VIDEO-CONFERENCING FROM THE CITY HALLS,

GLASGOW

Gill Davies

Senior Interactive Development Producer, BBC Scottish

Symphony Orchestra

City Halls, GlasgowGlasgow’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 video-conferencing programmes

Contact Details

Gill Davies

gill.davies@bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsso

0141-338-3120

07903 755165