1 September 2014 CMEH Update Welcome back to a new school year. Welcome to the Autumn 2014 edition of the Music Education Hub newsletter. This termly newsletter will provide you with an update of recent hub activity and events and let you know about forthcoming plans. I would like to thank our partners and supporting organisations for their ongoing support. To keep up to date with Hub developments, register on www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org to receive email alerts or follow us on Facebook and Twitter

A Level & BTEC Conference 2nd October 2014, Keay Theatre, St Austell Music Education 9.00am – 3.15pm A one day FREE event especially Conference for all A level and BTEC students Thursday 23rd October 2014 from across the county, designed Wadebridge Showground, PL27 7JE to motivate and inspire them This day will offer an exciting variety of speakers, at the start of their studies. workshops and networking opportunities for both Conductor and former Education school and community music educators. Director of the London Keynote speaker - Joe Broughton, Musical Director of the Co-Create Project Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Workshops by BBC Learning, Bailey will open with an insight Philharmonia Orchestra and Music for Youth into the life of a professional musician. This will be followed £75 per person, lunch included by workshops in performance, Please book early to avoid disappointment. composition and managing an To book: www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk Course Code: MEC1 event, all led by experts in each * Discount rate of £40 per person available to small schools (<100 field. In addition there will be pupils), freelance musicians and second delegates. information stands relating to music career opportunities and sharing sessions for teachers. For more information contact : Cornwall Music Education Hub E: [email protected] Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Places are free. Road, PL31 2QN To book places for your students

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Cornwall Music Education Hub Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin PL31 2QN T: 01872 327900 Follow us on Twitter @CMusicHUB Join us on Facebook W Visit us at www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org 2 Penzance Youth String Orchestra on the The members of Penzance Youth String Orchestra basses on open enjoyed a week long residency on the Isles of Scilly top boats, tractors, in August, performing 5 concerts on 5 islands over quad bikes and 5 days. The 20 piece ensemble were an ideal size trailers was a new for the wonderful new community centres on each experience for of the Off-islands and the Town Hall on St. Marys, all the players. presenting a programme of enormous variety. Returning by boat, From Bach to Bartok to Bluegrass, PYSO introduced rocked by the sea, many new sounds and musical experiences to the with the sun setting over the western isles and a audience who were guided through the programme star filled sky revealing itself in the darkness – this by director Tim Boulton. There were outstanding must be the best possible way to relax after giving solos for flute, voice and double bass too, with everything in a concert. players stepping forward from among the ranks of The tour was made possible thanks to generous the orchestra. support from Five Islands School, The Council of the Audience numbers exceeded anything the players Isles of Scilly, Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, PYSO or their hosts had anticipated, with a total of some Society, Cornwall Music Education Hub, and many 500 people attending concerts over the 5 days – very generous people on the Isles, including the equivalent to nearly 30% of the population of the audiences who together donated more than £2,000. Isles. But most impressive was the level of listening The players raised a further £1,000 from 2 concerts in and audience attentiveness and appreciation, with Cornwall, and were able to fund the entire eight day the young musicians encouraged to give their tour without parental contributions. personal and collective best. Future PYSO concerts this autumn include The logistics were challenging, but made to flow performances for Henry’s Little Big Gig and St. Ives easily with help from many people on the islands. Festival in September, and a Music For Youth Primary Travelling to concerts with 3 cellos and 4 double Prom at Hall For Cornwall in October.

GCSE Concert Hot tickets to 27th January at the Hall for Cornwall Hall for Cornwall The Hub will be running its first concert especially On Friday 17 October Music aimed at Music GCSE students. The day time concert for Youth is coming to the will give an overview of musical styles, from Baroque Hall for Cornwall in Truro to the present day and will look at set works relevant for the Primary Proms, where local young musicians to all three major exam boards. perform for primary school children. The concerts aim to inspire the next generation of musicians by The concert will be led by conductor and former enabling the young audience to experience live Education Director of the London Symphony music in a concert hall setting. Nearly 2,000 children Orchestra, Patrick Bailey with live performances by will attend the free concerts and get the chance to an ensemble of professional musicians. participate in a fun finale. Details of the full programme and timings will be The charismatic Pete Letanka will present the available soon. concerts, and performances from local groups Places at this concert are available to all current GCSE will include a choir, Canzonetta, brass band St students but the concert would also be relevant to Keverne Youth Band, the Penzance Youth String Year 9 students who are considering studying music. Orchestra and No Poet’s Hear, a group playing more Places cost £3 per student (teachers/chaperones are mainstream music. free). To book a group please contact Nicola Cawrse Although the concerts are sold out, teaching – [email protected], with details of numbers resources providing follow-up classroom activities (adults and students), which exam board you use are available to download for everyone at and any access requirements. www.mfy.org.uk/primaryproms.

