Charanga is a specialist music education IT company highly unique in being education led rather than technology driven.

Founded in 1996 by Royal College of Music graduate, Mark Burke and Paul Fletcher, one of the UK’s leading computer scientists specialising in educational technology.

Charanga has a 10-year proven track record in successfully designing and delivering websites, online and offline music learning software applications, and interactive content.

From its Design Council award-winning Music Coach software and sales of over 2 million interactive courses in the UK and US, to its pioneering eLearning website development partnerships with over 30 Local Authorities, Charanga designs websites, interactive content and software that people enjoy using on a daily basis.

Central to Charanga’s sustained success is a vertical skill set which provides deep audience knowledge, robust technical design and development, and leading-edge technology know-how. This unique blend of expertise enables Charanga to optimise educational, media asset value, community-building, marketing and communications functions across all its developments.

Charanga has fully embraced the latest advances in web technology to roll-out its eLearning platform. Built using the Ruby on Rails framework for rapid application development and using the jQuery Javascript framework for AJAX interactions and dynamic page animations, the eLearning platform is a “web 2.0” website. Charanga’s in-house skills encompass the latest bleeding-edge technologies and frameworks; Adobe Flex, CakePHP, Django, jQuery, Prototype, Ruby on Rails and Symfony.

Thousands of schools are using our product every day. Why not read what everyone is saying about Charanga or contact us for more information.