
Royal Albert Hall presents
Convo 2019
#convo2019
Primary Content
From our Earth’s beginnings, to the connected world we live in today, music has always been a universal means of communication. Bird songs to love songs, ancient scores to film scores, Morse code to coding, ‘Convo’ explores how music gives us all a voice and our lives a soundtrack.
Convo is an ambitious new work by emerging composer Charlotte Harding , commissioned by the Tri-borough Music Hub, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal College of Music.
Convo will be the culmination of a two year project working with young people from throughout the Tri-borough area, who will contribute their ideas and creativity into the composition process, before being joined by over 1,000 young instrumentalists and singers to give the world premiere performance, conducted by Ben Palmer.
Convo will not only be a captivating performance event, but will also provide a conduit to champion the importance of music as a universal communicator and as a tool to give young people a voice.
We are very grateful to John Lyon’s Charity, Children & The Arts and additional funders for their generous support of this project.
Secondary Content
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LEAD PARTNERS
Tri-borough Music Hub
Royal Albert Hall
Royal College of Music Sparks
EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS
Inspire Works
Sonic Pi
RESOURCE PARTNER
English Folk Dance and Song Society
The Lyric Hammersmith
The Rhythm Studio
Approximate schedule:
12:00pm Verdi – Italian Kitchen open
6:15pm Auditorium doors and boxes open
7:00pm Convo 2019
8:15pm Event ends