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Young Songwriters

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Get your music and lyrics in front of professional musicians to help craft and shape your work

The Young Songwriters is a programme that will get you exploring new sounds, instruments, genres and approaches to writing music. We’d love to work with you whatever you put together, be it Grime, EDM, Jazz, Folk, Classical or something completely different.

You will develop the way you write and make your music and how to communicate the intricacies of a song to those who play it. 

In 2017 the mentors for this programme will include:

  • Detta Danford
  • Natasha Zielazinski
  • The Magic Lantern 
  • Ranjana Ghatak 
  • Kwame Kwei Armah (Junior)

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  • Free tickets to one Barbican Contemporary music concert
  • 1:1 tuition with professional musicians
  • Your work performed at a showcase event in a world class venue, either by you or professional musicians
  • Access to the work and opportunities available at the Guildhall School and the Barbican, joining a community of artists and musicians
  • The use of the Barbican’s international reputation
‘I’m really finding my own voice. I didn’t really think of myself as a songwriter, but now I realise that I am.‘
Young Songwriter 2016
Three people in workshop

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