Performed in 2013 – music, visual art and sign language. I can only imagine sounds since I was never born with any natural hearing.
Category: Performances
The Ukrainian Musical Box
A Christmas special! Story telling beautifully created and told by 10 year old Amber, played on the piano by 10 year old son Harry. Both children are deaf. Supported and edited by Drip Media Music composed by Ruth Montgomery Dec 2019. Best wishes for the New Year.
Mission to Launch! With The City of London Sinfonia Orchestra
As the doors opened to communities across market towns the length and breadth of Essex and Suffolk during October half-term week; many children, babies, parents and carers sat on the colourful mats, cushions and chairs to settle down for the “Mission to Launch” performances by the City of London Sinfonia as part of their Lullaby…
Audiovisability The Unheard World review:
Visual Vernacular and Music
I asked Douglas Ridloff who is a founder and director of ASL Slam (American Sign Language) to come up with a minute’s story using visual vernacular about the Solider and the fly. While the solider is doing a very serious job of marching away, a fly comes in causing nuisance. Visual vernacular is a…
The FORTE Ensemble
It was a honour to be involved with Music and the Deaf’s pilot project funded by Arts Council England on tour with other deaf musicians – Eloise Garland (Voice), Sean Chandler (Cornet) and Danny Lane (Piano). We performed at the House of Lords for Decibel’s Year of Sound, then up to Newcastle at the Sage,…
Amazing Budapest
It was a honour to be invited to perform on my flute at the ‘World Music Day’ in Budapest, Hungary and also to meet 15 talented young musicians and staff involved in the concert in their music project entitled “Tuned to Each Other”. The concert was held on the 1st October 2015 in the evening…
Festival Clin d’Oeil, France
Attracting more than 4,000 festival goers from all over the world, attendees including myself travelled to the Clin d’Oeil which is the largest Deaf festival in Europe celebrating the richness and diversity of the arts in Deaf Culture held on the 2nd – 5th July 2015 in Reims, France. Browsing through the exciting festival brochure,…
Raising the Bar
Sunday 24th and Monday 25th May 2015 saw the first ever ‘Raising the Bar’ event held at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (REP) for young deaf people with exceptional skills in music and dance. A huge nationwide competition was held to select participants. Six musicians and six dancers between 8 – 16 years old were chosen…
Silent Night with Nadia Nadarajah
This song was first performed on Christmas Eve in 1818 in German (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) and is now translated into more than 300 different languages around the world with billions of hits on YouTube. I started wondering about the music working together with British Sign Language (BSL) in its highly stylised art form. As…