orchestras live annual review 2014-15

& futuresAnnual Review 2014/15

minds new

music

01 Introduction 02 Welcome 03 Our impact

04 new minds We continue to engage with new

audiences and participants across the country

06 Health and Wellbeing10 First Time Live Early Years13 First Time Live Youth

16 new music We work independently with world-class

British orchestras and composers, supporting new music performances

18 Concerts and Beyond the Premiere19 Audience insights20 Further projects

24 new futures We have a positive future ahead

with a clear plan of our priorities 26 Our plans for 2015–1830 Support us 32 Thank you to our partners

33 Financials 2014/1535 Staff and Trustees

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ORCHESTRAS LIVE AnnuAL REVIEW 2014/15 01

Orchestras Live is a national music charity that is unique in the UK. We believe that the inspirational human power and drama of live orchestral music is something everyone should be able to experience.

Every year we take world-renowned British orchestras to tens of thousands of people in areas of England where orchestras wouldn’t otherwise play. Our partnerships deliver innovative programmes of the highest quality that are excellent value and reach those most in need.

This year, we celebrate our 50th Anniversary, but our focus is on looking forward: new minds, new music, new futures.

ORCHESTRAS LIVE AnnuAL REVIEW 2014/1502

In 1965, the Eastern Authorities Orchestral Association was formed to promote professional orchestral concerts in the East of England. Fast forward 50 years, and Orchestras Live is acknowledged as a national leader, taking inspirational and excellent orchestral experiences to the widest possible audience.

50 years is a significant milestone. What continues to drive us forward is an unwavering passion that people from all backgrounds should have the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the highest quality orchestral provision, regardless of who they are or where they live.

The facing page gives you a snapshot of the impact we have made over the past year, and this publication is packed with examples of how our work is making a difference to the lives of people across England.

50 years of bringing world-class orchestral experiences to audiences throughout England gives us a great platform for the future. As an Arts Council England National Portfolio

Organisation to 2018, we now have investing partnerships with 46 local authorities and music education hubs. Our new Business Plan that is summarised on pages 26–29 sets out our ambitious plans for the future.

The confidence that comes from continued public investment in our work is matched by ongoing partnerships with large trusts and foundations. We want to engage with an even broader range of partners; you can find out how to help us make even more of an impact on pages 30–31.

Since 1965, we have offered artistic leadership, driven by decades of practical expertise to inspire audiences across England with the very best of British orchestras. We look forward to the future with optimism and ambition. We hope you enjoy reading about our work.

Henry Little Mark BromleyChief Executive Chairman

welcome

Since 1965, we have offered artistic leadership, driven by decades of practical expertise to inspire audiences across England with the very best of British orchestras.

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Areas of under-provision, diverse communities, families, hard-to-reach groups, vulnerable people, young people

Arts centresConcert hallsFestivals Local authoritiesMusic education hubs Music societiesTheatres

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newminds We believe the inspirational human power and drama of live orchestral music is something everyone should be able to enjoy. Through our projects, we bring orchestral experiences to individuals from a diverse range of communities in ways that are engaging and relevant.

It was so good to see the residents enjoying themselves so much at the concert. At the time of life when many have lost the ability to be creative, working with the musicians to create something so successful obviously gave them a great boost. They loved it. Staff, Cheviot Nursing Home

I really enjoyed the session. It was great to get to play with so many different instruments. Participant, Disabled Musicians in Essex



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ESSEX FOLKResponding to Essex County Council’s key priority of ‘improving public health and wellbeing’, Orchestras Live, Sinfonia Viva and Essex Cultural Development produced a creative music project in four residential nursing care homes in north Essex. Led by cellist and composer Sam Glazer and a team of Viva musicians, the project involved groups of up to 10 residents, some of whom were living with dementia, and staff at each care home.

Through a series of workshops the participants helped to write and rehearse new songs about their lives. The process culminated with the separate groups meeting at Colchester Arts Centre for an

afternoon orchestral concert with Sinfonia Viva, also attended by family and friends. Sam had arranged the songs so that everyone could sing them accompanied by the orchestra. It was a joyful and moving occasion, and sparked plans to develop this approach more widely across Essex and beyond.

