News & Events

For anyone who knows or works with a youngster with an upper limb impairment this is a great chance for them to experience playing a specially adapted instrument [pdf-embedder...

Our new Rock ‘n’ Pop Band Rehearsal night starts after half term. This is open to any of your pupils who currently play an instrument and would like to play in a band. Guitarists, keyboardists, vocalists, drummers all welcome. As with all of our ensembles, it is free...

We have a German teacher shortly coming to visit on a sabbatical from a Berlin Music Service. She would like to immerse herself in our culture and get a deeper insight into our music education system. Would any schools be happy for her to spend a few days observing...

Ted and Denise Pearson have completed their epic journey riding the length of the United Kingdom cycling nearly 1,000 miles from Land's End to John o' Groats. They undertook the epic challenge in support of the  Music Service to raise funds to purchase new rock...

Part of our work supports the city wide strategy for engaging young people in a positive way. We are really pleased to announce a new exciting project where  young people are working with rapper VITAL and music producer Detonator to develop a track about living in...

Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra are holding an Orchestral play day at WMS on Saturday, November 2nd 2019 from 10.00am until 4.00pm All orchestral players welcome (WSO members and non-members) The event is free of charge, tea and coffee provided but bring lunch! Phone...

We are very pleased to announce that we will be continuing our successful series of Art Gallery Friday Lunchtime concerts throughout the year. This year we will be featuring our WMS scholarship students in these monthly concerts starting on 25th October.  Young people...

International Music Education Seminar Come and hear from our visiting scholars in a twilight seminar considering secondary music teaching from an international perspective. Our guest speakers are Dr. Graham McPhail, Senior Lecturer in Music Education from the...

Young musicians from Wolverhampton Music Service enjoyed a highly successful summer tour to Spain. Some 75 members of the Music Service’s Youth Orchestra and Youth Wind Orchestra, all pupils at local secondary schools, spent a week participating in music festivals at...

As part of our Secondary Music network meetings, The Wolverhampton Music Education Hub are pleased to offer a twilight CPD session run by the London Philharmonic Orchestra for music staff in Wolverhampton and the Black Country on January 22nd 2020 at 4.30 pm. “The...

We recently organised and hosted a drum/percusssion workshop for 80 of our students in the city where we were joined by Alan Wicket - otherwise nown as Sticky Wicket. His workshop took us through the history of the modern day drum kit and included presentations with...

Monday 8th July saw the Music Service organise a Ukulele & Guitar day for students in the city. Our own Ukulele/Guitar teachers were joined by the "League of Ukulele Gentlemen" The day culminated in a concert at 6.30pm with a repertoire ranging from George Formby...

Help raise £2000 to for Wolverhampton Music school with a bike ride from Lands' End to John o' Groats. Please visit the Justgiving page here :- www.justgiving.com Weʼre raising money to for Wolverhampton Music school with a bike ride from Lands' End to John o' Groats...

We have numerous concerts marking the end of the Summer term. Our Summer concert series held at St John's in the Square has been taking place from the 1st to 3rd July, and we will be returning to the same venue on Friday 19th July for the pre tour concert before our...

On July 1st & 2nd we held our annual Sing for Summer event at St John's in the Square. Hundreds of primary and special school pupils came along to share an exhuberant celebration of singing over 2 days. This is a very popular event which requires no fewer than 4...

We’re singing in the rain – and having a fabulous time! ​Hundreds of pupils from across Wolverhampton braved the inclement weather on Tuesday 11th June to put on a spectacular musical celebration in Queen Square. Around 500 children from 19 primary and special schools...

From St. Bartholomew’s Church Penn We are pleased to invite Schools to take part in our massed local Secondary School choirs singing day on Friday 8th November 2019. We would be delighted if your school would like to take part. It is an opportunity for your choir(s)...

Applications are now open for The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 2020 NYO welcomes applications from musicians aged 13-19 who play to Grade 8 standard or equivalent and have a passion for orchestral music. The selected musicians will perform in major...

Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra are an amateur organisation with around 60 regular members performing a wide range of orchestral repertoire. We have been partners of the Music Hub since it began and are committed to working with young orchestral players, We have a...

Presented by the Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton Musicians from our Wolverhampton Youth Orchestra have been working with the Welsh National Opera on a production devised and performed by young people. It also involves youngsters from the Dudley Academies...

BBC Ten Pieces Take part in Ten Pieces Assemblies this June! Join Ten Pieces in celebrating a fantastic year of music-making and creativity by holding your own Ten Pieces assembly. For more information how to participate visit the BBC website here

To book your schools' music services provision including our new exciting offers for whole class tuition (now including instrument loan for the pupils), "flying fives", instrumental and vocal tuition, ensemble direction (Orchestra, band, choir, groups etc.) plus a...