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WITH MY SITE: Check out my photo pages for examples of my recent performances - most photos by Sean Kelly. RECENT ACTIVITIES: Summer 2009 Started rehearsing David Toop's new opera at Snape in Suffolk. three four-hour performances as part of Summer Dancing in Coventry (The Herbert Gallery) with Eva Karczag and Chris Crickmay Work with Hanna Gillgren who choreographed the third year students at The Place Spring 2009 work with Eva Karczag and Chris Crickmay at Laban, site specific durational performance. Worked with Heidi Rustgaard who choreographed the third year students at London Metropolitan University. Autumn 2009 Duo gig with Clive Bell in Poole Dorset in Nov. release of ACOUSTIC DREAM, (Clive Bell, Roberto Filoseta, Sylvia Hallett) UH Recordings Ltd Summer 08 I worked with Wonderful Beast (Aldeburgh) on the production "The Dead Moon" a tale of Suffolk Smugglers, which toured around Suffolk and Norfolk in June and July. International Workshop Festival, I co-led a workshop "Opening the Door" exploring the relationship between movement, breath, imagination and health. With Miranda Tufnell, Gill Clarke, and Chris Crickmay. I led workshops in live soundscaping at the North Wall Summer School for young drama students in Oxford in August. In July I worked with Ansuman Biswas at the National Theatre Studio : research and development on "Gilgamesh" directed by Jonathan Munby. Other gigs: Laburnum Street Party with cross dressed string quartet, Orchestra Pit with Mike Adcock, Mopomoso at the Vortex with ARC string Trio, Klinker gig and Montague Arms with Olympic Clampdown, Jazz Rumours with Susanna Ferrar and Rachel Gomme (dancer) Gigs with LaXula :Isle of Wight Bestival, Dortmund, Dranouter, Eklow, Larmer Tree, National Theatre (Watch this Space), Nuremberg, Caceres, Green Note, Wellingborough, Hanover, Brighton Komedia, Islington Academy. Spring 08 gigs with LaXula: Norwich, Nottingham, Madrid, Valladolid, RFH Ballroom, Crawley, Moonfest Morocco. Gigs with ARC string trio in Brighton (Safehouse) Boat-ting and Mopomoso Vortex, London. Gigs with London Improvisers Orchestra at the Amadeus Centre and HMS President. Solo gig at Klinker stage B (Maggies Bar), gig with Susannah Ferrar and Rachel Gomme at Boat-ting. Ongoing work with Wonderful Beast, and with the Open College of the Living Body (Miranda Tufnell and other dancers working in the field of health) Jan 08 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London, a gig with Susanna Ferrar (violin) and Rachel Gomme (dancer) Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec,2007 I performed in Lost Dog's choreography Before you can run for the dance company, From Here to Maturity, which I composed the music for. We toured round England, including Margate, Kendal and the Purcell Room London. LaXula gigs, included playing at the Round House, Thames festival, Trondheim, (Norway), Amsterdam and Den Hague (Netherlands), the Bagabond Boogaloo club in Dalston, and The Sage Newcastle upon Tyne I composed a sound score for St Edwards School in Oxford, production of Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. Directed by Lucy Maycock Performance installation at Dartington College of Arts Gallery space, with Eva Karczag, dancer, and Chris Crickmay, visual artist. August 07 played at Scheer Festival (South Germany) along with Clive Bell, Mike Adcock and Jochen Irmler (FAUST). Also worked with Ed Kemp and Lucy Maycock on a summer drama project at St Edwards school, Oxford July 07 Played with LaXula in Leuwen (Belgium), Danston Park, Brent Festival, Komedia (Brighton), Darbucka Bar, The Cross Kings, and WOMAD First performance of Before you can run choreographed by Lost Dog for the dance company From Here to Maturity. Solo gig at Laban Centre cafe. plus a set with Olympic Clampdown. Jun 07 Played with Olympic Clampdown at Camberwell Green festival. Gig with LaXula at Wychwood Festival (Cheltenham)and GLASTONBURY Festival. Zany cross-dressed violin quintet at the Vortex Klinker. May 07 gigs with LaXula at Barbican Foyer (World Music Awards), and Bath Fringe festival, with London Improvisers Orchestra at the Freedom of the City festival. Played with Olympic Clampdown at The Klinker Nunhead. Apr 07 gig with LaXula at Sadlers Wells (part of La Linea festival) and in a squat in Leytonstone. Cross-dressed violin quartet at the Klinker Nunhead. Mar 07 solo gig in Brighton for international women's week. took part in 2 performances commemorating the life of Paul Burwell Feb 07 4th Feb transmission of Two Men from Delft, radio drama by Stephen Wakelam, on Radio 3 . Directed by Jeremy Mortimer, music by Sylvia Hallett, bass viol played by Vanessa Coode. The play is about the use of lenses in the late 17th century, by the artist Vermeer and his friend Van Leuwenhoek who discovered the microscopic world of the "animalcules". played with The cross-dressed quartet at Boat ting (temple Pier, The Thames) - Hugh Metcalfe, Dylan Bates, Susannah Ferrar and myself all with our alter-egos on show playing violins. played in duo with Clive Bell as the Geographers, at Boat Ting Jan 07 duo gig with Clive Bell at the Safehouse, The Openhouse Pub, Springfield Road, Brighton) Nov/Dec 06 2 solo gigs (violin, voice, saw, bicycle wheel and electronics), one on Boat Ting (Temple Pier, the Thames), the other in All Frontiers Festival in Gradisca D'Isonzo (Italy) played with the London Improvisers Orchestra, both at the Red Rose and as part of the London Film Festival, accompanying the silent film "Theda" by Georgina Starr. Nov 05 till Nov 06 I played in and musically directed The RSC's production of Canterbury Tales, which opened December 05 in Stratford, toured round Britain, Washington D.C., Barcelona and Almagro and then played for 4 months in the West End at the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Music by Adrian Lee featuring some jolly medieval tunes. Sept 06 played with Clive Bell at the Red Rose, Finsbury Park, as part of a benefit for Lol Coxhill. May 06 played with Clive Bell and Roberto Filoseta in the Hertford University MAYFEST Feruary 06 solo gig at Boat Ting October 05 on tour in Southern Germany playing with Clive Bell, Mike Adcock, Mike Svoboda and Joachim Irmler (of FAUST) September 05 gig with Caroline Kraabel and Kay Grant... at the Red Rose,August 05 gig at the Klinker Nunhead, trio: Sylvia Hallett, Caroline Kraabel, Veryan Weston solo gig at the Vortex, opposite Veryan Weston and others ... July 05 Clive Bell and I played with Roberto Filoseta in the Santarcangelo festival in Italy. Sylvia Hallett and Hilary Jeffery (brilliant trombone) at The Klinker April 05 March 05 Feb 05 Dec 04 Nov 04
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