Experience

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  All In Sound

  • United Kingdom
  • Musicians
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Music Leader

    • Feb 2018 - Present

    Leading weekly singing and music-making sessions for people living with dementia, memory loss and their carers. The project is called Sing! Together and is managed by Registered Charity All In Sound.

  • Founder and Director

    • Sep 2017 - Present

    All In Sound is a registered charity (CIO) initiated by Kathryn, realising her dream to start a music-focused charity. #health #arts #wellbeingSing! Together, which started in April 2018, is deemed a huge success providing weekly singing and music-making sessions for people living with dementia, memory loss and their carers. New groups are starting in Soham and Cambridge in 2024, with the Cambridge group working with a local school to provide an intergenerational element to the programme.Due the success of our online sessions in the pandemic we were commissioned by Dementia Pathfinders to run online sessions for people in Sandwell, with a training element for Dementia Navigators in the local area, and another group for the membership of Christians On Ageing. All sessions were led by Kathryn.Prior to March 2020 we ran “Music and Memories” in local care homes for residents, their carers and families with young children. These music sessions were interactive and creative with a focus on intergenerational collaboration and all the benefits that brings. All sessions were led by Kathryn.

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  Sing! Choirs

  • Founder and Director

    • Sep 2011 - Present

    Sing! Choirs is an initiative of Kathryn and provides opportunity for people to sing in a choir regardless of their experience. Kathryn directs the choirs which range in size from 40 to 100 members. Kathryn aspires to provide exciting and interesting opportunities for choir members which range from a day spent recording at Abbey Road Studios (see You Tube link) to singing in a Red Cross Retirement Home when on tour in France. Sing! Choirs Workplace Programme provides opportunity for team-building at work, and can be completely tailored to the needs of your company - need a performance for a special event? Need some inspirational team-building events? Contact Kathryn for more details. Sing! Choirs has toured abroad twice (2016 and 2018) touring to cities twinned with their locations, and collaborating with local choirs in each place - a true twinning and cultural exchange on both occasions.Fundraising is a key activity for the choirs and they have raised over £50,000 for local charities including Addenbrookes Hospital, All In Sound, East Anglian Air Ambulance and Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.Each choir has a real mix of members in both age and musical experience.Sing! Choirs sings songs from the shows, pop and rock music, and is led in a fun and friendly environment.Sing! Choirs are for adults, and each week over 200 people come along and sing.

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  Freelance

  • Creative Music Leader and Participatory Arts Project Manager

    • Nov 2005 - Present

    As a workshop leader I have led workshops for:All In Sound London Philharmonic OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic OrchestraPhilharmonia OrchestraCambridge Music FestivalBritten SinfoniaVital CommunitiesCB4 Schools Cluster, Cambridge As a freelance project manager I have worked for:Southbank CentreTrinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and DanceRoyal Philharmonic OrchestraWigmore HallArts Development in East Cambridgeshire

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  Music to Grow to

  • Director

    • Nov 2005 - Present

    Music to Grow to provides high quality music-making opportunities for young children from birth. Kathryn is a sought after early years music deliverer, and received "Outstanding" for her teaching from Ofsted. She also develops training and development programmes for settings.

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  Shooting Stars Chase

  • Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice - Guildford

  • Freelance Musician

    • Aug 2012 - Dec 2019
    • Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice - Guildford

    As a freelance musician I work on a 6 day residency in this children's hospice alongside other professional musicians. We work with young people who have lost a sibling helping them to develop music and songs about their sibling.We also work with children and young people who are life limited helping them to create music, as well as working with some who had written their own compositions.This is an annual project.

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  Academy of Ancient Music

  • Head of Participation & Learning

    • Nov 2016 - Apr 2017

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  Arts Development in East Cambridgeshire

  • Freelance Project Manager including "Spirit of Song"

    • Oct 2014 - Apr 2016

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  Cambridge Schools Cluster

  • Cambridge

  • We Sing! Project - Singing Workshop Facilitator

    • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
    • Cambridge

    We! Sing is a singing project for schools in the CB4 Cluster in Cambridge. Kathryn will be working alongside fellow Workshop Facilitator Jason Rowland, with the 14 schools on a singing project that will encourage and develop more singing in schools, as well as working with teachers in the schools to support their skill development. There will also be a new song written with contributions from all the schools that will be sung at a day when they all come together.This project will work with nursery schools, primary and secondary and also a special school and will run for the whole of 2014.Press Coverage from the workshops from January to April 2014:http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Youngsters-from-Cambridge-schools-across-Chesterton-Kings-Hedges-and-Arbury-record-their-own-song-20140409090433.htm

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  Essex County Council

  • Music Workshop Facilitator

    • Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

    I am working as a Music Workshop Facilitator making weekly visits to early years settings in Basildon as part of the Youth Music funded Natter & Clatter Project. This work is focussing on settings that have children with additional needs in terms of their language and communication. In addition, the early years practitioners in each setting are being encouraged to develop their music activity through actively participating in the sessions, and working with me to develop ideas.

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  Southbank Centre

  • Freelance Project Manager

    • Jun 2012 - Jul 2012

    Worked as a freelance Project Manager for "The Giant Orchestra" which brought together over 200 musicians from London, and further afield, for a performance of Mars from The Planets, alongside The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra during the Sounds Venezuela Festival.

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  Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

  • Freelance Learning & Participation Project Manager

    • Sep 2011 - Jul 2012

    I worked as a freelance Project Manager as part of a team for Surrogate Cities EXPLODED! and Creative Cities. These are two linked projects, inspired by Heiner Goebbels' work Surrogate Cities. Combining Trinity Laban students, professional artists and members of the local community, a programme of creative music and dance activities will lead to performances in Canary Wharf in February 2012 and Southbank Centre in March 2012 as part of the BBC's Music Nation weekend of music.Once BBC Music Nation project has been completed Trintiy Laban I continued to work on a freelance basis project managing their programme called Get Your Act Together which involved working with young people on the Isle of Dogs.

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  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Freelance Project Manager

    • Sep 2010 - May 2011

    I managed the culmination of the year long programme "Count Us In" in Hertfordshire involving a large-scale production with 200 participants, and managed the Thurrock Excellence Cluster project which involved masterclasses, presentations and creative workshops culminating in a performance in April 2011.

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  Wigmore Hall

  • Project Manager Music for Life

    • Nov 2008 - Aug 2010

    I was project manager for Music for Life at Wigmore Hall, a high quality music project working with people who live with dementia. This also included the management of a high profile launch at Wigmore Hall for 500 VIP's when the hall officially took on the programme of work.

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  Britten Sinfonia

  • Community & Education Director

    • Nov 2000 - Aug 2005

    I managed the Community & Education programme for Britten Sinfonia, initiating partnerships and raising funds for long term and innovative programmes that ranged from working in Addenbrookes Hospital to Norwich Prison; to local primary schools and adults with learning disabilities.

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  Philharmonia Orchestra

  • Community & Education Co-ordinator

    • Jan 1997 - Nov 2000

    Working alongside the Community & Education Manager to develop and implement the Community & Education Programme.

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  Leicestershire Arts in Education

  • Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

  • Peripatetic Flute Teacher

    • Sep 1996 - Jan 1997
    • Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom