Thanks to Youth Music funding, AYM is developing and supporting this collaborative network, through a new Musical Progressions Roundtable. This initiative directly builds on the roundtable dialogues we jointly hosted with Youth Music and the Musicians Benevolent Fund in 2009-11. Through this collaborative partnership we’re bringing together key stakeholders supporting musical progression, including other Youth Music-funded progression networks.

The focus is on how we can most effectively support young people’s musical progression, encouraging their talent and potential. This includes all young people, whatever their musical style/genre, personal/social background and circumstances. Musical Progressions involves more than 200 people who work in music education, with more taking part in online forums, and will also include young people who are actively engaging through a collaboration with Wired4Music.

 

AYM is facilitating a series of partnership and networking events across England, joined by Ben Sandbrook, formerly of Youth Music, to provide focused environments that are conducive to open conversation and productive dialogue. The first three events have now taken place at the Royal Northern College of Music, the CBSO Centre Birmingham and the Sage Gateshead. Two further partnership events are planned for March at Bristol University and at the Barbican Guildhall in June this year.

To find out more about Musical Progressions please click here.