Youth, Education and Development

Youth, Education & Development

After more than two years of development, Aurora Orchestra has launched its new music programme for schools, and premiered two family performances, The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse, based on Mac Barnett's book, and The Making of the Orchestra with Mason Bates. This year Bristol Beacon launched Future Proof, its brand new flagship mentoring programme for local music creators aged 18-25. Birmingham Royal Ballet announced the return of in-person Class on Stage, and have continued its Repertoire Training classes for both adults and children.

Britten Sinfonia announced its 2023 programme for developing composers, Opus 1. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra launched the recruitment for its new CBSO Career Accelerator programme. Dunedin Consort launched Intrada, a new international artist development programme supporting early-career musicians in historically informed performance, run in collaboration with B’Rock Orchestra and Concerto Copenhagen. English Touring Opera released the new trailer for its upcoming children's opera Tutankhamun's Shoes.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra created multi dimensional performances in a car park with Brent and London based communities © Chris Winter

Otis Enokido-Lineham conducting the London Schools Symphony Orchestra earlier this year ©Kevin Leighton

Gabrieli Consort & Players kicked off its Roar project with Elijah in its first residential course since 2018. This Christmas, Roar will also be performing In Dulci Jubilo, featuring the music of Michael Praetorius in a belated celebration of the 400th anniversary of the composer’s death. Black Lives in Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama's Young Artists launched a conductor-in-residence initiative with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. The Hallé invited teachers and vocal leaders to its year-long Leading School Choirs Training Course.

London Mozart Players announced its ambassadorship of Naxos for Education as part of a joint Audience Development Partnership from its 2022–2023 season onwards. The London Philharmonic Orchestra opened applications for its new Conducting Fellowship offering the development opportunities for two early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession. London Sinfonietta opened applications for its 2023 Academy for emerging instrumentalists to explore, rehearse and perform new music alongside its musicians.

National Children's Orchestra embarked on its summer residential orchestral programmes.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has programmed a large selection of Family Concerts this autumn, and announced the appointment of four musicians in it first annual Emerging Musicians Fellowship. Red Note Ensemble has several ongoing AEP projects: A Child's Guide To Anarchy which sees schoolchildren working alongside composer Brian Irvine and ensemble musicians in a communityled multi-media project; Methil take places in five locations across central Scotland to bring back live music at grassroots level; and New Music Makers for young composers in high school to create and explore new music.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Community and Education team, RPO Resound, visited Thorpe Park alongside 8,553 schoolchildren for a day celebrating STEAM education - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. RPO musicians lead activities that engaged the children with orchestral music with interactive performances, trying out musical instruments and having opportunities to make their own compositions. Scottish Opera offered young female identifying singers the opportunity of a short residency to develop a new opera based on Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, led by writer Jeanne PansardBesson and composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

The four musicians appointed as Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s first Emerging Musicians Fellows are: Rachael Watson; Cameron Chin-See; Angus Bain; and Matthew Brett.