Education and learning has long been at the heart of the AAM’s work — but it was not until 2010 that the orchestra formally established its AAMplify new generation programme to nurture the young artists, audiences and arts managers who represent its future.  The programme has three strands:

AAMplify audiences offers school children, students and young people aged up to 26 subsidised £3 tickets to AAM concerts. 

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is strongly committed to enabling dynamic, inspiring and extraordinary music-making projects that provide new opportunities for community members to engage in music and explore their creativity.

Aurora Orchestra aims to inspire, challenge and astonish new audiences with great music, brilliantly performed. It seeks to be the UK’s most versatile orchestra, combining world-class performance with eclectic and innovative programming, a commitment to adventurous collaboration and a refusal to be bound by convention.

BBC Concert Orchestra is one of Britain’s most versatile ensembles. Since 1952 they have been the house orchestra for BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night, they give broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and can be heard on BBC Natural History TV soundtracks. As well as concerts at the BBC Proms, the orchestra regularly perform at the Southbank Centre and Watford Colosseum.

The Education and Community Outreach Department of the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales connects with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Workshops, projects and concerts take the Orchestra and Chorus to venues, schools, village halls and communities and offer unique opportunities for people to work with our musicians.

The BBC Philharmonic, based in MediaCity on Salford Quays, strives to bring exciting and innovative Learning and Outreach opportunities to families, schools, students, amateur musicians and members of our local community. Through local partnerships and adventurous collaborations, we are able to offer pre-concert events, bespoke school workshops, composition based projects, professional mentoring to the next generation of orchestral players and family/community projects across Salford and the North West.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra aims to bring classical music and orchestral life to as wide a range of people as possible through learning and outreach projects which run alongside our orchestral concerts in Glasgow, across Scotland and on BBC Radio 3.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is committed to adventurous and innovative education work, opening up the diverse repertoire the orchestra plays to as wide an audience as possible, and acting as a musical resource to our local community.

The BSO Education & Participation Department has a thriving programme that see the Orchestra working beyond the concert hall with people of all ages and abilities, reaching communities throughout the South & South West, we organise activities ranging from inspirational workshops in schools to special performances in care homes.  A core part of the Orchestra’s mission is its work beyond the concert hall.

Rooted in the East of England, our Creative Learning programme engages with schools, families and communities to provide opportunities for the widest possible audience to access high-quality professional music making. The programme is varied, high-impact, and fulfils a need for provision in the East of England that no other orchestra is as well-placed to meet. In the last three years, Britten Sinfonia has: