Sheffield Music Service
| Published: 4th January 2007 20:13 |
Parents of 735 children and young people using Sheffield City Council's Music Service, returned the survey, and 619 of them rated the Music Service as good, very good or excellent. Of the families surveyed, 466 said their children would not learn a musical instrument if it were not for the support of the Council's Service.
The Sheffield Music Service (SMS) presently teaches over 4800 children to play a musical instrument or sing.
Due to a massive increase in demand for the SMS we are presently looking to increase our pool of instrumental teachers. For further information please contact the SMS on 0114 250 6860
Most of our teaching takes place in schools during normal lesson times throughout the school year.
Children from all over the city meet in the evening at the Bannerdale Centre to rehearse in one of our many orchestras, bands or choirs.
The senior ensembles represent the city at many prestigious competitions and concert venues across Europe.
SMS has a large stock of musical instruments which children and parents can hire for their SMS lesson.
A programme of Wider Opportunities is presently being rolled out into 70 primary schools involving 1500 children.
Groups of SMS teachers visit schools to perform to pupils and to deliver workshops.
The SMS has its own elementary examinations in music which is taken by 1000 pupils per year.
SMS also provides evening music theory classes at the Bannerdale Centre.
Vacancies in the Central Ensembles for young instrumentalists.
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