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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 [...]

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. [...]

The workshop programme for the Shoals part of Hull Philharmonic’s Sounding the Deep project started with two of the six selected groups coming together for late afternoon sessions at the Hexagon in Beverley. I just made it through the difficult afternoon traffic to meet ten young string players – two string quartets and 2 double [...]