Tinderbox Orchestra Upcoming Events

Tinderbox Orchestra Summer Term 2012 - plus choir!!

22nd April - 23rd June
Perform at the Queens Hall and Usher Hall!

AUDITIONS 31st March, 1st April, 14th April
Contact admin@tinderboxproject.co.uk

The Tinderbox Orchestra are recruiting young musicians for their summer course! They will be playing their biggest performances yet at the Queens Hall and at the Usher Hall , where His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be speaking. Internationally renowned composer, Professor Nigel Osborne (MBE) will be their composer in residence for this course and will work with the orchestra and choir to produce a new and inspiring original composition on the theme of conflict resolution.

Book in for an audition now!
Contact us at admin@tinderboxproject.co.uk, tel: 07989563358

To take part you must be:
13 - 22 years old
Grade 5 standard or above
All instruments and singers welcome

For more information about the Summer Course 2012 click here
To see the tutors and collaborators involved in the project click here
See a short video about the Tinderbox Orchestra click here

A limited number of Trainee Tutor posts are available for graduates and professional musicians keen to gain teaching experience working with an orchestra click here

Press

"Edinburgh's experimental youth orchestra is evolving: Tutors from across Edinburgh's wide-ranging music scene have helped young musicians to grow into a spectacular modern band"... Guardian. Read more here

"Tinderbox Sparks an Orchestral Revolution"... Edinburgh Evening News. Read more here

"If this is the level of performance the Tinderbox Orchestra can create after only 10 weeks in existence, I predict bright and glittering delights on Edinburgh's musical horizon"... Guardian. Read more here

"Edinburgh's contemporary youth orchestra avoids the classical repertoire and sticks instead to pieces by Bjork, Hendrix and Radiohead, as well as writing and arranging its own work – highly unusual behaviour for any orchestra, let alone one made of people between the ages of 13 and 21"... The List. Read more here

Tinderbox Project

The Tinderbox Project aims to inspire and educate young people in the contemporary arts, and to involve them in the exciting scene of bands, musicians and other artists and events taking place in Edinburgh and Scotland.

The Tinderbox Orchestra is the main hub of this project. The goal is to be as creative and ambitious as possible with an orchestra. We play original compositions, collaborate with top local bands, and play modern styles of music that are meaningful and inspiring to this generaton of young people. The orchestra consists of a mix of traditional instruments and modern instruments, such as drum-kits, saxophones and electronic instruments, and it is open to young people between 13 and 22 years old.

The tutors come from a wide range of musical backgrounds, including jazz, rock, classical, folk and electronic music. They are all active musicians and represent a diverse spread of the local band scene in Edinburgh with players from the Hidden Orchestra, Black Diamond Express, the Horndog Brass Band, Orchestra del Sol, Digital Jones, Lypsinc for a Lullaby, Black Cat and others. Several tutors also play for prestigious orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

See a short video about the Tinderbox Orchestra here

See the tutors, bands, artists and other collaborators involved in this project here

Read an article in the Guardian online about the project and its ambitions here

Previous Events

Sun 25th March: Tinderbox Concert: Tinderbox Orchestra, Anchorsong, Conquering Animal Sound

Teviot Debating Hall
The culmination of a 10 week course exploring electronic music with an orchestra, the Tinderbox Orchestra will be performing a whole new set of original arrangements and compositions, as well as collaborating with Glasgow-based electronica duo Conquering Animal Sound, and London producer and live solo act Anchorshong. Join us for an evening of electronic music and orchestral adventure!

10th Dec 2011: Orchestral Flash Mob at Edinburgh Markets Christmas Market (www.edinburghmarkets.co.uk)
Music will explode from the stalls as musicians hide between the soap bars, behind hot cider taps and wrapped in handmade shawls. The orchestral ambush will be open to everyone - any instrument, age or ability. Dust down your trumpets, tune up your triangles and join the Tinderbox orchestra in whipping up some festive orchestral cheer!

Meeting at 12.45pm, outside St. Mary's church by the market (corner of York Place & Leith street, near the top of Broughton St.). Bring your instrument, a music stand and some woollies! Music will be provided.

July 2nd: The Garden Party at Kelburn Castle music festival
We are extremely excited to be playing at our first ever music festival this summer. It couldn't be a better end to Tinderbox's first year and it couldn't be a better festival for it. Set amongst beautiful forests, waterfalls, an amazing graffitied castle, and a fantastic line-up of bands, we cannot wait to play here. Hope to see you there. (www.kelburngardenparty.com)

Friday June 24th, 8.30pm: Tentracks Music Pictures @ Teviot House.
Tinderbox is one of 10 bands to be collaborating with a pool of local film makers for this experimental film and music project at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Click here for EIFF listing
Click here for preview of the event in the Guardian

Sunday June 19th, 11.30am: St James Shopping Mall Orchestral Flash Mob!!
Shhh! Keep it quiet but we plan to surprise sunday shoppers with an orchestral procession through the St. James Shopping Mall on Leith Street. With a space as big and varied as this, and with an orchestra's worth of instruments, expect surprises and beware of musicians round every corner and down every escalator!!! After the procession we will be performing a short gig outside the main entrance on Leith Street. It is a fundraising event for the project and a fun-filled wee orchestral adventure! Come and support and join the fun!

Donations

If you would like to make a donation to the Tinderbox project, you can do so via paypal by clicking the button below, or by sending cash or check (made payable to "Tinderbox Project") to the address below.

Tinderbox is currently a voluntary, constituted association and in the process of becoming a charity. Any donations are hugely appreciated and contribute enormoursly to the running of the project.

Please send cash or cheques to the following address:

Tinderbox Project,
64/1 Broughton Street,
Edinburgh EH1 3SA

Please make cheques payable to "Tinderbox Project".
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