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Water City Music

Inspiring young musicians to perform at striking venues across the UK
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  • We are currently finalising our 2025 events programme which will be published shortly.

WCM New Board Member

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We are delighted to welcome Javier Rivas to our Board, he will be joining us in January. Javier is a writer, teacher, musician, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in the Music Department at King’s College London. Javier has taught courses on ethnomusicology, anthropology, and social theory at KCL, UCL and ESMUC. His research, teaching and outreach work address current debates in music studies to imagine and bring about new spaces and practices grounded on radical care, inclusion, equality and diversity. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Ethnomusicology Forum and the International Journal of Community Music. 

Javier brings experience of working on programme evaluation and widening participation initiatives in education, including his current role as project manager for our King’s – St George’s – Water City Music partnership in Southwark, London.

“Thanks for putting on an amazing concert. Thank you, Esther and Michael, for working with our children and giving them a fantastically enriching experience. The children were beaming. Wow. I can’t wait for the next one!”

– Head of Music, James Woolfe Primary School and Centre for the Deaf

“Thank you so much for organising last Saturday’s violin concert. It was such a great opportunity for my daughter. She really enjoyed it and felt very inspired by playing with real concert musicians. We loved it, too!”

– Parent

“Water City Music embodies my ideal of egalitarian music-making, where musicians of all ages and stages enjoy performing together. Playing an instrument has transformed and enriched me throughout my life, and I am so happy to be part of a project that enables others to be touched by music, too.”

– Esther Cavett, accompanist

“I thoroughly support this project and the inclusion of children in concerts so that different generations perform together. It is their future and the future of music.”

– George Ewart, professional violinist

“Nothing inspires the fledgling musician more than combining with those to whom music is their calling, in front of an audience composed not only of peers and relatives, but the general public. I wish every success to Water City Music”

– Chris Yapp, Chairman, Oxfordshire Youth Music Trust

“Water City Music bridges the gap between generations of music-makers and the wider community”

– Alice Murray, cellist

Children involved in the Children in Wonderland Project 2020

Children Performing at the Tower of London in 2019