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Earlier this year the University of Aberdeen celebrated the world premiere of Song of the Ocean on World Ocean Day 2021 composed by Royal composer, Professor Paul Mealor.
Circular 1 Health’s Covid-19 tests that they ahve donated to concert halls in London and Manchester is helping towards the return of music in the country A Cumbria-based company is doing its bit to help re-open the country by donating Covid-19 testing kits to music halls in London and Manchester. Circular 1 Health has donated 1,700 COVID tests to allow the Philharmonia Orchestra to return to Royal Festival Hall in London and the Hallé Orchestra to return to Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The tests will be distributed to the orchestras on a weekly basis, with 100 being delivered in each batch, ensuring enough tests to regularly screen both ensembles ahead of each performance.
Carlisle firm teams up with world-class orchestras to keep them COVID secure
A Carlisle firm is helping major British orchestras return to the stage.
Circular 1 Health has pledged to donate 1,700 COVID-19 screening tests to the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester next month to help make sure performances remain COVID secure.
The Philharmonia Orchestra has several performances planned for London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Hallé’s summer season will take place in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
The initiative was spearheaded by Circular 1 Health laboratory technician Matt Parry, a professional trombonist, who began working with the company during lockdown when the national tour of Hairspray the Musical was cancelled.
Commenting on the return of the Philharmonia to live music-making, Alexander Van Ingen, Chief Executive of the Philharmonia Orchestra, said: ‘We are hugely excited to return to our home at the Southbank Centre for these two concerts for a real, live audience. It is bittersweet that after 13 glorious years, Esa-Pekka will be finishing his tenure as Principal Conductor at the end of a Season that wasn’t as we originally planned it. And yet, two wonderful programmes with Yefim Bronfman and Mitsuko Uchida are a superb way of marking the occasion with as many people as are allowed in the Royal Festival Hall, and before Esa-Pekka takes up his new role as the Philharmonia’s Conductor Emeritus.’