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
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsso
0141-338-3120
07903 755165
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