Monthly Archives: July 2011

Nigel Morgan has finished the initial ‘meet the composer’ workshops with six local ensembles for the Shoals element of Sounding the Deep. You can read all about the workshops on the blog, and download the accompanying materials on the educational resources page.

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This was the third ‘meet the composer’ workshop held as an introduction to my work on Sounding the Deep for Hull Philharmonic Orchestra. The ensemble participating was the Lincolnshire Youth Cello Ensemble, all of 34 cellos plus 2 staff. We met on a very warm Sunday morning in a large rehearsal studio at Lincoln Music [...]

I can’t think there can be many music centres for student musicians situated in the middle of a shopping centre. It was my first visit to Hull’s Albemarle Centre and it felt slightly surreal. Surreal but nice! Greeted by Hull Music Service director Chris Maynard (whose horn playing son I was to meet a little [...]

Welcome to the new Sounding the Deep website, the primary resource and news point for everything to do with this exciting project. Have a look around the site and feel free to comment on any of the blog posts, news items and pages. Also, check out the ever growing Educational resource page for music files, [...]

The only thing I know about Louth is that it is the hometown of one of the legends of song writing, the brilliant Robert Wyatt. I’d never been there so I was surprised at what an interesting place it was. There’s a huge parish church whose spire dominates the town and lots of 18C buildings. [...]