Will Lang Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Music at Work offer a variety of music-based activities and sessions to corporate and public organisations. Our team building and away days include song writing and recording as well as a range of hands-on sessions from drumming to ukuleles. Music is the ultimate conference and meeting energizer and we utilise this with a selection of vocal and percussion-based sessions.. We also organise workplace choirs both as a 12-week performance program and on an ongoing basis.

United Kingdom

If your team was a song, how would it sound? You’re about to find out.Through a guided, collaborative songwriting process in a safe space, your team will write its own One Day Anthem. You’ll learn and laugh, sing and smile… but it doesn’t end there. A fully mixed and mastered track and accompanying film is yours to take away as a lasting keepsake of the day you channelled your inner Ed Sheeran, and possibly even air-grabbed for the first time.Our world-class facilitators are not… Show more If your team was a song, how would it sound? You’re about to find out.Through a guided, collaborative songwriting process in a safe space, your team will write its own One Day Anthem. You’ll learn and laugh, sing and smile… but it doesn’t end there. A fully mixed and mastered track and accompanying film is yours to take away as a lasting keepsake of the day you channelled your inner Ed Sheeran, and possibly even air-grabbed for the first time.Our world-class facilitators are not only highly trained educators but also established musicians, recording engineers and producers, all in high demand for their skills, ideas and talents. They’ve worked with the likes of Basement Jaxx, Taylor Swift, Craig David, Sam Smith and Elbow, and they’re yours for the day. One Day Anthem is entirely portable. It works in nearly any environment, with any number of people. Teams emerge from the day with boosted morale, stronger relationships and hidden talents unleashed.What better way to get your team communicating than through the universal language of music? Visit our website to find out more. Show less

United Kingdom

Will established, and has developed Halsway Manor's Hothouse youth projects since 2010. Alongside this Will is also Director of Hothouse Festival; Halsway Manor's one-day, one-night youth folk music and arts event.

Spark! street-theatre is a magical live music, movement and lighting spectacular in whic seven mysterious characters composed of light and sound transform the landscape around them.

Will Lang is a modern British Folk musician, composer and producer, who is a core tutor on Newcastle University’s Folk and Traditional Music degree. One of the most versatile musicians on the British Folk scene today over the last few years, Will has not stopped. Will is well known for his collaborations, bringing a folk influence to many prolific performers including Mercury Music Award-winning Nitin Sawhney, The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Tabla player Aref Durvesh and Northern… Show more Will Lang is a modern British Folk musician, composer and producer, who is a core tutor on Newcastle University’s Folk and Traditional Music degree. One of the most versatile musicians on the British Folk scene today over the last few years, Will has not stopped. Will is well known for his collaborations, bringing a folk influence to many prolific performers including Mercury Music Award-winning Nitin Sawhney, The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Tabla player Aref Durvesh and Northern Spirit Singers in the BBCs Choir of the year. Will is known as one of the finest Bodhran players of the current generation. He regularly records sessions and guests for bands and solo artists which have included Newton Faulkner, Sam Brookes, Jamie Smith's Mabon, Barrule, The Balliner Whalers to name a few. Show less

Teeside

Working with men at HMP Holme House to create and record music; inspired by their lessons and experiences.

Teeside

Hidden Voices is a songwriting-based, creative project designed to improve rehabilitation and decrease reoffending, by exploring the experiences and emotions of families who have been affected by imprisonment.More information in link.

South East Northumberland

Off the Beat offers an exciting opportunity for young people to connect with other young creatives in the North East and further afield. Featuring online jamming and live streaming of music gigs; it will showcase their talent and inspire others to make music. Working with talented artists keen to share their skills and expertise, young people will co-create work and safely reach out way beyond their immediate locality.The project is funded by Youth Music. It is a partnership between… Show more Off the Beat offers an exciting opportunity for young people to connect with other young creatives in the North East and further afield. Featuring online jamming and live streaming of music gigs; it will showcase their talent and inspire others to make music. Working with talented artists keen to share their skills and expertise, young people will co-create work and safely reach out way beyond their immediate locality.The project is funded by Youth Music. It is a partnership between Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project, Northumberland County Council and Helix Arts. Show less

United Kingdom

In 2012 Will was made a musical associate of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and commissioned to write a series of folk inspired choral pieces with Niopha Keegan of the Unthanks, to be performed in the four corners of the country from 2012-2015 starting at The Sage Gateshead '12 and Rochester Cathedral, 2013.In 2013 Will appeared with NYCGB Chamber Choir on BBC Radio 3's The Choir programme, performing his and Niopha's arrangements.

Durham Cathedral, Durham

Commissioned by Durham Choral Society, 'Canny at Neet, Bonny at Morn' is an illustration of the people of the North-East through their own songs.Will took influence from the industry and agriculture of the area, using music that was born from the working conditions and lives of its people to celebrate the cultural heritage of the region."To have a composer amongst us who is able to transform Northumbrian folk music into such a fantastically rich grand modern translation, is… Show more Commissioned by Durham Choral Society, 'Canny at Neet, Bonny at Morn' is an illustration of the people of the North-East through their own songs.Will took influence from the industry and agriculture of the area, using music that was born from the working conditions and lives of its people to celebrate the cultural heritage of the region."To have a composer amongst us who is able to transform Northumbrian folk music into such a fantastically rich grand modern translation, is just so hope-giving in a time where slightly undulating bland music seems to prevail" Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Principle percussion tutor, Bachelor of Music with honours in folk and traditional music. Teaching at under graduate and post graduate level, recital assessor and occasional lecturer in music skills.

National

Workshop Musician and Facilitator. Will worked in mainstream and special schools, hospitals, hospices, prisons and youth offenders institutes.With Live Music Now! will recorded albums in 3 different prisons including HMP Dartmoor, The Verne and HMP Exeter, gaining mainstream airplay on BBC Radio 2 with HMP The Verne Chorus and several Koestler; prison arts awards.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Music, 2:1

Pgce - Secondary Music

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