Composition

Workshops, open mic nights and pupil-led group sessions – such as this one at Wells Cathedral School – are good outlets for sharing songs
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Support for songwriting in schools

A-ha's ‘Take on me’ is an example of a four-chord pop song
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Composition at KS2: four-chord pop songs

Teaching Materials

Developing wider listening: minimalism

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Quick tips for teaching stave notation

Hands Of’s Coastal Explorations Project, on stage at the Whitley Bay Playhouse
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Major grant boosts arts charity in north-east England

Dr Michelle Phillips, who has led the research team
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Pioneering research into music and Parkinson's bears fruit

ORA Singers 2024 Young Composers workshop
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ORA Singers launch Young Composers scheme

St Jude's, Hampstead, home of the Proms at St Jude's festival in June 2025
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Calling young composers

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Quick tips for starting a composition

The Brook Street Band will perform the shortlisted compositions and premiere the winning works
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NCEM launches Young Composer Award 2025

The big band at Stafford Grammar School is working with composer Kamea Nemeth
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Young composers partner school big bands

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Composing activities on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol