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Brendan Merrick
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European Social Fund

Employment Training Places: 1

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What services does this enterprise have to offer and who are the customers?

MusicWorks provides custom designed original music compositions of broadcast quality.

MusicWorks, A Kibble Enterprise

The services of MusicWorks will be utilised by a diverse spectrum of groups within the media sector including: television production, film production, radio, the computer games industry, web design and interactive CD ROM production.

What activities and tasks will the young person perform?

The young person will benefit from learning how to compose music using high end software. The young person will further be involved in interacting with clients, interpreting their requirements and working towards a completed production. As the skills of the young person are developed, their ideas and opinions will play an increasingly important role in this process.

What transferable skills will the young person take from this role?

The young person will develop keyboard playing and listening skills along with an understanding of general musicianship and the industry standard hardware and software currently used in music production. He will also develop arithmetic and literacy skills whilst increasing competency in general computing tasks. As dealing with clients will increasingly play a role in the young person's employment he will have opportunities to develop his customer service skills. The process of working towards finished solutions will provide experience of team work, deadlines and will emphasise effective time management.

What qualifications can they work towards?

What is your background?

Having spent four years attending the junior school of the RSAMD, and achieving ABRSM Grade 8 level in both piano and trumpet I went on to study music at the University of Glasgow where I was awarded an MA(Hons). After graduation I secured a position in a successful recording studio producing original compositions for the media sector.

Click here for Jim Mullan, KibbleWorks Enterprise Manager's contact details

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