Music Is For Life

1500 young performers from the London Borough of Merton present another astonishing Music is for Life event at the Royal Albert Hall.

This year, our talented young singers and instrumentalists explore the power of communication and creativity through music and text with an array of imaginative performances. Highlights include:

The Peoples’ Guide to the Orchestra
Composer Neil Brand communicates his passion for film music in this new commission for massed strings, wind, brass, percussion and narrator.

Speak Up, Speak Out!
Inspired by the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016/17, this newly commissioned work by composers Pete Churchill and Adam Saunders, writer Andrew Alty and director Kate McGregor provides a timely reminder that Will’s words of wit and wisdom from four hundred years ago still resonate within our own lives and speak to our own experience on a daily basis.