One of the most popular instruments to learn is the piano and as individual lessons are in high demand we are extending our provision for piano tuition by investing in a new piano lab at Woking Youth Arts Centre. Working with Casio, we have purchased 8 new Casio GP 400 upright pianos to develop group lessons. The ‘piano lab’ will give more opportunities to learn the piano as well as reducing the cost for tuition.
Our Piano Lead, Anna Shears, says ‘The Casio 400 is great. The touch and tone is remarkably close to that of an acoustic piano.’
The Casio GP 400 is well regarded in the music industry due to its likeness to a big acoustic grand piano. Additionally its compact size and the ability to use headphones to split the piano into two halves gives students a fantastic learning experience.
Dan Brown, Business Development Officer, said ‘We identified there was an opportunity to increase the provision for piano tuition and group teaching has already been successful with our Saturday morning guitar workshops.’
Surrey Arts offer piano lessons for adults and children, so if you are interested or would like further information contact Surrey Arts surreyartsmusic@surreycc.gov.uk
Woking Youth Arts Centre Trinity Rd, Knaphill, Woking GU21 2SY
Tickets: £20 for up to 3 workshops.
A fantastic opportunity to renew and refresh your music teaching skills, our Summer Music Professional Development Day offers workshops for primary and secondary music teachers. We’ve asked some of our some of most successful workshop leaders to come and deliver sessions for us with all new content, including a focus on digital resources and delivery. There will be six workshops to choose from, and a selection of content that is useful for all. One ticket lets you attend up three workshops in the afternoon and twilight.
Session 1A Using topic songs across the curriculum: Al Start: Go Kid Music (Primary)
In this dynamic session, Al Start will show you how anyone can use topic songs to deliver the music curriculum and First Access/WCIT as well as improving your SEND provision by introducing actions and signs. A fun and inspiring session packed full of great songs and creative ideas!
Session 1B Online Materials For KS 2-5: Lewis Edney, Royal Alexandra and Albert School (Primary and Secondary)
This session will cover a number digital resources for use in the classroom. There will be demonstration of Focus on Sound and how this can be used in the classroom, for research and revision and homework. ‘Classroom’ integrates a number of different software and links to the Rhinegold educational products as well. We will also look at Just Play (from Musical Futures), this is a set of PowerPoint resources which are brilliant for getting all pupils engaged and playing music. Finally I will demonstrate VIP Studios (from Charanga) and the excellent schemes of work they offer to help pupils create music using Soundation4Education.
2.15-3.45pm: Session 2
Session 2A Become a singing school: Sing Up: Charlotte Law (Primary)
What does it take to become a singing school? In this practical session, we’ll understand how to navigate the Sing Up website and get the best out of the online resources. We’ll explore the features of a singing school and approaches to applying them to your own setting, considering the whole school community. We’ll look at the wider benefits of singing, ways to inspire school staff, and songs to sing throughout the school day, including; transitions, topics and assemblies.
Session 2B Promoting instrumental and vocal learning across your school: Ally Daubnay (Primary and Secondary)
Within the proposed new Ofsted Inspection Framework, schools are encouraged to ensure that all students have access to a broach and rich curriculum that fully embraces music. As music in the curriculum develops, so too do the opportunities for instrumental and vocal learning within the wider cultural of the school. This session is for any primary and secondary teachers interested in promoting and growing instrumental and vocal tuition in their schools. It will consider how this is co-developed with the music curriculum, exploring ways to embrace instrumental learning within the curriculum, and for it to flourish in the co-curricular programmes. It will provide opportunities to share good practice with other delegates and to think about practical ways in which instrumental learning can be enhanced and maintained across transition points, based upon research from Ally Daubney and Duncan Mackrill at The University of Sussex.
4.00-6.00pm: Session 3
Session 3A Kodàly In The Klassroom 2 – Len Tyler
Building from his previous session in the autumn term, Len will provide inspiration for your primary music teaching. Warm ups and singing games, choosing suitable material for school children, circle games and songs, strategies for building pitch literacy, the important of canons and further information on the underlying principles of Kodàly music teaching. Virtually all material will be different from the previous workshop. This follow up session from Len Tyler will be of use to any primary school teacher with an interest in music. The will be accessible to teachers who weren’t at Len’s previous session.
Session 3B Teaching Music with iPads – An Introduction: Transformance Music
Our Teaching Music with iPads training opens up the world of classroom iPad music-making to both specialist and non-specialist teachers at KS 1 – 3, including the technology-shy! The training explores tasks that develop musicianship and music theory through carefully structured creative tasks. Activities will be based on best practice when using tablet technology to teach music, with clear links to the National Curriculum and a strong cross-curricular emphasis. Each delegate will receive a free copy of our ‘Teaching Music with Garageband for iPad resource, containing pupil-facing videos, lesson plans and assessment criteria. This two hour session includes an experiential introduction to Garageband, including an initial 10 week song writing project for KS2/3. Creating backing tracks for short films and an equipment guide. There will be some Ipads available to use for this session if you don’t have your own to bring.
