Abigail Burrows
FLUTE
OUTREACH & EDUCATION
Abigail is a passionate outreach performer and workshop leader and has given over 200 concerts in venues including primary, secondary and special schools, nurseries, day centres for adults with physical and learning disabilities, homes for older people, centres for the blind, hospitals (foyers and wards), adult psychiatric centres, hospices, prisons and pupil referral units. She was a Live Music Now Artist from 2006 to 2010 and worked on projects in London, Essex, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Devon, Wales, Ireland and the Channel Islands. She has received training on working with children, people with dementia, people with hearing disabilities, and working in pupil referral units & prisons. She has also been trained to work with Soundbeams, complete a 12
week Introduction to Sign Language course at Richmond College and has been trained as a Trinity Arts Award Advisor (bronze and silver). She has written articles about outreach performance (published) and is now an adjudicator and mentor for new ensembles on the Live Music Now scheme.
In 2011 Abbie travelled to Kenya with the Concordia Foundation and lead several workshops in schools, slums and orphanages -teaching children the fife. Concordia presented 150 fifes to the kids as well as donating 500 lifestraws (a plastic straw which filters polluted water). Earlier this year she was a session leader for Concordia's 'Young Audiences Project', visiting schools in Tower Hamlets, London. The project culminated in a staged performance in Wilton's Music Hall.
Abbie has worked with the charity Flutewise for over five years and created several popular workshop concepts including Adult Fife Choir (a workshop to show parents what flute playing and flute lessons involve), The Scale Game (a fun activity to help children enjoy learning their scales -soon to be published) and The Wrong Concert (a pantomime-style theatrical performance given by leading professionals playing and behaving badly, then properly). The next Wrong Concert is being held at Cadogan Hall, London on 25th March 2012.
Abbie has worked for the following organisations. Please click on the links for more information:
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