NIGHT SHIFT - sinfonia ViVA: Residency in Derby

A collaborative instrumental project

Wednesday 9th March 2011 at 7.00pm
Assembly Rooms, Derby
Tickets: £6.00, £3.50 Concessions, £10.00 Family ticket
Box Office: Derby LIVE on 01332 255800

Exciting... Engrossing... Energising... An event bringing together the very best of Derby's professional and non-professional musicians in a unique shared performance.

NIGHT SHIFT - a brand new piece of music and animation inspired by a night time journey around Derby which has been created for, with and by young people from across Derby with sinfonia ViVA's Composer in the House Anna Meredith and animator Eleanor Meredith.

Participants from Lawn Primary School, Walter Evans Primary School, Woodlands Community School and Derby College have worked with a sinfonia ViVA team - led by workshop leader James Redwood and including Anna and Eleanor Meredith - to create original compositions, artwork and animations to form part of this striking performance. In this concert, led by sinfonia ViVA's Principal Conductor André de Ridder, the participants will perform their new works alongside sinfonia ViVA.

NIGHT SHIFT is the highlight of a sinfonia ViVA programme which also features Copland Quiet City and Debussy Nocturnes.

"Once again workshop leader James Redwood was a tower of strength, encouraging some remarkable results from the young people." - Mike Wheeler

Watch a trailer for the project on our You Tube channel.

This project has been supported by Rolls-Royce plc, The John Ellerman Foundation, Be Inspiring Fund, Derby City Partnership, Derby City Council, Orchestras Live, D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Derby LIVE, sinfonia ViVA and Arts Council England. Composer in the House is a Royal Philharmonic Society and PRS for Music Foundation initiative.