‘Music makes everybody feel good one way or another’
An innovative group of musicians in Hull City Centre is offering new live music services to local businesses. Eclectic Music, based in Maister House in the High Street, specialises in music tuition for adults but also teaches in primary and secondary schools across Hull.
The academy has enough talented musicians to provide a 35 member orchestra or smaller chamber groups if required. Now, Eclectic is launching a new service to deliver music to the workplace.
According to the organisation, the service is aimed at helping employers to promote mental health and wellbeing among their teams. So far it has only been promoted through networking amongst their business channels, social media and some health and wellbeing events but now they are going public and spreading the word.
Creative Director Danny Thompson said: “I kept hearing from business people how stressed their teams are and I wanted to look for a new angle – music makes everybody feel good one way or another. We also offer reiki and frequency therapy as well as breathwork.
“We do a lot of one to one music lessons from six years to 96 years and I thought about the things that are going on at the moment that we can help the community with – the areas of the city we are not in with music. The answer was business to business.”
The music lovers have developed a choice of corporate sessions available with modules to fit the needs of the particular business. They intend to help business people across the region discover what their staff want and reconnect the management with the wants and needs of their workforce.
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Danny said: “If you have happier staff you have lower staff turnover, which is good in all sorts of ways including recruitment, retention, productivity and building that sense of team.” Whilst the musicians regularly get out and about around Hull, they are based in the historic Maister House, dating from 1744 which has a 12m main hall with space for 70 people, two grand pianos and of course – talented musicians to play them for you. On the first floor there is a 10.6m lecture room overlooking the high street with an electric piano.
Eclectic performs, on and off-site, with around 200 musicians coming through the doors regularly and many of them literally take their performances on the road. Danny said: “Last year we put an orchestra on a bus and took them round some of the estates in the Hull – just playing in the street, shopping centres, street corners, grass verges. There were about 35 in the orchestra performing things like Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Beethoven. We’ll be doing it again this year.”
Now, Eclectic Music’s musicians are ready to play the harp and flute, strum guitars, and even roll out the yoga mat as part of a pick and mix package of soothing solutions for stressed out workers. For more information, visit eclecticmusic.co.uk or call 01482 935735.