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It was a wonderful occasion, with beautiful singing from the works choirs of the Royal Mail, Nomura and SJ Berwin as well as Singing Works patron, Simon O’Neill. It was also a welcome opportunity to spread the word about MMiW as well as teach the song to lots more people.

Thanks to all at Singing Works and the film-making skill of our dear friend Alberto Bona you can see a little taster of what happened here

Lots of Bluecoat pupils, families and staff got involved with the recording and the film shoot. They also raised a fantastic £146 for Shelter and Wotton Youth at their Harvest Festival celebrations.

We hope to go back in once Christmas has passed and their hectic schedule of music and events has quietened down a bit and get the whole school singing too!

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Here’s what he had to say about Meet Me in Winter:

“I’m so proud of Katie and the movement behind this project. It’s a real testament to the power of people coming together. I believe it will inspire positive change and raise awareness of such an important matter.”

If you’d like to know more about Shlomo, or watch him perform, check out his website.

You can see just a few of the reactions here.

Ian has been freelance in arts production, music creation and studio recording engineering for more than 30 years in the UK and Europe. As a producer, composer and conductor Ian has worked with many great classical and popular music artists including New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney and Sir George Martin on recording and writing projects.

Work in progress includes TV production on programmes in development for BBC and C4 and recording, producing and writing with international percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, with whom he recently co-wrote the score for Golf in the Kingdom.

As a recording engineer Ian has worked in many of the world’s largest studios including Air Lyndhurst, Abbey Road, Angel Studios in London and mastering and recording facilities in Greece, Italy, France, USA and Canada.

Major music, film and live performance projects include Music for Montserrat at Royal Albert Hall, Circle of Remembrance and Voices of Promise at the Millenium Dome.

Ciarán studies Music, Film, Drama and Psychology at KLB school in Wotton-under-edge. Since the start of his A-level studies he has taken a shine to Film as a subject and has become active in creating videos for YouTube as well as for his studies. His first film for A level was awarded full marks.

We are very pleased to welcome Ciarán to work with us on documentary footage of the project as well as short vlogs to be posted on YouTube.

Born in Leeds in 1960, he studied music at the Queen’s College, Oxford, then composition with Stanley Glasser at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. After various jobs in publishing he became a freelance in 2001, working as an author, journalist and composer. His work has been published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Usborne Publishing, ABRSM and others, and in magazines such as Classic FM,The Architect’s Journal and Escape.

Anthony and Katie have worked on several books together over the last twenty years since their first encounter – when he turned her down for a job and offered her a book to write instead – but have only recently become a song-writing team. They plan to work on many more songs together once life gets quieter again!

Alberto started his versatile career as a cartoonist at the age of 16. He slowly turned to filmmaking as an all round writer-director, devising several short films, documentaries and music videos.

He has worked -amongst all- with acclaimed cellist Jamie Walton, song-writer Paolo Conte and The Bach Choir (patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales).