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Title: BANDA EUROPA, la

Reference number: 8559

Date: 2009

Director: [d. Alexander G. de Bikuna]

Sponsor: Scottish Screen

Producer: [ Adam Barnett]

Production company: Autonomi

Sound: sound

Original format: DV

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.00 mins

Description: Information copied from DVD sleeve:- Award winning composer Jim Sutherland's dream was to bring together 35 virtuoso and talented musicians from all over Europe, to assemble the unique La Banda Europa. In collaboration with producer Neal Butler he was able to make this dream into a reality. The musicians played a vast range of unusual and historical instruments, which had never been combined before. The strangest instrument was the ancient Celtic Carynx or Wolf Horn. It's a bronze war horn which is 6ft long and held vertically above the player's head. La Banda Europa assembled for the first rehearsal, they only had four days to perfect the composition before their first performance in Newcastle. Then they met again two weeks later for grand finale concert in Scotland. This diverse and talented group of musicians had other challenges too, such a theatrical performance in wigs and costumes, the pressure of working with new people from different cultural backgrounds, not to mention the very unpredictable British weather.

See website for further information at http://www.labandaeuropa.com/index.php [last accessed 19/10/2010]

Credits: Award winning composer Jim Sutherland dream was to bring together 35 virtuoso and talented musicians from all over Europe to assemble the unique ‘La Banda Europa”

p. Adam Barnett
exec. p. Marie Olesen
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Robbie Allen
ass. d. Sergio Alvarez
ed. Ling Lee, Danjel Bugeja, Alex G. De Bikuna, Adam Barnett
on-line ed. Eric Robinson
ass. p. Dominika Svecova
sd. rec. and sd. designers Nick Dudman, Alex Fenton, Fentek Audio
animat. Trevor Courtney, Igloo Animations
cameras Adam Barnett, Sergio Alvarez, Alexander G. de Bikuna
graphic design and illustration Chiara Cerinotti
m. composed by Jim Sutherland

La Banda Europa is conceived and directed by Jim Sutherland
“Before the Wolf” by La Banda Europa
composer and musical director Jim Sutherland
producer Neil Butler
“Before the Wolf” was devised by Jim Sutherland and Neil Butler

commissioned by Newcastle and Gateshead Initiative

Additional Funding Support from IN SITU, Big in Falkirk; Scotlands National Street Arts Festival and the European Commission

UZ Events Performance Team
Theatre Director Hilary Westlake

Designer Merle Hensel
Lighting Phil Supple
Sound Andy Pink
Production Management Simon Byford

UZ Events Producing Team
Project Manager Colin Baird
Project Coordinator Gillian McCarrey
Financial Management Joyce Manning
Communication Manager Clara Seuss
Musicians who performed with La Banda Europa

Vielle Roux ( Hurdy Gurdy)
Pascal Lefeuvre
Anne Lise Foy
Patrice Villaume
Thierry Nouat
Andras Vigh

Nyckelharpas
Ditte Anderson
Markus Svensson
Erik Rydvall
Magnus Homstrom

Cello and Musical saw
Su a Lee
Louise Martin

Bagpipes and Whistle
Simon Mckerrel
Finlay Macdonald
Fraser Fifield
Rory Macleod

Gaita and Whistle
Edelmiro Fernandez
Guillermo Perez

Gaide, Frula and Clarinet,
Slobodan Trkulja

Duduks Clarinet Zurna and dahul
Tigran Aleksanyan
Vahe Hovanesian

English concertina also
Northumbrian bagpipes
Alistair Anderson


Pandereta
Maria Gavieiro Alvarez
Natalie Nuno Rodriguez

Dulzaina and Tarota
Francisco Balsco

Button Accordion
Lothar Lasser
Clariet, Bass Clariet
Dick lee

Carnyx and Bass trombone
John Kenny

Tuba
Keith Sharples

Bass Saxophone
Mick Foster

Trumpet
Bojan Petrovic
Ryan Quiggley
Ruari Wilson
Torbjorn Hultmark

Mellophonium and Tenor horn
Sandy Smith

Tapan drum darabuka and percussion
Oscar kamstra
Goran Milosevic

Percussion
Alan Purves
James Mackintosh

Marimba and Vibraphone
Jenny Hoy

Fujara flute Frula and bagpipes
Juraj dufek

Conductor
Rick Taylor

Vienna boys Chior
Adam Kurth
Maximilian Gheoghe

Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir

Thanks to
Noe Mendelle
Emma Davie
Matt Hulse
Adam Bristow
Stella Hall
Rita Nikodim
Maciej Kaliszczak
Guillaume Rouzet

Film Funded By Scottish Screen. Lottery Funded]