Some of our major projects
Welcome to the Major Projects section.
Solihull Music Service
TAKES ITS ROCK CONCERT
TO
THE CAVERN, LIVERPOOL
Solihull Music Service along with its partner school, Langley, takes its Rock Concert to the Cavern Liverpool on 1st December. Having filled Birmingham Town Hall earlier this year with a Gala Concert, the school is aiming for the ultimate rock venue.
Along with invited schools Alderbrook, Archbishop Grimshaw, Castle Bromwich Junior, Solihull Music Service and Langley will be the first Music Service and school in the country to take its Rock Concert to the Cavern. Over 100 performers and 200 parents, guests and staff will be making the trip to see two concerts on the stage where the Beatles started.
Terry Clarke, Arts Director at Langley School said “When the students performed at Birmingham Town Hall they raised their level of performance way beyond our expectations. We have found that the venue can be such an inspiration. It instills self belief and self confidence so that our students always strive to be the best they can be. Performing on the most famous stage in the world should be a day to remember for all of the parents, pupils and staff making the trip to the European City of Culture 2008.”
Solihull Music Service, responsible for the annual National Rock & Pop Festival at NEC, supports all of Solihull’s schools with a year long programme of tuition and concerts.
As well as playing in the concerts, several students will be gaining their Arts Award, a nationally accredited scheme for rewarding leadership in the arts.
For photos from the event please follow this link
Solihull Music Service Presents a Big Band Bash!!
On Tuesday 10th February, at the Solihull Arts Complex. Solihull and Birmingham Music Service combined forces to put on the big band bash!!
This featured the Jazz bands from both authorities and was a tremendous success. From Solihull Jnr Jazz and Jazz Matters were featured and from Birmingham Training Jazz and the Senior Jazz Ensemble were featured.
Students performed challenging repertoire and there were some fantastic improvised solos performed by the students. Please download the concert program for more information.
For further information about the Jazz ensembles the music service offers please visit the ensembles page.
Arts Award
Teachers from the Solihull Music Service have been trained to deliver the Arts Award. The award allows students to get a qualification for their involvement in the Arts.
The Arts Award supports young people to develop as artists and arts leaders and is available throughout England. The Arts Award is a nationally recognised qualification at three levels - Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Any pupil that rehearses with one of Solihull Music Service ensembles would eligible to take part in either the bronze or silver award and gain a formal accreditation.
The Arts Award also links to the new national curriculum being launched in September 2008, opportunities for music:
- Developing individual performance skills- vocally, instrumentally and with technology.
- Listening and aural perception skills
- Song writing, arranging and improvising
- Work with a range of musicians
- Watching live performance
- Different roles and responsibilities - leadership skills
- Links between music and other subjects/areas of the curriculum
If you would like further information or would like to take part in the Arts Award please visit www.artsaward.org.uk/
or Contact: Richard Jones at the Solihull Music Service.
Solihull Music Service presents Ten Tribes
Birmingham Symphony Hall on Monday 23 June 2008
Music Service has been granted funds from the Arts Council to support a wide ranging arts project in the Borough. The title of the project will be "Ten Tribes" and its focus will be a new choral work with the same title, commissioned from Ian Blick and Tony Brown. The grand concert will also involve performances from some of the borough’s top ensembles.
The aim of the Ten Tribes Project is to use this newly commissioned vocal work as a touchstone for schools to explore aspects of inclusion and exclusion and related issues which will link to the PSD curriculum. The commissioned work will have a strong narrative structure that uses music, song, dance, movement, audio and language (including non-spoken communication and languages other than English). The project will culminate in the performance at Symphony Hall which will bring together a range of performance styles.
See the list of participating schools.
String Explosion 2008
At Warwick Arts Centre on Saturday 28th June, 300 pupils will take part in this large-scale celebration of string playing in Solihull. Solihull Music Service’s four string ensembles will perform in the first half and will later be joined by pupils from five primary schools participating in Wider Opportunities projects in massed performances of traditional and popular repertoire.