Media Room
New Year's Day Concert: An Interview With Jessica Cottis
Ahead of Royal Northern Sinfonia’s New Year’s Day Concert, we caught up with conductor Jessica Cottis to find out more about her role, what she’s looking forward to about the concert, and her resolutions for the year ahead. How has 2019 been for you? It’s been quite an extraordinary year, actually. It’s been super…
Abigail's blog: Prevention and cure
With both my parents and my children succumbing to the flu which has been rampaging around and living in a solidly red constituency during a labour election campaign which has been big on health, my awareness of the NHS has been high over the past few weeks. Prescriptions have been on my mind one way…
YOUNG MUSICIANS AT THE HEART OF BRASS IN CONCERT FESTIVAL
One hundred young musicians from the region took centre stage at this year’s prestigious Brass in Concert Festival at Sage Gateshead. Pupils aged between eight and 16 from schools in Bedlington and Ashington took part in workshops with professional brass musicians in the months leading up to the event, which took place at Sage Gateshead…
RNS BRING MUSIC TO LIFE FOR SCHOOL PUPILS
Music being studied by young people in the North East was brought to life by Royal Northern Sinfonia for 656 school pupils at a special concert at Sage Gateshead. Pupils from 24 schools took their seats in the world-famous Sage One concert hall to hear RNS Live! – performing major works by Handel, Vivaldi, Beethoven…
New Gateshead Jazz line-up announced!
Sage Gateshead has today announced the artists joining Gateshead Jazz headliner Jamie Cullum at next year’s festival. Hard-hitting electronic trio GoGo Penguin, Mercury-nominated SEED Ensemble, dancefloor fillers Ibibio Sound Machine and House Gospel Choir, rising star Judi Jackson and many more will all be performing at Gateshead Jazz on Friday 20 March to Sunday 22…
The Sage Gateshead Interviews: Peter Groom (star of Marlene Dietrich: Live in Gateshead)
After touring internationally with award-winning one (wo)man show, Dietrich: Natural Duty, actor and drag artist Peter Groom is returning to the North East with a brand new cabaret. Drawing inspiration from Marlene Dietrich’s iconic solo show, performed internationally during her last years in the limelight, the new cabaret is a sensational evening of song that…
Blog: Music Live Under Five: Where our youngest musicians play and learn
Sage Gateshead’s weekly family music-making classes support children’s love of music and learning from an early age. The Mini Musicians classes for 0-4 years and Baby Musicians classes for 0-12 months include songs, dances and games which help to gently support development and help you experience just how magical music can be for the whole…
SAGE GATESHEAD SHORTLISTED FOR THREE NORTH EAST TOURISM AWARDS
Posted on behalf of NewcastleGateshead Initiative Businesses from across the region are celebrating after being shortlisted for the revamped North East England Tourism Awards 2020. Sage Gateshead has made the cut in three categories: Accessible and Inclusive, Business Tourism Venue and Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable. Nearly 150 applications were received for the awards and businesses…
'Tea Tyne’: Scarlett Moffatt hosts World Record-Breaking Cream Tea party to Celebrate National Lottery's 25th Birthday
TV personality Scarlett Moffatt joined 1,054 people from across the UK on our Concourse and across our Hall Bars as they munched their way into the Guinness World Records™ hall of fame by taking part in the largest cream tea party.
Abigail's blog: Creative Nation
What’s it like having such a creative job? Is a question which I get asked quite frequently. Totally brilliant is usually my answer. I love my job and I feel very lucky. However, I also sometimes explain that I run a charitable business with a £15 million turnover, a team of 500 people, a major…
NORTH EAST YOUTH BAND PREPARES FOR NATIONAL CONTEST AT SAGE GATESHEAD
Young musicians from across Sunderland and Durham will be performing in the national Brass in Concert Youth Entertainment Championship next month. Pride of the North East – Houghton Area Youth – was formed over 40 years ago and is made up of over 40 members aged between seven to 19. They will compete alongside six…
Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus tells all about Haydn's Creation
When Joseph Haydn turned his hand to the greatest story of all time – the creation – his imagination simply bubbled over. Filled with sparkling melodies and blockbuster choruses, singing The Creation on October 25 will be a real treat for the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. “I feel like a kid presented with a…
NEW MUSIC STORAGE DONATED TO IN HARMONY SCHOOL
Pupils at In Harmony school Hawthorn Primary took delivery of some fantastic new storage for their musical instruments and books thanks to Keepmoat Homes and Newcastle College. Every child at Hawthorn Primary School in Elswick learns an orchestral instrument through In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead, delivered by Sage Gateshead. The programme aims to inspire and transform…
Abigail's Blog: Humbug!
The nature of language in public and private life has bubbled to the surface of topicality in the past weeks. You might think at this stage that it just needs doing, no matter how or that it needs doing in the right way and not until the right way can be found, or indeed that…
ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA SHORTLISTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS RPS AWARD
Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) – orchestra of Sage Gateshead – has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award, ‘celebrating the outstanding, the pioneering and the inspirational in classical music’. The chamber orchestra, which celebrated its 60th year in 2018, resides at Sage Gateshead, which opened in 2004. It performs more than 130 concerts each…