The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland

....designing and adapting interfaces for access.....

The professional Access Music Tutors of the Drake Music Project Northern Ireland design, implement and deliver music creativity and learning programmes for children and adults with diverse and complex disabilities, to give people with disabilities the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Researching, designing and implementing music programmes of learning and creative expression, using state of the art music and assistive technologies, we offer professional tutoring, parents access courses, carers support courses and musicians creativity ensembles in order that people with visual impairment, physical disability, intellectual disability, learning disability, hearing impairment, autism and ADHD are not left on the community sidelines in the creative process.

....delivering professional music workshops and facilitating ensembles....

The musicians of the Drake Music Project Northern Ireland run weekly workshops, ensemble rehearsals and periodic residential composition series, providing training and assistance to parents and carers in parallel support programs, and develop and refine models of best practice for learning and combining assistive  technology, creativity and disability access issues in the arts domain, with the core aim of empowering and advocating independance and inclusion for the musician with disabilities.

....facilitating talent, and making an issue of ability....

Combining talent with appropriate equipment and interfaces, musicians with disabilities have the opportunity to compose, perform and record their own music, in an equal, empowering and creative atmosphere, learning from, playing alongside and conpsoing for all nature of musicans in ensembles and workshops weekly. The ultimate aim of the Drake Music Project Northern Ireland is to afford musicians with disabilities and their  wider community the opportunity to achieve their full potential – independantly.