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  1. Play with Paraorchestra: a new opportunity for disabled musicians aged 18-25

    25 February 2025
    Experience playing in a setting that is both supportive and challenging alongside members of the Paraorchestra ensemble
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  2. Breaking new ground: Sony Assistive Musical Instrument Hackathon

    9 December 2024
    This Autumn, Paraorchestra musicians and composers gathered together with music-makers and creative technologists from Drake Music, Watershed and Sony Music Japan in a three-day hackathon exploring new possibilities in assistive music…
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  3. Our new braille music course

    24 October 2024
    Virtuoso recorder player and long-standing member of our ensemble James Risdon introduces the braille music course he has been leading as part of Paraorchestra's artist development programme Modulate
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  4. The Ideas Fund

    7 October 2024
    The Ideas Fund is an open-ended commission created to offer our musicians and composers the chance to intrepidly explore early-stage creative projects and ideas
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  5. The Bradford Progress with Jeremy Deller

    11 September 2024
    We are very excited to announce that Paraorchestra will be creating a large-scale commission for and in co-production with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. The Bradford Progress is a new…
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  6. Twelve new musicians join Paraorchestra

    12 June 2024
    Paraorchestra's Associate Music Director Lloyd Coleman introduces the twelve latest members of our ensemble
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