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Department of Music

Music Education Mentors

We are delighted to be able to offer our students placements as Mentors with the . This pioneering role involves working closely with a primary school in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on a weekly basis, to put into practice music’s proven potential to be transformative within disadvantaged communities. 

Working with professional musicians and teachers from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ City Music Service, the programme's lead partner, they not only gain valuable experience for their professional careers, they also have a direct and potentially transformative impact on the lives of local children and communities.

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Inspiring and encouraging children to be creative with their instrument has been a challenging, yet incredibly wonderful and eye-opening experience – I have developed invaluable skills from the programme. 
 

 Nirali Shah

 
 

Music mentors at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Music Hub: our story so far...

Begun in autumn 2012, this project was initially funded as “In Harmony ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½” by the Arts Council England and the Department for Education, managed by the Arts Council. Drawing inspiration from the Venezuelan El Sistema, In Harmony is a national programme with the following core principles:

  • Being inspirational and transformational for children, families, schools and communities. It raises the expectations and improves life opportunities of children through high quality musical education.
  • It is modelled around participating in an orchestra. Music Mentors is immersive – with children playing instruments together several times a week from an early age.
  • It seeks to engage all children in the school or community where a project operates and is open to all.
  • Children learn while playing in an orchestra together. They are encouraged to express themselves through music, balanced with a rigorous approach so that progression is embedded from the start. The teaching is of exceptionally high quality.
  • As children learn, they help each other to progress.
  • Music Mentors inspires others to invest in it. Projects are sustainable and entrepreneurial.
It has been great to be a part of such an inspirational and innovative project that has evidently improved the children’s musical experiences and provided them with performance opportunities that I would have relished at school.
 

Ella Davis

 
 

 

Department of Music

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Lakeside Arts Centre
University Park
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