Sense of Sound | Creative Work

Reminisce at M&S Arena

Reminisce Festival is the UK’s biggest celebration of House music. For this show, we delivered a finale performance featuring Sense of Sound (40-piece).

Jennifer John led the creative direction, crafting a bespoke choral arrangement, overseeing a dedicated studio recording session, and choreographing the singers.

Cream Classical Concerts

Jennifer John and Sense of Sound has been an intrinsic part of annual the Cream Classical concerts since they began in 2016.

The annual live show, which takes place in the iconic Liverpool Cathedral, combines live vocals, an immersive light show, 50-piece orchestra, and is curated by K-Klass.

Very Vocal selects singers of the highest calibre, ensuring outstanding live performances. The result is a high-impact show that has become a standout fixture in the global house music calendar.

Cream Classical In The Park and Cream Classical Ibiza On The Waterfront take the production to a whole new level, performing to audiences of 40,000 and 45,000 respectively.

“ You were all superb. Probably my favourite one yet. It's such a pleasure to work with such talented, committed people and to watch you all deliver a show of that quality. Thank you for everything! ”

- Andy Owen

Head of Marketing & Creative, Cream Group

Eurovision - Welcome To Eurotopia

Welcome To Eurotopia emerged as a cultural initiative that spearheaded Liverpool’s 2023 Eurovision Festival: a vibrant two-week celebration led by Natalie McCool and Stealing Sheep.

Jennifer John produced an expansive vocal arrangement of original music composed by Natalie McCool that complemented the avant-garde production, which included a string orchestra and marching brass band. Follow her process through initial read-throughs with the choir, to production rehearsals and the final show, which drew crowds of over 30,000.

“Jennifer’s work on the Welcome to Eurotopia was outstanding and safe to say she was my first choice for this complex role. She has such a great approach with people, she is highly efficient, show initiative, and approaches projects with a great balance of optimism and pragmatism. Jennifer has such enthusiasm for singing and vocal arrangement, that it’s impossible not to match that energy when you are working with her. The show was a huge success and i look forward to the next project we work on!”
- Producer, Welcome to Eurotopia

North Star - Kwame Daniels

North Star is a live music and spoken word performance inspired by the speeches of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Conceived and developed by Kwame Daniels, the piece blended music, poetry, and visuals and saw an incredible array of artists all share one stage, including Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist and DJ Kaidi Tatham, and winning composer Ivor Novello.

For this project, Jennifer John created original vocal arrangements based on Kwame’s compositions, and directed the choir through rehearsals. The show, premiring in Ireland, was then picked up and run as a 3 week show in collaboration with the Irish Arts Centre in New York.

“Jennifer’s process is as innovative as her output. She arrived with a well-researched palette of vocal colours, but left space for discovery in the studio. Her ability to decode a director’s vision, translate it into musical architecture, and iterate swiftly under production pressures was invaluable”
- Kwame Daniels, Creative Director of North Star

For the BBC’s BAFTA-winning series starring Sean Bean, Sense of Sound provided backing vocals on the powerful closing theme.

Broken is a BAFTA-award winning series produced by the BBC and LA Productions starring Sean Bean.

Sense of Sound provided backing vocals on the closing soundtrack, written and performed by Ray Davies (The Kinks), providing emotional depth and texture that reflects the topics of community and collaboration portrayed in the series.

KOJ’s fusion of R&B, hip-hop, soul, and reggae creates a sound as authentic as the story behind it.

When we were approached to arrange a five-part choral piece, record in studio, and perform in the music video for VILLAIN WITH A CONSCIENCE, the team tackled the project with creativity and vigour. The result is a haunting yet deeply emotive collaboration that brings the record’s message to life.

15 years on from his death, Anthony Walker’s story was told by the BBC as a BAFTA-nominated film.

Anthony (2020), written by
BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Jimmy McGovern, engages with topics of race, longing, and loss. Sense of Sound performed throughout the film at pivotal moments to depict the joy of moments that Anthony himself never lived to see, including this scene with Rakie Ayola who won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.

Celebrating unity and collaboration for a national audience.

Sense of Sound (12 piece) appeared live on BBC Breakfast as part of the BBC’s Liverpool Eurovision programming. Performing as the Eurotopia Choir in collaboration with Stealing Sheep and Natalie McCool, they delivered a rich, layered performance that brought the spirit of Eurovision to life.