EC1 Echo
October 2020
Appraisd
September 2020
Arts Professional
July 2020
Psychologies Magazine
May 2020
Work in Mind
April 2020
Daily Telegraph
February 2020
Surrey Life
1 May 2019
What Lies Beneath
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Wellbeing in the workplace through making music
This pandemic has thrown up a question - what is the new role and purpose for all our office space? Whilst working from home for some has cut out the commuter time and created efficiency with meetings, for others it has been a very tough road to tread, with feelings of isolation, depression and the distant communication creating a sense of apathy.
Read Tessa’s article in full on the Appraisd website
Read the full article on Arts Professional
Psychologies Magazine: Instalive
Tessa Marchington spoke to Psychologies Magazine about the benefits of using music to lessen stress. Watch via the Music in Offices website.
In this time of disquiet and isolation, culture and music-making remain an important activity to enrich our lives with moments of positivity, uplift and wellbeing. It feeds our deep-seated need for social and intellectual stimulation and emotional connection with others.
Shared music-making – whether it’s with a family member, a friend, a teacher, an ensemble or within the context of a choir rehearsal – builds a much needed feeling of togetherness and community at this time of heightened isolation. Bringing music into a work environment helps to open up numerous, previously untapped, channels of communication between colleagues and their place of work. It can improve how companies communicate their brands, but more importantly how employees within the company communicate, interact, collaborate and connect with each other. Now, in this time of isolation, this collaboration is more important than ever.
Read the full post on Work in Mind for four ideas on how you can incorporate music into your work life during lockdown.
“We aim to transform business culture through music,” Marchington says. “Since we started, we have delivered 12,000 choir rehearsals and more than 60,000 music lessons to over 70 businesses. We recently signed up one law firm and, in three months alone, 20 people have taken up instruments from violin to banjo.” Read the Telegraph feature in full.
Supported by a dedicated committee of volunteers, Qian and Tessa deliver an annual programme featuring a variety of artists and venues to embrace both music connoisseurs and those who are newer to classical music. It is a huge testament to the high regard and reputation of the festival in artistic circles that so many internationally recognised artists come to Surrey to perform.
Read the full article in the May 2019 edition of Surrey Life
Quartz at Work
20 March 2019
The goals of those who want to bring more music to the workplace are lofty: to foster a cohesive workforce and thereby promote staff happiness, loyalty, and productivity. Ultimately, they say, they want to bring transcendence to the office.
Read the full article on Quartz at Work.
HRZone
27 Jan 2017
Tessa Marchington is the Founder of Music in Offices, an organisation which works with some of the UK’s top employers, using music as a means of engaging and motivating their people. Earlier this month, Music in Offices launched the campaign #RevolutionisetheBoardroom, calling on employers to make music and the arts an integral part of the strategy of corporate culture.
Read the full article on HR Zone.
BBC Radio 4
Woman’s Hour
March 2014
Tessa was interviewed about being a female founder and the impact of music-making in an office environment.
Listen to the full episode of Woman’s Hour.
Guardian
22 March 2012
Ruler here, pen there, scanner off to the right side, computer staring straight at me, intray in one corner, photo of daughters in the other, and paper scattered everywhere.
The office seems an unlikely place for a singalong but Music in Offices founder Tessa Marchington thinks otherwise: "I believe in bringing people together and that in times like these, this is an essential and very human need."
Stylist
12 March 2013
The unheralded joy of singing, in unison and in harmony, has become stylish again, with the amount of us joining choirs – and spending our spare time trying to imitate Florence Welch’s You Got The Love howl – exploding. The number of 30-something women adding chorister to their CV has grown sharply over the last couple of years.
The Oldie
6 August 2011
Do hard-nosed news hacks have a soul? Certainly, if the combined musical efforts of Channel 4’s Jon Snow and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger are anything to go by. Before an invited audience in the splendidly restored Christ Church Spitalfields the other evening, their poignant rendition of two Flanders and Swann favourites, ‘The Slow Train’ and ‘I’m a Gnu’ brought tears to the Old Un’s jaded eyes. And not just be-cause Snow’s emotive singing never quite managed to keep up with Rusbridger’s effort¬less adding of the ivories.
BBC
London
News
11 February 2009
Tessa featured in this BBC London News report about making music in the office environment.