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All of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ performing groups are committed to opening up their work and the music they perform, aiming to inspire new audiences to turn up, switch on or join in. From reaching nearly 5,000 children from 125 schools across Wales in just four days – in a bid to develop young people's enjoyment of listening to music – to partnering the ambitious Sistema Scotland scheme to change lives throughout Scotland and from bringing together Dorothy fans to take part in live Over The Rainbow events throughout the UK to sustained work with children from London boroughs to encourage and support singing in schools or providing insight into brand-new works through Family Orchestra events in London and Salford, the performing groups enrich the lives of more than 80,000 people a year through over 100 learning projects.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Learning Opportunities for all

´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra Learning continues with its ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO Family Orchestra, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Family Music Intro, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms Out+About and work with Fulham Symphony Orchestra. Side by Side, an ongoing partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham Council offers young musicians the chance to rehearse and perform with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, while the Orchestra's ground-breaking Pathways scheme delivers year-long professional experience to postgraduate Royal College of Music students.

Diverse Orchestra

Diverse Orchestra returns in January 2011 with a celebration of Morocco's music and culture, including a week of workshops, concerts and projects uniting the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, young musicians from across London and London's Moroccan community.

Total Immersion

Once again, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra Learning is central to the orchestra's Total Immersion days in 2011. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO Family Orchestra performs during the day devoted to Unsuk Chin's music, a composition project will be developed around the work of Brian Ferneyhough, while a creative project is planned for the Peter Eötvös day.

´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Youthful Promise at 10

National Youth Orchestra of Wales and ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales celebrate a decade's collaboration in 2010, again joining forces to develop the nation's future musicians.This year's project builds to a performance at St David's Hall on 22 October 2010 under the care of the orchestra's principal guest conductor Jac van Steen, prefaced by three workshop days and joint rehearsals for the two orchestras.

Welsh Composers Project

The call has been sounded for composers to submit scores for possible inclusion by ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jac van Steen in their Welsh Composers Showcase performance at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall. The two-day event (17-18 February 2011), organised by the Orchestra's Education and Community Outreach team in partnership with Composers of Wales, Ty Cerdd and the Welsh Music Guild, includes public workshops and a free concert featuring project highlights.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
GoSing!

GoSing!, an extensive ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers' project to inspire, develop and support youth choirs and choral singing across the UK, begins its second three-year stage. This autumn the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers will be working in partnership with the London Borough of Harrow. Through an innovative programme of coaching, rehearsal support and professional development, GoSing! aims to provide primary and secondary teachers with the skills and confidence required to deliver and sustain vocal training for their students.

Ifield Community College Project

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers will travel to Crawley next May to begin work with Ifield Community College youth choir and its Diego Garcian/Mauritian drummers.The project, scheduled to run until March 2012, will explore ways of uniting Ifield's choral singers and drummers to create new musical adventures.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Big Noise

Big Noise has been developed by the charity Sistema Scotland to provide children with the social benefits that come from making music together. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra is the major performance partner for the Big Noise project in Stirling's Raploch district. Besides providing inspiration for the programme with concerts in and beyond the local community, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra musicians serve as professional mentors to young Big Noise participants.

Investing in the Future

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) have forged a pioneering partnership to enable students from various performing arts disciplines to learn their craft within the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s professional environment.Under the new partnership agreement's terms, undergraduate and postgraduate Academy students will receive additional opportunities to work with the Orchestra and its internationally acclaimed chief conductor, Donald Runnicles. Advanced students at the conservatoire will also be invited to perform concertos with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra before a public audience.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
MusicMix

MusicMix, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra's interactive schools concerts for students at Key Stage 2 and 3 (aged 7 to 14), rolls out once again following the success of its free performances at Plymouth Pavilions in June and in Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire in March. The project involved over 10,000 students in the audience and 400 students preforming alongside the Orchestra. MusicMix returns to Plymouth next year to inspire the greatest possible number of young people and to connect local audiences with the thrill of live music making.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Gruber's Frankenstein!!
22 October 2010, Bridgewater Hall

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic's composer/conductor HK "Nali"Gruber returns to Manchester to lead the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in a performance of his subversive work Frankenstein!!. Gruber's "pan-demonium" for chansonnier and large orchestra provides the ideal starting point for a related ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Learning project in Salford involving Eccles Fire and Environmental Services and community organisations. Salford Symphony Orchestra will join in, as the participants explore their own "monsters" in words and music, creating a piece for performance before Gruber's Bridgewater Hall concert.

Professional Experience Scheme (PES)

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic's very successful work experience scheme for student instrumentalists from the Royal Northern College of Music and the Universities of Manchester and Huddersfield continues this year. Students become members of the orchestra, playing rehearsals and concerts and taking part in Learning work,whilst being mentored by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic players. Several have progressed to become full-time players with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic as a result of their participation.