Nearly finished an exhausting schedule of school workshops with the English Pocket Opera Company – two weeks in Cambridge (on Bizet’s “Carmen”) and three weeks in Camden (on Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”). These are the first steps towards Singfest concerts at Cambridge’s West Road Concert Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in March.

A busy start to the New Year for EPOC too: “Music Is Special” – a project with SEN schools at the Camden Centre on Jan 13 & 14 with compositions based on “The Fairy Queen” by William Carslake, Patrick Stockbridge and the pupils themselves, and designs by our students from Central St Martins also with the pupils.

Also, our first national tour of workshops, visiting United Learning schools all over the country from Bognor to Carlisle in Feb/March.