Morgan Overton: I’m Making a Statement

Morgan Overton, born 2000, is a composer from Rutland.

In 2016, Morgan was selected from hundreds of entrants as one of the winners in the Upper Junior category of the annual BBC Proms Inspire Competition and as part of his prize, was commissioned to write a piece for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain’s Fellowship Octet. Morgan’s piece, I’m Making a Statement, was inspired by the work and research of Created Out of Mind - an interdisciplinary team of scientists, visual artists, musicians, broadcasters, clinicians and carers working to explore, challenge and shape perceptions and understanding of dementias through science and the creative arts.

I’m Making A Statement sets poetry from The Things Between Us - Living Words: Anthology 1 which documents the words of people living with different types of dementias. Morgan combined texts to create a suite that illustrated the different forms of dementias and his different perspectives on them.
I’m Making a Statement was performed by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain’s Fellowship Octet and broadcast live as part of BBC Radio 3’s residency at Wellcome Collection, from 13 - 15 October 2017.