Chaconne Brass concerts, workshops and masterclasses:

primary school level,
secondary school level,
music college level and
adults.

For their work with advanced students, Chaconne regularly works as individuals or as a group at institutions such as the Birmingham

Conservatoire of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music.

As for the younger children, Chaconne arguably has done, and continue to do more than possibly any other British group of its kind to promote, educate and inspire in the field of music.

See below for the two primary-school shows 'Oh Good Chips for Tea!' and 'Samba'

These performances are among the most popular of their kind in the country having been featured at London's South Bank and on BBC1 and Radio 4.
The concert is both lively and entertaining, relying heavily on on the interaction of the performers and audience.
Chaconne Brass will play Rossini's William Tell Overture, Jaqueline Binns' The Circus, dixieland jazz as well as Handel's Water Music on watering cans and kettles.

Everyone present will also take part in a performance of Chris Mitchell's Que Pasa! which is Chaconne Brass' re-creation of a Sout American street party.
A few volunteers - children (and teachers!) - may try out their conducting skills...

...as well as an opportunity for some to have their first lesson on a brass instrument.
 

At the end of a Chaconne educational show, the children will not only have a rudimentary understanding of how a brass instrument works, but sometimes also a burning ambition to learn to play a brass instrument themselves.

This is Chaconne Brass' version of the dynamic world of Brazilian Samba. The performance traces the roots of Samba; it is both lively and entertaining, relying heavily on the interaction of the performers and audience.

Starting in Africa with Chris Mitchell's Si Ya Hamba and Mark Kesel's Genesis, through to the European influences via Rodrigo//Hultmark's An Iberian Draft and a polka conducted by a couple of volunteers (and maybe a volunteered teacher!)...

Throughout the show, the children will be taught a song and many of the rhythms that make up samba as well as having been taught to play and name some of the Latin American percussion instruments; they will have a greater understanding of how brass instruments work and, of course, about the colourful world of Samba!

...it ends with a full-blown attempt at Brazilian Samba in which everyone takes part, performing Chris Mitchell's Cool Samba School.

This photo was taken during a project with the Senegalese dancer Issa Sawane