Since achieving specialist status as a Music College last year, The Roseland Community School in Tregony is one of just seven schools across the UK taking part in a school's outreach programme run by the London Sinfonietta in association with EMI Music Sound Foundation.

They have offered students the opportunity of working with professional musicians from The London Sinfonietta and one of the UK's foremost contemporary classical composers, Simon Bainbridge (Head of Composition at The Royal Academy of Music in London).

The project takes the form of two music workshops for our students, a specialist training day for our teaching staff, and the chance for our students to attend a concert by The London Sinfonietta at The Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank later this month.

On Friday composer and workshop leader Rachel Leach and two professional musicians from The London Sinfonietta, Dave Powell on tuba and Tim Lines on clarinet, flew from London to Cornwall to deliver an afternoon's music workshop to Year 10 Music GCSE students.

Next Monday, eighteen students from The Roseland Community School will be travelling to London to meet composer Simon Bainbridge in person and observe him working in rehearsals with the London Sinfonietta. They will then attend the evening's concert at The Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank to hear the London premiere of his latest composition, "Music Space Reflection".