Northamptonshire Music And Performing Arts Service
Northamptonshire, England, has a music and performing arts service to provide instrumental music lessons in local schools. Its services are available to around 11,000 school children. In July the music service through MSEP evaluation was given an Outstanding level. The service supports 15 Saturday morning music centres and many music and drama groups, all within Northamptonshire. Membership of the county level groups is determined by an annual audition process in July. For most groups there are three levels: Junior, Training and Youth and are usually abbreviated by staff and students e.g. County Junior Wind Orchestra (CJWO), County Training Strings (CTS) & County Youth Orchestra (CYO)
There are groups covering ensemble, orchestral, brass band, wind band, jazz, rock, guitar, percussion, voice, drama, dance and early years music.
In April 2012 the service became an independent, charitable trust and in May 2012 it was designed the government's music and education hub for the area.
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