Schools workshops with Benedict Hoffnung

	Paul Archibald (left) & Benedict Hoffnung

Paul Archibald and Ben Hoffnung undertake educational tours, giving concerts and workshops for trumpet and percussion at schools and music groups throughout Britain.

Both Ben and Paul are experienced performers and teachers, and their presentation is relaxed and informal with the emphasis on participation by students and children of all ages. The music is carefully chosen to appeal to the younger generation, and spans many different styles and cultures including Classical, Popular, Jazz and World music. The programmes are designed to encourage young people to take part in the art of musical performance, supplementing the classroom and instrumental tuition already undertaken in schools. Each programme is devised in conjunction with the music staff of the school concerned, and is presented in a way that is informative and educational but also entertaining and inspiring! Different types and sizes of trumpet are demonstrated, together with a large array of percussion instruments including vibraphone, glockenspiel, timpani, Kit, assorted hand-held instruments and drums of all shapes and sizes!

Sample programme
•	Informal concert and/or workshop tailored to the requirements of your school.
•	Demonstration of complete family of trumpets including piccolo trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn.
•	Demonstration of different families of percussion instruments - tuned and non-tuned percussion
•	African, Latin American, Indian, Kit and Timpani.
•	Performance of pieces written and arranged specifically for trumpet and percussion.
•	Pieces to include participation by students of any age.
•	Specific help and advice to students who are learning brass or percussion instruments.
•	Integrates with and complements instrumental tuition currently undertaken at your school.
•	Consistent with guidelines as set out in the National Curriculum.

The programmes also feature the various groupings of percussion instruments - tuned, latin American, percussive and timpani and the repertoire even includes a work for steel-pans!
The nature of these instruments allows a concert atmosphere that is relaxed and informal and are presented in a manner that is both accessible and informative.

Simon Limbrick embraces performance, composing and leading workshops. He contributed as a member of the cult systems orchestra The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping, recording for EG Editions and creating scores for leading dance companies, Second Stride and London Contemporary Dance. In 1990 Simon completed his MA in Electroacoustic Composition at City University. He has since collaborated on a number of large scale works with Rosemary Lee and site-specific work in Holland and Brussels. Simon has produced several film scores and has worked on several media projects with Dutch composer|sound sculptor Harry de Wit.
He has created pieces for Mary Wiegold’s Songbook, Ensemble Bash, Endymion Ensemble and the Brighton Youth Orchestra and was composer-in-residence at Blackheath Concert Halls in 95|96. Compositions created for him include works by Javier Alvarez, Brian Elias (Kenneth MacMillans last ballet The Judas Tree), Vic Hoyland and Andrew Poppy. He has performed the world-premieres of solo pieces by James Dillon, Frederic Rzewski and Claude Vivier. He is currently commissioning a series of chamber works for percussion and chamber ensemble from composers Hans Werner Henze, John Woolrich, Philip Cashian, Harry de Wit and Howard Skempton. A solo CD , "Steam", of Simon performing his own compositions was released in Autumn 1999 and his latest CD "Debris", was released in November 1999.