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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber urges the government to help every child have access to a musical instrument

Andrew Lloyd Webber slams education disparity: ‘Only 12 percent of state schools have an orchestra’

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Classic FM’s Music Teacher of the Year Awards with ABRSM recognises outstanding music teachers

The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards with ABRSM: nominate an inspiring music teacher

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Andrew Lloyd Webber on King Charles: We need ‘someone above government’ who values the arts

Andrew Lloyd Webber on King Charles: We need ‘someone above government’ who values the arts

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Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise programme provides free music tuition for young people in deprived areas of the country

Scottish government to give £1.5million to save children’s orchestras at risk of closure

Young flutists during a music lesson Our Lady & St. Werburgh's Catholic Primary School in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire UK

80 percent of schoolchildren say more could be done to engage young people with orchestral music

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The English National Opera’s production of ‘Carmen’, at the London Coliseum in 2020.

Leading UK opera companies have funding slashed in Arts Council announcement

The number of GCSE music entries are the lowest since JCQ records began in 2001

Music GCSE student numbers plummet to lowest this century

A London bus filled with instruments is offering children music lessons and workshops

A London bus filled with instruments is offering children music lessons and workshops

A-level music entries rise in 2022 for the first time in over a decade.

A-level music entries rise by 4 percent, in first uplift in over a decade

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CAYO message in action on the back of cellist Omar Macias, May 2022 Residency

‘With music, political barriers are removed’ – Cuban American Youth Orchestra talks musical diplomacy

The UK experienced its highest ever temperatures on record

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Cody Fry writes orchestral music, makes jokes about adding more French Horns to scores, and has over 200,000 followers on TikTok

Research says orchestral music is more popular on social media than in schools – one TikTok star explains why

This your brain on piano

All the amazing things that playing piano does for your brain and body, in one graphic

A group trumpet lesson at a primary school

Schools should offer at least ‘one hour of music a week’ – new music education plan revealed

A music school was destroyed by Russian forces this weekend

Donbas music school destroyed by Russian shelling in Eastern Ukraine

A girl in a Welsh primary school learns the violin

Disadvantaged children in Wales to receive free access to musical instruments

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan spoke at last night’s concert

‘Learning music should be a right, not a privilege’ says Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan