Vikki Stone: Women Make Music
The Concerto For Comedian And Orchestra is a the debut orchestral work from composer and comedian Vikki Stone.
The first orchestra to play the work will be the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra – a specialist music school, responsible for training some of the country’s finest young musicians and the school Vikki herself attended as a young flautist.
Vikki will workshop the piece for a week with the WCS Orchestra, with the first Work In Progress performances on the 18th and 20th May 2017, followed by performances at Latitude and Glastonbury Festivals, and then the Edinburgh Festival with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Camerata in August.
It will be conducted by a hotly tipped young conductor Ben Glassberg, who is on the MA Conducting course at the Royal Academy Of Music, and the current assistant conductor at Glyndebourne.
Vikki has appeared on many TV and Radio shows, including: The John Bishop Show, BBC One, The Now Show, BBC Radio 4, This Morning, ITV, That Sunday Night Show, ITV, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here….Now, ITV 2, Essential Classics, BBC Radio 3, and was in the BBC Music Ten Pieces II film introducing Verdi’s Dies Irae. Listen out for Vikki presenting the second series of her BBC Proms podcast this summer, as well as presenting BBC Proms coverage on BBC 6 Music.
Vikki is an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music and has quite the collection of letters for a funny gal: PG DIP RAM LRAM ARAM.