• www.cornwalllearning.org • www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk • 01872 327900 • 3 Ten Pieces is an exciting new initiative for primary schools, led by BBC Learning, focusing on classical music and creativity. Ten Pieces will run over the academic year 2014/15. Starting in the autumn term with a week of cinema screenings for schools across the country, the project will culminate in a major celebratory finale in the summer of 2015. The Cornwall Music Education Hub is proud is be working with the BBC on this project, starting with the screenings of the Ten Pieces film at cinemas in Penzance, Truro, St Austell and Newquay. These screenings are now full but schools can request a copy of the DVD by sending an e-mail to [email protected] with ‘School DVD Request’ in the subject line. Training for school staff linked to the Ten Pieces project will be run at the Hub conference on 23rd October. In addition, during the Spring term, musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra will be delivering workshops in schools where students compose their own music responses to the Ten Pieces. These musicians will also work with local families as we set up Cornwall’s own ‘Family Orchestra’. The Hub’s Ten Pieces Festival at Heartlands The Hub will be running a music festival next summer where schools, ensembles and community groups will be invited to perform one of the Ten Pieces, or music inspired by one of the pieces. As well as performances, there will be also be a range of music workshops. The festival will take place in June 2015 to coincide with iOrchestra’s Music Lab visit to Heartlands.

Subsidised access to music Looe Cluster Project The Hub, through funding made available from the As part of the Story Republic schools programme Dedicated Schools Grant, is able to provide subsidies in the Looe cluster of schools, we explored ideas to any students who meet the following criteria: around work and trades through creative writing • Students eligible for Free School Meals (excluding and musical composition. The latter element the universal entitlement for all under 7’s), Children was led by Andy Baker from the Bournemouth in Care and children of currently serving British Symphony Orchestra who led sessions on Services personnel - eligible for subsidy of up to composition and song writing in Looe , £5.00 per lesson Looe Primary, Pelynt, Duloe, Polperro and Trenode • Students/parents on Disability Living Allowance - with children aged five to fourteen and their eligible for subsidy of up to £2.50 per lesson teachers. The children from each school came • Students on FSM, Children in Care and Services together for a sharing of their work as part of the Children are also able to access subsidised Story Republic installation at Looe Academy and instrument hire and membership of a CMEH drew a huge audience. ensemble. The Story • Students should be learning through a provider Republic aims to who is registered with the Cornwall Music Education support literacy Hub. A list of Registered Providers and details on through the arts how to become Registered Provider can be found and is managed on http://www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org/ by KEAP. The subsidised-music-lessons musical element was funded through the Hub.

