Music-making in the Midlands
Organisations
Find an orchestra in your area.
Contemporary music ensembles around the UK, catering for musicians of all abilities. CoMA commissions leading UK and International composers to write music which is artistically challenging but technically suited to the needs of amateurs.
Uses the arts to break down many of the prejudices associated with people with mental health problems and promote access and participation.
Choirs, concerts and choral music resources.
Search for organisations and groups in the region.
Information on Gloucestershire Council Music Library.
Visit their website to find choirs, orchestras and youth music groups in your area.
Youth Music Association.
Large choir association with lists of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
List of local choirs.
NUMU is a dedicated safe space for young people to upload and showcase their music, meet others and learn new skills.
A membership organisation with about 2700 members across the UK and abroad. Offering advice and guidance to anyone who wants to (re-)start learning the organ.
Sound Sense is the UK development agency for community music. They promote the significance and value of community music, and assist the professional development of people practising and participating in it.
Offering local information, advice, workshops, courses, internet access, magazines and CD and DVD hire. Find your local library through this site.
Music organisation.
Listings by county
Birmingham Music Groups
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Music society: instrumental
Birmingham
Orchestra: instrumental
Birmingham
Opera company: vocal
Birmingham
Audition required.
Wind band: instrumental
Birmingham
Chamber choir: vocal
Shirley, Solihull, SW Birmingham
Choir: vocal
Birmingham
Orchestra: instrumental
Solihull
No formal auditions required but some orchestral experience is preferred.
Orchestra: instrumental
Birmingham
Choir: vocal
Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham Music Organisations
Dudley council music and performance arts services; including music tuition.
Music organisation.
Information on the council music library. Lists of local music groups, ensembles, teachers etc. are available from the library but aren't accessible online.
Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Derbyshire Music Groups
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Orchestra: instrumental
Chesterfield
Acceptable standard required.
Brass band: instrumental
Whitwell
Junior and senior band. No ability required for juniors. Reasonable standard for senior band.
Community choir: vocal
Alfreton
Females only.
Chamber choir: vocal
Derby
Sight reading and informal audition required.
Band plays music varying from Elizabethan court music to modern pop music: vocal/instrumental
Buxton
Learners band for any ability. Minimum standard and informal audition required for main band.
Religious and secular choral music
Bakewell
Brass band: instrumental
Browne
Training section and instrumental loan available for beginners.
Derbyshire Music Organisations
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Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Gloucestershire Music Organisations
Music tuition and services in Gloucestershire.
Leicestershire Music Groups
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Brass band: instrumental
South Wigston
Training and senior band.
Brass band: instrumental
Carlton
Training and senior band.
Choir: vocal
Leicester
Audition required.
Orchestra: instrumental
Leicester
Grade 8 standard for wind, strings assessed by section leader.
Choir: vocal
Leicester
Age 16+, basic audition required.
Musical theatre company: vocal
Evington
Informal audition.
Choir: vocal
Leicester
Audition required. Gospel choir, ages 16+ gospel. New Creation Choir, ages 11 - 16.
Brass band: instrumental
Kibworth
Short audition required.
Leicestershire Music Organisations
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Council music services and tuition.
Council information on music groups, services and tuition in the area.
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Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Lincolnshire Music Organisations
Music tuition and services in Lincolnshire.
Music Lincs Ltd
Local music services.
Council music services including instrument hire.
Music support service providing music lessons for pupils throughout the whole of North Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire Music Groups
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Orchestra: instrumental
Banbury
Grade 7 standard.
Brass band: instrumental
Rushden
Females only.
Music theatre company: vocal
Northampton
Audition required. Non playing members.
Chamber choir: vocal
Kettering
Ability to read music desirable, but practice discs are available to help work around this.
Choir: vocal
Wellingborough
Brass band: instrumental
Gretton
Training band and senior band, instruments available.
Northamptonshire Music Organisations
Music organisation.
Council information on music tuition and services.
Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Nottinghamshire Music Groups
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Burton Joyce Choral Society
Choir: vocal
Burton Joyce
Some sight-reading advantageous.
Choir: vocal
Nottingham
Reasonable sight-reading and singing, audition required.
Choir: vocal
Calverton
Boys of ages 6+.
Orchestra: instrumental
Nottingham
Grade 8 standard, informal audition required.
Orchestra: instrumental
Southwell
Any instrument and any ability welcome.
Brass band
Carlton
Training and senior band.
Choir: vocal
Nottingham
No audition required, sing for fun.
Nottinghamshire Music Organisations
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Music organisation.
A Nottingham based music organisation who run regular courses in singing and instrumental playing in Nottingham.
Music and arts services in Nottinghamshire, including instrument tuition.
Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Oxfordshire Music Groups
Orchestra: vocal
Banbury
Ages approx. 14 - 23, grade 5 standard, audition required.
Choir: vocal
Thame
Friendly choir which performs work from Verdi’s Requiem to the comic operetta Merrie England.
New members welcome, no audition required.
Choir: vocal
Oxford
Some sight reading ability and audition required.
Youth choir: vocal
Oxford
Girls ages 4 - 18, boys age 4 - 11.
Choir: vocal
Thame
Orchestra: instrumental
Witley
Concert band: instrumental
Thame
Grade 5 standard.
Oxfordshire Music Organisations
Information on music services offered by the council.
Oxfordshire County Music Service
Music tuition and services in Oxfordshire.
Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
Warwickshire Music Organisations
Council arts service, including information on local music tuition.
Music organisation.
Information on local music groups and council music services.
Search for Youth Music projects in your area.
West Midlands Music Groups
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ÌýGospel, RnB, a capella: vocal
Wolverhampton
Audition required.
Opera company: vocal
West Midlands
Choir: vocal
Shrewsbury
All welcome.
Orchestra: instrumental
Walsall
Barbershop: vocal
West Bromwich
Audition required.
Choir: vocal
Wolverhampton
Audition required.
Orchestra: instrumental
Wolverhampton
Bagpipe band: instrumental
Solihull
Training available for all abilities, subject to space.
West Midlands Music Organisations
Provides Herefordshire children and young people with the opportunity to learn a music instrument and take part in bands and orchestral activities.
Music organisation.
Provides instrumental teaching for pupils on all major orchestral instruments in the Wolverhampton area.
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Worcestershire Music Groups
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Orchestra: instrumental
Malvern
New players welcome to try out at regular workshops.
Music tuition and services in Worcestershire.