DaDa welcomes news that Youth Music have confirmed their support for the ‘DaDa Makes Music’ composition project in partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic, through a Youth Music Stability Grant.
The project launches at the end of this month and will run through to summer 2025, building on the legacy of the DaDa Young Ensemble Project, delivering specialist music provision in composition for an integrated group of young disabled and non-disabled musicians in Liverpool. Sessions will be led by highly skilled professional music leaders with a wealth of experience working in classical and popular music and health and wellbeing.
Working with the Liverpool Philharmonic, DaDa will be working with young musicians who have come through the DaDa Ensemble Project, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company and associated projects to develop and hone composition and performance. A professional composer, specialist music leaders and a disabled trainee lead musician will work together to facilitate a young person led process to create a new piece of music to be shared in concert in July at the Philharmonic Music Room.
The young musicians will learn different composition methods, share skills, learn more about working together as an ensemble and be able to try different instruments and work in different musical styles. The trainee lead musician will develop their skills as a professional music leader working with disabled and non-disabled young artists.
DaDa’s Executive Producer Rachel Rogers said:
“We are thrilled to receive backing from Youth Music to ensure continuation of a specialist music provision for young disabled musicians through DaDa Makes Music, particularly after the loss of our longer term funding for our Ensemble Project.
This project provides learning opportunities for disabled and non-disabled musicians to develop their technical skills, gain experience working with different composition methods and working in an ensemble setting. It is a unique and invaluable artist development experience, particularly for young disabled musicians as there is no other specialist inclusive provision elsewhere in Liveerpool.
We have seen fantastic talent identified through our Young Ensemble project previously, with one of our disabled musicians, Joshua Henderson, going on to receive Youth Music funding to record his debut album.
Projects like this are incredibly important for supporting and showcasing the musical talent of young disabled artists, and we are delighted to work in partnership with fantastically talented musicians through our partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic to make it happen and we remain committed to searching for continued funds to support wider music provision for young disabled musicians in the Liverpool City Region.”
This project is backed by Youth Music, thanks also to the National Lottery via Arts Council England.