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Updates from the UK's music education sector
The Open University invites applicants for MA in Music
The Open University music department is delighted to invite applications for its innovative MA in music, which you can study from anywhere….
Music Mark publishes guidance to completing the DfE’s Consultation on the National Plan for Music Education
On the 24th February 2020 a group of CEOs and senior managers from across the Music Education and Industry met together to discuss the…
Learn to Play Day 2020 – Opportunity to participate
The opportunity is here for your organisation to participate in this wonderful musical initiative – Learn to Play Day. It will give…
Bumper Youth Champs entry inspires Dave Benson Phillips’ Trombone dream
After the introduction of the redesigned National Youth Brass Band Championships in 2019, this year has seen a recent record of 36…
Lancashire Youth Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 2020!
The Lancashire Youth Symphony Orchestra (LYSO) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2020. To mark this special anniversary on the 14th and…
Music Mark & ISM write to the Secretary of State for Education
Alongside the ISM we’ve written to the Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson about Hub Funding. We wrote, You will know…
Music Mark: Our Vision and Mission 2020
‘I would teach children music, physics and philosophy, but most importantly music’ – Plato Music Mark believes that over 2,000 years…
Our response to DfE’s Call for Evidence on the National Plan for Music Education
The first National Plan for Music Education (NPME) published in 2011 set out a ‘flexible template for high quality music provision throughout a…
National Open Youth Orchestra Centre for Birmingham
A progression route for talented young disabled musicians in the Midlands is being offered for the first time. Town Hall Symphony Hall,…
