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2021-04-05-accounts

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation)

Report and Financial Statements Year ending 5April 2021

Charity Number 1182926

Report of the trustees for the year ending 5 April 2021

The trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with the statement of financial activity for the charity for the year ending 5 April 2021.

Charitable Objectives

Isikoza is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, established to:

OBJECTIVES AND AIMS

Isikoza is committed to enabling people from diverse backgrounds access to ‘inspiring and practical’ educational training in the fields of jazz and popular music.

The charity aims to achieve this by:

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

In the financial period April 2020 to April 2021 we have:

PROJECTS:

ONLINE RECITALS

Because of our lack of a ‘building’ we decided to harness the wonderful opportunity available to us by having an online presence. Our chair delivered the online recitals which consisted of him performing unaccompanied solo Jazz Guitar. In essence he was able to develop and devise recitals initiated at undergraduate and postgraduate level music degree courses.

To the uninitiated performing solo is one of the hardest mediums, especially solo jazz guitar, which includes a fair amount of improvisation and many times reinterpretation of a musical score. Our audience were able to ascertain the following important elements; essential to a successful recital of Jazz genres.

The response has been positive with many viewings; indicating where the charity may perhaps develop this particular pathway, albeit with other instruments .We are still keen, however to resume our Music Workshops and masterclasses in person once the opportunity arises.

A Level Music Student (How to Improvise on Jazz Repertoire)

The student has vast experience in the Classical field and Repertoire and is an excellent Grade 8 Pianist and Grade 6 Bassoonist. As Bassoonist with an established city symphony orchestra her role is defined to replicate the score and, follow the conductors leading.

Notwithstanding during her A Levels (Music) she thoroughly enjoyed the lessons investigating Jazz standards and of these Stella by Starlight was the song she asked for the Charities assistance to unravel the complexities of improvisation.

We broke down key components of the score and demonstrated/ explained the following:

There is a great deal of scope and potential for this project to develop because it is a recurring theme of Classical musicians who are trained in the interpretation of musical scores yet are

unaware of the musical devices essential to ‘Jam’ in settings were aural perception and comprehension are greatly prized. We hope to receive funding to develop this project.

GOSPEL TRANSCRIPTIONS (Music Charts)

Our charity was called upon to transcribe Gospel compositions in the style of music commonly known as Hi-Life. Hi-Life emanates from the West Coast of Africa and is a popular feature idiomatic of Ghanaian music. Transcribing from audio to (manuscript paper) proved quite a challenge because this style is replete with cross rhythms and inflections.

Furthermore the musicians who asked for the transcription were vocalists! Vocalists are notorious for singing out of key and out of tune! To compensate for this, we wrote the charts in duel notation; meaning we used a system of harmonic structures with Roman Numerals and staved notation.

This decision proved to be a wise choice for although the original composition and transcription was written in F#, the vocalists embarked upon singing the score in the key of C!

CONSULTATIONS WITH MR EDISON HERBERT (BMus) Hons

Edison Herbert is the brother of internationally, renowned classical composer Philip Herbert (BBC Radio 2, 3, and 4 as well as BBC TV & Chineke Orchestra) He is an outstanding jazz guitarist, and a graduate of Trinity College of Music London. Seen on Channel 4’s award winning television series (Guitar Star) brought him further prominence to a wider audience in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Mr Herbert has graciously offered assistance with development of Jazz Guitar Performance, Recital preparation and Jazz Guitar Workshop performance practice.

MUSIC ADVOCACY BBC RADIO STOKE

Our Chair was invited to be interviewed on BBC Radio Stoke flagship programme Eze on Sunday with Rev Geoff Eze. Rev Geoff is an ordained minister for the Church of England and was one of the officiating ministers for England Legend Gordon Banks funeral.

Questions revolved around the future of Stoke on Trent regarding the Arts and Humanities in Post Industrial Societies and the relevance/ significance/ importance of music generally in society. The interview was deemed a success with the chair succinctly answering the questions and advocating for greater economic empowerment and investment (Stoke City Council) for the arts and music amongst other things.

FUTURE

All of the above projects were again delivered with the charity receiving no financial remuneration. Obviously we will be unable to continue on in this fashion as we progress, however because we are a new charity we unanimously are of the belief that it is extremely important for us to establish our name in the city and therefore see all the projects aforementioned as ‘invaluable’ to create an awareness of our organisation and what we have to offer for the city of Stoke-On Trent.

Notwithstanding what we are also experiencing is that when we submit bids for potential funding and revenue streams the funders are keen to highlight that it appears we have no ‘track’ record of project delivery, handling large sums of money and other issues

To address this pressing matter we are investigating several options and of these the most appealing is to formulate successful partnership(s) with organisations that share similar interests and are more established.

TRUSTEES

The board of trustees met three times during the financial period 5th April 2020 to 5th April 2021

Charity trustees during this period were:

Paul Roberts Elaine White (Secretary) Derrick Wallace (Chair)

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