Calling singers aged 11-16 👩‍🎤 Youth Voices is back! This term, our theme is #TrendingOnTikTok with songs by Natasha Beddingfield 👩‍🦳, Dua Lipa 💎, The Weekend 💡 and The Barbie Movie 👗 Join us 4:30-5:30pm every Friday from 26th April at the Nazarene Community Church (M13 0LG) 🎤

This is OMF's luthier Kelly Burke. Over the last 2 years, Kelly has been lovingly repairing our OMF student instruments - 30+ violins and most recently, 4 lovely cellos. It's magical seeing these instruments being given a 2nd life and put into the hands of our young musicians 🪄

A warm welcome to OMF Brass Tutor, Cameron Chin-See, who will be joining us this summer term 🎺 Cam is a currently studying for an MMus at Royal Northern College of Music and performs regularly with orchestras including The Hallé Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - great to have you with us Cam! olympiasmusicfoundation.com/post/welcome-t…

We hope everyone has had a brilliant Easter🐣, Eid ☪️ + Songkran 🪷 break! A special welcome to new Programmes Manager Sam Parry on his first day at the OMF. We've got a busy summer ahead and can't wait to welcome our young musicians back next week. Stay tuned for updates!

Great news from ABRSM this term!🥳100% pass rate for OMF including 5 merits and 1 distinction. Huge congratulations to Ivan, Denzel and Rosa on clarinet, Anson and Isaac on cello, and Sasha, Haoyu, Umar and Gwiza on violin🎻 We are so proud of all of you and your playing 🎶🎶

OMF celebrated the end of term in style!🌟Our Spring concert featured stunning performances from our choirs and Gulcin Bulut Thank you @birchcommunitycentre 🎵🎉and all the OMF families who contributed food for Iftar. Wishing everyone a Happy Eid this week, and a restful break🧡

On Monday, we hosted our termly #VoicesOfHope Community Lunch, w/ food cooked by our Namibian choir members 🇳🇦. We also welcomed guests @reemanbar90 🇵🇸 + Gulcin Bulut 🇹🇷 to perform. We look forward to next term's Iranian kitchen 🇮🇷 and sharing our cultures w/ each other 🌍🧡🎵

We reached our #ArtsForImpact campaign target 🎉Thanks to your incredible generosity, we even surpassed it - raising £5,952.23 towards free music lessons. We are truly humbled by everyone's support. To say thank you, our young musicians have made a video! Big Give New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture

We are thrilled to have hit our #ArtsForImpact match-funding target but we're still accepting donations until 11:59 tomorrow! Additional support will allow us to work with even more young people and every penny raised will directly to our Learn to Play project @biggive New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture

Wonderful news from our friends at Olympias Music Foundation Foundation, this year shortlisted for the RPS Impact Award!

Can’t believe we’ve already hit £3,390 in our #ArtsForImpact campaign. There's still £805 of our match-funding available meaning your donation could be doubled enabling twice as many children will have the chance to learn an instrument @biggive @npac_uk donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

DONATE NOW to our #ArtsForImpact campaign and your support can be DOUBLED from the match-funding pot made available from Big Give in partnership with @npac_uk With your help, we can bring music education to all! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

ONE DAY TO GO! Support Olympias Music Foundation's #ArtsForImpact campaign to give the gift of free music lessons to children who don't otherwise have the opportunity to learn an instrument. Donate from midday tomorrow & your support can be doubled Big Give New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

Please read this. Jo is articulating so clearly and compellingly the reason why we do what we do. Organisations and people like Music for the Many, Olympias Music Foundation and all the others around the country need to get together to make a bigger difference. olympiasmusicfoundation.com/post/the-day-t…

5 DAYS TO GO until Olympias Music Foundation’s @biggive #ArtsForImpact campaign that will help us deliver even more free music lessons to Manchester children from low-income households. Made possible with support from @npac_uk. #ArtsForImpact #MusicForAll #DonateNow

Some thoughts from our Chief Exec Jo Yee Cheung on the crisis facing UK music education, the amazing work being done by OMF and music education allies across the UK Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Opera North Music for the Many Sistema Scotland One Education Music GM Music Hub #StrongerTogether 💪

🙏 to @larry_goves for welcoming our Composers Club to Royal Northern College of Music again this term ✏️🎵🎹 We had a fab time exploring improvisation, graphic scores and extended techniques. Looking forward to our Composers Showcase in a few weeks, where we'll be sharing some of our original music!

EXCITING NEWS 🤩 We're thrilled to be part of Big Give's  #ArtsForImpact  campaign, in partnership with New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture The first £2500 of donations will be match-funded, meaning that there is an amazing opportunity for your support to have double the impact. Launches midday on Tue 19 Mar