City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Trustees were impressed to read about the creative residencies CBSO planned, enabling the musicians to gain expertise in working with pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning needs. We have received very appreciative feedback from one of the schools served: CBSO really took the time to get to know individual pupils and their interests in music e.g. F1 theme tune, Shawn the sheep theme tune and taking time to learn new pieces of music to really engage them in the session. Pupils began to understand that once they had stopped playing an instrument, the whole class would also stop, which was lovely for them to be given that control.