Junior Academy of Music

🎼 Would you like your child to take music theory and aural skills classes?

Our Musicianship classes develops aural skills, linking them with music notation and theory while allowing children to be creative!

A brilliant way to strengthen music foundations and connect theory with aurals 🎶

Open to ages 8-18 years old

To apply email [email protected]

🎧JAM 4 Creative Music Technology

We have a few more spaces available! 🎶
Our JAM 4 Creative Music Technology programme is open for new pupils!

📍 Fridays, 5:30–7:00 PM

🏛 SARC Building, QUB

🎛 Starting in September

If you’re into sound, electronic music, or want to learn how to compose and create using the latest tech, this is the perfect place for you!

📩 To apply, just email: [email protected]

🎶 JAM 1, 2 and 3 take place on Saturday daytime and JAM 4 on Friday evenings! 🎼

🎼 Limited spaces left – don’t miss out!
📍 Saturdays and Fridays | Queen’s University Belfast
📩 To apply use the link in comments or contact [email protected] for more information

🎶 Would your child be interested in learning the cello? JAM has spaces available for this coming academic year! 🎻

For more information on this opportunity, please email [email protected] 🎼

🎶 If your child enjoys playing in a group, JAM has multiple music instrument ensembles running Saturdays term time!

These include teen choir, string ensemble, brass ensemble, guitar ensemble and woodwind ensemble 🎤🎻🎺🎸🪈

If your child would be interested in joining one, please head to our website and complete an application form. For more information you can also email [email protected] 🎼

🎶 Applications are now open for 2026-2027 JAM at QUB!

If your child loves to sing, dance and explore music JAM classes offer many different options for ages 4-18: whether they would like to sing in a choir, play music games, play in an ensemble, play an instrument, learn about much technology and music production or learn music theory & develop aural skills! 🎻

No experience required for any level. The age ranges for our programmes are:
JAM 1: 4-7 years old
JAM 2: 5-8 years old
JAM 3: 8-18 years old
JAM 4 (music technology): 12-17

JAM 1, 2 and 3 take place on Saturday daytime and JAM 4 on Friday evenings! 🎼

🎼 Limited spaces available – don’t miss out!
📍 Saturdays and Fridays | Queen’s University Belfast
📩 To apply use the attached link or contact [email protected] for more information

Apply | School of Arts, English and Languages | Queen's University Belfast A limited number of JAM Access Bursaries towards tuition fees are available for those families in receipt of free school meals.

🎶 We are celebrating 5 JAM pupils who were nominated for the JAM Graduate Awards this year for their outstanding achievements and development as young musicians! Wishing them good luck in continuing their musical studies whether this is with JAM or as they move on to higher education 🎼

🎶 Our Summer Concert showcased the amazing work from our student's throughout this year! Thank you to everyone who took part, along with out JAM team of tutors and assistants.

Our pupils also had such an inspiring time performing with QUSO for their concert. A big thanks to them for a wonderful collaboration!

A particular thanks to Anita Mawhinney and Ciara Jackson who will be moving on from JAM this year. Their hard work and time at JAM are massively appreciated and they will be missed!

🎶 Congratulations to our JAM 4 Music Technology pupils on their summer concert in the amazing Sonic Lab at SARC, QUB 🎧

We loved hearing their compositions alongside some live performances!

Thank you to all our pupils, families and JAM 4 tutors and TAs for all they do to raise our future sound engineers 🎤

If you’re interested in music technology classes email us at [email protected]

🎶We are looking forward to our upcoming Summer Concerts!

We hope you can join us as we celebrate the end of a fantastic year. It promises to be a wonderful weekend of music, and we would love to see you there! 🎼

- JAM 4 Creative Music Technology Summer Showcase is on Friday 12 June, in SARC, starting at 18:30. Please rsvp to [email protected] if you would like to be there

- JAM 123 Programmes Summer Concert is on Saturday 13 June, in Whitla Hall, starting 2pm, tickets can be bought from link in comment

- QUSO Summer concert is on Saturday 13 June in Whitla Hall, starting at 7pm. Tickets can be bought from link in comment