Sound Out Schools Concert

London Sinfonietta's Sound Out Concert is an interactive, whistle-stop tour of new music and composition!

Join presenter Patrick Bailey and six London Sinfonietta musicians to explore how to compose and create new music. Listen to pieces by living composers, join in with the performance and hear new work by young composers who have taken part in Composition Challenges, our project exploring composition in primary schools across England.

The music is SO contemporary - literally fresh off the page. It is really exciting for students to see the process of coming up with ideas to watching the final piece of music being performed on stage and just not anything you could replicate anywhere else! Teacher, Sound Out Schools Concert, 2023

Since 2013 we have been delivering our Sound Out Concert as part of our residency at the Southbank Centre, London. Each year we curate a programme especially for the concert, involving a diverse range of composers, new specially commissioned pieces and compositions written by young people. Through the music, we introduce young people to the joy of new music as well a educating them on composition. With our specially commissioned piece, the audience becomes performer, performing a new piece with the ensemble on stage.

A massive thank you for the amazing opportunity our young musicians had last week at the RFH. The school's concert was pitched perfectly, with accessible content, expert leadership from Patrick, the support by your team and the performers on stage. Head of Haringey Music Service, Sound Out Schools Concert 2023