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The People's Orchestra
Based In West Bromwich, The People's Orchestra is supported by the Arts Council of England. Charity Number 1151321.

About
The People’s Orchestra was created as a project by the social enterprise The Change Consortium, supported by a grant of £10,000 from Arts Council of England.

The People’s Orchestra was established to fill a gap which exists in the lack of opportunities to play orchestral music for accomplished musicians who had left education and were not intending to become professional musicians. Set up as a community interest project with the aid of a development grant from the Arts Council by The Change Consortium in 2012, a team of volunteers lead by Andy Sinclair the project was developed with a revised branding, marketing and funding model.

The primary objective of The People’s Orchestra is to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education, and appreciation of the arts and music including public concerts, recitals and maintenance of musical ensembles.

The People’s Orchestra is unique due to its core values of opening up access to all talented musicians and it’s flexibility in working around the individual orchestra’s members, work and personal commitments. It does not have a fixed size or a set number of instruments but expands and adapts based on the availability of its members. This places challenges on the orchestra both in terms of preparing scores that are flexible and can sound fantastic irrespective of the musicians attending and on the musicians who are required to play often in very creative circumstances.

The organisations model of using a number of volunteer placements creates further opportunities for arts managers and administrators to get involved in a live orchestra and gain important experience of all aspects of orchestra life. This strengthens their CVs and opens doors to further employment opportunities.

The charity also seeks to create a number of legacies though the creation of new compositions, licensing and the capture of performances, which can be released on a number of digital formats and media platforms.

The evidence base relating to the positive effects of music making and musical education have grown exponentially. Working alongside our partners, The People’s Orchestra is helping to change the landscape of amateur music making in the Midlands as academic institutions, government departments and a range of researchers around the world publish studies showing how music can transform lives.

History
The Peoples Orchestra launched in March 2012 with an impromptu street performance followed up with a press event hosted by Amey PLC in Birmingham, UK. Reviewed as a ‘stunning debut concert’ by the Express and Star and reaching more than 500,000 people, The Peoples Orchestra has gone from strength to strength, and after the initial launch period were booked to play in Birmingham’s prestigious Symphony Hall by local radio team, BBC WM. In the first six weeks the orchestra played live to over 2000 people and reached a similar number online.

In it is first year The Peoples Orchestra had enabled over 200 musicians to perform live, created work experience opportunities for almost 60 unemployed people with 45 gaining paid employment, helped create 4 new works and compositions, created a musical instrument bank and put together a music library with over 180 pieces.

On 21st March 2013 The Peoples Orchestra became a charitable incorporated organisation, Charity Number 1151321.

From this strong first year The Peoples Orchestra continued build upon it’s successes and continued to enthral the public with it’s original take on orchestral music

Kickstarter
In September 2014, The People's Orchestra launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowd fund a new musical score by the Emmy award winner, John Altman. The piece is to be set to The Snowman and will played at the upcoming, The People's Orchestra present The Snowman at Malvern Theatres, Malvern, UK.

For the launch of the campaign, John Altman came to meet the orchestra to hear them rehearse and commented on how well the played a piece from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, saying they had played it better than the original orchestra.

The campaign is set to last for 30 days will draw to a close on Wednesday 22nd October at 12pm GMT and features many rewards including screen saver thanks you, personalised first editon musical scores, dinner with John Altman and a pop up orchestra at any UK address.

2012

 * April 26th: Street performance in Birmingham UK, with press launch at Amey offices
 * May: Auditions start
 * September: Rehearsals start
 * November 4th: Trailers at Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, UK
 * December 6th: BBC Radio WM Ed Dolan Christmas Show, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK
 * December 15th: Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, street performance, Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK

2013

 * March 23rd: Christmas Carols by Candlelight, Runis, Priory Park, Dudley, UK
 * March 23rd: First Birthday Concert, The Public, West Bromwich, UK
 * April 13th: Rotary President Dinner, Handsworth Rotary Club, Birmingham, UK
 * June 8th: Sporting Classics, The Public, West Bromwich, UK
 * September 21st: Goes to War, West Bromwich Town Hall, West Bromwich, UK
 * December 8th: The Snowman and Christmas Music by Candlelight, Malvern Theatres, Malvern, UK
 * December 17th: Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug, street performance, Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK

2014

 * February 15th: The Love Concert, Leamington Spa Town Hall, Leamington Spa, UK
 * April 6th: Second Birthday Concert, West Bromwich Town Hall, West Bromwich, UK
 * June 21st: Flute Choir, Priory Park, Dudley, UK
 * June 22nd: Film Greats Concert, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, UK
 * September 26th: Pride of Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, UK

2014

 * October 19th: Fright Night, West Bromwich Town Hall, West Bromwich, UK
 * December 7th: The Snowman, Malvern Theatres, Malvern, UK
 * December 7th: Christmas Music by Candlelight, Malvern Theatres, Malvern, UK
 * December 12th: Hobbit, The battle of the Five Armies, street performance, Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK

2015

 * January 17th, Winter Ball, Great Hall, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK