Cayenna Ponchione – Orchestra of St John's | Taking classical music out into the community

Cayenna Ponchione

We are thrilled that brilliant Bubble Productions have cut together this video for us, looking at our work last week with Ensemble Zohra.  If you haven’t realised yet what remarkable things these young women are achieving, find out here. Please...
  • March 28, 2019
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This is an interview with Toby Young, Cayenna Ponchione and the Displaced Voices students put together by the SOAS students in London. From The Curativity Team website at https://curativitylndn.wixsite.com/curativitylndn Link is here
  • March 27, 2019
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We have had a wonderfully exciting week, and we are thrilled to see how many publications have picked up stories about Ensemble Zohra while they undertook their UK tour. Today, please see the headline for an article in The Sunday...
  • March 19, 2019
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We have had a wonderfully exciting week, and we are thrilled to see how many publications have picked up stories about Ensemble Zohra while they undertook their UK tour. Today we start with an article and video from Thomson Reuters...
  • March 18, 2019
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Dear supporters and readers, As many of you will have already heard, there is an all-girls youth orchestra coming from Kabul, Afghanistan for a week’s residency in Oxford (12-19 March) with the Orchestra of St John’s. The orchestra, Ensemble Zohra,...
  • March 8, 2019
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We are delighted that Cayenna’s perspective on our Ensemble Zohra project has been published on the Oxford Arts Blog. In Afghanistan, young women making music in public is a bold political act. To been seen, to be heard — particularly through...
  • February 18, 2019
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