Peter and The Wolf, a production by In The Wings In the Wings specializes in making dance productions with live orchestral music for a family audience. We have built a team of international collaborators who have brought style and quality to our productions. We will continue to find and introduce new talent to create and develop our productions. In the Wings is proud to have worked with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra ensuring that our audience, young and old alike, has the very best live music experience. We have, to date, produced four shows for an international audience including Santa ­ Een Symphonisch Kerstverhaal which premiered at the Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Antwerp in 2003, Santa Meets the Ice Dragon which premiered at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway in 2004 and Peter and the Wolf which premiered at Hackney Empire Theatre in April 2006. In the Wings also acts as agent for touring dance and theatre productions, having represented Mummenschanz, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Wynton Marsalis and Alvin Ailey Dance Company. In the Wings has three offices ­ in Antwerp, New York and Whitstable, England. The Orchestra In the Wings will always make work for a live orchestra and will, wherever it is possible, present its productions with live musicians. The experience of watching theatre, and especially dance, accompanied by a live orchestra can be emotional, stirring and rousing but always rewarding. This experience cannot be matched as a way to introduce young people to theatre, music and the orchestra. In the Wings is proud to have worked with the American Symphony Orchestra (Santa Meets the Ice Dragon, Beacon Theatre, New York) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf, Hackney Empire, London) ensuring that our audience, young and old alike, has the very best live music experience.
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Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953 Sergei Prokofiev is considered one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He was born in the Ukraine where he was introduced to the piano by his mother - a talented pianist herself. He was a gifted child who began composing at the age of five, even before he could write, completing his first opera when he was nine. Sergei attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1904 to 1914 where he excelled, winning the Anton Rubinstein prize for his performance of the D flat piano concerto. In order to escape the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Prokofiev undertook a world tour. He travelled to London, Japan and the U.S. and settled in Paris where his popularity grew and where some of his great works were composed. Prokofiev settled back in Moscow in the 1930’s and it was there that among many other things he turned to composing music for children. In 1936 Prokofiev was asked by the Central Children’s Theatre to write a new musical symphony just for children. The aim was to cultivate musical tastes in children from their earliest years of school. Prokofiev completed Peter and the Wolf in just four days. The premiere was on 2nd May 1936 and since then it has become a classic, loved by children all over the world. Prokofiev died on 5th March 1953 in Moscow.
Paul Gallis (Set Design) created his first professional set design for the Holland Festival in 1974. For seven years he was a member of the artistic board of Netherlands’ famous Globe Theatre Group. In 1987 he founded Theatergroup Amsterdam. Paul has created over 250 set designs for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals and film, working for: Das Schiller Theater; Das Deutsches Theater, Bonn; Schauspielhaus Bonn, Hamburg; Das Thaliah Theater, Essen; Das Coloseum Theater; Das Apollo Theater; Opera De Nice; Det Ny Teater; La Scala, Milano; Stadtheater, Antwerp and Opera de la Monnaie, Bruxelles. On Broadway, Paul designed Cyrano the Musical. Other musicals include Joe, the Musical, Evita and Elisabeth which was awarded with the Bester Ausstatter 2001 prize. Paul created sets for the musical Tintin. Paul Gallis was awarded with the Proscenium Award which is presented by the United Theaters in the Netherlands, for outstanding achievement in theatre.
Mark Stephenson (Conductor) was a boy chorister at St John’s College, Cambridge, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was appointed a cellist in the Philharmonia Orchestra at the age of twenty-one by Maestro Riccardo Muti. In 1989 Maestro Giuseppe Sinopoli invited him to assist conducting at rehearsals in Verona, Tokyo, Brussels, East Berlin, Munich, Zurich and New York. In 1988 Mark Stephenson formed the chamber orchestra London Musici. Since 1992 he has appeared as a guest conductor in the UK and abroad with many leading orchestras. In 1994 choreographer Christopher Bruce appointed Mark Stephenson Music Director of Rambert Dance Company with London Musici as Associate Orchestra. In 1995 he commissioned three new ballet scores from Julian Anderson, Adam Gorb and Roxanna Panufnik. Mark has conducted for world-class choreographers including Jiri Kyliàn, Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, Robert Cohan, Martha Clarke, Per Jonsson, Matthew Hawkins, Didi Veldman and Mark Baldwin. He was Music Director of Rambert Dance Company from 1994-1996. London Musici won a TimeOut Award for Outstanding Achievement In Dance in 2004 and has given over 1000 performances with Rambert since 1994. In 2000 he won a Creative Britons Award in recognition of his contribution to music education and audience development in the UK. In September 2006 he will conduct the world première live orchestra screening, at the Royal Albert Hall, of BAFTA-award-winning director Suzie Templeton’s remarkable new animation film of Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf with the Philharmonia Orchestra. www.markstephenson.net
Yan Tax (Costume Design) has designed costumes for operas in Berlin, Dresden, Helsinki, Sydney, San Francisco and Florence. He has worked on many musical productions including The Three Musketeers, Elizabeth and Titanic in Germany; Mozart in Austria; Tintin in Belgium and Evita, Crazy For You and Fiddler on the Roof. in the Netherlands. Yan received a Tony Award Nomination for Cyrano in the U.S. His film work includes Blackbook, Left Luggage, Discovery of Heaven, Le Huitieme Jour, Mina Tannenbaum and Spetters.