DISABLED MuSICIAnS In ESSEXWith a priority to broaden the range and diversity of music leaders working with orchestras on collaborative projects, Orchestras Live initiated a training and mentoring scheme in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Essex Cultural Development and Zinc Arts, who specialise in the field of disability and access through the arts.

Orchestral music is a fantastic way of enabling people to express and enjoy themselves. From working with young people with profound disabilities to older people in care homes, in 2014/15 we made a difference to the lives of thousands of people across England.


The opportunity for deaf and disabled musicians to participate in some music taster sessions was publicised across Essex, and these were held at Zinc Arts’ residential centre at Chipping Ongar, following some Disability Equality Training for the RPO delivery team. The sessions attracted 9 disabled young and adult musicians, and revealed a need for regular workshops in which disabled musicians could work as a band, devising, rehearsing and performing their own material in a safe, supportive environment. It could also provide a means for potential music leaders to emerge and be mentored over a longer timescale. This will be the focus of the partnership going forwards.

ABLE ORCHESTRAThe partnership between Orchestras Live, Nottinghamshire Music Hub and County Youth Arts led to a unique project in which a diverse range of young people in Mansfield was brought together to form the Able Orchestra, an inclusive ensemble in which all members collectively made music and visual images for live performance. This included some profoundly disabled young people from a school and college, using iPads to control music samples and sequences, working alongside young instrumentalists to create new music and projected digital imagery.

A team of sound artists, players from the BBC Concert Orchestra and a VJ artist supported the young musicians through the creative process. The Able Orchestra gave its first public performance in February 2015 at Mansfield Palace Theatre during the Pride disability showcase festival, when more musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra joined the final rehearsals and a stunning concert.

health and wellbeing

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/wellbeing


The quality of the music was outstanding… and the young people were a delight and inspiration to watch. The undisguised pleasure they showed at the end of their piece was incredibly moving.Able Orchestra audience member


We will be using a lot of the rhythm work with the children – clapping and copying rhythms. The whole thing was very inspiring and has made us want to do more of this type of thing. Manager, Stowmarket Library


LuLLABY COnCERTSThe fifth annual tour of Lullaby Concerts, held in autumn 2014 during the Family Arts Festival, saw another highly successful series of activities reach many young children, parents and carers, and Early Years practitioners. Produced by Orchestras Live and City of London Sinfonia in partnership with five local authorities and two music education hubs, a programme of creative workshops, training sessions and public concerts was held across Suffolk and north east Essex.

As in previous years, the essence of the project was about bringing inspirational first experiences of live orchestral music to young children and

families, particularly in under-served rural areas, whilst developing the skills of Early Years practitioners and parents to encourage the sustained use of music as a means of learning and play. Several young musicians and a young ballet dancer from the locality were involved in the performances alongside the orchestra, adding a further layer to the sharing of skills whilst inspiring young audiences.

Over a period of 7 weeks a total of 45 workshops were held at 15 nursery settings, as well as a music training day for nursery practitioners and staff, culminating in 12 Lullaby Concerts in 6 different areas. Some 1,780 people engaged with the project as participants or audiences.

Our work with very young children and their families is highly interactive, giving children not only an excellent quality live orchestral experience, but also the chance to interact with the musicians and perhaps play a musical instrument for the first time, sparking an interest that might last a lifetime.

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For the little ones the music was magical. For the toddlers the songs and screen were great. For pre- schoolers the story and the way it was told and repeated was very smart and entertaining.Audience member

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FLuTTER AnD FLYThe Rolls-Royce Learning & Development Centre in Derby became an exciting venue for a family concert during the 2014 national Family Arts Festival, when Sinfonia Viva held a concert of orchestral music themed around the adventures of a child with a paper plane. Presented by composer and guitarist Jack Ross, the concert featured new music written by Jack as well as a range of orchestral repertoire.

Flitting birds, jet planes and a kite tied with string were imaginatively portrayed by the orchestra, complemented by illustrations of visual artist Eleanor Meredith, whose live drawings and animation were projected on a screen behind the orchestra. Afterwards a free book and CD was given out to the audience.

More than 200 young children and adults attended the concert, and they were also able to explore the Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre to discover more about aero engines and flight.

