Are you a musician, music leader, or singer with experience working with young children? Inspiring Music is looking for a freelance musician to support the delivery of ‘Mini Music Makers’, a Youth Music-funded project in Dunstable to families with children under 5.
Location: Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire
Daily rate: £160
Contract: Freelance position
Fixed term project: October 2022 – July 2023
Number of days required: 26.5 (comprising 5.5 days CPD October-December 2022, 20 days delivery Jan-June 2023, one-day post-project reflection & reporting July 2023)
Application closing date: 7 October 2022
Interview date: The week of the 10 October 2022
How to apply
If you are an experienced and engaging musician with a passion for working with the youngest children in our community and are open to exploring collaborative, child-led approaches to Early Years music-making, we’d love to hear from you.
Please send a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to inspiring.music@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk. For more information please contact the same email address.
About the project
The project will be open to all families, although it has a particular focus on certain ethnic groups including the Black/Black British-African and Mixed White and Black Caribbean communities. We want to recruit someone with knowledge or experience of working with, or who has a background in, one of these communities. The music leader will work in a pair alongside a member of Sinfonia Verdi, a Luton-based orchestra with expertise in modern, historical, global, and community music. (Please note that for this role, classical music training is not a requirement).
The project incorporates a development programme in autumn 2022 for the music leaders to explore co-creative processes within their Early Years practice. We are seeking someone who is open to exploring child-led, open-ended musical practice and the concept of creating a ‘musical play space’ for the families in the sessions. Session delivery will then start in January 2023.