To promote wellbeing amongst groups that may suffer isolation, such as those with additional needs, the homeless, or elderly, through music:
CREATE MUSIC NOW! will provide music workshops designed to engage a wide range of musical tastes and abilities, enabling the beneficiaries to express themselves and take an active role in designing the overall programme and outcomes with the group’s composer.
Professional musicians from different genres, along with volunteers, will lead workshops to inspire and facilitate the beneficiaries. At the end of each project there will be a performance not just to family, friends and carers but to the wider community.
The organisation will start by providing in-house workshops to already established groups with a view to later providing sessions for the general public and follow-on referrals.
Adults who suffer from low self-esteem, isolation, difficulties with communication and social skills and often suffering from mental illness or disability.
These participants will benefit through the enjoyment of engaging in music with different musicians from different genres, composing and self-expression, and they should expect improved confidence and social, as well as musical skills, resulting in enhanced well-being through taking part.
The community at large will benefit through attending the performance(s) and we also hope for happier residents.
Our organisation is new and as such has no track record except for the sum of its parts:
MICHAEL OMER - Composer of Music for Television, Film and Concert Hall is an award-winning experienced composer, teacher and performer who has collaborated with groups from deprived schools and communities to compose works commissioned and broadcast by the BBC. He has collaborated with the homeless charity SHELTER and the London Mozart Players to create a work performed at the orchestra’s base in Croydon.
SIAN PHILIPPS is a violinist who on leaving the Yehudi Menuhin School went on to perform as soloist at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, Musikverein Vienna, and has recorded several CDs to critical acclaim. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, London Mozart Players and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Jose Cura and Ilan Volkov. In 2023, funded by Arts Council England, Siân created a CD entitled "From Shadows to Light " as part of a project involving local communities. It was based around her lived experience of stalking and its far- reaching consequences.
