The Scottish Opera are currently looking for orchestral musicians aged 14—21 years old to join their Connect Orchestra. This offers young musicians the chance to spend a year learning and playing with some of the top opera professionals in the UK and be a part of Scotland’s largest performing arts organisation.

Huntly Summer School have just released application forms for their wide range of tuition available in their 2013 programme of workshops.

The Aberdeen Youth Choir (AYC) was started in October 2009 to meet the demand for specialist music tuition within the regeneration areas of Aberdeen. The AYC now want to make a CD to show everyone the fantastic work that the children do in the choir and need your help…

The Aberdeen Youth Choir are now offering a job as a group assistant. This role will include helping to encourage the young people in the choir to sing as best they can.

As part of this year’s Sound Festival, there will be a morning of workshops with one-to-one sessions from professional composers, with tuition on writing music for opera.

Musicians in Dundee are now invited to apply for some financial help in the latest round of the Dundee Musicians Award.

Footage from the Youth Music Initiative’s recent visit to The Scottish Borders, where children are receiving the Scottish Government’s target of one year’s free music tuition by the time they are in Primary 6 at school.

Scotland Sings is offering another great opportunity to get involved with in their new ‘Song Leaders Training for Beginners’ course.

This Friday 28 September, the new Bleachingfield Centre in Dunbar plays host to a free live youth music event, The Music Mash Up.

The Scottish Opera are currently looking for orchestral musicians aged 14—21 years old to join their Connect Orchestra. This offers young musicians the chance to spend a year learning and playing with some of the top opera professionals in the UK and be a part of Scotland’s largest performing arts organisation.

Huntly Summer School have just released application forms for their wide range of tuition available in their 2013 programme of workshops.

The Scottish Government has allocated £1M for schools to purchase musical instruments. Each Scottish Authority has been invited to bid for a share and community groups can be included in the Council’s bid.

This coming weekend, Creative Dundee present the Ultimate Dundee Weekender, with a number of homegrown creative and cultural events taking place all across the city.

Musicians in Dundee are now invited to apply for some financial help in the latest round of the Dundee Musicians Award.

Following up on last year’s success, with the cooperation of the Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Junior Blues Workshop is taking place once again in Dundee

Lamp House Music have announced two new classes available in the ‘ReMake Music programme’, one for Pre-School (ages 2—5 years) and one for Primary (ages 5—12 years). The classes offer children a wide variety of musical and creative fun activities, as an introduction into learning instruments from an early age.

The Edinburgh Festival Carnival is launching its own band to play a mix of sounds and are looking for up to 30 keen musicians (aged 16+) to take part in a series of FREE weekly workshops. Find out more…

Join the Tinderbox Orchestra for their open workshop on Sunday 19 May 2013, running between 10.30am – 5pm. The event welcomes all instruments and young musicians aged between 13 – 25 and will be followed up with a showcase performance taking place at 5pm.

The Scottish Opera are currently looking for orchestral musicians aged 14—21 years old to join their Connect Orchestra. This offers young musicians the chance to spend a year learning and playing with some of the top opera professionals in the UK and be a part of Scotland’s largest performing arts organisation.

New Rhythms For Glasgow have just started their brand new project of multi-arts workshops as a ‘Way into Music, Film and Drama’ for young people aged between 7—15 years, funded by Cashback for Communities.

Merchant Voices, the community choir based at the City Halls, Glasgow, is seeking a new Musical Director from September 2013.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

This week we brought you youth music news and events from all over Scotland, here are some of the highlights.

Scots songwriters offered the chance of joining the UK Songwriting Festival — The Gathering 2012 – to be held for the first time in Galloway in August 2012.

Music For Youth’s festivals are designed for young people aged 21 and under, giving musicians the chance to perform their music live to audiences outside of competitions in a productive and supportive environment, their next event is in Dumfries 2013…

The National Youth Jazz Orchestras of Scotland (NYJOS) have just released their online audition applications to become part of next year’s orchestra.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

Round up of weekly events and news items posted on Youth Music Forum Scotland week ending 30 March 2012.

The Scottish Alternative Music awards took place on Thursday 1 March for a third year, drawing necessary attention to the Scottish bands and artists that mainstream music tends to ignore.

New Rhythms For Glasgow have just started their brand new project of multi-arts workshops as a ‘Way into Music, Film and Drama’ for young people aged between 7—15 years, funded by Cashback for Communities.