A day full of music opportunities for guitarists to jam, DJs to mix and ALL young people regardless of their circumstances and musical ability to join the UP! Orchestra
Sign up for one session or the whole day – click here to register or find out more
A seminar for people who teach, advise and support early-career artists and future music industry talent, as well as the artists themselves.
Friday 26 April, 1700 – 2000 at Surrey Arts, 14 The Pines, Broad Street, Guildford, Surrey. GU3 3BH
or
Monday 29 April 2019, 1630 – 1830 at The Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton. BN1 4AJ
Pathways into Music is the first in a series of seminars outlining how musicians can build a business and a careeraround their music. It explains how artists need tokickstart their own businesses and careers, introduces the people and companies they will work with along the way, and explores the challenges to be met and opportunities to be realised in both the global and the local music community. The course is aimed at those teaching, advising and supporting early-career musicians and future music industry talent, as well as anyone who is at the start of their own music career, on stage or behind the scenes
Places are free but limited. To book your place please email:
The seminar is offered as part of ‘Our Future Music’, a regional programme that is part of the Alliance for a Musically Inclusive England, funded by Youth Music. See here for further information:
Phil Nelson – artist manager, lecturer, researcher
I have been an Artist Manager since 1988 managing The Levellers (1 Platinum, 5 Gold records) who headlined Glastonbury before starting their own 15,000 capacity Festival Beautiful Days(which I set up) , and The Longpigs (1 Gold record and Brit Award Nomination). Current clients include 2019 Grammy-nominated Matt Hales/ Aqualung (1 Gold record) and Duke Special(1 Platinum record), Sweet Billy Pilgrim(1 Mercury music prize Nomination.) I was the Vice Chair of the Music Managers’ Forumfrom 1997-2007. I co-founded The Great Escape Festivaland now run the Education conference at TGEwith Chris Cooke. From 2016-18 I was Music Industry Ambassador for BIMM Group of colleges, where I still lecture.
The I
Speak Music Community Orchestra is
designed to celebrate the diversity of Surrey’s communities and is led by some
of the UKs most experienced music facilitators. Through a series of fun and
creative music workshops participants will be able to make new music, try
instruments from around the world, perform and make new friendships.
The project welcomes people of any
age (over 12years) and background, but is particularly interested in hearing
from refugees, unaccompanied minors, BAME communities and those who sing or
play non-western musical instruments. Professional musicians are welcome to
join the group as are those with no previous musical experience. To book your
place please email mona4youthmusic@gmail.com
We are delighted to announce that we
now have funding from Arts
Council England to continue and develop the
Orchestra. We will be re-launching in April 2019 with already some planned
performances at various events in 2019.
Here’s what we have planned!
LAUNCH EVENT:
As part
of part of the I Speak Music Community
Orchestra relaunch, we
warmly invite musicians, local organisations and front-line
support agencies to join us for tea, coffee and falafels and to find out more
about the programme and how to get involved!
Live music, guest
speakers and updates on local opportunities.
Admission and
falafels are free but places will be
limited!
12.30pm – 2.30pm
on 24th April, The Electric Theatre, Guildford.
To book your place
please register via Eventbrite here
ORCHESTRA REHEARSALS:
6pm – 8pm on April 25, May 9, 23,
June 13, 27, July 11
Guildford County School, Farnham
Road, Guildford
ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES:
REFUGEE WEEK CONCERT:
18th June, HG
Wells, Woking
Meet the Orchestra music leaders
Raghad Haddad, Co-Musical Director
Raghad is a viola player from Yabroud, a small town in the mountains north
of Damascus. After graduating from
the conservatoire in Damascus, she began teaching, performing with the Syrian
National Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra for Arabic Music. Since
being granted asylum in the UK in 2017 she has performed at numerous charity
events in London and Brighton and recently performed with Damon Albarn, The
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians. She
also joined a group of Syrian professional musicians called The London Syrian
Ensemble and they perform traditional and classical oriental music around the
UK connects her to her homeland. Raghad now working hard to secure a living
performing, teaching whenever opportunities arise.
James Redwood, Co-Musical Director
James is a composer and music leader
with 20 years’ experience of making music with groups of non-professional and
professional musicians. The wider the range of musical personalities in
the room, the happier he is.
