Our ensemble is now at the start of our 3rd year of running... and as I've mentioned before, the whole enterprise has taken off and snowballed a LOT faster than me and my wife had ever imagined. We had always started the ensemble to slowly grow... with no more ambition than playing music that we like, with people that we like playing with, in the manner that we believe is the true soul of "classical music".
Nothing more grand than that... just a pet project that we had hoped would garner a handful of followers and interested colleagues. And then to inspire and train the next generation of younger and upcoming musicians.... train our replacements!
Anyway, something that had started as a possible 4 concerts per year... which was on par with ensembles that were about 10-20 years in existence... turned out to be 23 concerts and about 12 education projects in 2 years! Ooooops... and a pretty loyal following that is growing slowly, a strong financial base (weird for an arts organisation...), and a backlog of colleagues who want to come and play. Double oooops....
This year will see our regular 4 concerts, 6 training spots, a new composition commission, a batch of children's concerts as an experiment, a regional tour... plus much more... and that was where we were expecting to be in 10 years!
.... and all of this has meant that whilst we want to concentrate on just the concert planning and music making part of things... that we have had to deal with learning and dealing with the administrative and publicity side of things a lot sooner than we had thought. And behind the scenes... it is still just me and my wife running things! Two musicians who are quickly learning the ropes of running an arts organisation!
Anyway, we have started to have a few earnest volunteers come forward to offer their time and skills... and whilst we are crazily grateful for that, we run such a light operation that it is hard to think of things that they could help out with!
At the moment, we have a couple of people helping with the ticket desk before the concert... that is a gigantic help, and lets us concentrate on doing pre-concert stuff. Plus, they do it much much much much better and put so much effort and style into it! Eternally grateful!
But we are starting to struggle with where else to place people... we have some possibilities:
- Helping with the YouTube channel... mainly, we need people to create and add some visuals to our live recordings so that we can upload them.
- Grantwriting/Proofing
- Flyer distribution
- additional accommodation/transport for guests?
These are the sorts of things that we have started thinking about... but we need to sit down and try and get our heads around more ideas. It would be great to be able to have people helping out in whatever capacity that they feel like they can help... and if they are offering to help, I think it is even better if we can involve them!
Again... a problem of growing a lot faster than we had thought we would... a good problem, but one that we can't shelve away!
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