(These notes are intended for head of music at the school, or other senior responsible music teacher, OR Arts Award advisor, if going through that programme.)

The idea of the Bachtrack Young Reviewer programme is to give young people aged between 12 and 16 years old the chance to attend a classical concert or opera, free of charge, and to write a review to be published on www.bachtrack.com. In this way, we hope to encourage more young people to go to classical music, and to provide a voice where the people who put on concerts can understand what appeals to a younger audience.

Before the young person goes to the concert, it is helpful if one of the school's music teachers (or their Art Award advisor) can conduct a short session with him/her to help understand how to listen critically and write an interesting review. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra have very kindly provided some notes to help in this and you will find them by clicking here.

There is limited space in the programme, but we will try to select as many of the applicants as we can. When we have selected an applicant, we will telephone the school(or advisor) to verify that the name and contact details that we have been given, and we will contact the head of music by email to verify agreement that the applicant is a suitable person.

Finally, when the young person has written their 300-500 word review, we ask that you give it a brief checkover to ensure that it is reasonably fit for publication before they post it onto our site.

That's all you need to do – your student is then a published reviewer!