Music Off Canvas
Music Off Canvas 'creating collaborative art through the meeting of minds' is a pioneering collective of musicians specialising in cross-arts collaborative practice. Unique works are created through group experimentation with featured artists of various disciplines for commissions, performances and workshops.
Mentored through the Help Musicians UK ‘Emerging Excellence Awards’, Music Off Canvas has produced and performed new works for Salisbury Arts Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, Southbank Centre, Royal College of Music, Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall, Saatchi Gallery, Friends of Streatham Common, Platform33, Nonclassical, Peirene Press, Music Orbit, GAPSalon, WOW Festival and The Commonwealth Resounds.
With a thriving education branch Music Off Canvas delivers cross-arts workshops for the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Purcell School for Young Musicians, Sound and Music Summer School for Young Composers, the Live Music Now Scheme, Serendipity Trust, Ocean Stars Trust, and The Music Project Sri Lanka.
Mentored through the Help Musicians UK ‘Emerging Excellence Awards’, Music Off Canvas has produced and performed new works for Salisbury Arts Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, Southbank Centre, Royal College of Music, Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall, Saatchi Gallery, Friends of Streatham Common, Platform33, Nonclassical, Peirene Press, Music Orbit, GAPSalon, WOW Festival and The Commonwealth Resounds.
With a thriving education branch Music Off Canvas delivers cross-arts workshops for the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Purcell School for Young Musicians, Sound and Music Summer School for Young Composers, the Live Music Now Scheme, Serendipity Trust, Ocean Stars Trust, and The Music Project Sri Lanka.
The Collective
Hannah Grayson, Flute
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Vanessa Howells, Oboe
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Co-directors
Hannah Grayson + Vanessa Howells
Our vision is that over time, new art will be created, collaborative methods will become wider used and the arts will broaden its horizons.
We set up Music Off Canvas in 2011, unified by a strong sense of curiosity and belief that the sharing of artistic disciplines and creative processes could lead to truly innovative and engaging performances whilst offering a platform to artists.
We began our path of discovery during our studies at the Royal College of Music, London where we met for our postgraduate studies. Through a chance meeting with a dancer from Trinity Laban, we began our first project as an improvisatory experiment and ended up with four new and exciting works. The pieces were premiered in a headlining performance for the Royal College of Music's first ever "Great Exhibitionist Series" and soon after, invited to be performed at the South Bank Centre, the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall and St. Pancras Station. One year and several experimental projects later, we were awarded a Help Musicians UK "Emerging Excellence Award 2012" which offered us both composition and business mentorship. Our mentors are Julia Payne, co-founder and director of 'the hub' and composer Errollyn Wallen MBE.
With such success and enjoyment, we decided to expand the vision of Music Off Canvas by collaborating with all types of artistic disciplines, taking on all sorts of exciting projects- take a look at our "Commissions and Performances" page to view our portfolio. We are passionate about being flexible and open to ensure that every project is as excitingly creative as the previous one.
We set up Music Off Canvas in 2011, unified by a strong sense of curiosity and belief that the sharing of artistic disciplines and creative processes could lead to truly innovative and engaging performances whilst offering a platform to artists.
We began our path of discovery during our studies at the Royal College of Music, London where we met for our postgraduate studies. Through a chance meeting with a dancer from Trinity Laban, we began our first project as an improvisatory experiment and ended up with four new and exciting works. The pieces were premiered in a headlining performance for the Royal College of Music's first ever "Great Exhibitionist Series" and soon after, invited to be performed at the South Bank Centre, the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall and St. Pancras Station. One year and several experimental projects later, we were awarded a Help Musicians UK "Emerging Excellence Award 2012" which offered us both composition and business mentorship. Our mentors are Julia Payne, co-founder and director of 'the hub' and composer Errollyn Wallen MBE.
With such success and enjoyment, we decided to expand the vision of Music Off Canvas by collaborating with all types of artistic disciplines, taking on all sorts of exciting projects- take a look at our "Commissions and Performances" page to view our portfolio. We are passionate about being flexible and open to ensure that every project is as excitingly creative as the previous one.
