Media
Articles, interviews and opinion pieces featuring Tessa Marchington in external media.
Make Music Day UK 2021
Break Out Culture with Ed Vaizey
Featuring a Music In Offices Choir singing Queen’s ‘I Want To Break Free’.
taking note of the value of music on arts professional
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.
quartz at work
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.
Guardian
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."
BBC London
February 2009
Tessa featured in this BBC London News report about making music in the office environment.
daily telegraph
Music in Offices aims 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..
HR ZONE
January 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.
The Stylist
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.
surrey life
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
Woman’s Hour (BBC)
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.
The Oldie
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.