The academic year 2024-25 has been our biggest year yet for LEARN at Drake Music Scotland. We’ve worked with a record number of young people, and we want to celebrate! Between July 2024 and June 2025 we worked with 1,400 young people in 60 schools across 15 local authorities. This is 1,038 sessions providing music...
Looking for invigorating CPD in accessible music practices? Figurenotes: Developing Your Practice is our flagship course for music educators and practitioners. Don’t miss out on the early bird rate, ending 25th July 2025. How does it work? Delivered on Zoom in small groups, this practical course will give you the tools to deliver engaging and...
We are delighted to have gained support from the Greggs Foundation Community Grant Programme for our work in our local area of Craigmillar. This provides much-appreciated core funding towards two of our projects, MusicSPACE and Digital Orchestra: Youth at Castlebrae High School with young people with additional support needs. We love the way the Greggs...
Fancy some free resources? We have updated our free bundle of resources for 2025! Anyone who receives our Figurenotes newsletter can get the new ‘Starter Pack’, so if you haven’t signed up already, you can do so with this link. The pack contains: Five well-known tunes using the notes from middle C to the above...
Drake Music Scotland is delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a grant from the D’Addario Foundation! Thank you to the D’Addario Foundation for your ongoing support of our organization and our community.
We are delighted to confirm that Associate Musician Farhad Ahmed will lead a new creative project with disabled artists as Out of the Common. They will explore Hip Hop, Indian Dance, Algorave & experimental music. They will be working on new material during the summer 2025 with a performance planned for September. More details to...
Greta Chambers-McMillan was excited to be one of 9 artists selected to be part of the Room To Play creative project run by Tinderbox Collective at Hidden Door 2025. Working closely with Ray Interactive and Hidden Door, the 9 artists developed interactive visuals that were shared as an installation in the Paper Factory from the...
Drake Musician Rhona Smith was delighted to take part in the Distill Residency run by Hands Up For Trad at Wiston Lodge this April. 8 Musicians gathered for 4 days of workshops around improvisation, composing and developing creative ideas – led by tutors Allie Robertson and Graham Stephen. Rhona was delighted to be part of...
Congratulations! Letting the Light In – by Sarah Lianne Lewis won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award for Chamber Composition at a recent Award Ceremony at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This beautiful piece written for prepared piano was part of our Beyond Borders project in collaboration with Tŷ Cerdd and NMC Recordings. Furthermore, here is what...
Filmmaker Tom Swift has been following Rhona Smith and Stephanie Humphreys as they developed a new composition for the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. “Finding Voices” offers insight into the technology that Rhona uses to create and perform on her Digital Harp and also how ideas and creative decisions are explored through a collaborative and patient...
