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The New London Orchestra: in partnership with
UCL
New London Orchestra: excelling in concerts,
music education, corporate events, corporate training and business
development
The New London Orchestra, UCL (University College London) and
the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre launched a ground-breaking three-way
partnership in December 2001.
The position of UCL as a world-leading centre
for academic studies and research, especially in Medicine and
the Humanities, and
as a university without a music department, makes it an ideal
institution for a collaboration with one of London’s most
adventurous performing arts organisations.
- President and Provost of UCL, Professor Malcolm Grant CBE,
became a Patron of the New London Orchestra in September 2004.
- The New London Orchestra is the resident orchestra at the
UCL Bloomsbury Theatre and stages an annual interdisciplinary
festival there.
- The Orchestra provided all the music for the UCL Graduations
Ceremonies in 2005, and will do so again in 2006 and beyond.
It has also supplied musicians for a variety of corporate and
hospitality events at UCL and for Friends Programme events.
- Some successful collaborations between the
Orchestra and the Bloomsbury theatre took place with local
schools and community
groups – see Archive.
- Research Projects
The Orchestra is a resource of professional performing musicians
which can be used for the exploration of other, non-musical,
areas. Various small-scale research projects and experiments
have taken place with UCL academics.
Launch Concert: December 2001
The partnership was launched at a high profile concert in December 2001 which
featured the first UK performance since 1938 of the Military Sinfonietta
by Kapralova, as well as more familiar works, thus a typical example of the
New London Orchestra’s imaginative and unusual programming.
Music and the Mind’ Festival, 27-30
April 2003 : Patron: Baroness Greenfield
The culmination of the first major creative and research project
involving the Orchestra and UCL. The festival explored many aspects
of music and its relationship with the brain, mental health,
learning and psychology. For more information see the Archive
section.
Bloomsbury – A Celebration, June
2004
This festival marked one hundred years since the formation of
the Bloomsbury Set. For more information see
the Archive section.
Musc and the Mind 2. More
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11 December, 2006
by New London
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