Erik Van der Wurff (Composer) studied piano, flute and double bass at the conservatory of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He works as a composer, conductor, arranger and pianist for theatre, movies, television and animations broadcast in more than 20 countries. Erik has written seven musicals which have been performed in the Netherlands, Moscow, Prague and the United States. He has composed and arranged for most leading Dutch singers and orchestras. Erik has worked with more than 20 orchestras in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the US. In 2004 Erik conducted the American Symphony Orchestra for his own composition for Santa Meets the Ice Dragon. Erik has worked on over two hundred albums, 20 of which received an Edison.
Abi Bown has worked variously as a theatre designer, illustrator and puppet maker as well as a dramatist. Her play ‘Hey There Boy with The Bebop…’ won the Arts Council Childrens’ Award in 2004. ‘Spokey Dokey Vinegar Kiss’ was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award the following year. Abi is developing a new play, ‘Moonbathing’, set in 1969 on the day Buzz and Neil landed on the Moon. She is currently has a place on the BBC Drama Writers’ Academy.
Didy Veldman trained at the Scapino Academy in Amsterdam. She has danced with Scapino Ballet, Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve and Rambert Dance Company, working with international choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin and Christopher Bruce, amongst others. Didy’s choreography for her own company, Alias ­ En Manqué ­ won two major choreographic awards, the Dance Exchange International 1993 and the Prix Romand des Spectacle Independent 1994. Whilst dancing with Rambert, she created three works for their repertoire. Didy left Rambert in 2000 to concentrate on her choreographic career. Her first story telling full evening work, Carmen, created for Northern Ballet Theatre, premiered in 1999, and has since been re-staged for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal and The Royal New Zealand Ballet. She has created and re-staged works for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Ballet Gulbenkian, Rambert Dance Company, Cullberg Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre, New Zealand Ballet, the Komische Oper Berlin and Scottish Dance Theatre amongst others. Didy is currently creating a new Cinderella for Gothenborg Ballet and a new work for Introdans, Holland as well as Peter and the Wolf for In the Wings.
In the Wings specializes in making dance productions with live orchestral music for a family audience. We have built a team of international collaborators who have brought style and quality to our productions. We will continue to find and introduce new talent to create and develop our productions. In the Wings is proud to have worked with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra ensuring that our audience, young and old alike, has the very best live music experience.
We have, to date, produced four shows for an international audience including Santa ­ Een Symphonisch Kerstverhaal which premiered at the Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Antwerp in 2003, Santa Meets the Ice Dragon which premiered at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway in 2004 and Peter and the Wolf which premiered at Hackney Empire Theatre in April 2006.
In the Wings also acts as agent for touring dance and theatre productions, having represented Mummenschanz, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Wynton Marsalis and Alvin Ailey Dance Company. In the Wings has three offices ­ in Antwerp, New York and Whitstable, England.
The Orchestra
In the Wings will always make work for a live orchestra and will, wherever it is possible, present its productions with live musicians. The experience of watching theatre, and especially dance, accompanied by a live orchestra can be emotional, stirring and rousing but always rewarding. This experience cannot be matched as a way to introduce young people to theatre, music and the orchestra. In the Wings is proud to have worked with the American Symphony Orchestra (Santa Meets the Ice Dragon, Beacon Theatre, New York) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Peter and the Wolf, Hackney Empire, London) ensuring that our audience, young and old alike, has the very best live music experience.