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Bath Philharmonia has a proud record of education work during
recent seasons including working closely with Critchill Special
Needs School in Frome since 2002 on projects ranging from
The Carnival of the Animals (the invention of new animals
with Stephanie Cole), to involvement in a full scale childrens’
opera (The Cuckoo Tree). Later in 2007 Bath Philharmonia will
be involved in educational residencies in St Mawes Primary,
Gerrans Primary, Veryan Primary, Tregony Primary, Roseland
Community School, (Cornwall) and Colyton Grammar School (Devon).
Groups of musicians from the orchestra have played at Escol
House, (Residential Home) Portscatho and Churchill House (Mencap
Residential Care) in St Mawes
In March 2008, Bath Philharmonia will be sending its Music Director, Jason Thornton and another Educational specialist, Cor Anglais player Julie Payne, to Kaposvar, Hungary - one of Bath’s twin cities.
In this exciting new project, the educationalists will spend 5 days in the city, working with and learning from music teachers and students there, with the aim of producing a short compositional piece which will be performed at a short concert in the city. This will then be followed at a later date by a reciprocal visit to Bath from some of the Kaposvar students and their tutors.
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