Community Outreach: Community projects
Improving accessibility and wellness.
Marcio’s aim is to champion early music and make it accessible. He is keen to work within this local community in the south-east and give exciting, challenging, and high-quality musical opportunities to both early career professionals and enthusiastic amateurs.
2023 will see a series of new projects run by Marcio and Helen using EO Company soloists and Ensemble OrQuesta Baroque. In January and February EO will lead an inclusive all-age community project based on Cavalli's Musiche Sacre - 'Music from a time of Plague'.
There is no doubt that singing workshops and performance opportunities will help both child and adult participants who are struggling with an increase in emotional problems, including anxiety in the face of disruption and uncertainty, loneliness, and depression following the pandemic and during the current economic turbulence, as well as any decrease in self-confidence and self-esteem due to reduced interactions following restrictions, school closures, job losses, home-working, and social hardship.
Having had an engaging community experience, Marcio hopes that participants will return for future projects.
Cavalli’s ‘Musiche Sacre’
This project will include interactive singing workshops and performance opportunities for both children and adult participants, alongside 8 young professional singers and a small ensemble of 7 specialist early musicians.
He has chosen the Musiche Sacre because it is an excellent introduction to baroque music for children and for adult amateurs, and a wonderful experience for young professional singers and early career specialist musicians to share. He aims to champion this music since it is so rarely performed.
The fact that Cavalli’s ‘Musiche Sacre’ is sometimes named ‘Music in the time of plague’ gives it a certain poignancy. The variety within this collection also makes it ideal to explore with the combination of groups chosen – young early career professional singers, specialist early music instrumentalists, talented amateur adult singers and enthusiastic children.
Marcio is also preparing a new edition of the Musiche Sacre. This will be a multi-purpose and functional edition which also offers a sample realization of the continuo. This makes it easily accessible to the public. The edition will then be made available for free download.
Project outcomes and benefits.
The key outcomes of the project were to enable local children and adults to reap the emotional and social benefits of participating in workshops, rehearsals, and a concert performance, empowering them to develop self-confidence, make new connections, and take pride in collaborating. It was also about training eight early career professional singers to assist with workshops and to take lead roles in the project.
Our intention with these sessions and rehearsals is to support children and adults in developing communication skills through structured vocal techniques including breathing, diction, warm-ups, projection, posture, and performance. Activities will provide creative ways for the expression of emotions through workshop exercises, helping well-being by releasing tension and negative feelings. Working together collaboratively will also encourage teamwork and cohesion.
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