Beatroute Arts are holding a open mic night on the last Saturday of each month at Balornock East Youth Centre, find out how to get involved with this and other projects.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

Lamp House Music have announced two new classes available in the ‘ReMake Music programme’, one for Pre-School (ages 2—5 years) and one for Primary (ages 5—12 years). The classes offer children a wide variety of musical and creative fun activities, as an introduction into learning instruments from an early age.

ElJam are offering free places at the upcoming ‘Everyone Deserves Music’ Symposium at The Sage, Gateshead.

Following a highly successful, introductory InterPlay session offered by Edinburgh Youth Music Forum in March, ELjam is offering to fund a limited number of places at two subsequent InterPlay events scheduled for August. Both will take place in Edinburgh and will be led by Interplay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter.

Big Noise Sistema Scotland are seeking out inspirational and accomplished teachers to help form their Big Noise Govanhill team.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

This week we brought you youth music news and events from all over Scotland, here are some of the highlights.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

Rock the Talk host regular Wednesday night sessions. Free, one to one music tuition is available along with access to a fully equipped recording/rehearsal studio.

Second year Scottish Music students at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow have organised a tour beginning 19th March.

Following a highly successful, introductory InterPlay session offered by Edinburgh Youth Music Forum in March, ELjam is offering to fund a limited number of places at two subsequent InterPlay events scheduled for August. Both will take place in Edinburgh and will be led by Interplay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter.

Each week we bring you youth music news, opportunities and events from all across Scotland. This week we have had youth music guitar lessons opening up, new job vacancies, auditions and more…

Fife Education Service have a strong vision of “Excellence for All”, believing all children should be encouraged to maximize their potential. The organisation have been working hard to meet the differing needs of everyone learning with them.

Youth Work Services is bringing free fun activities for all young people aged 11+ from Inverclyde this summer in the new Youth Trailers – Inverspace, from 16 July – 10 August.

This week we brought you youth music news and events from all over Scotland, here are some of the highlights.

Voluntary organisations are being invited to apply for a share of Inverclyde Council’s Grants to Voluntary Organisations Fund, totalling over £200,000 for financial year 2012-13.

Lamp House Music have announced two new classes available in the ‘ReMake Music programme’, one for Pre-School (ages 2—5 years) and one for Primary (ages 5—12 years). The classes offer children a wide variety of musical and creative fun activities, as an introduction into learning instruments from an early age.

Following a highly successful, introductory InterPlay session offered by Edinburgh Youth Music Forum in March, ELjam is offering to fund a limited number of places at two subsequent InterPlay events scheduled for August. Both will take place in Edinburgh and will be led by Interplay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter.

West Lothian Council are currently advertising a vacancy for Conductor of the West Lothian Schools Brass Band (WLSBB).

Fèis Obar Pheallaidh, is offering a day of trad music tuition workshops at Breadalbane Community Campus in Aberfeldy, Saturday 16 March 2013.
The workshops offer a choice in guitar, percussion or fiddle tuition on the day with a group work class for all instruments and all workshops are open to school children from P4 – S6. [...]

The Aberdeen Youth Choir are now offering a job as a group assistant. This role will include helping to encourage the young people in the choir to sing as best they can.

As part of this year’s Sound Festival, there will be a morning of workshops with one-to-one sessions from professional composers, with tuition on writing music for opera.

Cumbernauld Theatre is hosting EPIC, a mini-festival for new theatre this November exploring how artists can make epic, large scale theatre performance or dance with a small budget and stage.

Beatroute Arts are holding a open mic night on the last Saturday of each month at Balornock East Youth Centre, find out how to get involved with this and other projects.

The Wellhouse Trust have been working alongside young people from the age of 6 to 25 providing them with the opportunities they need to develop into work. This Lloyds Banking Group Community Fund will provide employment and training opportunities to the young people living in the Greater Easterhouse area.

The National Youth Jazz Orchestras of Scotland (NYJOS) have just released their online audition applications to become part of next year’s orchestra.

This Autumn, Scottish traditional musicians will be taking their music out of the concert hall with a series of performances for babies and toddlers. Live Music Now Scotland’s early years project brings some of the country’s best artists and music to an under-served and enthusiastic audience.

Orkney Islands Council have commissioned an original public art work to be displayed at the new Stromness Primary and Kirkwall Grammar Schools in Orkney. The Council are inviting proposals from suitably qualified and/or experienced visual artists and offers a budget for both pieces of work on a freelance basis.

The National Youth Jazz Orchestras of Scotland (NYJOS) have just released their online audition applications to become part of next year’s orchestra.

As part of this year’s Sound Festival, there will be a morning of workshops with one-to-one sessions from professional composers, with tuition on writing music for opera.

