Essex Youth Orchestra, directed by Robin Browning, is Essex’s flagship orchestra.

EYO will be presenting a concert of great music including ‘Organ’ Symphony No.3 (Camille Saint-Saëns), featuring Matthew Kelley, Organ Scholar at Chelmsford Cathedral.

• Saturday 26 August 2023 at 7.30pm
• St Mary’s Church, Church Path, Saffron Walden CB10 1JP (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert.

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

Hear the Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra directed by David Rowland

EYSWO will bring an evening of popular music including A Night at the Movies (Alan Silvestri) and the Theme from Schindler’s List (John Williams) played by talented violinist Max Pietrzak, Leader of Essex Youth Orchestra. An accessible and fun evening for all the family!

• Thursday 3 August 2023 at 7.00pm
• Christ Church URC, 164 New London Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 0AW (click here for the location)
• No booking required for this free concert

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

Essex Young People’s Orchestra, directed by Robin Browning, is a youth orchestra of talented children from across Essex

This concert features some of the best music from films including Harry Potter (John Williams), Pirates of the Caribbean (Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt) and The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore).

• Sunday 23 July 2023 at 5.00pm
• New Rickstones Academy, Conrad Road, Witham CM8 2SD (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert.

Essex Youth String Octet will also feature in this concert, who recently performed for Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Colchester’s Library as part of the Year of Celebration marking Colchester’s city status.

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

Join our award-winning Youth Jazz Orchestra in concert!

Formed in 1991, the Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra (EYJO) will perform under the direction of Martin Hathaway, one of the country’s leading jazz musicians. EYJO will be joined by Young Essex Jazz led by Paul Moylan and North Essex Jazz Group led by Tom Jiggins.

• Saturday 15 July 2023 at 7.00pm

• The Bocking Arts Theatre, 15 Bocking End, Braintree, CM7 9AE (click here for location)

• No booking required for this free concert

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

Free one-day workshops – choose either a DJ Taster or Music Production Taster for secondary school pupils

This fully-funded one-day workshop are aimed at vulnerable students in Years 8 to 10 primarily but can be accessed by all.

The workshops must take place in the Summer 2023 term and places are limited so will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Apply online now!

One-hour taster session for groups of around five secondary school pupils for a hands on introduction and overview of what it means to be a DJ

Session includes:

• Introduction into how to be a DJ
• Hands on experience of working with DJ decks
• Opportunity to create your own beats and mixes

This workshop can also be delivered to larger groups who work with our Tutor over the course of the day to gain a deeper insight into creating your own sets, advanced DJing techniques and promoting yourself as a DJ.

The workshops must take place in the Summer 2023 term and places are limited so will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Apply online now!

An introductory experience to get to grips with the DAW and the basics of building their own backing tracks

Depending on the number of students in the session and the length of time they have, this workshop can cover some or all of the following:

• Introduction to the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
• Creating the backing for your track
• Support with lyric writing and editing
• Introduction to mastering your track
• Overview of creating a campaign and how to make money from your music

This workshop can be completed with a small group of students who our Tutor works with over the course of the day to cover aspects of Music Production and the music industry.

Once the students have had a taster experience, you can invest in weekly sessions for students to develop their tracks and knowledge of the music industry business over time including:

• recording vocals
• intermediate and advanced production and mixing techniques,
• Mastering,
• Using social media to promote your music
• Monetizing your music

The workshops must take place in the Summer 2023 term and places are limited so will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Apply online now!

Free regular music tuition has been made possible by funding from the Virtual School

For schools to be eligible for additional musical intervention funding, they must have at least one student who is:

• A Looked After Child within Essex
• Post Looked After or Adopted
• A child who has (or has ever had) a Social Worker

Schools can select from a number of high-quality musical opportunities listed below:

Workshops – one-day immersive musical workshop with the LAC’s cohort of children, such as Drum It!, DJ Taster, Music Production (KS3+), Rap It!, Sing It! and Create-it!

Nurture Groups – student-led groups developing musicianship alongside social, personal and emotional skills. Groups sizes are usually three to five students including at least one eligible child. This is done in a nurturing environment where students look to develop resilience and a sense of urgency over what they are doing.

Whole Class Tuition – a term of tuition for classes with LAC students playing ukulele, recorder or our new Toots and Doods (beginner flute and clarinets). These sessions last ten weeks, with forty-five minute sessions by one of our tutors. Play It! is primarily aimed at KS2 students but can be adapted for other age groups. If you have a class set of instruments already in your school, you may be able to use these as well.

Small Group Tuition (beginners) – a ten-week programme of a thirty minute group of four to six children learning an instrument together, such as, guitar, woodwind, strings or brass. Learning in a group is a great way to start the instrumental learning journey and could lead to more music making in your school.

Individual interventions – where none of the above are appropriate we offer a tailor-made option for individual eligible students. A one-off intervention might include attendance at summer holiday provision, one-to-one music mentoring, rap, song writing, music tech, etc.

Apply now!

We have a limited number of interventions each term and we need to allocate these fairly. If we are unable to offer you the intervention you would like, we may suggest pre-booking something for a following term or contacting you about alternative options.

If any of these opportunities are of interest to you, we are very keen to hear from you and get the best offer available to your school. Please complete this short form https://forms.office.com/e/s5dRS0Sj0S  to apply for the funding.

Essex Young People’s Orchestra, directed by Matthew Andrews, is a youth orchestra of talented children from across Essex.

This concert of popular classics is a great concert for all ages.

• Saturday 15 April 2023 at 7.00pm
• St Botolph’s Church, St Botolph’s Walk, Colchester CO2 7EE (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert.

Essex String Octet, who recently performed for King Charles and the Queen Consort in Colchester’s Library as part of the Year of Celebration marking Colchester’s city status, will also perform at this concert.

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

Hear both the Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra, directed by David Rowland and Essex Youth Brass Ensemble directed by Anne Ruddock.

These groups join force to bring an evening of popular music including Danzon No 2 (Arturo Márquez), Jazz Suite No 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich) and the Title music from The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino). An accessible and fun evening for all the family!

• Wednesday 5 April 2023 at 7.00pm
• New Rickstones Academy, Conrad Road, Witham CM8 2SD (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert.

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

Essex Youth Orchestra, directed by Robin Browning, is Essex’s flagship orchestra.

EYO will be presenting a concert of sublime music, not to be missed, including the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Sergei Rachmaninoff) featuring Essex born piano soloist, Jamie Cochrane

• Friday 14 April 2023 at 7.30pm
• St Botolph’s Church, St Botolph’s Walk, Colchester CO2 7EE (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert.

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

Join our award-winning Youth Jazz Orchestra in concert!

Formed in 1991, the Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra (EYJO) will perform under the direction of Martin Hathaway, one of the country’s leading jazz musicians.

• Saturday 18 March 2023 at 7.30pm
• Harlow ARC, St Johns Walk, Old Harlow, CM17 0AJ (click here for location)
• No booking required for this free concert

For further details on this concert, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk

 

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County Ensembles

We are proud to have a number of leading and high-achieving top-level ensembles offering opportunities for young musicians in Essex including:

Essex Youth Orchestra
Essex Youth Choir
Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra
Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Essex Youth Brass Ensemble

This doesn’t happen by accident – we also run a number of starter ensembles in our community music venues as well as intermediate ensembles including our Essex Young People’s Orchestra to bring together young people together in making music with each other.

If you have a young person in your setting who would benefit from joining such an ensemble, please contact Beverley Heard, Music Ensembles Lead Officer, telephone 0333 013 8953 or email: musichub@essex.gov.uk