Weekly live-streaming from Ensemble Reza is proving a musical hit

Mid Sussex-based Ensemble Reza are seeing a great response to their weekly lockdown streaming initiative.
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Ensemble Reza

Midday Music – the Tuesday Series offers a live-streamed lunchtime concert every week, and numbers are growing nicely.

Ensemble Reza managing director Hannah Carter said: “In just over three weeks we have had over 2.5k viewers and over 300 subscribers to our YouTube channel.

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“During the concert I am able to communicate with our audience through our live chat and know people of all ages including children are listening all over the country from Cornwall to Scotland and as far as France! We have had some lovely feedback and know our welcoming and friendly series is brightening up people’s lives.

“We are really fortunate that so many from the Ensemble Reza team are couples and even have talented children who have also been involved in the series! We have funding for a further 12 weeks of concerts and hope to extend this if possible. To be honest I am keen to continue live streaming all our concerts in the future!

“We really value reaching those who may feel isolated and also staying in touch with our local audience and friends. To view our channel visit: http://https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-fenf137J_J4rCM620tqw

“The concerts are run from our musicians’ homes. Like I mentioned, we are lucky that some of our musicians are married to professional musicians so we can have duets very easily from the same home! In a few cases whole families (eg the Carvalhos) have all been involved!

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“So far in the last four weeks we have had music from the Carvalhos (weeks 1 and 4); Miriam Teppich – violin (week 2); and Susana Dias and Tom Watmough – bassoon and clarinet (week 3)”

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Ensemble Reza

“Our musicians are currently filming to our YouTube channel live from their laptops. We invite our audience to log on to our channel at 11.50 and I can chat to our audience in the comments section.

“The sound quality is not amazing. However until we have 1,000 subscribers we are having to use our laptops to film. Once we have 1,000 subscribers, we will be able to record using our mobile phones and the sound will be much better.

“The series is supported from Tim French from It’s Magic, The Orchards Shopping Centre and Savills Haywards Heath. The concerts are free. However we are inviting those who listen to donate to the series if they wish.”

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