OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
January 2012
Trainee secondary music teachers (PGCE students at Brookes’ School of Education) participated in a one-day Garsington Opera Education workshop exploring Offenbach’s La Périchole, in order to introduce them to the way we work in schools with students.
Working with director Karen Gillingham, composer Richard Taylor and mezzo-soprano Lilly Papaioannou (covering the role of Perichole this season), they composed, directed and performed their own versions of excerpts from the opera.
The students now have the opportunity to become assistants on other Garsington Opera projects.
“With really excellent facilitators, kids can in fact create really remarkable things” Rachel, PGCE student, Oxford Brookes University, 2011
January 2012
Trainee secondary music teachers (PGCE students at Brookes’ School of Education) participated in a one-day Garsington Opera Education workshop exploring Offenbach’s La Périchole, in order to introduce them to the way we work in schools with students.
Working with director Karen Gillingham, composer Richard Taylor and mezzo-soprano Lilly Papaioannou (covering the role of Perichole this season), they composed, directed and performed their own versions of excerpts from the opera.
The students now have the opportunity to become assistants on other Garsington Opera projects.
“With really excellent facilitators, kids can in fact create really remarkable things” Rachel, PGCE student, Oxford Brookes University, 2011
The Golden Fish
partnership with Oxford University
A ground-breaking Garsington Opera Education project came to fruition in January 2011 with two performances of a new opera The Golden Fish devised, composed and performed by Oxford University music students for an audience of Oxfordshire primary schools.
The opera was based on a Russian folktale and used themes that had been developed in workshops with the school children in the autumn term.
Pupils from Oakley, Beckley, Wolvercote and Ickford Primary Schools also took part in the performances having attended workshops earlier in the day.
partnership with Oxford University
A ground-breaking Garsington Opera Education project came to fruition in January 2011 with two performances of a new opera The Golden Fish devised, composed and performed by Oxford University music students for an audience of Oxfordshire primary schools.
The opera was based on a Russian folktale and used themes that had been developed in workshops with the school children in the autumn term.
Pupils from Oakley, Beckley, Wolvercote and Ickford Primary Schools also took part in the performances having attended workshops earlier in the day.
"It is incredibly liberating to create new work with and for audiences of children. This compels us to put aside a lot of assumptions and come up with direct, striking material that will excite and inspire young people.”
Martyn Harry, Composer and Oxford University lecturer
Martyn Harry, Composer and Oxford University lecturer
