Could you be one of 5 Disabled early-career music creators taking part in the next round of our programme?
Discover the brand-new Touch Timpani, the latest in our OrchLab accessible instrument collection!
Join us in May for a day exploring accessible music technology!
Discover two brand-new accessible instruments plus a Sound Free Concert project for cochlear implant users at this event!
Yesterday at lunch time, I crossed into another place when I went to this engaging performance which was commissioned by Drake Music and produced in partnership with THAMES, Kazzum and Furtherfield is inspired by the stories and exhibitions at the Ragged School Museum in east London.
Ray De Grussa mastered using specialist computer software to achieve his ambition of composing music, despite his many impairments.
DM musician Ray De Grussa will be awarded the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) Adult Learners’ Week Digital Participation Award following his work with Drake Music and Sheffield […]
Drake Music cordially invites you to Crossing Into Yesterday. A cross-arts performance by children and young people from Stephen Hawking School, Halley Primary School and Beatrice Tate School.
A few perspectives re: music and progression for SEN/ Disabled students:
Ray De Grussa is a disabled person in his late 40s with significant physical, communication and literacy impairments.
Crossing Into Yesterday is a cross-arts, participatory initiative striving to inspire SEND and primary school pupils and teaching staff to connect with the borough’s history and heritage, culminating in a performance at Rich Mix in May 2012.
This 15 minute film is part of the five ‘Best Practice’ case studies made to accompany the 2012 Ofsted report into Music Education (‘Music in schools: wider still, and wider’)… […]
Assessing the musical development of children with complex needs has long been a fairly unexplored area of education in this country. In special schools in particular it is common for music to be taught by non-specialists who lack the confidence, planning time and resources to bring out the potential in their students.
Ramp It Up! is Real Accessible Musical Participation for disabled children and young people in school.