VIDEOCONFERENCING FROM THE CITY HALLS GLASGOW Gill Davies

VIDEO-CONFERENCING FROM THE CITY HALLS, GLASGOW

Gill Davies Senior Interactive Development Producer, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

City Halls, Glasgow’s Centre for Music • • Performance spaces ICT suite Rehearsal rooms Studios for music education

City Halls’ partners • • • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Cultural Enterprises Glasgow Education Services Scottish Music Centre Scottish Chamber Orchestra

New World Symphony and Internet 2 • Masterclasses • Seminars • Rehearsals

Video-conferencing in schools in Scotland • • Teacher training Language tuition Working with national institutions Dumfries and Galloway, Musical instrument tuition

BBC SSO video-conference pilot • Class sessions for primary school children aged 9 and 10 years • Masterclass sessions for secondary school children aged 15 and 16 years

Participating schools • • • Castlebay School, Barra, Western Isles Bowmore Primary, Islay, Argyll and Bute Papdale Primary, Kirkwall, Orkney St Teresa’s Primary, Dumfries Islay High School. Islay Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney

Primary school sessions • • Led by BBC SSO’s woodwind players First session led by animateur from City Halls Second session led by players from City Halls Players visit school for face-to-face session

Secondary school sessions • • Led by BBC SSO’s principal trombonist First session from City Halls Second session from City Halls Player visits school for face-to-face masterclass

Connectivity • 6 x ISDN lines • ISDN lines used as a back-up to BBC broadcast lines in City Halls • Schools participating in pilot also using 6 x ISDN lines • City Halls video-conferencing with IP in near future • Scottish Schools Digital Network Interconnect will offer high bandwith connections between schools

Video-conferencing from the City Halls • National Youth Choir of Scotland auditions • John Adams at the LSO Discovery Centre • Sir Colin Davis at the LSO Discovery Centre • Jonathan Harvey, BBC SSO’s composer-in-association at City Halls

The Future • Evaluate feedback • Reach more schools • Encourage other BBC performing groups to use video-conferencing for learning projects • Build and sustain relationships with international communities visited by BBC SSO • Help City Halls’ partners develop videoconferencing programmes

Contact Details Gill Davies gill. davies@bbc. co. uk www. bbc. co. uk/bbcsso 0141 -338 -3120 07903 755165