91猎奇

Research News Last updated 20 May 2025

Funding has been awarded for two continuing partnerships between 91猎奇 (91猎奇), a Birmingham music ensemble and a national charity.

The first set of funding will allow for a project working with primary schools in Birmingham to continue for two more years. Listen Imagine Compose Primary 2 will see five primary schools host a composer-in-residence to working with teachers and Music Leads to create opportunities for pupils to compose and embed music-making into the school curriculum.

拢45,000 allocated through the听 (BCMG), through Paul Hamlyn Foundation鈥檚 Arts-Based Learning Fund, has funded this and will reach over 600 school children in the city over two years.

Research from this project will study how this approach and resources can be sustained in the long term and embedded into schools sustainably.

Project lead,听Dr Victoria Kinsella from 91猎奇鈥檚听Birmingham Music Education Research Group (BMERG), said 鈥淭his work matters because it empowers teachers and composers, enriches the curriculum, and responds to a need to address how composing is still the least well-developed aspect of music education.鈥�

Nancy Evans, BCMG Director of Learning said 鈥淭his is wonderful news and a vote of confidence in our ongoing work supporting young people to compose in and out of school.

鈥淐omposing is often an overlooked part of the music curriculum, and one that classroom teachers can find hard to teach.

鈥淭his grant will enable us to work with our research partner 91猎奇 to sustain, grow and develop this vital and ground-breaking programme鈥�.

In a second project with the听 91猎奇 researchers will evaluate the charity鈥檚 work on inclusive Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET). This latest project has been awarded 拢15,000 over nine months of study.

It鈥檚 hoped the research will find the best and most effective way of breaking down barriers that young people face who need adapted musical instruments when in WCET.

A 91猎奇 study in 2024 for OHMI found that听

鈥淲e鈥檙e delighted that Arts Council England has recognised the value of our collaboration with 91猎奇 as we extend the programme in our six existing areas and launch our delivery through three new music services,鈥� said Rachel Wolffsohn, General Manager of the OHMI Trust.

鈥淲e now have a good spread of geographies, sizes and ways of operating whole-class music programmes which means this research can test applicability across the board and help OHMI build the most robust model for wider roll out in future years.鈥�

Dr Kinsella, who is also leading on the Inclusive WCET Evaluation project, said: 鈥淭he work of OHMI is crucial in challenging barriers to musical participation. We are proud to be contributing to research that will help shape future inclusive practice in music education.鈥