There are musicians, both professional and non-professional, who are keen to take an active part in the development of new innovative creations on the basis that this informs and develops their own musical horizons. The musicians would also benefit from not only being on the front line of new and innovative work but also by sitting alongside and working with colleagues from different musical backgrounds.

This project is not intended to be a new collaboration between musicians of different musical backgrounds. This has been done before and is still being done to good effect. The major difference here is the imposition of compositions from an outside third party, the composer. Neither is this a group of amateur musicians set up to play compositions from established composers. Again this has been done before to good effect. The emphasis here is on new compositions and the material will come from composers who may otherwise struggle to get their music played. The composer would have the challenge of creating new and exciting work for all or some of those musicians, hear it rehearsed, make changes as they need to and then hear it performed as it was intended to sound.

This is an interactive process from which all participants benefit. But its overall effect is larger than that. It is anticipated that the orchestra will develop a body of work for public performances thus placing those new compositions in the public arena. The orchestra will continue to develop after its initial set up year and funds will be sort to finance its administration and artistic costs on an ongoing basis.

Jo Freya 2009

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