HIGH QUALITY OPERA & MUSIC CONCERTSBJ Music Events

Our aim is to organise high quality opera and music concerts

GETTING THE COMMUINTY INVOLVEDReaching Out To The Community

Appealing and reaching out to as many people in the community as possible

PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR SINGERSDeveloping Musicians & Singers Craft

Including singers and musicians of diverse backgrounds

What We're About

BJ Music Events was created in 2008 as a not-for-profit initiative to bring opera as an art form to the people of Birmingham in their communities. The co-founders Byron Jackson and Amanda Doyle recognised that there was a need for audience development in local communities. In hosting participatory workshops in local venues and schools and through staging high quality concerts we aim to encourage and inspire new audiences of all ages. The aim of these last 5 years has been to introduce the concept in local schools and performance venues, basically to ‘test the water’. An operatic concert in a central community venue in 2009 was a sell-out, raising £700 for charity and confirming our thoughts. Workshops in local primary schools over the following two years were also a success.

Our Aims

"Our aim is to organise high quality opera and music concerts and will include singers and musicians of diverse backgrounds to appeal and reach out to as many people in the community as possible. These events will also provide a platform for invited singers and musicians to perform and develop their craft."

Midsummer Musical Fantasy

'Come and Sing' in 2012

In September 2012 we hosted a ‘come and sing’ Messa di Gloria by Puccini with conductor Colin Baines. We had over 80 singers participating in this event from across the West Midlands and beyond, which further endorsed our beliefs in the project and that our aim of hosting a gala concert with orchestra was becoming a reality. In 2013, we researched and discussed different ways that the initiative could develop to include collaborations with business partners, artists in different genres of music, community workshops as well as further concerts, without losing sight of the goal. We are still in this process but there are exciting discussions in progress!

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