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/early-years


First Time Live toured with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Sinfonia to ten places and reached 12,000 young people. This year, working with music education hub partners in Leicestershire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Luton, Harlow and Cumbria, we explore how the young people have been given even more input into the production and presentation of orchestral concerts to their peers.

Building on learning from the previous two years, each legacy project has had a unique new element. In Spalding the emphasis was on the very talented musicians and songwriters in the group, and in Shepshed the strong performing arts skills were harnessed to create a very

theatrical concert experience incorporating spoken word, dance, film and music.

In Luton and Barrow-in-Furness the technical aspects of the concert, including the live streaming of concerts by the young people, was a key development, whilst in Harlow young people were ambassadors at the heart of a unique creative process which brought together all of the secondary schools in the town for collaborative performances.

We have also experimented this year with the size of orchestra, using a wide range of orchestral forces from 13 up to 40 players.

Following a successful two-year programme we have continued to extend, refine and develop our First Time Live Youth programme.

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The work it has delivered has been truly ground-breaking in its approach to the promotion and presentation of orchestral music to a very non- traditional audience base.Tony Ploszajski, Evaluator, Ploszajski Lynch Consulting Ltd


FROM DuSK ‘TIL DAWnIn Shepshed, Leicestershire working with a mixed aged group from 13 to 18 years from Hind Leys College and Shepshed High School, the young people took on all the vital tasks involved in producing the concert including choosing the music, promotion, stage management, technical production and presentation of the concerts using a combination of drama, dance and poetry.

John K Miles and musicians from City of London Sinfonia composed a song which they taught to the pupils from primary schools who performed it at the concerts. The regular visits to local primary schools developed a very strong relationship between the presenters and the audience so that come the concert the children were immediately engaged. The project was funded by Leicester-Shire Music Education Hub and Orchestras Live.

HARLOW FIRST TIME LIVEThis project provided a catalyst to re-energise instrumental learning and music education in Harlow schools through strands of creative activity at

all five secondary schools and ten feeder primary schools, engaging with hundreds of young people, teachers and parents. Composer John K Miles worked with groups of Key Stage 3 students to create a collaborative piece, Transition, for performance by City of London Sinfonia and 93 young musicians in two orchestral concerts held at Stewards Academy.

Some participants were also involved as young producers, helping to design, manage and present the final concerts which were attended by up to 500 young people and adults. The project has paved the way for further participation through Essex Music Hub, and for direct collaboration between groups of young musicians.

SOunD STRuCKSound Struck provided an opportunity for a team of young people in the Barrow-in-Furness area – one of the most socially, economically and culturally disadvantaged areas in the UK – to devise and direct two concerts with Manchester Camerata at The Forum, Barrow attended by over 1,000 local primary school children.

The chance to work with a professional orchestra to produce an event of this quality is absolutely fantastic, and will give us all valuable experience in the field of performing arts.

Student, Hind Leys College

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I looked in on the control room at The Forum where five Dowdales students were managing every technical aspect of the production including directing lighting, sound, video projection, vision mixing and managing the live webcast. The concentration levels were intense. It was like looking in on a BBC production gallery at Media City.” Simon Yeo, Head of Cumbria Music Education Hub

As well as being fully involved in the decision-making of every aspect of the concert, the group from Dowdales School was responsible for the live streaming of the concert enabling many of the remoter places in the county to enjoy a concert they wouldn’t normally have access to either because of lack of transport or the time it would take to get from one place to another.

LIFETIMEThe Youth Takeover group at South Holland Centre, Spalding – part of the Lincolnshire One Venues initiative – produced the Lifetime concert with City of London Sinfonia. Inspired by how music can evoke strong emotions, they went out and recorded the recollections and memories of people of all ages and paired these with orchestral pieces that were performed in the concert at the South Holland Centre.

The concert was also an opportunity to showcase the talents of a number of singer songwriters in the group who worked closely with John K Miles to orchestrate and perform two compositions with the orchestra.

FIRST TIME LIVE 2 In LuTOnDesigned with The MIX music education hub as an inclusive project that could provide a pathway to active involvement in the orchestral music genre for young people in Luton, 310 young musicians from 19 schools in BME communities were involved. Their collaboration with composer John K Miles resulted in a suite of pieces based on the theme of Carnival, which they performed together with City of London Sinfonia in two large-scale concerts at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts.

