Bath Philharmonia has a proud record of education work during recent seasons including working closely with Critchill Special Needs School in Frome since 2002 on projects ranging from The Carnival of the Animals (the invention of new animals with Stephanie Cole), to involvement in a full scale childrens’ opera (The Cuckoo Tree). Later in 2007 Bath Philharmonia will be involved in educational residencies in St Mawes Primary, Gerrans Primary, Veryan Primary, Tregony Primary, Roseland Community School, (Cornwall) and Colyton Grammar School (Devon).

Groups of musicians from the orchestra have played at Escol House, (Residential Home) Portscatho and Churchill House (Mencap Residential Care) in St Mawes


In March 2008, Bath Philharmonia will be sending its Music Director, Jason Thornton and another Educational specialist, Cor Anglais player Julie Payne, to Kaposvar, Hungary - one of Bath’s twin cities. In this exciting new project, the educationalists will spend 5 days in the city, working with and learning from music teachers and students there, with the aim of producing a short compositional piece which will be performed at a short concert in the city. This will then be followed at a later date by a reciprocal visit to Bath from some of the Kaposvar students and their tutors.