ART IN THE COMMUNITY

ART IN THE COMMUNITY

Manchester Camerata Season 2024/24

previewed by Norman Warwick

He is one of the UK´s foremost fiddle players and when Donald Grant makes his debut performance with Manchester Camerata, it will be in a concert showcasing contemporary and traditional Scottish music, alongside his own arrangements of Gaelic songs.

Donald and his quartet members (left) celebrated the lifting of Covid lockdowns with a series of concerts and he is now looking forward to a special event working with Manchester Camerata

The event is intriguingly called The Night Overtook Us and will held at Royal Northern College of Music on 24^th November.

Manchester Camerata celebrates the return to Manchester of composer Daniel Kidane, in a performance with Daniel Pioro and the acclaimed violinist Jonias Ilias Kadesha at The University of Manchester on 29^th November.

The Camerata then returns to Wigmore Hall in London, with a programme of Bach and Kidane´s own music, performed with harpsichordist Mahan  Esfahani on 30^th November.

The Orchestra has previously commissioned several pieces composed by Daniel Kidane,  most recently the thought-provking pandemic-era composition, Be Still.

Meanwhile Manchester Camerata continues its industry-leading community work throughout the 2024/25 season, serving local residents in Gorton, home of The Monastery as well as across the Greater Manchester Boroughs. 

The effectiveness of such work is surely verified by Greater Manchester recently being named as the UK´s first ever centre of excellence for Music And Dementia, hosted by Mancester Camerata.

This will see the Camerata´s weekly music cafes, where orchestral musicians employ music–therapy based techniques, to improve the lives of not only those suffering from dementia but also the lives of their carers.

Such events are now to be expanded from their current schedules in Gorton and Wigan into all the boroughs of Greater Manchester.

In partnership with the University of Manchester and the Power Of Muisc Fund, inspired by the National Academy For Social Prescribing the aims of the initiative are to improve people´s lives and to reduce the strain on the NHS.