A group of students from Luton Sixth Form College presented the concerts and helped with event management, including live streaming of the concerts to approximately 2,000 young people at 40 schools across Luton. More than 100 participants achieved Arts Award, facilitated by Luton Culture, and a further outcome saw Charanga create an online Carnival resource featuring recorded tracks of the new orchestral score and song.

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/youth

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We champion the work of living composers and continue to expand our network of concert promoters, reaching new audiences in new locations.


Enabling thousands of people across the country to experience high quality live orchestral music and not have to travel great distances to do so remains one of our driving forces. From north Cumbria down to the south west, our promoter network helps audiences to experience the huge range and diversity of music British orchestras have on offer today.

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The work performed this year featured composers from across the centuries. What stands out is the sheer breadth and range of musical styles and works we have been able to offer to promoters and audiences. Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn sit alongside music by Richard Rodney Bennett, John Adams, Roxanna Punufnik, Judith Bingham and Takemitsu.

The variety of orchestras performing is diverse too. From orchestras specialising in early music such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Hanover Band to those with a more contemporary feel including Aurora Orchestra bringing works like Mano Delago’s Music for Two Acoustic Toothbrushes to Ashford and the London Sinfonietta performing Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint for 900 school children in Southampton.

34% of the 121 concerts we co-promoted contained work by living composers. The Beyond the Premiere programme, which provides a platform for repeat performances of recently commissioned work, featured five performances of Gwilym Simcock’s new work for clarinet and orchestra, On a Piece of Tapestry. This evocative piece featured in programmes containing Mozart, Finzi and Beethoven.

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/concertsorchestraslive.org.uk/BTP


We also received some very positive feedback from audience members across England:

The concert was excellent – with wonderful soloist and expressive, skilled performers.Beverley

An excellent concert of energy and excellent musicianship and inventiveness.Deal

Very much enjoyed pre-concert items played by young local musicians.Stroud

Absolutely superb concert, excellent ensemble, brilliant selection of music.Lydd

341During 2014/15 we gathered audience research at 11 concerts across England,

and received 341 responses in total.

find new orchestral

music exciting and stimulating

42%of audiences attended a

local orchestral concert for the

first time

19%

Our thanks to the promoters who helped us undertake audience research during 2014/15.

audienceinsights

felt that the concert they attended

was good value for money

97%

of existing audiences were attending concerts

‘about the same’ or ‘more frequently’

than before

92%74%

enjoy new orchestral music when it is part of

a broader concert programme

The positive vibrations sent out will resound for years to come not only with our students but in the wider community. What an incredible thing to happen in a school hall in Shirebrook! Adam Case, Head of Music, Shirebrook Academy



DARK CLOuDS ARE SMOuLDERInG InTO REDTo commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, an emotive exploration of separation, loss and social upheaval was told through music and dance by Sinfonia Viva in association with the Tom Dale Company. Based around a new commission created by composer James Redwood and choreographer Tom Dale, it evocatively told the story of John and Maria, a young couple torn apart by conflict.

We were pleased to support a performance in Mansfield in October 2014 involving more than 100 performers from local schools.

Working alongside the professional musicians and performers, the students created original music and dance pieces that were woven into the new commission. The Dark Clouds tour was made possible by the support of The Heritage Lottery Fund, Orchestras Live and Arts Council England and was a finalist in the Best Arts Project category of the 2015 National Lottery Awards.

SHIREBROOK – A LIVInG HERITAGEComposer and Hallé double bass player Bea Schirmer worked with young musicians at Shirebrook Academy and the Shirebrook Miners’ Welfare UNISON Brass Band to create a live soundtrack for a new film about the heritage of this former mining village.

The participants performed the new piece alongside the orchestra in two public concerts in July 2014 alongside a full strength Hallé orchestra. Approximately 800 people attended the concerts, including children from local primary schools who sang a medley of World War One songs accompanied by the Hallé.

The diversity of our partnerships across England enables a bespoke approach to creating orchestral projects for local communities.

