VIP Studio Sessions

Bicep/Youth Music/VIP electronic music competition winners announced!

15th December 2021

We’re excited to announce the winners of one of our most exciting competitions to date! Charanga VIP Studio Sessions and Youth Music came together to [...]

VIP supports East London inclusion project

10th December 2021

Earlier this year, three London-based music hubs came together to launch Pathways, a project aiming to boost inclusive working across the three [...]

VIP champions Integrate project in West Yorkshire

9th December 2021

It’s been great to be working with four music hubs in West Yorkshire as part of their Integrate project. The project aims to boost inclusive working [...]

Lewisham students and teachers take VIP’s Young Producers’ Project to the next level

18th October 2021

Students in Lewisham schools are enjoying a Young Producers’ Project with Charanga’s VIP Studio Sessions. Our very own Max Wheeler visited [...]

‘Here and Now’ (Grown: A Grime Opera) brings together Leicestershire musicians

14th October 2021

During the pandemic, a group of young singers, rappers and musicians came together to perform a track from Grown: A Grime Opera – a fantastic [...]

New playlist celebrates the music of VIP students

18th June 2021

Charanga’s VIP Studio Sessions has enabled UK secondary and international school students to make music for over seven years. This past winter was [...]

And the winner of VIP’s Lo-Fi competition is…

18th December 2020

Over the past few weeks, the VIP Studio Sessions team has been running a musical advent calendar on social media, sharing every shortlisted track [...]

Supporting Young Artists and Future Label Owners

3rd December 2020

Log in to VIP Studio Sessions and you’ll see that we’ve published new video resources in the platform’s Release and Promote section. They feature Aly [...]

Increasing engagement & boosting GCSE Music uptake with VIP

30th November 2020

Charanga has always been proud to play its part in helping to engage KS3 students with music. This year, we’ve had whole year groups producing beats, [...]

VIP lockdown stories: Online engagement, well-being & inclusivity

9th November 2020

With the academic year well underway, teachers and young people continue to find themselves in a new, unfamiliar situation. Many teachers are using [...]

VIP lockdown stories: Supporting community organisations

5th October 2020

In the early days of the lockdown, the VIP Studio Sessions team reached out to several community organisations. We wanted to support their important [...]

VIP lockdown stories: Music-making in schools

2nd October 2020

In what has been a challenging time for everyone, we’ve been lifted by some incredible personal stories, as well as the amount of high-quality [...]

VIP: Updated Teacher Tracks competition

15th July 2020

We believe in the creativity of teachers, and everyday we see the power it has to inspire students to create music and follow their dreams. We hear [...]

New Rap masterclasses in VIP

15th July 2020

VIP Studio Sessions by Charanga, the online platform that supports the teaching of contemporary music genres, has launched a series of masterclasses [...]

VIP Lo-Fi Hip Hop tutorials and competition

19th June 2020

We are excited to release a brand new set of tutorials on to the Charanga VIP Studio Sessions platform – all designed to help everyone relax at this [...]

VIP videos introduce subscribers to the basics of Cubase

29th May 2020

VIP Studio Sessions users will find a new series of tutorial videos on the platform showing them how to create Rap Beats in Cubase, the popular music [...]

VIP partners with PQA, the leading youth film academy

22nd May 2020

We are really excited to announce a new partnership between VIP Studio Sessions and the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA) – the UK’s [...]

Supporting our valued teaching community and partners

3rd April 2020

Even before schools closed to contain the spread of coronavirus, our teaching community (40,000+ teachers) was using Yumu, our online learning space [...]

VIP: Support for teachers and students when working from home

20th March 2020

It’s a tough time with a lot of uncertainty, so all of us at VIP Studio Sessions want to offer something positive and creative for young people to do [...]

Writing a rap, free VIP resources and competitions