Emily is passionate about sharing music with everyone, and as such is an enthusiastic and playful workshop leader and classroom music teacher: in lockdown she completed a course in music leading with Spitalfields Music, and she strives to use this approach in all her teaching - enabling the students to find their own voice and be creative through their instrument, rather than just play the instrument. Her classes have composed entire raps and songs together, made fifes from carrots, played musical grandmas footsteps and duck duck goose, and all of her students can improvise.
Current Workshops
This Little Bird - Duo Correa Andrews
Interactive Concert for smaller kids (toddler to year 2)
40 minutes
Emily is joined by her husband, guitarist Francisco Correa, to perform a programme all about birds.... Big birds, small birds, birds that come out at night, or when its raining, and then we all do a ritual dance to call the mysterious Tico Tico bird... Using flute/piccolo, panpipes, occarina, voice and guitar, this is a varied concert with lots of interaction, movement and fun as well as some beautiful listening. It was developed for toddlers and year 1 children, but can be adapted for any age group.
Flute Discovery Workshop - Emily solo
Perfect for year 2 or 3
45 minutes
Emily demonstrates many different flutes from her collection, including panpipes, ocarina, penny whistle, quenacho, recorder, flute, piccolo and gemshorn, not only performing beautiful pieces from classical, folk and world music repertoire on these flutes but using them to explain how flutes actually make a sound, and how to change notes. Instruments are passed around, discussions opened and questions asked, and as a finale Emily can create a flute from a vegetable in front of the group – always a crowd pleaser, but also a wonderful demonstration of all that has been learnt about how flutes work.
” What a delight it was to hear your presentation on Discovering Flutes at Earthfest on Saturday. It was one of the most interesting pieces of musical education I can remember. “ – audience feedback, July 2023
“Emily delivered a flute workshop to our Year 2 children at school. Throughout the whole session the children were engaged and really enjoyed learning about the different instruments. She managed our lively children extremely well and held their attention for the whole workshop. Making a flute out of a carrot was a highlight and something the children will remember for a long time to come. We would like to thank Emily for an engaging well thought out workshop where the children learned lots about instuments and had a really great time.” – class teacher feedback, Blackhorse School, July 2023
” What a delight it was to hear your presentation on Discovering Flutes at Earthfest on Saturday. It was one of the most interesting pieces of musical education I can remember. “ – audience feedback, July 2023
“Emily delivered a flute workshop to our Year 2 children at school. Throughout the whole session the children were engaged and really enjoyed learning about the different instruments. She managed our lively children extremely well and held their attention for the whole workshop. Making a flute out of a carrot was a highlight and something the children will remember for a long time to come. We would like to thank Emily for an engaging well thought out workshop where the children learned lots about instuments and had a really great time.” – class teacher feedback, Blackhorse School, July 2023
Folk Music Workshop - Andrews Massey Duo
Perfect for KS2, years 3-6
1.5 hours
Emily and David (The Andrews Massey Duo) developed and toured this workshop using a grant from Culture West in January 2024. Using microphones and loop pedals, as well as many instruments (guitar, steel string guitar, banjo, flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo) they perform folk songs in instrumental versions, and explain how the words are still hidden in the music through fun games (like their interactive Molly Malone performance). They teach the terms "melody", "accompaniment", "harmony" and "countermelody" to the children, who learn to recognise these components in the music. This is a very memorable concert/workshop with lots of fun games and interaction, as well as achieving serious learning outcomes and provoking discussion and thoughtful listening.
A Pocket Opera school performance and workshop - CarmenCo
KS2 - 45 minute show
Secondary School - 2 hours: 1 hour show, then 1 hour workshop
CarmenCo can come into your school and perform a real Pocket Opera for your children. For primary school children the show is shorter, and storyline adapted, and for secondary school this is a 1 hour version of their sell-out show which is toured the whole of the UK. For many children this is their first taste of classical music and opera, and CarmenCo's humerous, accessible and interactive performance style is perfect to break perceived barriers to this kind of music.
The following workshop centres around the habanera and tango rhythms, teaching through notation, body percussion, and listening, before spotting them in contemporary pop music from Shakira to Ed Sheeran on a spotify playlist! If children have instruments we can then learn a piece all together playing with these rhythms.
The following workshop centres around the habanera and tango rhythms, teaching through notation, body percussion, and listening, before spotting them in contemporary pop music from Shakira to Ed Sheeran on a spotify playlist! If children have instruments we can then learn a piece all together playing with these rhythms.
rhythms of brazil - yara quartet
for adults and secondary school children
1.5-2 hours
Yara quartet is a professional subset of Clube do Choro Bristol comprising Emily on flute/violin/piccolo/voice, Francisco Correa on 7 string guitar, Phil Bunce on pandeiro and Mike Pryor on cavaquinho/mandolin.
We play choro, samba and bossa nova, and the workshop looks at these different rhythms' histories and evolution, as well as learning to spot them, clap or body percussion them. We look at how they're written down (where classes read some music already), before finally spotting and identifying these rhythms in contemporary pop music from Beyonce to Ed Sheeran, and then playing along (where there are instruments or percussion).
This workshop is brilliant for secondary school children - the wow factor of spotting all these rhythms in pop music they know at the end of the workshop is a real lightbulb moment!
We play choro, samba and bossa nova, and the workshop looks at these different rhythms' histories and evolution, as well as learning to spot them, clap or body percussion them. We look at how they're written down (where classes read some music already), before finally spotting and identifying these rhythms in contemporary pop music from Beyonce to Ed Sheeran, and then playing along (where there are instruments or percussion).
This workshop is brilliant for secondary school children - the wow factor of spotting all these rhythms in pop music they know at the end of the workshop is a real lightbulb moment!
Creative Listening - Emily solo
for adults and secondary school children
1.5 hours
Using specially-composed evocative music as a springboard for the imagination, Emily guides the participants to respond to the music through art and words, shaping them into a story, poem or artwork over many iterations, which will then be performed or displayed in time with the music as it is played. The final produced piece is not important - it's the process that is full of discovery. This is a contemplative workshop, where the importance of music to emotion is highlighted and discussed, with reference to film soundtracks (in school settings the film soundtrack discussion and demonstration starts the workshop).
Teacher Training
Emily believes it is the teacher's responsibility to make classical music fun and engaging for children, so she also coaches musicians and teachers to teach better and more creatively.
Since Summer 2024 she has been employed by the International Guitar Foundation to train their Young Artist Platform award holders on how to run inspiring and memorable school workshops. She then accompanies them into schools, watching their performances and giving constructive feedback and ideas, helping them to hone their skills and confidence at performing in school settings. Everybody benefits from this project - the schools get fully funded concerts from prizewinning young artists and the musicians get 10 years of experience in a few weeks.
If you would like to book Emily to run a training seminar for yourself or your teachers, or to come into your school and run a concert or workshop herself, please get in touch.
Since Summer 2024 she has been employed by the International Guitar Foundation to train their Young Artist Platform award holders on how to run inspiring and memorable school workshops. She then accompanies them into schools, watching their performances and giving constructive feedback and ideas, helping them to hone their skills and confidence at performing in school settings. Everybody benefits from this project - the schools get fully funded concerts from prizewinning young artists and the musicians get 10 years of experience in a few weeks.
If you would like to book Emily to run a training seminar for yourself or your teachers, or to come into your school and run a concert or workshop herself, please get in touch.