Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's schools programme focuses mainly on supporting children and young people to compose. As well as running workshops for young people, we also deliver CPD for teachers. Currently, our main schools programme is Listen Imagine Compose Primary. We work hard to ensure our projects are collaborative and a learning opportunity for everyone involved. We are a partner of the Birmingham Music Education Hub, a member of Birmingham Arts School, and a founding research partner of Birmingham City University.
Learn about our different CPD offers for primary classroom teachers, specialist music teachers and music leads, and instrumental teachers working in primary schools. Designed to support composing teaching and learning in primary schools. Ideal for for schools, music services and music education hubs wanting to improve this area of the music curriculum. Read more
Listen Imagine Compose Primary is a partnership project between BCMG, Birmingham City University (research team) and schools, aiming to encourage more and better composing in primary schools, funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Read more
Musicadoodledo is BCMG's early years project, mixing listening, adult-framed and child-initiated music play. The project is led by Jenny Muirhead and BCMG musicians. Read more
BCMG Young Composers is a project for young people in School Years 7 - 11 (ages 11 - 16). Through a series of four workshops, you will have the opportunity to compose new music for BCMG musicians guided by a professional composer Read more
Listen Imagine Compose was an action research project investigating the teaching and learning of composing in secondary schools. Though the main project has now finished, activity still continues and resources are available. Read more
Free, creative and fun music workshops for children in School Years 3 - 6 (ages 7 - 11). All welcome, whether you play a musical instrument or not. Read more
Creative Composing Lab is an exciting free opportunity for young people in School Years 10 - 13 (ages 14 - 18) to compose guided by the expert knowledge of professional composer David Horne. Read more
BCMG is an Arts Award Centre and Supporter. Young people participating in our workshops in and out of school can achieve Discover and Explore Arts Awards. Read more
BCMG's work experience placements are currently paused. We will update this page when with more information soon. Read more
BCMG is an Artsmark Partner. Artsmark is a quality standard for schools and education settings awarded by the Arts Council. Read more