Living Voices are looking for professional poets, musicians and storytellers to work as Session Facilitators as part of this new and innovative project.

New Rhythms For Glasgow have just started their brand new project of multi-arts workshops as a ‘Way into Music, Film and Drama’ for young people aged between 7—15 years, funded by Cashback for Communities.

Big Noise Sistema Scotland are seeking out inspirational and accomplished teachers to help form their Big Noise Govanhill team.

The Paisley Spree, a national festival celebrating local arts and music, have just announced their under-18s programme for this year’s celebrations. The festival will include three local initiatives – Create, Pace Theatre, Loud ‘n’ Proud and they will all aim to showcase the various talents of the young people involved in the events, taking place between 25 – 28 October 2012.

The National Youth Jazz Orchestras of Scotland (NYJOS) have just released their online audition applications to become part of next year’s orchestra.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

The very best in musical talents from all over Scotland are preparing to compete in the semi-final of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Sunday June 17 at 3pm.

Living Voices are looking for professional poets, musicians and storytellers to work as Session Facilitators as part of this new and innovative project.

Round up of weekly events and news items posted on Youth Music Forum Scotland week ending 30 March 2012.

The Scottish Alternative Music awards took place on Thursday 1 March for a third year, drawing necessary attention to the Scottish bands and artists that mainstream music tends to ignore.

Scotland Sings is offering another great opportunity to get involved with in their new ‘Song Leaders Training for Beginners’ course.

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

The very best in musical talents from all over Scotland are preparing to compete in the semi-final of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Sunday June 17 at 3pm.

Starcatchers is an organisation which is dedicated to developing performances and creative experiences for very young children, their parents, carers and educators all over the country.

Round up of all this week’s Scottish youth music news posted on the Youth Music Forum Scotland.

Doune the Rabbit Hole are looking for capable people to help with the festival organisation and operations.

New Rhythms For Glasgow have just started their brand new project of multi-arts workshops as a ‘Way into Music, Film and Drama’ for young people aged between 7—15 years, funded by Cashback for Communities.

Each week we bring you youth music news, events and opportunities from across Scotland. This week saw job vacancies open up in music tuition, youth groups open for application and new apprenticeships and internships being made available…

A new temporary job opportunity is now available in Clydebank, a maternity cover post as an Upper String Instructor running up until June 2013.

Lamp House Music have announced two new classes available in the ‘ReMake Music programme’, one for Pre-School (ages 2—5 years) and one for Primary (ages 5—12 years). The classes offer children a wide variety of musical and creative fun activities, as an introduction into learning instruments from an early age.

Following a highly successful, introductory InterPlay session offered by Edinburgh Youth Music Forum in March, ELjam is offering to fund a limited number of places at two subsequent InterPlay events scheduled for August. Both will take place in Edinburgh and will be led by Interplay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter.

West Lothian Council are currently advertising a vacancy for Conductor of the West Lothian Schools Brass Band (WLSBB).

As part of their Outreach Programme for 2012, the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland are visiting the Outer Hebrides this coming weekend, performing in Stornoway and Benbecula.

The very best in musical talents from all over Scotland are preparing to compete in the semi-final of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Sunday June 17 at 3pm.

The Hebridean Celtic Festival is offering an exciting opportunity for an up and coming artist(s) to take the next step in their career.

The National Youth Jazz Orchestras of Scotland (NYJOS) have just released their online audition applications to become part of next year’s orchestra.

Young Scot have just announced the return of Pathways To Music, the national Scottish youth music project aiming to encourage young people to actively engage with the music sector.

Round up of all this weeks news and events posted on the YMFS site.

Huntly Summer School have just released application forms for their wide range of tuition available in their 2013 programme of workshops.

Each week, the Youth Music Forum Scotland presents opportunities, news and events from youth music activity going on around the country. This week sees highlights featuring tuition opportunities from Fèis Spè and Drake Music Scotland, with competition opportunities for young bands and musicians coming from this year’s Edinburgh Guitar and Music Festival.

Fèis Obar Pheallaidh, is offering a day of trad music tuition workshops at Breadalbane Community Campus in Aberfeldy, Saturday 16 March 2013.
The workshops offer a choice in guitar, percussion or fiddle tuition on the day with a group work class for all instruments and all workshops are open to school children from P4 – S6. [...]

Hands Up for Trad have just started up their brand new project, Scotland Sings, designed to encourage people to come together and sing with events taking place all over the country.

Round up of all this week’s Scottish youth music news posted on the Youth Music Forum Scotland.

Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival will be back from 6-12 August 2012.