First Access - free whole class instrumental teaching In order to increase take-up of our whole class instrumental teaching programme, ‘Learning Music Togther’, we have changed how it’s charged and delivered from September 2014. Previously, these sessions have been subsidised on an ongoing basis. Instead, every school will be entitled to a FREE 12 week package of support consisting of a planning meeting, 10 x weekly 45 minute whole school class instrumental teaching ( instruments will not be provided) and a review meeting after the 10 weeks of lessons. We will be delivering this over the next 2 years and day/time of delivery will be dependent on the availablility of suitable staff. The classteacher will be encouraged to participate in the lessons alongside the teacher during the 10 weeks in order to increase their confidence and skills in music delivery. • www.cornwalllearning.org • www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk • 01872 327900 • 4 CYMAZ MUSIC INCLUSION UPDATE Spotlight On Music Mentoring Last term, Cymaz Music delivered the first phase of a “Up till now Chris has refused guitar lessons. It’s one to one Music Mentoring scheme for the Hub. great that he’s talking to you about home too. Maybe Aim of the scheme this is just what he needs” To provide one to one additional support to young “When Simon comes back from a music session he people to help them progress with their music manages to behave better and achieve more during making mathematics and literacy. He finishes his tasks Who is it for? without disruption and today he even asked for more!...He has started to mention his music sessions This scheme is aimed at young people who may and you during the week so he is obviously thinking have demonstrated some interest and skill with about what he does in your sessions” Teacher music making but who lack the confidence, motivation or patience to progress. We are particularly interested in children and young people “Tom has sometimes runs away from school to who experience challenging circumstances in their go back home. We talked about this issue and his lives which may prevent them from reaching their propensity to over react to certain situations in potential. class and how he might address this when he felt What is Music Mentoring? he wanted to leave. He said he could think about something good like the music and our sessions Music Mentoring is a time limited, objectives driven together instead when an occasion occurred when process. The aim is to increase and improve music he felt like he wanted to run away.” (Music Mentor) making abilities, whilst also enhancing personal and social skills. Through music mentoring we aim “At the beginning of the project Chloe was very shy to work with a holistic approach. It will include and unsure. She began to practice and rehearse the a combination of music making and talking. The songs at home and we were both able to identify Mentor and Mentee will agree and devise a 10 week a lovely depth of feeling and character that began plan with some tangible outcomes/outputs. to show in her voice. She was referred because of lacking confidence in her abilities in class so it was “Music Mentoring is using music as a common great to see her blossom and enjoy singing out to ground and shared interest to develop a relationship her class. Chloe was very unsure about giving a with a mentee in order to support them in making performance by herself to begin with and thought significant changes in knowledge, behaviour and she could with her friends, this was her own goal but thinking.” at the end of the sessions she was very able to give a Impact And Outcomes solo performance.” In the first phase, 10 young people received ten one Music Mentor to one Music Mentoring sessions. The young people “I am writing to inform you of the progress which involved were from across Cornwall, and from a Peter has made since participating in the music range of age groups. Three Cymaz Music Mentors mentoring scheme. How he’s improved in a musical, worked in partnership with schools and settings to confidence and behaviour sense was demonstrated provide the structured Music Mentoring sessions. at a recent woodwind assembly. In this assembly This has been incredibly successful with some very he played a solo on his recorder, where he gave an moving outcomes. Here is a selection of evaluation assured performance and was able to follow and collected from the scheme (names have been understand the music on the stand in front of him. changed to protect the identities). He also took part in an ensemble item where he “Chris has been referred to us by the head of music at worked as a team member and correctly performing his school. When I met Chris we immediately formed his part. When the other children in the group were a decent working relationship. We had a great first performing he stood quietly and listened to them. session chatting about things he is interested in. The This is a big contrast to the assembly he took part in next session Chris learned some guitar with me. He at the end of March, where he needed someone to also started to chat about changes in his home life. point to the music for him to be able to follow it and In the debrief with Mrs Cooper she said; when he was not playing had disruptive behaviour.

• www.cornwalllearning.org • www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk • 01872 327900 • 5 Recent Hub supported events and projects May 2014 • Andy Baker, Community Musician with the Bournemouth Symphony Without doubt the music Orchestra, worked with 6 schools in the Looe area on a ‘Story mentoring has been a very Republic’ composition project in conjunction with KEAP. positive experience for Peter, I only June 2014 wish that the music mentoring Free Vocal Opportunities in Cornwall Educational Support (VOICES) could be extended beyond the 10 • twilight sessions took place in venues across the county. These week session. Please do let me sessions are aimed at music co-ordinators in schools to facilitate know if there are opportunities for resources sharing and an update on the Hub vocal strategy. further mentoring.” Kakatsitsi, a group of musicians and dancers from Ghana, returned to Music Cornwall Staff • Cornwall to run workshops in local schools and also performed at the “The project has made us more Golowan Festival, subsidised by the Hub. aware of Ashley’s needs as we RSVP, Bristol based Bhangra group worked with schools in Penzance (teacher and mentor) have taken • and also performed at the Golowan Festival, subsidised by the Hub. the time to reflect and understand his learning needs and personal • iOrchestra arrived in Cornwall. and social development. The July 2014 dialogue we have had has planted • Penzanze Youth String Orchestra, Truro Youth String Orchestra and seeds for his next year. The Carrick Winds performed at the Birmingham Symphony Hall as part mentoring gave him a platform of the national Music for Youth Festival. to express his thoughts about Triggshire Winds 30th Anniversary concert at Budehaven School. nature and himself. The music • he composed helped him to August 2014 understand the world around him • Penzance Youth String Orchestra have just returned from a tour and his place in it.” of the Scillies - Five concerts on five islands in five days – ‘amazing Headteacher audiences - where else might you get 150% of the population Cymaz Music is now looking for turning out to hear a concert?’ – Tim Boulton. referrals for the next phase of the Music Mentoring scheme. Please email Hall for Cornwall International Concert Series 2014/15 [email protected] for The International Concert Series includes the following dates: more information and a referral • Thursday 25 September - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra form. • Sunday 28 September - IMS Prussia Cove Inclusion • Friday 28 November - Llyr Williams piano Please keep an eye on the Cymaz • Saturday 24 January - Vienna Piano Trio Music website for details of the • Sunday 8 February - St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra ongoing work to ensure young • Friday 24 April - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra people have access to music • Thursday 16 July - Lesley Garrett, Soprano, and Emma Johnson, opportunities which are inclusive clarinet and high quality. In November/ For more information 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk December there will be another Count Me In! conference for music teachers, practitioners, project managers, youth work organisations/agencies. This conference will build on the Musical Inclusion Strategy and Framework for Cornwall. www.cymazmusic.org.uk

