Education

Bath Philharmonia has a proud record of education work during recent seasons including working closely with Critchill Special Needs School in Frome on projects ranging from The Carnival of the Animals including the invention of new animals with Stephanie Cole, to involvement in a full scale childrens' opera, The Cuckoo Tree. In 2007 Bath Philharmonia was involved in educational residencies in St Mawes Primary, Gerrans Primary, Veryan Primary, Tregony Primary and Roseland Community School in Cornwall, and Colyton Grammar School in 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 sent 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 project, the educationalists spent 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 was performed at a short concert in the city. This will be followed at a later date by a reciprocal visit to Bath from some of the Kaposvar students and their tutors.