Adapted Music Sessions

Adapted music sessions for children and young people with disabilities started as a pilot project in autumn 2022.

 

Collaboration between RBU Skåne and Musik i Syd

Through a donation from The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation, the founder of the Signatur programme, RBU (Children and Young People with Disabilities) and Musik i Syd have been given the opportunity to continue their collaboration in a planned 3-year project to develop adapted and inclusive music productions for children and young people with disabilities.

In collaboration with a music therapist with high competence in the field, the project adapts existing music productions for children and young people from the catalogue of YOUNG Musik i Syd.

Since spring 2025, YOUNG Musik i Syd has been able to present its own programme for adapted primary schools in Skåne and Kronoberg, something that is completely new to the organisation and a direct result of this development project. In parallel with this, further training is being developed for producers and those who work with concert activities for children and young people with disabilities, as well as teachers and assistants. Music therapist Nina Cherla has also been commissioned by the project to develop new material to support teachers and assistants who use song and music in their work with the target group.

 

A children’s opera and research about adapted music sessions

RBU Skåne has a stated desire to make opera accessible to children and therefore a children’s opera is also being developed for the target group, with a planned premiere in 2026. The opera production has newly written music by composer Karin Rehnqvist and librettist Mercedes Gomez and will be directed by Lisbeth Hagerman.

Erika Cloodt is a PhD educated specialist physiotherapist at the Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre in Region Kronoberg. She is monitoring the project, and in her research, she investigates the role of assistants in the target group’s encounters with and experience of music. This is exciting work that will deepen our understanding of how those working with children and young people with disabilitie can better plan and adapt concerts for the target group.

Adapted Music Sessions has its own project page on Musik i Syd’s home page (in Swedish).

About RBU Skåne

RBU Skåne is a non-profit district association for families with children and young people with disabilities. RBU is affiliated to the national association based in Stockholm and nationally RBU has around 10,000 members.

 

About Musik i Syd

Musik i Syd is a regional music institution in Skåne and Kronoberg with the aim of giving people access to live music experiences.  Musik i Syd has a cultural policy mission and is part of an active cultural policy with the aim of making live music available outside the major cities.