The Dionysus team are all experienced educators both as instrumental teachers, coaches and outreach providers, and have taken musical projects into a wide range of communities.
They explore music and communication through composition, improvisation and performance with instruments, songs and sounds, bringing projects to life through music in schools, nurseries, hospitals, prisons and care homes.
A founding ethos of The Dionysus Ensemble is bringing live music into situations where none might be present.
From 2013 until the pandemic in 2020, The Dionysus Ensemble ran not for profit interactive children’s concerts around the UK.
These string quartet concerts were community projects making live music accessible to all by keeping the performances local, affordable and readily available - we're extremely grateful to local sponsorship which enabled these Musical Adventures to take place.
Recent community wide projects include creating new musical works on climate change, astronomy & local history.
During the autumn term of 2019, we partnered with Jesuit Missions to enable pupils from Wimbledon College, Donhead and St John’s Beaumont schools to create and compose their own new music to highlight the current climate crisis. A showcase concert saw the children perform their creations in Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon.
During COP26 in autumn 2021, school & community groups in Slough came together to perform their newly composed songs on climate change in one of the empty shops in Queensmere Shopping Centre.
Watch a taste of that day here
Exploring local legend William Herschel, school groups in Slough created their own songs inspired by astronomy, science, local history & Herschel's own music, which they then performed in schools and in a free community performance. Watch a taste of that performance day here
They explore music and communication through composition, improvisation and performance with instruments, songs and sounds, bringing projects to life through music in schools, nurseries, hospitals, prisons and care homes.
A founding ethos of The Dionysus Ensemble is bringing live music into situations where none might be present.
From 2013 until the pandemic in 2020, The Dionysus Ensemble ran not for profit interactive children’s concerts around the UK.
These string quartet concerts were community projects making live music accessible to all by keeping the performances local, affordable and readily available - we're extremely grateful to local sponsorship which enabled these Musical Adventures to take place.
Recent community wide projects include creating new musical works on climate change, astronomy & local history.
During the autumn term of 2019, we partnered with Jesuit Missions to enable pupils from Wimbledon College, Donhead and St John’s Beaumont schools to create and compose their own new music to highlight the current climate crisis. A showcase concert saw the children perform their creations in Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon.
During COP26 in autumn 2021, school & community groups in Slough came together to perform their newly composed songs on climate change in one of the empty shops in Queensmere Shopping Centre.
Watch a taste of that day here
Exploring local legend William Herschel, school groups in Slough created their own songs inspired by astronomy, science, local history & Herschel's own music, which they then performed in schools and in a free community performance. Watch a taste of that performance day here
We regularly take our interactive concerts in to schools, here are some comments from those performances.
From Head Teachers & Staff:
"Thank you to you all for such a wonderful day. The children loved it!"
"The children are still talking about your visit and the music. It was such a lovely day for everyone."
"It really was fantastic and you were a real hit with the boys across the entire school."
"a huge thank you to you and your team for putting on a fantastic, engaging and educational live performance."
"Teachers and pupils absolutely loved it! Even though I was so busy today, the beautiful tunes travelled down the corridors of the school & kept pulling me towards the hall - we just can’t thank you guys enough! "
From Pupils:
" I really hope that you can come to our school again and light up all of our faces with a smile"
"I have never heard classical music before but I really enjoyed it"
"Thank you for playing your astonishing melodies. I especially loved the Bollywood song because it was very upbeat and interesting!"
