We’re passionate about Learning and Participation. People of all ages from across the North West take the lead in projects as equals alongside professional artists to create their own inspiring new pieces. Our projects:

·       Are based in participant lead creativity

·       Work across the arts with music at the centre of activity

·       Use music in all its forms as a tool for learning

Music for Youth is a unique organisation that exists to support and connect young musicians and their teachers and music leaders all over the UK, through performance based events in the form of regional and national festivals each year. These attract around 40,000 young musicians who perform to peers, the public, and to MFY’s professional Music Mentors, who provide each group with constructive feedback to assist their onward musical journey.

Musical Bridges: transforming transition is a national initiative that helps schools improve their students’ transfer experiences into secondary school. With a focus on students’ engagement in music-making, the initiative brings primary and secondary music teachers together to co-develop lesson plans, curriculum materials and shared repertoire to create pathways which support their students’ musical progression into their secondary schools.

Musical Futures is a Paul Hamlyn Foundation special initiative, established in 2003 to create innovative models of learner engagement with music, particularly in secondary schools. At its core, Musical Futures has a series of tried-and-tested pedagogical methods that have been proven to fully engage, motivate, and sustain student learning in music.

Opera North Education aims to bring the richness and excitement of opera in all its forms to as many people as possible across the North of England and beyond.

The orchestra’s concert work is concentrated around three venues. Its London home is St John’s Smith Square where it performs a monthly series, Dorchester Abbey where it has an autumn festival and concerts at Christmas and Easter, and a series of osj proms in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The orchestra continues to perform all over the UK.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is proud to deliver a wide range of music education work across the UK.  OAE Education brings the innovative ethos of the Orchestra to every project, providing access to top-level performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire delivered in an exciting and refreshing way. 

Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM) is a unique producer that works to develop and present the highest quality and most innovative new music and sound-based live events. We bring music, artists and audiences together in ways that encourage and create memorable and meaningful experiences for all.

As part of this we run an education and outreach programme designed to harness the talent of the musicians OCM brings to Oxford to give people the opportunity to hear and take part in workshops across the county.

Education work outside of the concert hall is absolutely central to the mission of the Oxford Philomusica, the professional symphony orchestra in residence at the University of Oxford. This covers the complete spectrum, from providing tuition and performance opportunities to the young musically gifted, to taking music into areas of economic and social deprivation which otherwise have no opportunity to experience any form of live music.

Paragon Music is an inclusive music organisation based in Glasgow using music to transform the lives of young people and adults by participating in high quality music and dance performances.   We create inclusive learning and performance opportunities where people from all walks of life and with a wide range of additional support needs come together, develop new skills, meet new friends and discover their true potential through a range of arts disciplines.