Camerata in
the Community
Our work in the Community uses music to improve lives across cultural education and health & social care.
Be it providing vital music therapy for people living with dementia, training professional carers and running dementia Music Cafes as part of our Music In Mind programme, or empowering young people through our music-making work in schools, bringing together communities through music is at the heart of what we do. We work with a highly skilled group of specially trained professional musicians, music therapists, composers and theatre makers to develop and make this work happen, alongside more than ten years’ research partnership with The University of Manchester.
Some of our recent work
Manchester Camerata to Perform with Pet Shop Boys at MTV EMA
It doesn’t get much bigger than this!!!
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Music Cafés Launched across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester as part of our national Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia
Following our successful bid earlier this year to launch the UK’s First Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia – we are bringing our ground-breaking Music in Mind programme for people living with dementia to all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs
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BBC World Service – The Conversation
Our Resident Music Therapist and Principal Flute, Amina talks to BBC World Service about our dementia work.
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Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia
This is a colossal moment built on over ten years of work and research in partnership with The University of Manchester.
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Principal Flute and Resident Music Therapist Amina Hussain wins prestigious Association of British Orchestras Award.
Amina’s work is a fantastic example of how music can improve people’s lives both on and off the stage.
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BBC One Breakfast
Amina and Beth were on BBC One’s Breakfast talking about the impact our Music in Mind programme makes.
Find out more >Music and dementia
There are currently around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK. This is projected to rise to 1.6 million by 2040. Our award-winning specialist music therapy programme is already making impact to thousands of individuals living with dementia across the North-West, and we have plans to upscale this globally.
Find out more about our work with dementia >Music and young people
Our schools projects use creativity to promote personal and social development throughout school life. Our work raises self-confidence and self-esteem, which impacts upon wider school engagement and achievement.
Find out how we help young people >Music in Mind: Remote
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