"Thank you for a wonderful evening and for enriching
the cultural 'offer' of East Anglia"
Anne Seex, Chief Executive Officer, Norwich City Council (2001)
10th May 2008: Launch of East Anglia's first Junior Academy of Music
In partnership with UEA School of Music, we are expanding our Young Musicians Scheme to establish a fully-fledged Junior Academy of Music to develop the individual musical skills and advanced orchestral skills of our brightest and most promising young musicians (aged 11 to 25 years).
If you are interested in the UEA Junior Academy of Music and participating in the pilot programme, please read and complete the form in the
flyer here (click to open PDF file).
7th October 2007: Chamber Orchestra Anglia is pleased to annouce its new position as resident orchestra for the University of East Anglia. Together we will continue to endeavor to Do Different!
Our guiding ambition is to bring classical music to a
broad audience that is ready to be challenged and to
embrace new musical experiences. In doing this we
will complement and enrich the existing musical
excellence in the region.
We aim to make inspiring
music, to create new links and relationships with
other art forms and scientific disciplines and, as befits
an orchestra associated with the University of East
Anglia, to explore new ideas in music and beyond.
We intend, as the University’s motto says, to
‘do different’.
Our founding in 2001 marked the first time in
the UK that a professional orchestra has been created
through the initiative of a university. Since then,
Chamber Orchestra Anglia has built an enthusiastic
following, taken newly commissioned and established
works to audiences in London and the East of
England, and won a deserved reputation for bold,
imaginative programming.
As it comes of age, the Orchestra is ready to move to
the next stage of its development. We intend to take
our programmes to audiences across the whole
region, giving people greater access to live orchestral
music of the highest quality. We are building on our
international connections, and will be developing
relationships with festivals, composers and promoters
in order to expand our programme significantly in the
years ahead. The Orchestra and the COA Ensemble
will gain a higher profile as they perform their music
for new audiences, in new places, in new ways.
We also want to expand and develop new strands for
our education activities, nurturing the musicians of the
future by creating world-class opportunities for the
children of the region. In 2005, for example, we
collaborated with our patron, Sir Colin Davis, to hold
an enormously successful orchestral workshop for
talented young musicians. In early 2006 we held a
similar event with distinguished Czech conductor Jiri
Belohlavek. Sir Colin returns next year to lead another
workshop as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
For Chamber Orchestra Anglia, and for our clients,
audiences and young musicians, these are exciting
times.
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