Press & Awards
Awards & Nominations
2020 Winner of Scottish New Music Award
2017/18 Atlantic Fellowship in Social and Economic Equity
2016 Creative Edinburgh Awards shortlist, Leadership Award
2015/16 Melting Pot Social Innovation Accelerator Award (SIIA)
2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards shortlist – Social Award
2014 Scotsman Fringe First Award for innovation & outstanding new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2013 Scottish Jazz Awards shortlist – Innovation Award
2013 Scottish Jazz Awards shortlist – Education Award
2012/13 – International Creative Entrepreneurs fellowship
2012 First Port/Scotland Unltd. Social Entrepreneurs award
2011 Melting Pot Social Incubator Innovation Award
2010 Border Crossing Media Social Enterprise Award
Press Quotations
“Rave Culture meets last night of the Proms” The Herald
“A trip on a grand, ambitious and stimulating scale” The Scotsman
“Makes the consequences of globalisation personal, it’s impressively powerful stuff” The Scotsman
“A spectacular modern band” The Guardian
“An Orchestral Revolution” Edinburgh Evening News
“An unusual and curious idea, this is a meeting of cultures that typifies the spirit of the Fringe.” Broadway Baby
“Clashes cultures on very personal and emotive footing” **** fest
“Bright Sparks – Tinderbox 0rchestra challenges the preconceptions of classical music”. Classical Music Magazine feature
“A musical tour de force… This Tinderbox has already kindled something that dazzles” The List
Also featured on BBC Radio Culture Studio, BBC China, NME online, STV & The Skinny.
**** The Guardian, **** The Scotsman, **** The List, **** fest, **** Broadway Baby
Articles
Journal of Music – Winner of the Scottish New Music Award (17/04/2020)
Edinburgh Live – Free Autism Workshops in the National Museum (12/07/2019)
Ben Glue (Poet) – Tinderbox Fest 2015 Review
The Skinny – Creative Edinburgh Interview – Tinderbox on Shortlist (27/10/2015)
The Scotsman – Hidden Door Festival Review (30/05/2015)
New Hellfire Club Glsagow – Kelburn Review (14/10/13)
Bachtrack – ECME at Reid Concert Hall (08/04/2013)
The List – 4* for Tinderbox Fest (20/12/12)
Edinburgh Evening News – Tootle Round the Shops (06/2011)
The Guardian – Edinburgh’s Experimental Youth Orchestra is Evolving (23/05/2011)
The Scotsman – Between a Rock and a Classical Place (04/2011)
Edinburgh Evening News – Tinderbox Sparks an Orchestral Revolution (04/2010)