The St Marylebone CE School Specialisms Newsletter Spring 2011

Young Producers
The Young Producers project is a new initiative that has been set up this year by Wigmore Hall’s
Learning Department. The project aims to get young people involved in the planning, administration,
production, and promotion of a concert. Fifteen students from St. Marylebone Sixth Form have taken
up the challenge . . .
“The aim of the Young Producers project is to offer young people an
opportunity to devise a concert at Wigmore Hall completely under their
own terms, and further personal and professional aspirations through
involvement in project planning and engagement with professional artists
at a renowned venue.”
The students have been working alongside Julia Roderick, Learning
Producer at Wigmore Hall, having regular meetings to discuss the
event and the organisation. They are working towards producing a
concert which will be aimed at young people to inspire more
school students to attend classical music concerts. Students have
taken complete ownership of all artistic and business related issues
including liaising with artists, arranging publicity, and budgeting.
The concert the students have planned will feature Ignite, a chamber group of
professional musicians. The group will perform a variety of material for the
concert including classical pieces by Ravel and Mendelssohn as well as original
music devised especially for the Young Producers event. The performance will
also include a DJ set from DJ Etch-a-Sqratch as well as incorporating artistic
visuals. The subtitle of the concert is aptly named as ‘A Total Work Of Art’
covering all of the artistic elements which will be on display.
The students have been working hard to publicise the event: they have had an article
put in the Wood & Vale newspaper and have also been interviewed on BBC Radio 3: a
podcast of this interview can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmorehall-podcasts/young-producers.
There are also special flyers for the event which will be
distributed to students, parents, and staff at St Marylebone as well as in the local area.
The performance will take place on Friday 1st April at 5.30pm at the Wigmore Hall. Tickets are priced at £3
and can be bought from the Wigmore Hall Box Office on 0207 935 2141. All proceeds from the concert will
go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity which grants ‘wishes’ to children living with life threatening
illnesses, giving them the opportunity to enjoy an activity or event which they would otherwise not be
able to take part in. The Young Producers are aiming to sell out the venue in order to raise as much
money as possible for the charity.
The Young Producers project is supported by the John Lyon’s charity and the Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.