Youth, Education and Development

Youth, Education & Development

Aurora Orchestra continued with their programme for children with Schumann and Pepper the Monkey, and teamed up with Peppa Pig for My First Concert Tour. BBC Concert Orchestra commenced their 3-year Great Yarmouth residency through concerts with important environmental messages to 500 primary school pupils. Bristol Beacon is bringing 4500 primary school children together as part of its Earthsong Programme which aims to guide children, particularly those from disadvantaged areas, through a 5-year music education programme. DCMS and DfE have published their national plan for music education setting out their vision for boosting young people’s access to music, including £25m for instruments.

English National Opera is to release a TV show on Sky to introduce children to opera.

BBC Concert Orchestra’s Create Yarmouth project © Orchestras Live

This spring, English Touring Opera performed The Firebird as a puppet opera, and created a multimedia version of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula for 8-14 year olds. ETO will take families on an adventure to Ancient Egypt and the Roaring Twenties this autumn in its new interactive children's opera, Tutankhamun’s Shoes. The organisation also has a range of Learn at Home resources for children from 3+.

Gabrieli launched a new appeal, Roar: All Set, to help 170 young singers from youth choirs across the UK to join our professional musicians and world-class soloists at our first Roar residential course since 2018.

London Chamber Orchestra has announced the first cohort to take part in its LCO New scheme, an initiative designed to support emerging composers. London Sinfonietta's Academy 2022/23 culminated in a performance entitled Musicians of Tomorrow.

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra's Side-by-Side scheme is well underway, and has welcomed many young musicians from in and around Oxford to play alongside the orchestra. The orchestra also held its third and final FUNomusica Family Concert of the season.

The Mozartists' latest outreach workshops, in partnership with Ealing Music Service and John Lyon's Charity, are now underway, have seen the orchestra working with over 1200 children this term, including new SEND workshops.

The Welsh National Plan for Music Education has been released, the first ever to be produced by the Welsh Government. At the heart of the plan is that there will be ‘equality by ensuring access for all learners to play, sing, take par t, progress and create music’.

Young people from two Leicestershire schools have worked with Philharmonia musicians, hip-hop, reggae and spoken word artists to create Symphonize. Royal College of Music has been ranked as the top school for Performing Arts worldwide.

Royal Northern College of Music's new Young Artists programme for musicians aged 11-18 will be funded by Sony Music's UK Social Justice Fund. Royal Scottish National Orchestra have launched Immerse, its full-orchestra project that enables upper secondary school music pupils to experience the excitement of a live orchestra up close in concert.

BambinO, Scottish Opera’s critically acclaimed ‘opera for babies’, is touring to East Kilbride, Perth, Inverness, Banchory, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Motherwell and Renfrew this summer.

Sinfonia Cymru's annual project for primary schools across Powys, featured the story of the first Welsh settlers in Patagonia and their voyage on the Mimosa in 1865.

Ulster Orchestra ran its first-ever four-day masterclass in Belfast, in collaboration with Cardiff International Academy of Conducting. The orchestra was also able to return to inperson projects as part of its educational programme, Crescendo.