Outreach Projects

Francesca is a passionate advocate for quality music education and in making classical music more accessible within the community. Francesca founded a voluntary non-profit organization called ‘Musica Vitae’ whose aim is to provide young musicians with performing opportunities by organising concerts in aid of charity. She has organised concerts in aid of Monkole hospital in Congo, Africa, Working hands in Nepal, Hope charity and Cyrenaus a recently founded charity in Uganda. In addition to this she has organised concerts for more local based communities, bringing music in various healthcare settings in Bristol including Southmead Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and St Joseph’s care home.

Through her Open-Academy Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music she developed her skills as workshop leader and collaborator, working on various musical outreach projects, ranging from participants living with dementia to children with Special Educational Needs. Francesca has worked on these projects with many leading arts organisations such as Wigmore Hall Learning, Resonate Arts, Oxford Lieder Festival and Spitalfields Music. A particular highlight of her work was organising the Academy Tots workshops at the Royal Academy of Music, for children 0-5 years of age as well as being involved in Oxford Lieder Festival’s school’s outreach projects with workshop leader John Webb. During Covid 19, Francesca continued her ‘Music for the moment’ project at the Wigmore Hall online, organising regular musical phone calls with people living with dementia to continue sharing the joy of music, maintaining a sense of community through isolation whilst forming new personal relationships.