Shell sponsored RSNO project inspires creativity in Fife Secondary Schools
Secondary School pupils from Inverkeithing and Beath High Schools in Fife have been working on original compositions and performed their music accompanied by Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) musicians at the newly refurbished Usher Hall, Edinburgh in January.
RSNO musicians have been working with pupils from both schools for two months during which the 13 to 16-year olds created original music inspired by Edvard Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt, Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play.
The pupils' performance was open to all concert-goers attending the RSNO's Peer Gynt and Tchaikovsky 5 concert at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Following the schools' performance the pupils attended the evening performance by the RSNO.
Shell U.K. Limited has been associated with these projects for the past eight years. Alex Baird, Plant Installation Manager at Shell's Fife Natural Gas Liquids Plant at Mossmorran near Cowdenbeath said: "Shell are delighted to be sponsoring the RSNO and to be able to give the pupils from Beath and Inverkeithing the chance to work with talented musicians and to have an opportunity to play in Edinburgh's Usher Hall."