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This project was supported through Orchestras Live’s partnerships with Bolsover District Council and Derbyshire County Council with practical support from the Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership, particularly in associated vocal work at neighbouring schools.

An HOnOuRABLE DISPuTESinfonia Viva’s spring residency in Derby culminated in a concert at Landau Forte College in March 2015. An Honourable Dispute marked the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, and featured new music inspired by the coal industry in Derbyshire, the revolutionary changes it brought, and the future for energy and society since its decline. Participants from Becket Primary School, Landau Forte College and Derby College performed pieces created with workshop leader James Redwood and writer Hazel Gould.

The project was supported by Rolls-Royce plc, Derby City Council, Orchestras Live, Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership, Foundation Derbyshire and the Tom Carey Fund.

PHILHARMOnIA ORCHESTRA In ROCHFORDIn March 2015, a team from the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Tim Steiner held a Creative Orchestra weekend in Rayleigh with local young people who came together to make and perform music, culminating in a public sharing at Sweyne Park School. A group of young music leaders then worked with Tim Steiner to gain skills and techniques for running music workshops and composing collaboratively with other people.

On the final day, they co-led workshops with children from several primary schools and presented a performance for families and teachers at Riverside Primary School. This skills development work tied in with wider, more long-term work with young cultural leaders, entrepreneurs and student-led music ensembles in Rochford.

This was the sixth annual music project delivered by the Philharmonia in partnership with Orchestras Live, Rochford District Council, Rochford Extended Services and Essex Cultural Development.

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SHRuTI ARTS In LEICESTERSHIREFor the last three years Orchestras Live has collaborated with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Shruti Arts to introduce new audiences to the concert season at De Montfort Hall, Leicester. With both organisations having a concert season in the City, the collaboration aims to introduce the respective audiences to each other’s music.

Part of this work is a series of specially commissioned short films of musical conversations between principal players of the Philharmonia and leading South Asian musicians. As well as discussing a piece of repertoire featured in the Philharmonia’s season both players talk about their instruments and musical traditions.

The latest film, with Philharmonia violist Gijs Kramers and tabla player Sanju Sahai, explores rhythm and ends with a stunning improvisation based on a Bach concerto.

This is just brilliant. It’s so great to see Eastern and Western music, in its classical forms coming together, being fused, being in harmony and at one with each other. Manish Parmar, Comment on YouTube


For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/projects

futuresnew

Our mission is to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through excellent live orchestral music. Find out how we are going to do this from now until 2018.


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Orchestras Live leads the way in taking excellent orchestral experiences to the widest possible audience.

Whether we are giving disadvantaged young people an inspiring first-time experience of live orchestral music, or bringing newly commissioned orchestral work to more people in more places, as well as investing in local promoter skills and infrastructure so that orchestral music can continue to thrive, our work has a profound effect on our audiences, many of whom will be experiencing the thrilling power of a live orchestra for the first time.

Our projects and concerts inspire people and encourage innovation. We work across the orchestral sector and throughout England.

You can download the Executive Summary of our 2015–18 Business Plan from our website.

2015–18

our plans for

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/business-plan

We measure our success through four overall principles and target outcomes that govern all of our work.

Find out how we will deliver against these outcomes on the following pages.

InfluenceRecognised as a positive agent for change in the orchestral sector

ReachA greater diversity of people experiencing live orchestral music

QualityExcellent live orchestral music in a vibrant and sustainable market

ValueA fit-for-purpose, sustainable organisation



Quality We will support and develop the market

for live orchestral music activities with the highest standards in their creation, planning and performance.

Between 2015 and 2018 we will:• Be an essential part of the British

orchestral sector creating 450 concerts, residencies and projects that would not otherwise happen.

• Undertake a broad range of project and concert work, programming world-class chamber and symphony orchestral concerts.

• Provide more young children in culturally under-served areas with a vivid ‘first-time live’ experience of orchestral music, to broaden their musical horizons and engage them at an early age in a positive orchestral experience.

• Deliver increased Beyond the Premiere opportunities for excellent new orchestral work for the widest possible audience.

Reach We will increase the diversity of

people experiencing live orchestral music, focusing our work on geographic areas of under provision.

In each of the three years between 2015 and 2018, we will:

• Reach at least 60,000 people through a national, curated programme of orchestral concerts, projects and events.

