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Adopt-a-composer |
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Please note that there is no Adopt-a-Composer project for the 2008/9 season, however we look forward to relaunching it next year.
Adopt-a-Composer is an annual Making Music project. We select six member groups and pair them up with six contemporary composers, who will visit the group and write a piece of music based on their needs and ideas, and subsequently help with its rehearsal and performance.
It is a wonderful opportunity for an orchestra, choir or band to have a piece of new music commissioned especially for them. The project is funded by the Performing Rights Society Foundation for New Music, and costs nothing for the member group involved.
The collaborations last for about a year and culminate in the group performing the premiere of the work.
For more information please contact the Making Music office.
The 2008 pairings are:
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- Christopher Hussey and the Bloomsbury Woodwind Ensemble
- Graham Ross and the Knack Singers
- Elizabeth Winters and Kensington Chamber Orchestra
- Margaret Haley and the Aire Valley Singers
- Adam Melvin and the Yorkshire Saxophone Choir
- Amber Priestley and St Hilda's Festival Chorus
The 2007 pairings were:
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- Philip Venables and the South London Jazz Orchestra
- Robert Percy and Lewisham Choral Society
- Claudia Molitor and the City of Southampton Orchestra
- Fumiko Miyachi and the Lichfield Sinfonia
- Jordan Hunt and the Midlands Fretted Orchestra
- Richard Glover and Solway Harps
The 2006 pairings were:
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- Jerry Wigens and the Hampton Singers
- James McWilliam and the Ipswich Choral Society
- Charlie Piper and the Lambeth Orchestra
- Anthony Bailey and the Milton Keynes Chorale
- Martin Suckling and the New Edinburgh Orchestra
- Ben Oliver and the Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir
The 2005 pairings were:
- Will May - Islington Choral Society
- Owen Bourne - Fulham Symphony Orchestra
- Yumi Hara Cawkwell - Chantage
- Philip Tebbs - Hardynge Choir
- Simon Lesley - North Staffordshire Symphony Orchestra
- Chris Long - City of Birmingham Choir
The 2004 pairings were:
- John Reeman and the Todmorden Orchestra
- Edmund Joliffe and the Kensington Chamber Orchestra
- Ed Bennett and the Sheffield Chamber Orchestra
- Anna Meredith and the Milngavie Young Singers
- Jonathan Girling and the Glebe Singers
- Mark Bowden and Thames Voyces
Premieres are advertised locally and through Making Music's publications.
The adopt-a-composer scheme is run in partnership with the society for the promotion of new music, www.spnm.org.uk and the Performing Rights Society Foundation for New Music, www.prsfoundation.co.uk.
Content last updated: 10 May |
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 Making Music, 2-4 Great Eastern Street,London, EC2A 3NW |
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info@makingmusic.org.uk
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 Katy Kirk, spnm Administrator, 020 7407 1640 |
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spnm@spnm.org.uk |
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Listen Up! |
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Reaching a new audience through BBC Radio 3 |
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BBC Radio 3 celebrated the vibrant life of voluntary orchestras in its 2006 festival of British orchestras with a fantastic array of broadcast performances from our members. |
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Send in details of special activities or projects you have undertaken that would make good radio features on behalf of amateur music. |
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