Youth Voice in Instrumental and Vocal Teaching
Event description
This online session will explore practical ways in which practitioners can embed youth voice in their teaching. Drawing in ideas from the Music Lab toolkit, we will explore the theory underpinning Youth Voice and what this may look like in instrumental and vocal lessons, ensembles, and choirs. Delegates will be given the opportunity to reflect on their current practice and how Youth Voice led this is. We will also share practical exercises and resources that teachers can take away and use in their own settings.
Attendees should bring an instrument with them.
This session is open to all music educators working in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Royal Greenwich. It is aimed at instrumental and vocal tutors, music teachers and ensemble/choir leaders.
The Music Lab
The Music Lab was an action research project that examined how Youth Voice can be embedded in music-making practices within classical music education, with a view to opening up classical music to participation from a wider range of groups in society. It was a collaboration between Sound Connections and Lewisham Music Hub.
Over the course of the project, The Music Lab team (participants and practitioners) explored classical music education through both practical activities and discussion; with participants reflecting on their own experiences of classical music education and how they thought it could be more inclusive and youth-led.
The output of this research is a toolkit: which aims to provide practical tools for practitioners to explore and/or enhance Youth Voice engagement within their practice. The toolkit comprises ideas and activities used during The Music Lab course, and seeks to provide inspiration and resources for instrumental and vocal teachers, class music teachers, ensemble leaders, and other musicians and teachers working in the classical music education sector.
Sound Connections and the South Riverside Music Partnership are working together to deliver a training and mentoring programme for music teachers, tutors and community musicians in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Royal Greenwich support by the Scops Arts Trust.