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Our Music Our Way - Free Workshops and Concerts for Schools

Middlesbrough Town Hall, 2025-2026 Academic Year

Unlock the magic of music with Our Music Our Way at Middlesbrough Town Hall! Dive into interactive workshops tailored to ignite creativity and passion for music.

Royal Northern Sinfonia are pleased to be hosting a series of free workshops and concert tickets for Redcar and Cleveland based secondary schools at Middlesbrough Town Hall, as part of the Our Music Our Way partnership programme.

Please note, schools must sit within the Redcar and Cleveland authority area to attend these workshops.

There is no cost to attend for students or staff, and some financial help with transport costs is available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Each school is initially able to bring up to 25 students and the required number of accompanying staff. If you would like to bring more students, please get in touch to see if we can make that work. Total workshop capacity is limited to 50 students.

Each bespoke workshop has been specifically designed to support the key elements of the music curriculum: performance, composition, and listening/understanding music.

If you’d like your school to attend a workshop but feel the evening concert may be a barrier, please get in touch.

Need to know

Booking closes one month before each workshop. You can book for one or multiple workshops.

If you have any questions, please contact classical@theglasshouseicm.org.

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For full workshop details and curriculum links, view our programme brochure.

Thursday 26 March 2026

Listening / Understanding Music Workshop and Royal Northern Sinfonia Concert

A group of music students listening to a their teacher while sitting on the floor in a circle

2pm: Schools Arrive
2.15pm – 2.45pm: Meet the Musicians
3pm – 5pm: Understanding Music Workshop
5pm – 6.30pm: Dinner Break
6.30pm – 7pm: Pre-Concert Talk
7.30pm – 9.30pm: Concert

Join professors from Durham University for a workshop focusing on listening to and understanding music. This interactive session will explore analysing concertos and how changing ideas about the symphony influenced composers.

Evening concert features Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1 and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7.

With thanks to:

Our Music Our Way is co-produced by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Orchestras Live, and Tees Valley Music Service. We are grateful to our funders, Woodsmith Foundation and Arts Council England, for making this project possible.