• www.cornwalllearning.org • www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk • 01872 327900 • 6 The long awaited iOrchestra project arrived in Cornwall, following its tour of Plymouth and Torbay. This project, developed by the world famous Philharmonia Orchestra, allowed audiences to experience first-hand the incredible world of an orchestra through a large screen digital installation. During its two weeks on Lemon Quay the installation, housed in a giant tent, was visited by 12,000 visitors, including school groups. The MusicLab touring truck, which offers a suite of hands-on digital music activities, visited communities in Penzance, Liskeard, Heartlands, Bodmin and St Austell. The project culminated in a free family concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra to an audience of over 3000 people on Lemon Quay on Sunday 13th July. The following day, schools were invited to their own Philharmonia concert at the Hall for Cornwall. iOrchestra will return to Cornwall next summer, with its digital ‘Universe of Sound’ installation on Lemon Quay, the MusicLab will return to the towns visited this year and there will be another free concert. Schools will again be invited to bring groups to the ‘Universe of Sound’ tent, MusicLab truck and Schools Concert. In the meantime, holders of MyOrchestra cards will receive update of activities and special offers.

The Online Orchestra: Connecting Remote Communities through Music Participation in ensemble music The research team, which Education Hub, to prepare for making has been proven to have includes performers, composers, the premiere performance by wide ranging benefits in the conductors, social scientists, audio the Online Orchestra as part of areas of social and personal skills, engineers and musicologists, will the Philharmonia’s Universe of musical skills and health. However consider the question ‘what can Sound installation in Truro in July in areas where the population we do differently in order to make 2015. In phase four, a website will is geographically widespread, it online performance a meaningful be developed that will contain a is often difficult for participants musical experience?’. fully-functional, limited-capacity to physically perform together. The project will begin with a prototype console to access the Falmouth University has been four-month development phase online performance environment successful in a bid to the Arts & to design, test, evaluate, and which, with further investment, Humanities Research Council to re-design the approach. Phase will be scalable to enable develop and test a solution. two of the project will involve communities around the UK, and The aim of The Online Orchestra composers from the research even the world, to form their own project is to design an online team writing a series of original online orchestras. environment which provides works designed specifically for the an experience which closely online environment. Phase three resembles that of playing in will be run in collaboration with a traditional orchestra, thus The Philharmonia Orchestra and preserving the benefits of the Cornwall Music traditional group music making.

