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Orchestras Making Change in & around Manchester
Photo credits: Top left and bottom right images: Classic FM
This Party Conference season, we are showcasing the impactful and innovative work of UK orchestras on and off the stage.
Orchestras in the Community
Manchester Camerata's Music in Mind series brings together different communities - including people with dementia still living at home and in care homes; children in schools and in after school organisations; Deaf School Northwest; and carers - as part of their 10-year Social Impact Plan around Greater Manchester. Watch a short film about the project below, or for more information click here.
The Hallé works with a number of care homes that specialise in caring for the elderly and those suffering from dementia and similar health conditions. Hallé players are trained the impact of dementia on both patients and carers and deliver sessions in Care Homes around Greater Manchester as part of their Care Home Projects.
Two Hallé musicians in residence with national learning disability charity Seashell Trust work with children and young people with complex and severe learning disabilities, which include little or no language abilities at a national centre of excellence in Cheadle Hulme.
Manchester's Chetham's School of Music & The Stoller Hall work with community day centres and carer networks to perform Relaxed Lunchtime Concerts. These are designed to welcome people with a learning disability or sensory and communication conditions, or anyone that would benefit from a more relaxed performance environment.
Photo credits: Top left: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian for Manchester Camerata;Top right: The Seashell Trust Perform at The Hallé; Centre: The Hallé's Care Home Projects; Bottom: Relaxed Concerts at Chetham's School of Music at The Stoller Hall
Orchestras in Education
Hallé Inspire School's Project
Hallé Inspire is a long-term partnership programme delivering creative music workshops with primary schools that aims to raise aspirations in communities across Greater Manchester.
Manchester's Chetham's School of Music & The Stoller Hall's Terra Musica is the first of their new family series for Key Stage 1 students. These workshops, based on musical heritages and cultures, have been created in partnership with Olympias Music Foundation Migrant Voices artists.
Terra Musica at Chetham's School of Music
Musical Storyland with the BBC Philharmonic, based in Salford, reimagines traditional folktales, inspiring a love of music and singing, and an interest in musical instruments in the audience. The series is recorded and used in classrooms as a teaching resource.
The Musical Story of The Gingerbread man - Musical Storyland at the BBC Philharmonic
Green Orchestras
RNCM Symphony Orchestra: The Future is Green series
Through a string of public performances, the Royal Northern College of Music brings a focus to climate change and the natural world with The Future is Green. This special initiative provides opportunities for students, staff, audience members and the wider community to learn, understand and think about the role we all play, whilst also highlighting the sustainability measures in place across their Manchester estate.
British Orchestras are a national and global success story, a vital part of a UK music industry which contributed £4billion to the UK economy in 2021 and an important purveyor of the UK’s soft power.
Chineke! Foundation Young Musicians
Support a highly skilled workforce of more than 3,000 permanent musicians and 10,000 freelancers as well as 2,000 administrative and technical staff.
Play to over 4 million people in over 3,600 performances across the UK.
Tour to 40 countries across the world, playing to international concert audiences in excess of 550,000 people.
Generate over £17 million of inward investment into the UK as global exporters.
Create nearly 12,000 engagements for freelance musicians.
Reach over 700,000 children and adults in education and community settings, from schools to care homes.
Reach billions through orchestras collaboration with film, TV, games, pop and rock concerts.
The Association of British Orchestras (ABO) is the national body representing the collective interests of professional orchestras, youth ensembles and the wider classical music industry throughout the UK.
