ABRSM, the world’s leading authority on musical assessment, is to sponsor the Federation of Music Services (FMS) for the academic year September 2010 to August 2011. John Witchell, Chief Executive of FMS, announced the sponsorship agreement at the FMS Conference 2010 in Belfast (16–18 June). The grant will support the ongoing promotion and provision of the 12- month FMS course “Rising with the tide: managing and leading music services in the 21st century”.
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FMS Conference 2010 programme
You can also read about the cross culture Irish welcome that conference delegates will receive from talented pupils in each of the Education and Library Boards.
Presentations from the conference will shortly be on the conference page.
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The Federation of Music Services’ annual conference in Belfast from 16 – 18 June will be the first occasion that the conference has been held in Northern Ireland and it comes at a time when the future level of government support for music education after 2011 is still uncertain.
On the first full morning of the conference at the Belfast Hilton hotel, delegates will be greeted by a youthful Irish musical extravaganza in the form of ‘Celtic Fusion’. The band has a meld of talent from across the province including drummers and dancers are from St Cecilia’s College (Western Education and Library Board) and the Southern Education and Library Board (SELB), and traditional musicians from Our Lady’s Grammar School (SELB). Read more…
The Federation of Music Services (FMS), the organisation that represents all music services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has announced that Virginia Haworth-Galt is to become its new Chief Executive. She takes up the post on the 9th August 2010.
Ms Haworth-Galt is the first FMS chief executive to come from outside the world of music services and her appointment signals a mood of change within the music education sector as budgets come under scrutiny and streamlining of services moves into sharper focus. Read more…
