Solaris has a strong commitment to education work having enjoyed a highly productive residency at the London College of Music and regularly give workshops to a wide range of students. Their outreach programme had included working for Live Music Now! and they have recently launched a music and ICT presentation, Strings n Things, aimed at primary school level.
Workshops
The quartet can tailor workshops for any requirements.
Past workshops have included:
- Regular composition workshops at Guildhall School of Music Junior Department
- GCSE composition workshops in East London schools
- GCSE listening workshops
- Performance workshops in schools in Devon, East London and Tunbridge Boys School
Strings n Things
Strings n Things is a 1 hour interactive concert featuring the Solaris String Quartet for KS2 primary school children. The concert explores different ways in which music and ICT can be combined and makes extensive use of visual, aural and kinaesthetic learning stimuli. There is ample audience participation from whole audience items to individual help.
Along with the live musical elements of the concert, there is extensive use of multimedia presentation techniques (including a virtual orchestra projected on screen), live manipulation of recorded sound, and combining pre-recorded and live sounds.
Recent praise for Strings n Things:
The best visiting group we’ve had – Godwin Junior School, Newham
A very enjoyable performance. The children were full of enthusiasm afterwards - Elburton Primary School, Plymouth
Absolutely wonderful – Thankyou! – Halstead Preparatory School, Woking