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2010

The City Sings is a new commission for mac, the Birmingham arts centre. This long term project included a number of public events and culminates in a large-scale event to celebrate the centre's re-opening on May 3rd 2010 in Cannon Hill Park.The City Sings opened with a series of performances on the Bournville Carillon on the 1st and 4th August, 2009. This was followed by a 'flashmob' event in September 2009, during Artsfest and then a full orchestral performance in April 2010.

2009

FLAM came to Frome on Sunday 25th October 2009.  This was the West Country premiere of this wonderful virtuosic vocal work and was brought to Frome as part of Artmusic's 10th birthday event. Written by Orlando Gough and directed by Emma Bernard, it was brilliantly performed by Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew.

2008

Palace Intrusions was a new year-long public art project for Wells in Somerset and the surrounding area, curated by composer Helen Ottaway and performance artist Melanie Thompson. The project was launched in October 2007 and reached its grand finale in September 2008. The project website includes a comprehensive archive of all the events as well as a blog page for comments and discussion.

It's a String Thing! Reunion was held at St John's Church, Frome on Friday 28 September 2007. Players who took part in It's a String Thing! in March 2007 came together again to perform for an audience of first school students who are their first term of the Wider Opportunities Strings programme.  The event also launched JUMPS (Joined Up Music for People in Somerset) in Frome and East Somerset, introduced by Kathryn Deane of the National Community Music organisation Sound Sense, and a new Artmusic publication the Frome Music Map.  The Music Map is a resource for young musicians in the Frome Area, listing all categories of music provision including teachers, music groups and instrument makers.

2007

Thin Air, Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire.
Commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music in assocation with Oxford Playhouse and Dorchester Abbey, for Oxfordshire 2007 and Dorchester Festival.
www.ocmevents.org

2006

Thin Air, St John Maddermarket, Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
www.nnfestival.org.uk

2005

Thin Air, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Eire, presented by the Granary Theatre, UCC, Cork (part of the Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture).
www.cork2005.ie
www.granary.ie
www.cathedral.cork.anglican.org

2004

The Opera Room, Gallery, BAC, London (BAC Opera 2004)
The Opera Room, Gallery, Exeter Phoenix
www.bac.org.uk
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

2003

The Opera Room, Phillips Gallery, Taunton Brewhouse
The Opera Room, Rook Lane Arts, Frome (Frome Festival)
www.brewhouse-theatre.co.uk
www.fromefestival.co.uk

2002

Thin Air, Nave, transepts and choir, Southwell Minster (Nottinghamshire County Council, Music in Quiet Places)

2001

Lachrymae, Black Swan Arts, Frome (Frome Festival)
Round & Round, Medieval Hall, Salisbury (Salisbury Festival). Helen Ottaway - piano, Rachel Shipp - technician.

2000

Line Dances, The Arches, Glasgow (National Review of Live Art)
Lachrymae, Shave Farm, near Bruton, Somerset (Somerset Art Week)

1999

Thin Air, Eastern Roof Spaces, Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury Festival, Shape of the Century Sculpture exhibition)
Round & Round, Merlin Theatre, Frome. Helen Ottaway - piano, Claire England - technician.
Footprints, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Somerset