Sara interviewed by BBC Music Matters for International Women’s Day 2023
Our Artistic Director Sara Lee will be featured on a special programme for BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters celebrating International Women’s Day, to be broadcast on [...]
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Prison Music Week 2023
We are delighted to be part of a collective effort to make a noise about the powerful impact of music in prisons! Introducing the Jan Jail Jam: a national celebration of the [...]
Introducing our Emerging Artists
We are delighted that Arts Council England is supporting our pilot Emerging Artists programme in partnership with Drake Music. Over a two-year period, four brilliant Emerging [...]
2022 in review
After a slightly strange couple of years finding ways to adapt our work, 2022 broadly saw a return to in-person delivery, though valuable learning from the pandemic years has [...]
ITT summer playlist
‘Do You Like The Sunshine’ is a question we’ve been asking ourselves in the ITT office a lot recently as it gets uncomfortably warm – and it’s [...]
“This is the best therapy available”: Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week is a good reason to celebrate the impact the work we do has on supporting people’s mental health and well-being. The people we work with are [...]
A year of adaptation & creativity
As we mark a year of lockdown restrictions, it’s astonishing to look back at how much we have achieved. It certainly wasn’t a situation anyone would have wanted, but [...]
Black Lives Matter international collaboration
We are proud to present these new pieces created as part of an international collaboration between the Irene Taylor Trust and Civic Orchestra of Chicago to explore themes [...]
Sounding Out: The story so far…
In 2012 we formalised our support for former prisoners on release by developing the Sounding Out programme. To date four bands have emerged from the programme and the [...]
Lullaby Project featured on BBC Proms At Home
We’re delighted to feature on this week’s BBC Proms interactive Proms At Home, which profiles our Lullaby Project. Creative workshop leader Lucy Drever interviews some [...]
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