Sara Khoroosi, Music Facilitator
Sara is a Violinist Dancer and Alexander Technique Teacher specialising in working with Performers of any ability, facilitating the ease freedom and joy that can be experienced through the Performing Arts at any level. She has experience of working with unaccompanied asylum seekers and playing & touring with Manouchska & Dunia Flamenco; Danced/Choreographed with Mambo Central; and taught Alexander Technique at the Actors Centre and London Music & Dance Conservatoires. Instruments: Violin, vocals, keys, percussion Additional skills: Farsi and Spanish speaker
KMT Freedom Teacher, Music Facilitator
KMT is an exemplar for social change. DJ/M.C and Trainer (Workshops, Project Manager and Lecturer), since 1999 he has used the arts, in particular Hip-Hop, for social awareness and cohesion http://www.3kmt.co.uk.
KMT entertains and educates, guides people with infectious energy, knowledge and skills to change and empower their lives. He is also the co-founder of May Project Gardens; a community based food-growing project set within the grounds of his home. The grassroots project illustrates his passion for pro-active social change and love for the environment http://www.mayproject.org Instruments: Voice, DJ, Body, Mind Additional skills: I pride myself on being to identify people’s skills and talents and developing to their full potential.
Craig Warnock, Music Facilitator
Craig has been leading group workshops and individual sessions with a variety of young people for several years, teaching multi-instrumental skills, composition and songwriting, recording and production techniques.
He has worked extensively with young people who are living in challenging circumstances and with a range of learning and physical disabilities needs. Craig has been a professional multi-instrumental musician for twenty years involved in recording /touring with many great acts. Instruments: Keys, Bass, Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Flute, Inclusive Music Tech esp iPad music apps.
Jim Pinchen, Project Manager/ Music Facilitator
Jim is a composer, facilitator, speaker and project manager with a proven track record of delivering local, national and international programmes for children and young people. He is the Inclusion Manager at Surrey Arts/Surrey Music Education Hub and a trainer for Musicians Without Borders Instruments: Guitar, bass, piano, music production and inclusive music technologies (also very basic cello and trumpet!)
The Orchestra’s history
This Orchestra performed for the first time in June
at the Refugee Week event in Woking, was then invited to perform at a Police
organised memorial event and most recently in September 2019, invited to take
part in a TEDx Conference in Farnham on the themes of building empathy and
resilience. Surrey Music Hub’s vision is for this model to grow and be
replicated up and down the country.
Surrey Arts are hosting a Brass Masterclass for Trombone and Trumpet players on Sunday 17 March. This fantastic morning will allow advanced young brass players to present solo works in progress as well as finely prepared repertoire to our special guests, Tom Rainer and Rupert Whitehead.
Each participant will learn from listening to others perform as well as receiving individual guidance from our visiting experts.
We are very fortunate to be joined for this event by Tom Rainer (The Brass Academy) and Rupert Whitehead (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra).
Expert trumpet tuition will be provided by Tom Rainer, who has performed on film soundtracks including Lord of the Rings. He is the musical director of The Brass academy and also head of performing arts at the Aldro School, Surrey. Rupert Whitehead has recently been appointed as a member of the RPO and has a busy schedule as a teacher alongside his playing career.
Please note this masterclass day is aimed at trumpet and trombone players of grade 5 onwards in standard. However, players of all other brass instruments will be welcome provided there is space. Non surrey arts student and pupils are very welcome to attend and participate in this event too.
Venue
Westfield School
Woking, GU22 9PR
Time
10.00am – 1.00pm
Cost
£25
For more details contact:
T: 01483 519303
E: surreyarts@surreycc.gov.uk
Surrey Arts, Big Leaf Foundation and the Academy of Contemporary Music are joining forces to record a Festive Themed Single (in just one day!) on Sunday 9 December. It’s for anyone aged 8 and above who enjoys music and shares our belief in the importance of community. No musical experience necessary and we aim to have over 50 participants.
Why music?
We live in one of the most multicultural countries in the world but it can feel as though, despite living in the same land, huge divides, negative stereotyping, fear of the unknown are as alive as they have ever been. Project manager, Jim Pinchen, says: “Music in its essence, is something that we all have in common. It’s everywhere from the rhythm of our first heartbeat through to family events and is therefore able to bring us together in a unique and safe way.”
Why a festive themed single?
‘I Speak Music’ is a programme that aims to bring together refugees and host communities and we think this is a perfect time of year to come together, have fun and celebrate everything we have in common, as well as all the fascinating things that make us unique. Beyond the food, lights, drink, intensive shopping and tinsel, at its heart, this festive season is about the spirit of giving and receiving, of family and of helping others.
Vicki Felgate from Big Leaf Foundation says: “We want to replace negative opinions with a simple and joyous message of peace and unity and we hope people will share it far and wide.”
What happens after the single is recorded?
A pop video will be distributed via social media with links to digital download sites (ie Spotify) where the single can be downloaded. All proceeds from the single will be used to make music projects that bring together Refugee and Host Communities.
For further details contact contact@bigleaffoundation.org.uk
