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23 November 04 The results of the award-winning young composer initiative Sound Inventors' first visit to Scotland are to be performed at a showcase on 4 December at The Townhouse, Inverness (7.30pm). Highly acclaimed Scottish composer Alasdair Nicolson is the initiative's Creative Director and is thrilled that what has become a key music education initiative across the UK has been able to reach his home town of Inverness. Sound Inventors is open to anyone aged between 12 and 18 years. Over 20 young musicians are taking part in this exciting project, including 16 year old Howard Cox who has made special trips from the Western Isles to take part. Howard, who attends Lionacleat Community School, was also part of the BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competition. Other schools represented include Grantown Grammar, Golspie High School, Fortrose Academy (alma mater of Alasdair Nicolson), Nairn Academy (7), Alness Academy, Glenurquhart High School, and five from Culloden Academy where the project took place. Having won the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious award for Education in 2003, Sound Inventors celebrates its second phase with several exciting new initiatives for young composers aged between 12 and 18. Building on its previous success Sound Inventors has now introduced projects to Scotland in 2004 which has special significance for its Creative Director and Inverness born composer Alasdair Nicolson. The largest and most broad-based composition initiative of its kind, Sound Inventors enables young people from all backgrounds and abilities to experience the composition writing process, from blank page to recording and performance, aided by Sound Inventors creative teams made up of professional lead composers and musicians. All Sound Inventors projects are free of charge to participants. Alasdair Nicolson was born in Inverness and brought up on the Isle of Skye and the Black Isle. He studied at Edinburgh University and later became Shaw McFie Lang Fellow. He has written music for many leading musicians, orchestras and ensembles in the UK and abroad. In 1993 his Cradle Song of the Disappeared was chosen to represent Scotland at the International Music Forum in Kiev and he was also awarded the IBM Composer's Prize for his work The Tree of Strings. The project in Inverness has three parts and started with a week of composition workshops from 18 to 22 October 2004 at Culloden Academy, Inverness. Led by a creative team of established professional composers and musicians including Scottish composer Bill Sweeney, participants were given an introduction to compositional techniques. They also received assistance in getting ideas on paper and the opportunity to have their music and ideas played by a team of professional musicians. Each participant also received a Composition Kit put together by Sound Inventors Creative Director Alasdair Nicolson for use as an invaluable resource and tool both during the Sound Inventors project and afterwards. The second part of the project comprised composition surgeries that took place on 13 and 14 November 2004. Surgeries are an opportunity to refine and rework previous compositions in time for a showcase performance on 4 December at The Townhouse, Inverness. The performance will be professionally recorded and participants will each receive a CD of their own work. Sound Inventors Scotland was available at Level 1 for those with little or no experience of composition. Sound Inventors is a Youth Music Initiative, devised and delivered by the spnm with partnership funds from the PRS Foundation. More information on Sound Inventors is available at www.soundinventors.org.uk
Comments from previous Sound Inventors participants: "Sound Inventors is giving young people a chance to be real composers - to be creative, get their ideas down and then to hear real musicians play them while they sit back and listen to the results." Alasdair Nicolson, Sound Inventors Creative Director "Sound Inventors is an excellent opportunity for young people to work alongside professional composers and musicians and to experience the challenge of writing and hearing their own music for the first time. We hope that Sound Inventors will inspire its participants to get more involved with composition and nurture our future composers." Abigail Pogson, spnm Executive Director "Further to the success of Sound Inventors 1, the PRS Foundation is pleased to support the next phase of Sound Inventors to give children in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the chance to unleash their creativity and experience the satisfaction of writing their own new music". David Francis, PRS Foundation for new music
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