• Work in partnership with a minimum of 60 promoters.

• Work across England through partnerships with independent promoters and local authorities and other agencies, together with professional British orchestras of all sizes and genres.

our plans for2015–18

Influence We will lead, influence and share

best practice among uK orchestras, our promoter partners, funders and stakeholders.

In each of the three years between 2015 and 2018, we will:

• Influence British orchestras through programmes that extend the boundaries of orchestral work through new styles of participation, performance, presentation and promotion.

• Strengthen promoter practice and increase ambition among our current national network of 60 promoter partners so that the orchestral experiences we provide are an inspiration for audiences to engage with and enjoy British professional orchestral music.

Value We will manage and develop the

organisation and its resources to fulfil our mission.

Between 2015 and 2018 we will:• Focus our resources and investment in

under-served areas where we can deliver maximum impact.

• Raise contributed funds to support our ambitious plans between now and 2018.

• Continue to be a lean and agile, fit-for-purpose organisation led by a small, expert team, with a successful track record in creating excellent professional orchestral concerts and projects.



For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/support-us

We believe passionately in the power of orchestral music to change lives. Whether we are giving disadvantaged young people the unique opportunity to programme orchestral concerts for their peers, taking newly commissioned work to people in isolated communities or developing concerts for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, our work has a lasting impact on those it reaches.

We are the only organisation of our kind working in the orchestral sector and rely on external investment to realise our ambitions. Supporting us will give more than 180,000 people over the next three years the opportunity to enjoy the country’s finest professional orchestras.

There are many ways to get involved, whether as a charitable trust, a business or an individual. If you share our vision and want to find out more about how you can make a difference, please contact Caroline Porter, Funding Development Manager, on 020 7520 1494 or e-mail [email protected]

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Orchestras Live is a registered charity that is ensuring that British orchestras extend their reach to audiences living in the most culturally under-served parts of the country.

2015 marks a significant anniversary for our colleagues at Orchestras Live. Since 1965 they have been delivering unique and high quality live orchestral experiences to a vast range of communities across England and long may it continue.Mark Pemberton, Director, Association of British Orchestras

For further information visit:orchestraslive.org.uk/support-us

Thank you to our supporters during 2014/15:

Arts Council England / Cumbria County Council’s Neighbourhood Fund / Esmée Fairbairn Foundation / John Ellerman Foundation / J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust / Kimberly-Clark / Philips Avent / Royal Opera House Bridge / Sir John Fisher Foundation / The Monument Trust / Thistle Trust / Ms DR Kurzman* / Classic FM**

Help us bring more orchestras to more people in more places.

*A legacy payment awarded by Arts Council England **Media Partner



Academy of Ancient Music

Ashford Borough Council

Aurora Orchestra

Babergh District Council

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bolsover District Council

Brandenburg Sinfonia

Broadland District Council

Britten Sinfonia

Buxton Festival

Cambridge City Council

Cambridgeshire Music

Chelmsford City Council

Chesterfield Borough Council

City of London Sinfonia

Cockermouth Music Society

Corby Borough Council

Cumbria County Council

Cumbria Music Education Hub

Deal Festival

Derby City Council

Derbyshire County Council

Durham and Darlington Music Education Hub

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

English Chamber Orchestra

Essex County Council

Essex Music Services / Music Hub

European union Chamber Orchestra

Fiori Musicali

Forest Heath District Council

Gloucestershire Music Education Hub

Hallé Concerts Society

Heritage Orchestra

Hertfordshire Music Service

Hull City Council

Ipswich Borough Council

John Armitage Memorial Trust (JAM)

Keswick Music Society

King’s Lynn and West norfolk Borough Council

Kokoro

Leicestershire County Council

Leicester-Shire Music Education Hub

Leisureworks – Derwentside Trust for Sport and the Arts

Lincoln Drill Hall

Lincolnshire County Council

Lincolnshire Music and Arts Education Hub

London Mozart Players

London Sinfonietta

Magna Vitae (East Lindsey)

Manchester Camerata

Marina Theatre Trust

Mid Suffolk District Council

north norfolk District Council

northamptonshire Arts Management Trust

northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust

northern Chamber Orchestra

nottinghamshire Music Education Hub

Orchestra of St John’s

Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment

Orchestra of the Swan

Penrith Music Club

Peterborough Music Partnership

Philharmonia Orchestra

Red note Ensemble

Rochford District Council

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

SASRA Music and Arts

Scottish Ensemble

Shropshire Music Trust

Shruti Arts

Sinfonia Viva

South Cambridgeshire District Council

South Holland District Council

South Kesteven District Council

South norfolk Council

South northamptonshire Council

Southend Theatres

St Edmundsbury Borough Council

St George’s Bristol

Stroud District Council

Subscription Rooms, Stroud

Suffolk County Music Service

Thaxted Festival Foundation

The Castle, Wellingborough

The Courtyard, Hereford

The Hanover Band

The Stonebridge Trust

university of Southampton

Vivacity – Peterborough Culture and Leisure

Wiltshire Music Centre

Zinc Arts

Over the past year we have worked with a wide range of partners including orchestras, promoters, venues, local authorities and music education hubs.

ourpartners

Income We have been successful in securing long-term funding commitments from a number of major private charitable foundations. Grants from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the John Ellerman Foundation contributed to the work and salaries of our Partnership Managers, enabling their continued work with a range of local promoter partners in order to expand and sustain orchestral activities across England.

The Monument Trust continues to support our overall programme of work, while 2014/15 was the final year of an award from The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust. Thanks to the support of these funders, our core costs are now secured until September 2016.

We continue to be successful in securing small but important grants for our partnership projects. Towards Sound Struck, the First Time Live Youth project in Barrow-in-Furness, we secured support from the Sir John Fisher Foundation, from Cumbria County Council’s Neighbourhood Fund and from local company Kimberly-Clark and we also supported our partners locally to lever further funds, including a Grants for the Arts award from the Arts Council.

Philips Avent continued to support our Lullaby Concerts in Suffolk and the Thistle Trust awarded us a grant to support our Relaxed concerts pilot activity. In 2014/15 the Royal Opera House Bridge was again a key supporter of our First Time Live Youth legacy work in Luton and Harlow.

Funds awarded from the Kurzman Legacy, a share in a substantial legacy left to Arts Council England by the late Ms DR Kurzman, enabled opportunities for British orchestras to extend their reach throughout England, including an expansion of our work into new areas.

As an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation we receive support from Arts Council England and continue to enjoy a positive and constructive relationship with them at both regional and national level.

Expenditure Funding from Arts Council England and other charitable income enabled us to sustain 62 ongoing partnerships, including investment by 46 local authorities and music education hubs. We delivered a total of 465 events through orchestral residencies, community and education projects, concerts, and work devised for specific audiences and places. We worked in seven English regions with 26 professional orchestras, reaching 55,858 people.

TRuSTEES’ STATEMEnT On THE SuMMARISED FInAnCIAL STATEMEnTS The summarised financial statements are not the statutory accounts, but a summary of information relating to both the Statement of Financial Activities and the Balance Sheet. They may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding of the charity’s financial results and its financial position at the year end.

The statutory accounts were audited and an unqualified audit opinion was issued on 9 July 2015. The statutory accounts, including the audit report, can be obtained from Nancy Buchanan, the Company Secretary, who can be contacted on 020 7520 1494. The statutory accounts were approved on 25 June 2015 and have been submitted to the Charity Commission and Companies House.

Mark Bromley, Chairman 3 September 2015

InDEPEnDEnT AuDITOR’S STATEMEnT TO THE TRuSTEES OF ORCHESTRAS LIVE We have examined the summarised financial statements set out on page 34.

Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Auditors The Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the Annual Review. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised financial statements within the Annual Review with the full annual accounts and Trustees’ Report in accordance with the applicable United Kingdom law and the recommendations of the Charities SORP. We also read the other information contained in the Annual Review and consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatement or material inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements.

Basis of Opinion We conducted our examination in accordance with ISA810 “Engagements to report on Summary Financial Statements” issued by International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. In forming our opinion we have not considered the effects of any events between the date of our audit report (9 July 2015) and the date of this report.

