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- Mar 14
- 2 min
OMF welcomes new Chair of Trustees
The team at Olympias Music Foundation are thrilled to welcome our new Chair to the Board of Trustees, Rick Eling. Rick has been a regular...
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OMF
- Nov 22, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome to OMF Development Director - Anna Kerr
After an extremely competitive recruitment round, we are delighted to announce the appointment of Anna Kerr as the new OMF Development...
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OMF
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
OMF kids get up close with the Northern Chamber Orchestra!
This term, 25 OMF families took part in an interactive workshop with the acclaimed Northern Chamber Orchestra – the first of four...
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OMF
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
OMF and the Cheetham Cultural Festival
Love One Another was the theme for this years Cheetham Cultural Festival, and there is an abundance of love in Cheetham Hill and...
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OMF
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
OMF Focus Group @ Stoller Hall
Development Manager Charlie Widdicombe fills us in on a recent trip to Stoller Hall! If you’re reading this blog, you’re very likely to...
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OMF
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
Welcome to our new Trustees and Musical Director of Children's Voices
As OMF steps into its 6th year and exciting new long-term plans for the future, we are thrilled to introduce the newest members of the...
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OMF
- Oct 14, 2020
- 4 min
OMF Autumn 2020 Update
As the Olympias Music Foundation celebrates its 5th birthday since its inception in 2015, OMF director, Jo Yee Cheung, reflects on the...
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OMF
- Jul 20, 2020
- 5 min
OMF - The Lockdown Story
Patrick Shepherd is a producer and the events administrator for OMF. Here, he shares an exclusive window into the behind-the-scenes...
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OMF
- Feb 14, 2020
- 8 min
In conversation with The Eskandari Quartet
Next month, the Women's Voices Choir collaborate with the budding Eskandari Quartet, as part of Women's Voices present: Modern Femininity...
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OMF
- Jan 14, 2020
- 1 min
OMF 2020!
It's safe to say that 2019 was another mighty year for the OMF. But amongst numerous music lessons, workshops and performances at the...
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OMF
- Sep 27, 2019
- 2 min
Delia Stevens - Olympias Music Trustee
Delia Stevens’ versatility as a percussionist has allowed her to appear as a soloist, chamber, session and orchestral musician on...
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OMF
- Aug 9, 2019
- 1 min
Outreach concert at Beenstock Care Home - The Sun Project
Olympias Music volunteer, Mariya, fills us in on her recent trip to Beenstock Care Home as part of the Sun Project. On Sunday 12th May,...
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OMF
- Aug 6, 2019
- 2 min
Making Manchester - audience feedback
It's just over a month since we staged the first performances of Making Manchester at the Niamos Radical Arts Centre. Find out what our...
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OMF
- Jun 16, 2019
- 2 min
Making Manchester interview 6 - Hayley Suviste, Electronic Sound Arist
Hayley Suviste is a sound artist based in Manchester currently undertaking a Masters in Electroacoustic Composition at the University of...
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OMF
- Jun 16, 2019
- 2 min
Making Manchester interview 7 - Vonnegut Collective, contemporary music ensemble
The Vonnegut Collective is a chamber ensemble based in Manchester, UK. It was formed in 2014 by two members of the BBC Philharmonic with...
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OMF
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Extract from Making Manchester, Part 1 - Home (by Shamshad Khan)
Home Where the sun loops itself around your neck Drapes around your shoulder And you walk In your dusty sandals Like a moon king or a sun...
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OMF
- Jun 13, 2019
- 3 min
Asha's story - from Assam to Burnley
The following is one of the migration stories written by pupils at Dean Trust Ardwick secondary school, which inspired Shamshad Khan's...
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OMF
- Jun 9, 2019
- 3 min
Making Manchester interview 5 - Jo Yee Cheung, Producer (Director of Olympias Music)
Jo is a British-Chinese pianist, music educator and PhD researcher based at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she specialises in...
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OMF
- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min
Making Manchester interview 4 - Emma Doherty, Director
Emma Doherty is a Manchester based stage director and the Artistic Director of The Opera Shack, a collective designed to create...
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