

St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity (SJCC) Spazju Kreattiv Wednesday November 25th Day Rehearsals Thursday November 26th Performances. This was our most ambitious-ever Commonwealth project. 53 short pieces were commissioned, each representing one of the Commonwealth countries, and each featuring either the flute, the harp or both. Other instruments were also included. Edward Longstaff’s beautiful, evocative, semi-improvised piece PANORPHEUS was performed at the beginning and the end of the event in SJCC’s wonderfully spacious atrium, with musicians placed at many different levels.
- Concert 1 – PANORPHEUS in Africa (performed by Chethams School of Music)
- Concert 2 – PANORPHEUS in the South Pacific (performed by the Purcell School for Young Musicians)
- Concert 3 – PANORPHEUS in Asia (Performed by the Royal Over-Seas League)
- Concert 4 – PANORPHEUS in the Caribbean (Performed by a special Caribbean ensemble)
- Concert 5 – PANORPHEUS in Europe (Performed by musicians from the UK and Malta)
Huge thanks in particular to two wonderful musicians – Juliana Myslov (harp, ROSL and Royal College of Music) and Laura Davies (flute (Royal Academy of Music) who performed in all 5 concerts. As well as the concerts, young musicians from Chethams and Purcell ran lively interactive workshops designed by themselves for children in Malta and the UK, based on interesting material from different Commonwealth regions. It was unfortunate that a national security risk prevented three Maltese schools from attending these fascinating workshops. The children from other organisations who attended enjoyed the workshops greatly.
The performance venue, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity – was ideal for the event, and SJCC staff were enormously helpful and kind to us all – especially Maria Spiteri Zahra and Toni Sant. However, it was such a shame that so few Maltese schools and members of the public came to hear this unique musical event, which had been created over 18 months specially for Malta and CHOGM 2015. HOWEVER – everyone was very glad to welcome the Apollo Youth Choir, the Bermonsey Harris Academy and the Commonwealth Festival Choir, who came to take part in the event along with composers from Canada, India and Malta who had written pieces to represent their own countries. PANORPHEUS will be performed again – in parts and as a whole.
The second performance of ‘PANORPHEUS in the South Pacific’ took place in the United Kingdom on Tuesday 27th January at The Purcell School, Aldenham Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire WD232TS. Other performances will take place in due course. http://www.edwardlongstaff.com/clips.html This beautiful, semi-improvised piece composed by Edward Longstaff, included flutes, harps and a large number of other musicians too. It was performed as a ‘framework’ at the beginning and end of the event.
Particular thanks to Christine Gangelhoff from The Bahamas, the Co-Director of PANORPHEUS, who took such an active interest in the project in the developmental stages and helped secure all the composers for PANORPHEUS in the Caribbean! These pieces were performed by Christine herself, an excellent flautist, plus others, including Sowah Mensah, a highly distinguished musician from Ghana and Rowland Sutherland, a brilliant flautist originating from St Vincent and the Grenadines. These delightful pieces were amongst the highlights of the whole event.
The PANORPHEUS Composers
The PANORPHEUS project managed to collect new, origional compositions from every country in the Commonwealth, to our knowledge this is the first time that this has taken place! You can find out about the composers who took part below.PANORPHEUS
in Africa
Fredo Onovwerosuoke
Nigeria

Dr Peter Langmead
Zambia

Liam Wright (Mauritius)
Mauritius

Ellie Farrer
South Africa

Alex Dakin
Mozambique

Fergus McGregor
Cameroon

Tammas Slater
Rwanda

George Herbert
Seychelles

Francesca Rijks
Kenya

Ignacio Mana Mesas
Namibia

Sowah Mensah
Ghana

Leo Strelle
Sierra Leone

Jack Found
Lesotho

Liam Noonan
Malawi

Job Tezigatwa
Uganda

Sam King
Tanzania

Max Bilbe
Botswana

Mark Englander
Swaziland
PANORPHEUS
in the South Pacific
Lillie Harris
Vanuatu

Salima
Samoa

Lauren Marshall
Vanuatu

Zakia Fawcett
Tuvalu

Theo May
Nauru

Helu
Tonga

Anastasia Pahos
Australia

Richard Miller
Kiribati

Matthew Everingham
New Zealand
PANORPHEUS
in Europe and Asia
Kok-Jun Phang
Singapore

Chris Schlechte-Bond
Brunei

Daniel Joshua Asokan
Sri Lanka

Danyal Dhondy
India

Huey Ching Chong
Malaysia

Amy Bryce
Bangladesh

Sachiththa Fernando
Pakistan

Haris Sophocleos
Cyprus

Lucie Treacher
United Kingdom

Steve Psaila
Malta
PANORPHEUS
in Canada and the Caribbean
Peter Ashbourne
Jamaica

Phil Beaman
Grenada

Clinton Crawford
Belize

Kendrick Georges
St. Kitts and Nevis

Roger Gittens
Barbados

Christian Justilien
Bahamas

Pablo Barios
Dominica

Dave Panting
Canada

Hugh Sam
Guyana

Khan Cordice
Antigua and Barbuda

Rowaland Sutherland
St. Vincent and the Grenadines

