Little, Middle and Large
This performance-based project involves a trio of Hallé musicians visiting a Nursery School or Reception Class for a two-hour session, culminating in a half-hour performance based around sing-alongs, story-telling and lots of music interaction.
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Animal Opuses
This is an early years music and literacy project based on animals. It involves a group working with a poet and a trio of Hallé musicians in the creation of simple rhymes based on the movement and sounds that animals make. The group is also provided with visual material as a stimulus. The rhymes are then set to music with the children playing basic percussion instruments.
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World Music for Little Ones
World Music for Little Ones comprises two different projects: one singing and the other storytelling. Taking songs from around the world, a singing expert teaches the children the songs and a trio of musicians the helps the children to design simple world music accompaniments using classroom percussion instruments. The stories project offers a choice of two stories: The Tree of Life or The Tortoise who wanted to fly. Initially a writer works with the children on some simple creative writing exercises, followed by work with the Hallé musicians to set the creative writing to music and learn the songs. Both projects comprise three 2-hour sessions and conclude with a final short performance for the rest of the school and parents.
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Start the Day the Hallé Way
An hour-long interactive musical journey through elements of the music national curriculum (key stages 1 and 2) led by two Hallé musicians who present a programme to a school assembly promoting the motto, 'Music is fun!'.
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World Music Project
This project comprises a selection of five creative music projects based on the music of Japan, West Africa (Ghana), Indonesia, Hungary and Brazil. The project can be taken by a cluster of schools, culminating in a joint concert in which the schools come together to perform their music for each other.
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Individual Creative Music Workshops
Four different workshops for key stages 1 and 2 led by Hallé Education Director, Steve Pickett.
- 'Fun with Form' - How a ham sandwich relates to music composed in three sections and a 'Big Mac' to Rondo form!
- 'A Walk in the Forest' - A workshop based on the sounds of the forest, whether they be animal, vegetable or mineral!
- 'Dinosaurs Meet' - Two dinosaurs meet to do battle. The children will create their own prehistoric scene in music!
- 'A Ship in a Storm' - Turning a picture into music by using the visual elements of the picture: the ship, the waves, the wind, thunder and lightning. Is the ship about to crash on the rocks?
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GCSE Composition Workshop
A three-hour workshop that will help students turn simple melodies into pieces of music lasting several minutes using four basic composition techniques.
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GCSE Film Music Composition Workshop
How do film music composers compose? What is the difference between the music written for a Sci-fi film and a Western? This three-hour interactive workshop will show students how to set about composing their own film music in a variety of genres, using musical examples from Jaws to High Noon, from Star Wars to Wagner. The workshop also contains exercises for the students to work on during the seminar.
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Music Technology Workshops
A music composition project using music technology presented by Bea Schirmer, a member of the orchestra. The workshop covers the use of music technology within the GCSE syllabus.
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Adopt-a-player
This project involves a class 'adopting' a Hallé musician who visits the school for two sessions prior to the class visiting The Bridgewater Hall to attend a concert.
The first session involves the musician playing and talking about their instrument and about life as a professional musician. The musician also gives an introduction to the music that the children will hear in the concert.
The second session has a similar structure but also includes a simple creative music workshop. In Secondary Schools, this could involve a coaching session with a music group from within the school - an instrumental group, a band or the school orchestra.
On the evening of the concert, the children are met by their adopted player in the foyer of The Bridgewater Hall before attending the performance.
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Step up to Strings
The project aims to encourage every aspect of string playing. In addition to promoting solo and ensemble performance, this project will also focus on developing general musicianship and students' technical facility. Another key focus will be to offer further training, development and guidance for teachers already in place at the setting, so that work achieved on the project may be followed up and have a lasting and tangible impact.
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Wacky Winds
A performance based project designed to encourage young people to play woodwind instruments. Involving a wind quintet from the Hallé, a lower school, high school woodwind ensemble and Year 6 children from the feeder primaries.
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Brassed On!
A performance based project designed to encourage young people to play brass instruments. Involving Hallé Brass - a brass quintet made up of musicians from the Hallé - high school pupils and Year 6 children from the feeder primaries.
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Endangered Species
A series of development days for peripatetic music teachers and young musicians including masterclasses, discussions and workshops with the aim of promoting 'endangered' instruments such as the bassoon, trombone, tuba and oboe and to provide new challenges for those already enthused to learn instruments in this group.
For more information about 'endangered instruments' visit the Youth Music endangered and protected species project website by clicking here.
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Hallé Impresarios - A Numeracy and Business Studies Project
Aided by members of the Hallé's Administration team, Business Study students produce a business plan to put on a concert at The Bridgewater Hall.
This involves producing a written proposal, a budget and making a 3-5 minute presentation. The students are given a fictitious Arts Council grant, a number of fixed costs and a number of variable costs with different options from which to choose.
As part of the scheme, the pupils may have the opportunity to tour The Bridgewater Hall and to attend a concert.
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Coaching Sessions
The Hallé has many musicians with a great deal of music coaching ability and experience. If you have an ensemble in your school that you think will benefit from an injection of 'professional inspiration' whether it be strings, woodwind, brass or percussion, we have just the right person!
We also provide a coaching scheme in performance techniques, aimed particularly at students preparing for practical examinations at GCSE, AS and A-2 level.
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