• www.cornwalllearning.org • www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk • 01872 327900 • 7 Coming up...Hub led or supported projects September 2014 • 13th September - Newquay Strings performing at Newquay Fish Festival • 17th September - Triggshire Winds tour of North Cornwall schools (Wadebridge, Sir James Smith’s and Budehaven) October 2014 • 1st October – Exchanging Notes – Youth Music funded project begins at Bodmin College, delivered in conjunction with CYMAZ Music. • 2nd October – A Level Conference - A Level and BTEC students are invited to the Hub’s first conference especially for them at the Keay Theatre. • 6th October BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Initiative begins with free cinema screenings. • 10th/11th October - Vocal Composition Workshop. Ben Parry, Composer and Director of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain will be running a vocal composition workshop for young people aged 16+ at . Contact Angela Renshaw ([email protected]) to book. • 17th October- Primary Proms, Music for Youth will be hosting a free concert for Primary Schools at the Hall for Cornwall. • 23rd October - Cornwall Music Education Hub Conference in Wadebridge. To book go to www.cornwalllearningonline.co.uk and use course code MEC1. November/December 2014 • 2nd November – Flute workshop up at Wells Cathedral School, transport provided, see website for details • 5th November - Truro Youth String Orchestra perform at Kelly College, Tavistock • 10th November - Truro Youth String Orchestra perform two movements of Andrew Wilson's new work Omfra's Laugh at the Schools Prom - Royal Albert Hall • 14th November - Sarah Hanley and her students are taking part in a Children in Need event. Details tbc • 27th November – Glyndebourne, national opera company, will be performing La Finta Giardiniera for secondary schools at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth. Tickets are £6. Visit - http://glyndebourne.com/ plymouth for details • 26th November – 6th December - St Austell Festival of Music & Speech at St John Methodist Church, includes performances by Restormel Junior Strings and Newquay Strings. • 29th November - Penzance Youth Wind Band will be performing at the Christmas lights ceremony in Penzance. • 13th December – Cornwall Girls Choir and Cornwall Boys Choir Christmas 2014 County Choirs Concert at St Johns Methodist Chapel, St Austell. January 2015 • 27th January - GCSE Concert. A concert specifically to support GCSE Music students at the Hall for Cornwall. More details to follow! February 2015 • 27th February - SW Peninsula Hub conference at Buckfast Abbey in Devon with keynote presentation by HMI Robin Hammerton, National Lead for Music. March • 5th and 6th Music for Youth Regional Festival – Details to follow. • 14th March - Sax is Our Business, Cornwall Youth Jazz Orchestra and CYJO joint concert, Carnglaze Caverns. • 21st March – Cornwall Girls Choir and Cornwall Boys Choir Spring 2015 County Choirs Concert at Launceston Town Hall. April/May • 10th April - CYWO concert at Carngalze Caverns • 12th April - CYO concert, Launceston Town Hall • 18th April - CYO concert at Truro Cathedral • 18th April – Cornwall Girls Choir Girls on a Bus! A whistle-stop tour of Cornwall stopping off and singing in

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town centres finishing up in Truro with CBC. • 18th April – Cornwall Boys Choir Boys on a Bus! Route to begin in Callington and end in Truro at the end of the afternoon in conjunction with the Cornwall International Male Voice Choir Choral Festival. • 20th – 24th April - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra residency. 3 Quintets will be visiting Cornwall to run workshops for schools and community groups. Further details to follow. • 30th April – 1st May - Sounds from the Hub. A two night musical spectacular at the Hall for Cornwall with performances by children and young people from around the county. We will be looking for groups/ individuals to perform so please look out for further details • 3rd May – Cornwall Boys Choir and Cambiata performing at Cornwall International Male Voice Festival. Youth Gala Concert, Hall for Cornwall. June –July • 8th June – 13 July - iOrchestra returns to Cornwall with the Universe of Sound installation, MusicLab truck and live concerts. • 26th- 27th June – The Hub Ten Pieces Festival at Heartlands with performances by schools and community groups plus workshops.

GCSE Concert 16+ Vocal Composition Workshop with Ben Parry, Composer and Director of the National Youth Choir 27th January 2015, Hall for Cornwall of Great Britan with members of the NYCGB Chamber Choir 11.00am -1.00pm Friday 10th October 2014, 4.30pm-6.30pm and A live concert for GCSE music students, including set works Saturday 11th October 2014, 10.00am-4.00pm from all three syllabuses. Venue: Truro School Music Department

This exciting opportunity is open to 16+ students of Music and Composition. This is an opportunity for you to develop your own work on vocal compositions for A level, • Music to include Pachelbel Canon, Haydn Emperor Quartet, Music for Sitar and BTEC or for personal musical development, receive feedback and advice from composer Ben Tabla, Moby. Parry and also hear your work performed by some of the country’s finest young singers. • Performed by musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra + guests Funded by Cornwall Music Education Hub, the weekend is free and will be led by Ben Parry, composer and director of NYCGB. Members of NYCGB Chamber Choir will be present during Jonathan Mayer (sitar) and Mitel Purohit (tabla). the weekend to perform a selection of the compositions. • Each piece analysed and ill ustrated with examples. Students can opt to either have their work reviewed, come as an observer or join in with the • Traces the development of music from the baroque period to the present day. NYCGB Chamber Choir performances. Cost - £3 per student (schools will be invoiced after event) Visit www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org for more information FREE places for teachers We have a limited number of places for this weekend. All applications as observers, as well as For more information contact: submission of compositions, to be made before Monday 29th September 2014. T: 01872 327900 F: 01872 322826 Please complete form below. E: [email protected] Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN For further details please email www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org Angela Renshaw, CMEH Vocal Lead: [email protected] or call 07980 567386

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