower Hamlets. The season would culminate in a mixed media masque or opera at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, co-created and performed by all participants in March 2009.

The theme for the season Connecting Across Difference is intended to catalyse imaginative and playful explorations of the joys and the strains (or challenges) of encountering, communicating and coming to know people who are different.

This role would suit a composer/musician who is excited by the creative possibilities of exchange and collaboration between musicians. Someone with compositional flair, enthusiasm, flexibility and a willingness to experiment.

The full brief can be downloaded here: www.drakemusicproject.org

If you have any queries please contact Miranda Peake: furtherfield@drakemusicproject.org