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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Ten Pieces Proms announced: 23 & 24 July at the Royal Albert Hall
For the second year running, BBC Music’s classical music initiative Ten Pieces will take over the world-famous Royal Albert Hall – this…
EFDSS to receive international lifetime achievement award
National folk arts development agency, the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), has been named as one of the 2016 recipients…
Classroom gigs ‘key to improving behaviour of London schoolchildren’
London schoolchildren are being taught to take part in music gigs as a way of improving their behaviour in the classroom. Taking…
Streaming and vinyl kept the music industry buoyant in 2015
A huge rise in streaming, combined with the continued resurgence of vinyl, helped keep the British music industry buoyant in 2015. A…
300 Southwark Primary School children take part in Christmas Splash 15
Following a series of weekly in-school vocal workshops through Southwark Music Hub, Thursday 10 th December saw over 300 Southwark primary school…
Study shows that arts participation benefits young children with autism
A review of 18 peer-reviewed studies about arts participation, published between 2000 and 2015, adds to the growing evidence about how arts participation…
A-level music marking ‘lottery’ stops young composers getting top grades, study warns
Academics find teachers have little confidence in ‘unreliable’ external marking of compositions at AS- and A-level Young composers are missing out on top A-level grades…
700 children take part in Stoke-on-Trent City Music Service Christmas Concerts
Stoke-on-Trent City Music Service have received an impressive amount of local press coverage this week for their City Songbird’s Christmas Concerts with…
Disabled children learn on adapted musical instruments in S4E Music Service programme
For the first time anywhere in the world, disabled children are being taught on a range of adapted musical instruments capable of…
