LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY MUSIC AWARDS
1999/2000

DIPLOMAS

The Highland Council Education Service has the awesome logistical problem of providing a music service to an area 20% larger than the whole of Wales with only 7% of the population. Yet this education service provides a wide range of musical opportunities for its pupils and students. A major feature of the year was the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Scottish traditional music which will recruit students from all over Scotland. Other highlights included:
· workshops and performances by an a cappella group from Zimbabwe and by groups drawn from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
· performance and outreach work by the full Scottish Chamber Orchestra, for secondary schools (with taster sessions in primaries)

We also applaud, not least because it provides an excellent basis for the dissemination of live music, a comprehensive training and support programme to meet the needs of community radio groups and their volunteers throughout the Highlands and Islands. This is an inclusive programme covering people from across the generations. Scottish vocational qualifications in radio production are targeted at the unemployed or disadvantaged. As a result of this programme, many of the community radio groups have developed from part-time community initiatives into full-time broadcasting organisations, creating both employment opportunities and improved access to music. The Education Service also supported a full range of orchestras, ensembles, bands and groups across most genres during the year.

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