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Looking to use your skills as a music performer to build a career in music facilitation in community settings? Or are you already leading community workshops, and want a space to learn and network with peers in the sector?
Join us for a day of training with professional music leaders James Redwood and Rosie Bergonzi, drawing on their years of experience within the sector.
This training day will equip you with a toolkit of musical exercises and techniques to bring your music specialism into community settings, and grow your confidence as a leader.
What to expect:
- To learn approaches for working with different group sizes, ages and experiences in your leading
- Finding out how you can use existing repertoire to form the basis of your projects
- Advice on navigating leadership as a performer and exploring the shift from performer to facilitator
- Networking opportunities with music leaders at different stages of their careers
Who is this session for?
- Instrumentalists, singers and other performing musicians building a career in music facilitation
- Creative music leaders who want to build their skills by learning from other sector professionals
- Music teachers and facilitators who want to learn how their performing and facilitation work can support each other
- Musicians looking to diversify their careers
Meet the leaders
James Redwood
James Redwood is a composer, music leader and workshop facilitator. His practice thrives on collaboration and partnership. James has a hugely varied career, working with orchestras, opera companies and arts organisations to create new music with and for non-professional groups. In addition to composition and creative music leading, James has a range of experience leading training and CPD for school teachers, Hub musicians, orchestral players and emerging music leaders.
Rosie Bergonzi
Rosie Bergonzi is a percussionist, handpan musician, performer and music educator. Rosie works with early years, young people, SEN participants, professional and non-professional musicians to make and perform music. In her work as a workshop leader she encourages people to find their voice, especially focused on minority groups who’ve historically been overlooked in the past.
Rosie’s recent collaborations include work with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Southbank Centre, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Chineke! Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra and many more.
