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EDUCATION & WORKSHOPS
Vocal Workshops

Cooper Hall run a series of one-day vocal workshops throughout the year from small groups of up to 8 solo participants with Morag McLaren to larger community projects for a maximum of 40 singers run by invited tutors who are specialists in their field. To date, these have included, A Taste Of African Singing, a Gospel Workshop, Choral SInging and Finding Your Voice. The Cooper Hall workshop programme is constantly expanding and evolving.

“The workshop far exceeded my expectations and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I feel I left with a renewed passion for performing as well as with many new tools to help me access and explore my creative abilities.”

Vocal Workshops

Cooper Hall run a series of one-day vocal workshops throughout the year from small groups of up to eight solo participants with Morag McLaren to larger community projects for a maximum of forty singers run by invited tutors who are specialists in their field. To date, these have included, A Taste Of African Singing, a gospel workshop, choral sInging and Finding Your Voice. The Cooper Hall workshop programme is constantly expanding and evolving.

“The workshop far exceeded my expectations and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I feel I left with a renewed passion for performing as well as with many new tools to help me access and explore my creative abilities.”

Residencies

The Cooper Hall Foundation provide professional development opportunities via a regular programme of small-scale residencies for individuals, ensembles and professional, creative teams. Throughout 2020-21 the residency programme continued to expand in a Covid-secure environment in order to help support creative projects during these difficult, restricted times.

Artists are invited to use the hall and grounds to germinate new ideas or continue work-in-progress. If required, Creative Director, Morag McLaren donates her skills as a facilitator, educator, director and workshop Leader.

PREVIOUS RESIDENCIES:

Iford Arts New Generation Artists Programme
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Donna Lennard, Soprano & Andrew Geffré-Gardiner, Dancer – Society of Strays
Daisy Brown, Soprano
Salon Music
Innocent Masuku, Tenor
Rosie Middleton, Mezzo Soprano
Fiona Finsbury, Soprano – La Voix Humaine
Hesta Banks
Troupe Collective
Salon Music

“I feel far less inhibited in performance and find it easier to give myself permission to “just go for it” and try things out …I felt like we created a genuinely safe space within our group …thank you for facilitating that because it enabled me to really grow and challenge myself in ways that I have not felt safe enough to do before.”

Anna Marmion

Residencies

The Cooper Hall Foundation provide professional development opportunities via a regular programme of small-scale residencies for individuals, ensembles and professional, creative teams. Throughout 2020-21 the residency programme continued to expand in a Covid-secure environment in order to help support creative projects during these difficult, restricted times.

Artists are invited to use the hall and grounds to germinate new ideas or continue work-in-progress. If required, Creative Director, Morag McLaren donates her skills as a facilitator, educator, director and workshop Leader.

PREVIOUS RESIDENCIES:

Iford Arts New Generation Artists Programme
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Donna Lennard, Soprano & Andrew Geffré-Gardiner, Dancer – Society of Strays
Daisy Brown, Soprano
Salon Music
Innocent Masuku, Tenor
Rosie Middleton, Mezzo Soprano
Fiona Finsbury, Soprano – La Voix Humaine
Hesta Banks
Troupe Collective
Salon Music

“I feel far less inhibited in performance and find it easier to give myself permission to “just go for it” and try things out …I felt like we created a genuinely safe space within our group …thank you for facilitating that because it enabled me to really grow and challenge myself in ways that I have not felt safe enough to do before.”

Anna Marmion

Bursaries

The Cooper Hall Foundation offers small bursary awards to individual artists and groups in the form of financial support or donated use of the hall, facilities and personnel support to develop a particular creative project.

PREVIOUS BURSARIES:

Erin Alexander, Soprano
Georgia Ashford Miller, Student
Astrid Bishop, Musical Theatre Student
Jetsam, Contemporary Music Collective
Alejandro L pez Montoya, Baritone
Helen Ottaway, Staged Productions
Aaron Veness, Stage Management
Iain Ballamy & Jason Rebello, Lockdown Live Streaming
Hesta Banks
Kairos Theatre Company, By Jeeves, and It Shoulda Bin You

“Without the support I have received from Cooper Hall I would never have had the confidence to promote myself so actively in this competitive industry, and push my creative boundaries every step of the way. It is this continued support and mentoring that has made me a more generous, more daring, and more exciting performer”

Erin Alexander

Bursaries

The Cooper Hall Foundation offers small bursary awards to individual artists and groups in the form of financial support or donated use of the hall, facilities and personnel support to develop a particular creative project.

PREVIOUS BURSARIES:

Erin Alexander, Soprano
Georgia Ashford Miller, Student
Astrid Bishop, Musical Theatre Student
Jetsam, Contemporary Music Collective
Alejandro L pez Montoya, Baritone
Helen Ottaway, Staged Productions
Aaron Veness, Stage Management
Iain Ballamy & Jason Rebello, Lockdown Live Streaming
Hesta Banks
Kairos Theatre Company, By Jeeves, and It Shoulda Bin You

“Without the support I have received from Cooper Hall I would never have had the confidence to promote myself so actively in this competitive industry, and push my creative boundaries every step of the way. It is this continued support and mentoring that has made me a more generous, more daring, and more exciting performer”

Erin Alexander

Sponsored Projects

Selected events are subsidised by the Cooper Hall Foundation in order to bring high quality performance from International calibre artists to a local audience, raise money for local charities and support professional creative development.

PROJECTS

Aurora Orchestra
Bath Philharmonia
Salon Music
Dame Felicity Lott Recital
Sir Willard White Recital

OTHER INITIATIVES

In addition, other initiatives supporting the work of performing artists have received donations from The Cooper Hall Foundation:

The Cherubim Trust
Jackdaws, Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards
Pegasus Opera Company
Vox Integra

Sponsored Projects

Selected events are subsidised by the Cooper Hall Foundation in order to bring high quality performance from International calibre artists to a local audience, raise money for local charities and support professional creative development.

PROJECTS

Aurora Orchestra
Bath Philharmonia
Salon Music
Dame Felicity Lott Recital
Sir Willard White Recital

OTHER INITIATIVES

In addition, other initiatives supporting the work of performing artists have received donations from The Cooper Hall Foundation:

The Cherubim Trust
Jackdaws, Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards
Pegasus Opera Company
Vox Integra

Sponsored Productions

The Cooper Hall Foundation sponsors both in-house and external productions. In her role as patron of Frome Festival, Cooper Hall Creative Director, Morag McLaren promotes and presents fundraising events during the festival and throughout the year.

PRODUCTIONS:

Cosi Fan Tutte
Give Music
Hansel and Gretel
Not On The Buses with Rare Species
Opera Up Close
Pants
Weekend In the Country

Collaborations

The Cooper Hall Foundation has initiated several creative, professional, collaborations and donates the use of the Hall and Foundation team to facilitate the development of new projects with invited individuals and professional companies.

COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE:

Bath Philharmonia – Turn of the Screw, Hansel and Gretel, Cosi fan Tutte
Iford Arts, New Generation Artists Programme (IANGA)
Robert Marsden, Director – Weekend In The Country

“We are very proud of our fruitful collaboration with Cooper Hall, indeed it forms an integral part of our New Generation Artists programme. Through her innovative workshops, Morag creates a rich, immersive working environment in which the singers are able to explore and develop their dramatic creativity. They are stimulated, challenged, empowered and supported throughout and, as a result, they leave Cooper Hall not only with improved confidence but with a wealth of new skills which inform their practice and enrich their performance.”

Oliver Gooch – Artistic Director, Iford Arts.

Iford Arts 2021 Brochure

Angharad Lyddon and Oliver Gooch

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