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About 200 Peckham schoolchildren are set to perform a specially-composed piece of music in the multi-storey car park off Rye Lane this June.
The unmissable event, which takes place on Friday June 20 at 7pm, will see kids from primary schools across Peckham perform a work for choir and orchestra, written by the award-winning composer Kate Whitley.
They will be accompanied by three local orchestras – the Lewisham Schools Sinfonia, Southwark Youth Orchestra and Peckham Chamber Orchestra – as well as Multi-Story Orchestra, which will then perform Sibelius’ Symphony no. 5.
Last week the 50-piece Multi-Story group toured 10 local schools in just two days, setting up in school halls and playgrounds to perform a half-hour concert at each one. They played music by Mozart, Benjamin Britten and John Adams.
The children, from schools including Harris Academy Peckham, John Donne Primary, Harris Primary Free School and St Thomas the Apostle, also learnt about orchestral instruments, including a harp, a contrabassoon, a tuba and percussion.
Feedback from children included: “The music was exciting – it was so loud and then so quiet.” Another pupil said: “I don’t normally like orchestra, but once it started playing I was listening and I enjoyed it.”
A third student added: “The best one was the tuba”; a fourth said: “It was the loudest I heard anything”; whilst a fifth added: “The guy at the front looked like he was getting tasered!”
The concert is the first in a series of summer performances by the Multi-Story Orchestra, which has performed at the multi-storey car park since 2011 and is part of the Bold Tendencies summer project.
Concerts this year range from Andriessen to Shostakovich. For a full listing of this year’s concerts and to book tickets (£5 each), visit http://www.multi-story.org.uk/
