If you are:
- Passionate about music and looking for the best tuition?
- Ready to take your learning on to a higher level?
- Keen to explore music with other young people?
Then this is the place for you.
Sheffield Music Academy is helping young musicians throughout the region to achieve their potential.
Our provision covers a full range of instruments and voices and a wide range of musical styles.
Find out more...
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So why haven't you heard of us before?
Sheffield Music Academy is a new organisation made possible by funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families and partnerships throughout the region. We aim to work with young musicians with exceptional potential to inspire and support their musical development.
If you wish, we can help to find teachers to fit your needs so call us to find out more about how we can help you, your child or your student.
Individual tuition
The centre of our tuition at Sheffield Music Academy is 1:1 sessions on one or two instruments. We may be able to increase the length of your lesson with your existing teacher, or you may require a new teacher. You may even require someone more advanced to help you progress. If you would like to find out more, then please talk to us as we are sure we will be able to help you.
Supporting studies
We provide a range of supporting lessons, mostly in small groups and fitted to your stage rather than your age. Everyone has access to musicianship and aural training, consisting of theory, practical work and listening. Chamber music is an important part of our training too, and most musicians play in two groups ranging form duets up to our String Ensemble
Classes & workshops
Everyone is encouraged to sing and we have three choirs to suit all levels and all enthusiasms. You might like to compose (with chances to have you pieces played by Academy staff and students), or you can sample World Music with our range of African Drums and Samba sets. Perhaps jazz or rock music is more your scene - whatever it is, we will find someone to help you if we can.
You can perform, too - every week there is an internal concert, and an increasing range of outside concerts to suit all levels.
A letter from John Grundy
Learn more about the Academy’s range of internationally-known visitors and excellent and enthusiastic team of teachers here.
Welcome!
We have been making music happen for young musicians in our area for more than two years now, and I think you would find Saturdays hectic but fun, informal (very different from a school day!) but with a real sense of purpose: above all a great chance to meet with musicians of all ages (some as old as me!) who love all kinds of music and want to share that passion.
There is always a lot happening; the Academy is full of sound from 9.15 when all of us get together to start the day by singing, right through until we close with high-quality chamber music ringing out from several rooms at once. In between, the office is taken over by drummers, deafening African drumming breaks out next door to a room with a jazz ensemble and composers try to find somewhere a little more peaceful to get their ideas down on paper.
Every Saturday is different, but there is always a performance at the centre of it; mostly students perform to each other, their teachers and their friends and relations, but staff also give recitals, and we are lucky to have visitors form leading conservatoires and colleges as well as from the world of professional music-making who come and play, and also give you the chance to talk to them about college or about making a living in music.
Academy Saturdays are the best day of the week for most of us, and personally I go home tired but thrilled to have experienced another day of great music-making, teaching, sharing and learning.
Why don't you come and see if it might do the same for you?
John Grundy, Director - Sheffield Music Academy