a programme teaching beatboxing to young people called the Beatbox Academy with Battersea Arts Centre. He developed a series of free learning resources in association with Musical Futures which he publishes on his website. He hosted a Concert Against Knife Crime in 2008 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in an attempt to raise awareness of the benefits of working creatively with young people. Musical guests at the concert included Jarvis Cocker, Mutya Buena, Ashley Walters and Teddy Thompson. In 2008, he was commissioned to create a piece called "One Voice", bringing together four community choirs from diverse backgrounds including a Gospel Choir, a Brazilian Choir, a children's choir and a contemporary choir. The following year, he worked with BBC Blast to promote beatboxing to young people in a series of short films. In April 2009 he created Urban Vani, a community project bringing together beatboxing and South Asian Dance. In 2012, he created a new Indian beatboxing orchestra called "Voctronica" in collaboration with the British Council. SK Shlomo's charity work includes hosting blindfolded gigs for RLSB with Imogen Heap and Basement Jaxx, and regular collaborations with Cape Farewell, a climate change awareness charity. In 2005 he worked with the Ubuntu Educational Fund to raise money for orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa. He has also made two charity collaborative albums with the proceeds going to War Child and Médecins Sans Frontières respectively. Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra In 2010 SK Shlomo performed the premiere of the "Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra" by Anna Meredith, an acclaimed contemporary composer who had risen to critical acclaim after composing a piece for the Last Night of the Proms. The Concerto was commissioned by Southbank Centre and was the first fully developed orchestral work to feature a beatboxer as the soloist, as well as 5 more beatboxers embedded in the 21 piece orchestra. Anna Meredith and SK Shlomo spent 2 years developing a notation system to create the score, which SK Shlomo then made available for free via his website. World Loopstation championships SK Shlomo incorporates a loop pedal into his solo performances to perform more complex original compositions and covers. In October 2010 he entered the UK heats of the World Loopstation Championships and became the UK Champion. He then flew to Los Angeles in January 2011 and was awarded the title of World Loopstation Champion by the judges Dave Navarro, Steve