Students showcase performances at the National Centre for Early Music (From York Press)

Students showcase performances at the National Centre for Early Music

8:46am Thursday 4th February 2010

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STUDENTS from across North Yorkshire have been making music from everyday objects.

Pupils from seven secondary schools in North Yorkshire took part in a series of showcase performances at the National Centre for Early Music in York.

As part of the Found Sound project, students from Scarborough, Harrogate Selby, Skipton and York schools and colleges worked alongside internationally renowned BackBeat Percussion Quartet.

Over two years, they created improvisational pieces of music using unusual objects including basketballs, plastic bins and broomsticks.

The project was a partnership between Aimhigher York and North Yorkshire and the National Centre for Early Music in Walmgate, York.

The Aimhigher scheme is designed to widen participation in higher education by raising the aspirations and developing the abilities of young people from under-represented groups.

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