De Montfort University Campus set to host unique street orchestra performance
Date: Fri, 14th Jul 2017, 12:45 - 13:30
Venue: various around Leicester City Centre
Street Orchestra of London (SOL) will perform to prisoners, the sick, the elderly and DMU students and staff after teaming up with Square Mile and #DMUlocal community partners, to offer a series of captivating pop-up performances across the city.
Taking place across a single day, SOL's tour will take them on a journey to HM Prison Leicester, Leicester Hospitals Oncology Centre at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI), the city centre and Wyggeston Hospital Chapel Learning for the Fourth Age as well as an hour performance on campus.
The Orchestra, which performs around six-seven times a day and takes less than five minutes to set up will descend on the city with some of the UK's finest young orchestral musicians on Friday 14 July. And the good news is, it's completely free to all.
Founded on the belief that every human being has an equal right to enjoy quality live music, SOL's series of performances aim to offer truly unique musical experiences to passes by in an informal setting.
SOL is conducted by Dutch viola player and member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Gijs Kramers, who joined the DMU Orchestra back in January to perform at HM Prison Leicester, playing and arranging pieces by Oasis, Queen and Guns n' Roses.
DMU will host SOL at 12.45pm on 14th July, outside the Vijay Patel Building – All welcome!
Like to know more? Here's a short doumentary film from SOL's debut tour in 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LeuraAc4L4
More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LeuraAc4L4
