NICK HAYES clarinet
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Tuesday 11 November 2025Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7pm Duration: approx. 60 mins Tickets: By invitation only |
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In true Irene Taylor Trust (ITT) style, tonight’s concert brings together two people who haven’t performed together before but who wish to share something they love. Nick Hayes and Rupert Tate both work for ITT in different capacities. Nick is a founding musician, leading our projects in prisons and the community, and Rupert works in Business Development ensuring we continue to access a broad range of funding to enable the delivery of our projects. Both have a passion for music and how it can support people on the fringes of society to tell their stories and raise their life aspirations. As part of a series of fundraising events to mark ITT’s 30th anniversary, they decided to join forces this evening to share a range of original and arranged music.
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ProgrammeGabriel Fauré
Sicilienne Op. 78 Claude Debussy Petite Pièce Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances Allegro molto Poco sostenuto Allegro W.A. Mozart Clarinet Concerto K622 ii. Adagio Sergei Rachmaninov Vocalise (from 14 Romances Op. 34) George Gershwin A Foggy Day (from A Damsel in Distress) Someone to watch over me (from Oh, Kay!) Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances SZ56 1. Stick Dance 2. Sash Dance 3. In One Spot 4. Dance from Bucsum 5. Romanian Polka 6. Fast Dance |
The Irene Taylor Trust |
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The Irene Taylor Trust (ITT) has grown from an initiative to keep ‘Music in Prisons’ alive through intensive projects, to an inter-linking programme which offers long-term support both in prisons and the community. Our work has developed enormously over the years, but our mission remains the same; to inspire positive change in individuals in and on the fringes of the Criminal Justice System through creating music. Our focus is on showing participants how much they are capable of achieving by providing uniquely personal experiences, supporting them to realise their potential by making positive life changes and developing transferable skills. We work with around 500-600 people annually in prisons throughout England, people after they leave prison, and with young people in the community in deprived areas of London, Kent, Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In March 2024 the quality and impact of our work was celebrated by the Royal Philharmonic Society with their ‘Gamechanger’ award ‘for those who in unique and contemporary ways break new ground in music.’ At the ceremony our work was described as “living proof of music helping society to heal.”
“The most rewarding thing both mentally and artistically that I have ever done,” Music in Prisons participant
“The course taught me not to hold things in, but to let out what you think is good. It changed me a lot. I opened up a bit more about myself. I’m a domestic abuse survivor and it was helpful to open up about my mental health through writing music,” Making Tracks participant
“I was in a very low mental state at the beginning of the project and the project rescued me from that and gave me a sense of hope,” Music in Prisons participant
“There really are not the words that can help me conclude what the Sounding Out project and ITT have meant to me over the past year. My highlight has been Making Tracks, supporting younger artists to write and create original music, which ended with a very moving performance. This gave me a sense of purpose and reward by being a part of something larger than myself,” Sounding Out participant
“The most rewarding thing both mentally and artistically that I have ever done,” Music in Prisons participant
“The course taught me not to hold things in, but to let out what you think is good. It changed me a lot. I opened up a bit more about myself. I’m a domestic abuse survivor and it was helpful to open up about my mental health through writing music,” Making Tracks participant
“I was in a very low mental state at the beginning of the project and the project rescued me from that and gave me a sense of hope,” Music in Prisons participant
“There really are not the words that can help me conclude what the Sounding Out project and ITT have meant to me over the past year. My highlight has been Making Tracks, supporting younger artists to write and create original music, which ended with a very moving performance. This gave me a sense of purpose and reward by being a part of something larger than myself,” Sounding Out participant
Tuesday
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Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7pm Duration: approx. 60 mins Tickets: By invitation only |