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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Star tenor Alfie Boe calls for increase in funds for music education
Alfie Boe, the romantic tenor who led celebrations outside Buckingham Palace at the Queen’s diamond jubilee concert, has threatened to storm parliament…
Extra music training improves students’ visual and auditory memory
Researchers from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany studied the influence of two years’ of school music training on visual and auditory memory…
Apply to Making Music’s ‘Adopt a Composer’ project now
The Adopt a Composer scheme pairs amateur choirs, orchestras, and ensembles with a composer for one year. It is funded by the…
The UK creative sector leads the world in talent – now it needs a strategy
The UK’s creative industries have never been stronger. British developers are behind some of the world’s bestselling video games, UK architectural companies…
‘Schools must focus on the arts for top rating’: Harman
SCHOOLS will be penalised in their Ofsted rating if they do not give students an outstanding “artistic and cultural” education, the deputy…
Ed Miliband talks exclusively to Classic FM: ‘I think we undervalue artistic subjects’
The leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, has spoken to Classic FM’s Nick Ferrari about the importance of music education and…
How do you memorise an entire symphony?
In a feat of musical memory, the Aurora Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony without printed scores at the BBC Proms 2015….
Song writing competition for UK schools, colleges & universities
A free competition for students to write songs for Fidel the musical about Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution is now launched…
Austerity and the arts: the hidden cuts that are bad for our cultural health
The main parties show commitment in their manifestos to increasing access to and diversity in the arts, yet they are ignoring the…
