HMDT Music

HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme serves over 350 students aged 6 months – 25 years on 30 Saturdays during each academic year. Started in 1995, it remains a vibrant and unique Saturday offering, providing a spectrum of individual projects involving guest visits and work with leading artists, alongside the continually expanding regular classes and programmes designed to enrich the lives of young people through music making. A source of local community pride, the programme also attracts students from across London and beyond.

Students follow a guided progression route beginning with Early Years programmes – The Music Box and The Fledglings, before choosing to focus upon music theatre (I Can Sing!) or instrumental training (CYMH).

I Can Sing! students may also choose to take instrumental lessons in addition to their normal schedule, and CYMH students follow a structured progression from group lessons to one-to-one lessons, always focussing on music making with others in a variety of ensembles, orchestra and choir classes, whilst our SEN/D programme, Music Treehouse, offers creative composition.

More advanced students will take part in the CYMH Academy, the Jazz Blues, or the prestigious Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, all of which are designed for students to get the most out of their musicianship and themselves.

Applications are taken all year round and our Financial Aid Programme is available for those who need it. The Music Box, Fledglings, I Can Sing!, CYMH (including the Jazz Blues and Jazz Orchestra) and Music Treehouse take place at Haggerston School in Hackney. The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy takes place at the Bridge Academy campus nearby.

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