Nový komorní orchestr z Polska hledá partnery z EU

Kontakt:
Fundacja NOK,
prezident Richard Berkeley: richardberkeley@wp.pl,
tel.: +48 22 849 1719 nebo +48 502 965 353 (mobil),
www.nok.w.pl

THE FOUNDATION

2001 Fundacja Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna established as a legal non-profitmaking entity in Poland.

OBJECTIVES
To create training and employment opportunities for professional musicians and singers.
To raise awareness of the value of music in society through education programmes for schools, contact with business and new audience creation.

ACTIVITIES
2001 The New Chamber Orchestra (NOK) is formed by young graduate musicians to play 17 th to 20 th century chamber music.
2002 the orchestra begins a monthly series of `Music by Candlelight` concerts at the Warsaw Evangelical Reform Church with the intention of gaining experience for the young players and building a new audience.
2003 The foundation co-produces with Roche Polska a production of Verdi`s Rigoletto. The cast included Andrzej Dobber.
2003 NOK guest of Lublin Philharmonic. Handel Messiah Overture, Mozart Clarinet Concerto (soloist Romuald Go3ebiowski - clarintet) and Mozart Symphony in A Major
2003 May. NOK: nationwide televised open air concert in Plac Zamkowy in collaboration with the Robert Schuman Foundation and in the presence of the President of Poland.
NOK audiences at the church candle light concerts reach 500 with a performance of Haydn`s Nelson Mass.
2003 The foundation organises the first of its music in business training events. This involves the HR department of Unilever Polska in a one day opera event and members of the orchestra.
2003 NOK begins monthly informal concerts for schools attended by up to 500 local children many of whom have no other contact with music.
2003 NOK begins monthly dinner-concert series entitled "Tasty Classics" aimed at the business community and developing links with business and the orchestra. 2004 NOK invited to return to Lublin Philharmonic. Fundacja NOK initiatives include "Proamatorska" , the first amateur orchestra in Warsaw to begin rehearsals in May. The community choir continues to grow.
http://www.nok.w.pl

Richard Berkeley

Prezes Fundacji Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna
1973-77 Trained as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music London
B.Ed. Music from Goldsmiths College University of London

Based in Italy:
Music
Study with Angelo Ephrikian, Giorgio Favaretto, Renato Fasano, Miles Morgan, William Christie, Nigel Rogers and Rene Jacobs.
Concerts with Rinaldo Alessandrini, Paolo Pandolfo, Fabio Biondi, I Musici, I Virtuosi di Roma, Teatro dell`Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio, Torino. Seville Symphony Orchestra.
Co-founded Concerto Italiano.
Broadcasting
Radio work for RAI Radio 3 and frequent appearances on all national Italian television channels.
Composition
Incidental music for various television and theatre productions.
Four musicals for schools.
Actor
Film work as actor for Lina Wertmuller, Liliana Cavani, Franco Brusati.
Numerous television commercials.

1990-2000
Based in London:
Television
Assistant to Mark Elder, Musical Director of the English National Opera and specialist researcher on BBC TV production
"Verdi: A Life in Two Parts".
Teaching
LAMDA: London Academy of Music and Drama;
The Mountview Conservatoire;
Founder and Director of The International Course for Music Theatre
Performers at the Royal Academy of Music (summer school). Patrons:
Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Sir Cameron Mackingtosh, Dame Judi
Dench.
Business
Founder and director of Universal Casting, an agency
for actors.

2000-4
Based in Poland:
Teaching
The Chopin Academy of Music; The Akademia Tealtralna, Warsaw; Wroclaw Academy of Music: singing workshops. Wilanow Early Music School. Genieve de Brabant: an opera project with children in Boleslawiec.
Broadcasting and journalism
TVP "Pegaz" Arts programme. Music correspondant.
Polskie Radio 2: various commentaries.
Critic for Poland of Opera Now Magazine, London.
Music
Co-founded and chairman of Fundacja Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna.
Business
Corporate training: presentation skills and team building.
Clients include IKEA, Unilever Polska, Masterfoods, SG, ABN Amro,
Developing Arts and Business.
Member of the British-Polish Chamber of Commerce.

Zdroj: Kancelář Culture 2000