bela’s Blog
Make Piece Together – Video
Make Piece Together is a fully interactive performance work: this 45- minute piece connects a series of spontaneous...
About Bela Emerson
Bela is an innovative and resourceful musician: an improvising cellist who is equally at home on a concert hall stage,...

Brighton & Hove Music for Connection: Interactive Music Sessions With Adults Of All Ages Across Brighton
Brighton & Hove Music for Connection is a Brighton, UK based not-for-profit organisation offering interactive music sessions with adults of all ages across the city.
We believe creating and playing music together should be fun, easy and open to all.
Make Piece Together – Video
Make Piece Together is a fully interactive performance work: this 45- minute piece connects a series of spontaneous collaborations between cellist and community musician Bela Emerson and individual audience members, who are invited to play and co-create with her for...
About Bela Emerson
Bela is an innovative and resourceful musician: an improvising cellist who is equally at home on a concert hall stage, round a bonfire, leading a community string band, at a hospital bedside, in a recording studio, at the feet of a trapeze artist, and most things in...
Yesterday Was A Record: Four Sessions In One Day!
“At the end of one session yesterday, ‘T’ doffed his flat cap and said, ‘I take my hat off to you for coming every week to do this – it means the world to us’.
Jobs done!”
Videos | Part 1
A selection of music videos showcasing the talent, range and depth of Bela’s playing.
Live performances, workshops, DJ remixes & more – there is even music you can download for free.
Enjoy…
Brighton & Hove Music for Connection: Interactive Music Sessions With Adults Of All Ages Across Brighton
Brighton & Hove Music for Connection is a Brighton, UK based not-for-profit organisation offering interactive music sessions with adults of all ages across the city.
We believe creating and playing music together should be fun, easy and open to all.
Working with People Living with Dementia
This course focuses on music-making with people living with dementia.
This rapidly-growing and exciting area of the field focuses on how music can enable those living with dementia to connect and create, combating social isolation, and helping maintain a sense of agency and identity.