Co-Productions and Producing for Others
In addition to making our own shows we have also produced ground breaking performances for other ensembles, including the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Villiers String Quartet, as well as co-producing with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Scottish Ensemble, London Rhymes.
Rhymes Live
A co-production with the award-winning London Rhymes, this song and sound packed show will delight little ones and their families alike! A highly interactive, engaging show featuring the eclectic music of London Rhymes, presented in a highly creative and colourful way.
London Rhymes have been reimagining and reinventing the ’rhyme’ for the modern day family since 2015, with our original songs co-written with parents and young children in charitable projects we run across London.
Through this collaboration with MishMash we have been working together with the acclaimed director Zoe Waterman and renowned designer Sophia Lovell Smith to create a beautiful, joyous stage show of their wonderful songs - a fabulous first gig for littluns!
For more information see www.londonrhymes.com
Ensemble:
Rosie Adediran - Vocals and Ukulele
Rosie Bergonzi - Percussion
Raph Clarkson - Trombone
Rosanna Ter Berg - Flute
Ben Trickey - Guitar
Creative Team:
Zoe Waterman - Director
Sophia Lovell Smith - Designer
Liz Muge and Rosie Adediran - Producers
Rhymes Live is available for touring in Spring 2023.
For more information contact liz@mishmashproductions.co.uk
Chasing Dots
A Royal Northern Sinfonia and MishMash Productions Co-production Chasing Dots is a unique opportunity to introduce children, or indeed all of us, to classical music in a fresh way.
Dramatic and beautiful music from Beethoven, Dvořák, Coleridge-Taylor, and Jessie Montgomery, is guaranteed to have children and their adults beaming with delight as they experience a flurry of sounds and sights.
A fantasia of music through time and across continents. This exciting new production explores sound, shape and space, bringing together four musicians from Royal Northern Sinfonia with a theatre director and designer in collaboration with MishMash Productions.
Featuring:
Gloria Coates Mirror Canon
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1 First Movement
Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons for Solo Cello, No. 2
Jessie Montgomery Strum
Bacewicz Polish Caprice
Janacek Kreutzer Sonata Second Movement
Bach Partita in E Major for Solo Violin
Hindemith Sonata Op. 25 Fourth Movement
Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestucke No. 3
Dvorak Drobnosti Op 75a No. 1
Creative Team:
Trina Haldar - Director
Sophia Lovell Smith - Designer
Sophie Rivlin - Musical Director
Emaleigh Pightling - Stage Manager
Abi Groocock - Company Stage Manager
Helen Blythe and Liz Muge - Producers
Musicians from the Royal Northern Sinfonia:
Jane Nossek - Violin
Iona Brown - Violin
Michael Gerrard - Viola
Gabriel Waite - Cello
in Sync photos by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
The BBC Concert Orchestra - Musical Roots
Featuring the writer Kate Wakeling, CBeebies’ very own Chris Jarvis, conductor Anna-Maria Helsing and soloist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank this family concert for the BBC Concert Orchestra featured as part of the award-winning Imagine Children’s Festival at London’s Southbank Centre in February 2020.
This concert called young detectives, aged 6+, to come and help the BBC Concert Orchestra solve the mysteries in their musical family tree. Who was the celebrity musician who captivated the court of Marie Antoinette to the infuriation of a struggling Mozart? And why have we never heard of him? What is the most played piece of classical music ever and how many composers have been inspired by it? Who was the mostly self-taught, highly opinionated military man considered the god-father of all 20th century Russian music? And what secret does our conductor Anna-Maria hide?
Working collaboratively with musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing MishMash Productions produced this fabulous concert featuring music from Aaron Copland, Dmitry Shostakovich, Errolyn Wallen, Astor Piazzolla, Max Richter, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges to name but a few.
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The Villiers Quartet present Inside Out
A presentation of the string quartet as you’ve never experienced it before. From the epic to the intimate this internationally renowned quartet takes you on a journey into the inner workings of the genre.
This concert takes new audiences through a window into the virtuosic and vexed soul of a profoundly deaf Beethoven, on a wander through the epic fiddling of Finnish patriot Sibelius, and through the trauma of tortured genius Shostakovich; picking up along the way the forgotten romanticism of William Alwyn and the unreserved joy of the father of the string quartet, Haydn. With plenty of humour and jubilant moments of music in between, this roller coaster ride poignantly and dramatically shares the musical passions of the Villiers with young audiences.
Also featuring works by Musgrave, Marsalis and Britten this performance has been created specifically for KS2 school groups and children aged 7 – 11 and their families.
45 minutes with no interval.
With funding from Arts Council England, The Villiers Trust, Nottingham Chamber Music Festival and support from Nottingham High School, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, The National Centre for Early Music and The Gulbenkian.
Inside Out toured in 2019 to:
Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury
