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Friday 18 November 2011 - Portrait of an Italian For this concert Manchester Camerata was joined by the internationally-renowned Italian cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima. A performer quite unlike any other, Giovanni Sollima has a rock musician's energy and directness of communication, and a musicality that sits happily across many genres. Watch |
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LEARNING: Urban Symphony 5 at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester A flavour of one special day in May at The Bridgewater Hall which saw groups of all ages and musical abilities to create a performance sinpired by the city and its people. Watch |
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MUSICIANS: A Day in the Life of a Camerata Musician Who are the Manchester Camerata musicians? and what do they get up to when they are not performing together in the concert hall? Meet a few of Camerata's talented musicians and find out how they spend their 'free' time. Watch |
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MUSICIANS: An Audience with Douglas Boyd |
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LEARNING: Chester's Urban Symphony Thursday 20 January 2011 saw the culmination of the Chester Urban Symphony project which brought together four schools from the city with a creative team from Camerata to create a new piece of work inspired by the architecture of Chester Cathedral. Watch |
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LEARNING: Ulverston's Urban Symphony Pupils from Croftlands Junior School work with a film maker, composer, and two musicians from Manchester Camerata to create a visual and musical response to the architecture of Ulverston's Coronation Hall. Watch |
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LEARNING: Blacon Early Years Project: Part 2 Musicians from Manchester Camerata worked with pre-school children in Chester to introduce them and their parents and carers to music and music making, using the Dalcroze method of finding musical expression through whole body movement. Watch |
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LEARNING: Blacon Early Years Project: Part 1 Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a powerful route towards developing deeper musicality and creative expression through whole body movement. In this film see how Manchester Camerata musicians are enhancing and enriching their teaching skills. Watch |
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LEARNING: Songbook of the Earth - Gala Performance Inspired by Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, hundreds of children from across the North West of England created a new song cycle which they performed with Manchester Camerata live on stage at the Bridgewater Hall in April 2010. Watch |
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DIGITAL: Greenpiece - Live Venetian Webcast Friday 2 October 2009 saw Manchester Camerata playing live with the Venetian Ensemble Ex Novo ina groundbreaking simulcast to the World Forum on Climate Change. Watch |
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LEARNING: Chester SEN Project Children from two schools in Chester worked together to present a high tech music and dance performanceusing the very latest technology. The youngsters came from Upton Heath Primary, and Dorin Park Specialist SEN College. Watch |
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LEARNING: Songbook of the Earth: Update 14 Primary Schools across Greater Manchester, The Wirral and Chester created a new song cycle inspired by Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde which was performed on Monday 19 April 2010. Watch |
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LEARNING: Writing on the Wall Manchester Camerata collaborated with a wall-writer and a video artist for a project inspired by Handel's Belshazzar. The Writing on the Wall project explored the nature of the wall as a dividing line between contemporary `high' western art and contemporary street culture. Watch |