We are working on a La Banda Europa Youth Orchestra at the moment and intend to base the first summer camp in Aberdeen in August 2009. This will take the form of a three week summer camp including forays into the local community with a grand performance at the end of the three weeks.
We plan to site the youth orchestra and summer camp in a different European country each year over a three to five year cycle. Wouldn’t it be fantastic to tour the Youth orchestra/summer camp in this way?
La banda Europa is committed to increasing the number of people participating in and enjoying music in Europe and are developing developing a youth music education programme. We have educators on the team from all over Europe…. within La Banda, there are two music professors, the Head of a degree course in English folk music, the Head of the Scottish piping degree course in Glasgow, three university tutors, five members who teach at secondary school level and several workshop leaders with community education experience.
We are developing a workshop program that explores and compares indigenous European instruments and musical culture. The programme will offer workshops and master-classes on individual instruments including playing techniques and history.
(have a look at this quote from one of our board members)
Citizenship
“A key challenge for the European Union is to develop a common sense of a common citizenship which is enriched by cultural difference. Music – making it, performing it, listening to it – is potentially a unique way of constructing such an inclusive yet diverse civic identity. There is much talk about education for citizenship in the new Europe. Learning citizenship by making music could have a distinctive contribution to make to this process. In this sense, citizenship is the outcome of creative activity rather than the starting point for educational practice.” Ian Martin, Reader in Adult and Community Education, University of Edinburgh
Slainte, Jim Sutherland
