Music Teacher - Glasgow primary school shares in Ivors Classical Award

Composer Brian Irvine and Red Note Ensemble encourage young people's creativity through their project 'An Easterhouse Children's Manifesto'

(from left) Natalie Dobbs, composer Brian Irvine, John Harris and Lincoln Abbotts, executive director at ABRSM, at The Ivors Classical Awards - © Hogan Media – Shutterstock

A primary school in the Easterhouse district of Glasgow has shared in the Ivors Classical Award for Best Community and Participation Composition for its project An Easterhouse Children’s Manifesto ('A Children’s Guide to Anarchy’).

At the Ivors Classical Awards ceremony on 12 November, ABRSM's executive director, Lincoln Abbots, presented the award to composer Brian Irvine alongside Natalie Dobbs and John Harris from Red Note Ensemble.

The work was developed by composer Brian Irvine, librettist John McIlduff and the Scotland-based contemporary music group Red Note Ensemble. It aims to allow young people’s anarchy to direct grown-ups on ways to uncover the best of what we as humans can be.