Bringing musical discovery to your school
From Primary to A-level, reaching both mainstream and SEN schools, we tailor-build projects for a wide variety of educational requirements.
“What a performance! So many teachers came to tell me how brilliant this afternoon was! Thank you so, so much! The teachers AND the children loved finding out about all the instruments and hearing the music from different countries and cultures. Apparently, all the children were on their feet taking part in a samba dance - wonderful! We cannot thank you all enough for the fantastic, enriching opportunity. Every child loved it! Once again your talented musicians proved the power of music for touching the souls of all.”
— Music Lead, Lindfield Primary, West Sussex.Learning through creativity
Inspiring young people is core to Ensemble Reza’s ethos. We create a spark with all those we work with, raising the profile of music amongst students, schools and families; encouraging participants to challenge their creative boundaries and value the social benefits music making can provide.
Our school programmes have clear progression plans, combining regular and newly devised projects.
Primary Schools
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These workshops develop and build the musical skills from previous sessions, giving year 9-10 students more independence to create their own music, working and performing alongside three of our professional musicians. These sessions culminate in both recording and performing opportunities for students.
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We provide students with knowledge and skills through live demonstrations to compose for a range of instruments including string/wind/brass and percussion. Our musicians test composition ideas and perform finished pieces at the end of the course alongside students in an informal concert.
Secondary & Sixth Form
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Interactive, friendly Ensemble Reza concerts introducing students to different sound worlds of classical, jazz, world and folk music told through stories, song and dance.
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Creative Music-Making workshops help build and develop musical learning through interactive singing and percussion music making workshops
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Transition choral workshops bring together Year 6 Primary students with Year 7 Secondary students, helping ease the transition for younger students
SEN Schools
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Led by a SEN music specialist workshop leader alongside Ensemble Reza musicians, students from reception to sixth-form create a multi-media cross-curricular piece combining music, art and poetry, culminating in a final performance, with students performing alongside Ensemble Reza musicians.
There will be opportunities for mentoring on a 1:1 basis for those students who show a creative interest and want to be music leaders in their year group.
Our formula of experienced Ensemble Reza musicians teamed with prestigious workshop leaders create fantastic results.
Beginner guides to instruments - a resource for teachers
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Lower Strings
Pavlos and Sarah lead on this discovery of cellos and double basses
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Percussion instruments
An introduction to percussion with our resident percussion expert, Toril.
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Wind instruments
Learn how wind instruments work with Susana and Tom.
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Upper Strings
Andrew shares his indepth knowledge of violins and violas.
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Lower Brass
Barnaby talks about tombones and other big brass instruments.
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More percussion!
Explore further into the diverse world of percussion
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Upper brass
Rob show's us how to get sound out of a trumpet!
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School Tour 2022
Taking live music to nine schools in Crawley, Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, Balcombe and Scaynes Hill, this tour featured our special musical story Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean.
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School Tour 2021
Over 500 students from 6 local schools took part in this exciting programme of music from around the world.
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SEN project at Ingfield Manor School
We created a virtual project based on music and dances from around the world, for this school teaching children aged 3 - 19 with neurological motor impairments.
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BBC Ten pieces
The BBC Ten Pieces programme launched in 2015 opened up the world of classical music to young people. With West Sussex Music, we ran composition workshops in local schools with over 220 students creating their own musical responses to some of the Pieces.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Ensemble Reza were approached by the Lindfield Arts Festival to design a music project based on the story ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak.
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Sixth Form composition
It’s a privilege to create a project to guide and encourage young talented composers as they feel their way, writing for a range of instruments including string quartet, clarinet, piano and percussion. Here’s how we adapted our usually in-house projects during Lockdown 2020…
