Does your school band need professional help? Or your orchestra, fine-tuning? Would you like someone to work with students to help write a school song, or even a musical? Musician In The Classroom is our artist in residence program, in which we send a professional musician or composer to work directly with students. This could be one-on-one coaching for a few elective music students, or in a classroom environment. Whatever your requirements, we’ve got the right professional to match!

The musician can:

Work with individual classes
Work with students with particular needs
Work with special needs students
Develop or enhance existing instrumental, classroom or vocal programs
Mentor teachers in music education
Introduce materials to support the Live Performance Plus program
Teach particular repertoire to students

The composer can:

Compose a school or class song
Create classroom compositions and engage in improvisations
Create musical stories which can lead to productions eg musicals, films, plays, jubilee celebrations
Develop creativity and composition skills through interactive activities and games
Mentor teachers in composition and arranging skills
Develop skills in using music technology
Workshop senior student composition tasks