
About our Education & Community Programme
A cohesive programme of events that addresses our aims to both provide events at the NOH itself and in the community of County Wexford.
Since April 2021 the National Opera House has embarked on its first dedicated Education Programme. For us, education is right across the age spectrum – from early years up to later years.
A cohesive programme of events that addresses our aims to both provide events at the NOH itself and in the community of County Wexford.
18 month olds up to 4 years and parents/guardians/grandparents, to introduce the concepts of rhythm, pitch, use of text in songs.
A musician from the team each giving their personal journey of how they came to their chosen profession, about the instruments themselves, their history and how they came to their chosen profession. Interspersed with information about the instruments themselves, their history how they are made, we are treated to some live performance and demonstrations.
The benefits of singing to one’s physical and mental health have been widely documented. These workshops would be of benefit, particularly focusing on breathing and maximising posture and an understanding of what the voice does to produce sound.
We commissioned a series of short presentations by selected musicians familiar to the National Opera House on their instruments. These proved extremely popular and we have them all here for you to watch again:
We are fortunate to have some of Ireland's finest musicians as part of our team for the Education and Community Programme. All are highly experienced and trained in delivering workshops and projects, covering a wide range of disciplines and genres of music and the arts.
We are indebted to Wexford Leader for funding, without their support we would not be able to programme and manage these events.