An inclusive national music making programme for KS2, KS3 and SEND learners; inspiring young composers across the country.
“The recent Finish This project has completely raised the profile of composing in our school… It was the most exciting project, broke down so many barriers and was completely inclusive.”
Bringing together a fusion of opera, film and animation: Finish This… is a creative springboard for collaborative composition work in the classroom. Using an especially commissioned operatic piece, and supported with teacher CPD and toolkit package resources.
Over the 2024/25 academic year, 15,000 pupils from over 240 different schools across the country, have taken on the role of ENO Composer. We asked each class to create and produce their own music through an invitation to respond to, and resolve, Omar Shahryar’s purposefully unfinished operatic
piece, ‘Blue, Red, Yellow’. Each class is tasked with choosing a fourth colour, and composing a 1-1.5 minute composition that represents their chosen colour and finishes off Omar’s piece.
Schools were provided with Teacher CPD training, toolkit resources, a suite of digital films and an operatic piece, especially commissioned for young audiences.
We are thrilled to present and celebrate the first music compositions and creative work here, with another two uploads to look forward to later in the year. A huge congratulations to all our young composers.
Participating Schools
Explore our interactive map to discover our 248 schools and hear some of their brilliant class music compositions.
You can select an option below to filter the displayed map markers to show KS2 Primary, KS3 Secondary or SEND schools, and click any marker to access submissions from that school.
Meet some of our young ENO composers
Explore some of the students creative work
Get Involved
Booking for 2025-26 is now open. Please visit our booking page for further info.
If you have any questions please contact the Finish This… team on [email protected] or for more information visit www.eno.org/finishthis
Credits:
Music composed by Omar Shahryar. Libretto by Ruth Mariner.
Conductor | Olivia Clarke, Actor | Mikhail Sen.
Illustrations by Alec Doherty. Films produced by Tmax Productions.
Primary Education Consultant: Sarah Lewis
SEND Education Consultant: Emily Stratford
Secondary Education Consultant: Isabella Mayne