About
Emerging Professionals Programme (ages 18–25) providing rehearsals, masterclasses, performances and educator training; Under 18s weekly ensembles and First Collective beginner group; Widening Access partnerships with Music Education Hubs and schools nationally; First Time Jazz recruitment tour; school in-residence and CPD for music teachers; holiday projects; festival outreach including We Out Here, Cross the Tracks and EFG London Jazz Festival; international performances; community jazz choir in Woolwich; projects with at-risk young people (Cardboard Citizens); James Baldwin tribute; Steam Down collaboration; Sun Ra Reimagined; Young Euro Classic Berlin Custom geography from upload: UK-wide (home base Woolwich, South East London)
Key Metrics
3,943 young people reached across 279 learning sessions in 16 programmes; 46 public performances reaching 8,517 audience members
Key Metric 1
100+ Emerging Professionals supported with 159 paid performance opportunities; 32% from regions beyond London; 32% from African, Asian, Caribbean or Mixed Heritage backgrounds
Key Metric 2
46% of Under-18 participants receive bursaries; 46% benefit from free access (Pupil Premium, free school meals or low-income families)
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Key Outcomes
- Largest single concert audience of 1,500 for British Standard Time at Berlin's Konzerthaus; NYJO Under 18s alumni have gone on to Birmingham Conservatoire, Leeds Conservatoire and Cambridge University
- 29 in-school performances including 13 First Time Jazz sessions for 1,900 secondary school students; 69 educator training spaces delivered across 10 sessions
- 19 workshops reached 365 young people through Widening Access programmes in Lancashire, Leicestershire, Manchester and Essex; 35 school shows reached 2,846 students
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