Contemporary music resources and training for schools

Ready-to-teach units your students actually want to play, and practical in-person workshop days across Australia, Asia and Europe.

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March 27th & 28th 2027 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Assessed by Safer Technologies 4 Schools, 2024

781 schools in 30 countries. Assessed by Safer Technologies 4 Schools.

Plan your whole Year 7-9 curriculum in an afternoon.

Start from a worked scope and sequence, make it yours, and download every unit plan, lesson by lesson.

  • Three worked samples to start from: bands, music technology, or both together.
  • Mapped to your curriculum: Australian, NSW, Victorian, Queensland, WA, New Zealand, England, IB MYP and Ireland.
  • 56 unit plans to adapt and download as Word, Google Doc or PDF.
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Electronic Music Performance Workshops

MFI offers hands-on electronic music workshops for school students using professional Roland equipment, following an explore-create-perform pedagogy, available across Australia, Asia, and Europe.

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Students learn music by making music

Everything we build starts from what young people already listen to, and gets them playing in the first lesson. The theory arrives once there is a reason to want it.

  • Learn skills and knowledge through music they already know
  • Make real choices about what and how they play
  • Improvise, perform, listen and compose inside every activity
  • Develop a musical identity of their own
  • Take different roles in a large or small ensemble
How the learning models work
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Young people already love music. We build on that.

Wherever they live, children and young people love music, and that love brings a vast array of benefits with it. Through music we develop social and personal skills that transfer into every other part of life.

Musical Futures exists to support you as you work with the young people in your care. Every unit is written by teachers who are still in classrooms, and tested in them before it reaches you.

More about who we are

268,705 students. 781 schools. 30 countries.

What our teachers say

Three teachers with very different starting points, on what actually changed in their rooms.

Primary teacher, no music training

"I'm not a music teacher per se"

Allison Pritchard, Barnawatha Primary School, VIC. Asked to restart the music programme with no music training.

4:30 Transcript

Head of Music, whole department

"The teachers found it extremely helpful"

Pavel Lipski, Head of Music, CIA FIRST International School, Cambodia. Leads K–12 music across four campuses.

1:12

Secondary, class bands

"We use these Musical Futures resources"

Iain Robertson, Balgowlah Boys High School, NSW. Runs class bands on the playalongs and Recreate.

1:50

"The resources have been carefully sorted into relevant sections, including Beats, ECP, Just Play, Songwriting etc. … Ever changing, and always open to feedback from us teachers as to how things can be improved, this platform is outstanding for teachers in every way!"

Hadley Ronayne

Pinehurst School, New Zealand

"The website format is so easy to navigate and is jam packed with helpful ideas and ready to use classroom resources for students to play their own music and create their own sounds."

Rachel Blake

Melbourne, Australia

"The portal with tips and lessons and resources is very useful. I use it every day!"

Jacek Dubiel

Singapore

Schools that have hosted us

Our workshop days run inside real schools. These ones opened their music department to a room of visiting teachers, which is how a Musical Futures event ends up feeling like a music room rather than a conference centre.

CIA First International School Oberoi International School St Andrews International School Bangkok Garden International School Canadian Academy Kobe Pinehurst School St George's Anglican Grammar School Balgowlah Boys Campus, Northern Beaches Secondary College Ashfield High School St George's British International School Rome British School Jakarta Australian International School Hong Kong The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur Bavarian International School

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