WeCompose
A selection of resources from our transformative composition project currently working in secondary schools across the UK.
WeCompose
WeCompose
An adventure in composition for young people across the UK
WeCompose is our latest composition project for Key Stage 3 students in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Portsmouth, Milton Keynes and Barking and Dagenham, and Key Stage 4 students in South Yorkshire and across the north of England, recently confirmed until at least 2026 thanks to generous funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The project includes a broad introduction to chamber music matched to the interests of year 9 to 11 pupils. We are partnering students with composers, who will help them to create their own group and individual compositions. We’re also offering training to the composers to enable them to effectively lead classroom sessions and to support teachers, growing everyone’s confidence in group composition. To find out more, please email ellen@musicintheround.co.uk
with many thanks to all our funders, including AESSEAL Lieutenancy Fund, Earl Fitzwilliam Charitable Trust, Freshgate Foundation, Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, Hull & East Riding Charitable Trust, Lucille Graham Trust, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust, Sheffield Bluecoat and Mountpleasant Educational Foundation, Sheffield Church Burgesses Educational Foundation, Sheffield Grammar School Exhibition Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, The Sylvia and Colin Shepherd Charitable Trust, The Thistle Trust, Three Monkies Trust
Resources
Composing Inspiration | Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No 8, Movement 2
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Composing Inspiration | Franz Schubert, String Quartet No.14, ‘Death and the Maiden’, Movement 2
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Composing Inspiration | Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet Op.115, Movement 2
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Composing Inspiration | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10, Movement 4
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WeCompose 24-25 Introduction Video
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WeCompose KS3 Resource Pack 2024-2025
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