Opinion In our opinion the summary financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements and Trustees’ Report of Orchestras Live for the year ended 31 March 2015.

DnG Dove naish, Statutory Auditors Eagle House, 28 Billing Road, Northampton NN1 5AJ 3 September 2015

financials 2014/15


SuMMARY STATEMEnT OF FInAnCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR EnDED 31 MARCH 2015 2015 (£) 2014 (£)Incoming Resources Incoming resources from generated funds: Investment income 17,687 23,660 Voluntary income 790,888 967,421Incoming resources from charitable activities 208,538 233,511Total incoming resources 1,017,113 1,224,592

Resources Expended Cost of generating funds: Cost of generating voluntary income 36,522 36,923Charitable activities 1,006,239 1,181,274Governance costs 40,349 45,604Total resources expended 1,083,110 1,263,801net (outgoing) / incoming resources (65,997) (39,209) before other recognised gains and losses Actuarial (losses) / gains on defined benefit pension scheme (21,000) 62,000net movement in funds (86,997) 22,791

Total funds brought forward as restated 745,510 722,719

Total funds carried forward 658,513 745,510 BALAnCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR EnDED 31 MARCH 2015 2015 (£) 2014 (£)Fixed assets Tangible assets 2,288 2,379

Current assets Debtors: falling due within one year 21,798 99,108Debtors: falling due after more than one year 60,000 60,000Cash at bank and in hand 11,553 12,783Cash on deposit 1,016,730 1,307,550 Creditors: falling due within one year (340,856) (651,310) net current assets 769,225 828,131Creditors: falling due after more than one year (113,000) (85,000)

net assets 658,513 745,510

Funds Unrestricted funds – general 434,155 414,847Unrestricted funds – designated 336,306 379,492Pension reserve (113,000) (85,000)Restricted funds 1,052 36,171Total 658,513 745,510


OuR STAFF

Henry Little Chief Executive

Stuart Bruce Partnership Manager

nancy Buchanan General Manager

Matt Carwardine-Palmer Communications Consultant

Jan Ford Partnership Manager

Caroline Porter Funding Development Manager

Lisa Stonham Partnerships Administrator

TRuSTEES

At 31 March 2015

Mark BromleyChairman

Kevin Appleby

Selena Chapman

Ellen Gallagher

Alan Kerr

neil Mathur

Anna Rowe

Clive Sugars

Jane Williams

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS

PAGE 01: Julian Lloyd Webber and Jiaxin Cheng by Simon Fowler; Able Orchestra by Reg Clegg; Tasmin Little by Benjamin Ealovega; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra by Nick Rutter; Academy of Ancient Music by Sim Cannetty-Clark; Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red by Alan Fletcher. PAGE 04–05: Lullaby Concerts by Paul Coghlin. PAGE 06: Essex Folk by Paul Starr; Disabled Musicians in Essex by Dan Burman. PAGE 09: Able Orchestra by Reg Clegg. PAGE 10: Lullaby Concerts by Paul Coghlin. PAGE 12: Flutter and Fly by Alan Fletcher. PAGE 13: Lifetime by Patryk Majewski; Harlow First Time Live by Chloe Bridgen; First Time Live 2 in Luton by Chris Lennon. PAGE 16–17: Nicholas Collon by Jim Hinson / www.stantonmedia.com. PAGE 18: Aurora Orchestra ‘Pulse’ in Ashford by Lewis Brockway. PAGE 20: Shirebrook – A Living Heritage by Scott Chambers and Stuart Bruce; Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red by Alan Fletcher. PAGE 22: An Honourable Dispute by Alan Fletcher; Philharmonia in Rochford by Stuart Bruce. PAGE 23: Shruti Arts. PAGE 24–25: Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red by Alan Fletcher. PAGE 27: Academy of Ancient Music by Sim Cannetty-Clark. PAGE 28: Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red by Alan Fletcher; First Time Live 2 in Luton by Chris Lennon. PAGE 29: Stuart Bruce by Paul Coghlin; Flutter and Fly by Alan Fletcher. PAGE 31: Aurora Orchestra ‘Pulse’ in Ashford by Lewis Brockway. PAGE 35: Mahan Esfahani by Bernhard Musil/DG.

Design: Danielle Barnes

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