Links
Education
  BBC Education > www.bbc.co.uk
Jewish Music Institute > www.jmi.org.uk
Music Education Council > www.mec.org.uk
National Association of Music Educators > www.name.org.uk
Qualifications & Curriculum Authority > www.qca.org.uk
Royal School of Church Music > www.rscm.com
Teacher Training Agency > www.tda.gov.uk
Times Educational Supplement > www.tes.co.uk
Richmond Music Trust > www.richmondmusictrust.org.uk
Education and Learning in Northern Ireland www.communityskillsni.org
 
Funding
  Benevolous > www.benevolous.com Send eCards to support your chosen charity and artist
Charity Commission > www.charity-commission.gov.uk
CharityNet > www.charitynet.org
Directory of Social Change > www.dsc.org.uk
FunderFinder > www.funderfinder.org.uk
National Foundation for Youth Music > www.youthmusic.org.uk
NESTA > www.nesta.org.uk
New Opportunities Fund > www.nof.org.uk
Funding information for Northern Ireland > www.grant-tracker.org
Scarman Trust > www.thescarmantrust.org
St Hugh's Foundation > www.sthughsfoundation.co.uk
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust > www.wcmt.org.uk
 
Music Publishers | Sales and Rental
  Boosey & Hawkes > www.boosey.com
Boosey & Hawkes Music Rental > Rental Search Pages
Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN
Tel: (0)20 54 7242
fax: (020) 7054 7295
Email: ukhire@boosey.com

Kevin Mayhew Publishers > www.kevinmayhew.com
Kevin Mayhew Publishers, Buxhall, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 3BW
Tel: 01449 737978
Fax: 01449 737834

One More Time! Music Publishing > www.onemoretime.biz
Ronald Law > www.musicbusinessplus.com A selection of amateur music
www.everynote.com/ Sheet Music Download


Organisations | General/Cultural

ABL Cultural Consulting > www.ablconsulting.com
Arts & Business > www.aandb.org.uk
Arts Marketing Association > www.a-m-a.co.uk
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music > www.abrsm.ac.uk
Association of British Orchestras > www.abo.org.uk
British Academy of Composers + Songwriters > www.britishacademy.com
British Arts Festivals Association > www.artsfestivals.co.uk
British Association of Performing Arts Medicine > www.bapam.org.uk/
British Music Information Centre > www.bmic.co.uk The leading resource centre for British contemporary classical music
Data Protection Registrar > www.ico.gov.uk
English Music Festival > www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk
English National Youth Arts Network > www.enyan.co.uk
European Cultural Services, including section for choirs and organists > www.european-cultural-services.org
Incorporated Society of Musicians > www.ism.org
Independent Theatre Council > www.itc-arts.org
International Guitar Foundation & Festivals > www.igf.org.uk
Jazz Services > http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/
Musicians Benevolent Fund > http://www.mbf.org.uk
Musicians Answering Service > www.maslink.co.uk
Music Publishers' Association > www.mpaonline.org.uk
Musicians' Union > www.musiciansunion.org.uk
National Association of Youth Orchestras > www.nayo.org.uk
National Foundation for Youth Music > www.youthmusic.org.uk
NUMU >www.numu.org.uk The future of New Music
One World Beat Artists united against AIDS > www.oneworldbeat.org
Register of Arts Consultants + Trainers > www.arts-consultants.org.uk
The Oasis Youth Music Forum > www.oasismusic.org
Orchestras Live > www.orchestraslive.org.uk
Sound Sense > www.soundsense.org
spnm - promoting new music > www.spnm.org.uk

Umbrella organisations

Association of British Choral Directors > www.abcd.org.uk
British Association of Barbershop Singers > www.singbarbershop.com
British Choral Institute > www.britishchoralinstitute.co.uk
Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers > www.labbs.org.uk
International Artist Managers' Association www.iamaworld.com
National Association of Choirs > www.ukchoirsassoc.co.uk
Ulster Society for Organists and Choirmasters >
dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetzMNU/usoc/
The Voices Foundation > www.voices.org.uk
Welsh Association of Male Choirs > www.welshassociationmalechoirs.com
Society of Recorder Players > www.srp.org.uk
National Operatic and Dramatic Association > www.noda.org.uk
Clarsach Society > www.clarsachsociety.co.uk/
English Folk Dance and Song Society > www.efdss.org
Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland > www.tmsa.info
Welsh Folk Song Society > www.folkwales.org.uk
The Bagpipe Society > www.bagpipesociety.org.uk
British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles > www.basbwe.org
British Federation of Brass Bands > www.bfbb.co.uk
Corps of Drums Society > www.corpsofdrums.com
National School Band Association > www.nsba.org.uk
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association > www.rspba.org
Early Music Network > www.earlymusic.org.uk
National Early Music Association > www.nema-uk.org
Art Asia > www.artasia.org.uk
Asian Music Circuit > www.amc.org.uk
Ipswich Arts Association > www.ipswich-arts.org.uk
International Shakuhachi Society > www.komuso.com
Leeds Centre for Indian Music and Dance > http://www.saa-uk.org.uk/
Handbell Ringers of Great Britain > www.hrgb.org.uk
Pipers Guild of Great Britain > www.pipersguild.org
COMA (Contemporary music-making for Amateurs) > www.coma.org
Scottish Amateur Music Association > www.sama.org.uk
Voluntary Arts Network > www.voluntaryarts.org
Voluntary Arts England > www.vaengland.org.uk
Voluntary Arts Scotland > www.vascotland.org.uk
Voluntary Arts Wales > www.vawales.org.uk
Voluntary Arts Ireland www.vaireland.org
Ty Cerdd / Welsh Amateur Music Federation > tycerdd.org
Gateway to the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland www.communityni.org
 
Public bodies
  Department of Culture, Media and Sport > www.culture.gov.uk
Department for Education and Skills > www.dfes.gov.uk
Department for Trade and Industry > www.dti.gov.uk
Arts Council of Northern Ireland > www.artscouncil-ni.org
Arts Council of Wales > www.artswales.org.uk
Scottish Arts Council > www.scottisharts.org.uk

Arts Council of England > www.artscouncil.org.uk or www.arts.org.uk
Regional Pages:
East England > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=1
East Midlands > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=2
London > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=3
North East > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=4
North West > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=5
South East > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=6
South West > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=7
West Midlands > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=8
Yorkshire > http://www.arts.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=9
 
References & Resources
  ArtandCulture > www.artandculture.com
Bach Track, for Classical Musicians www.bachtrack.com
British Choirs on the Net > www.choirs.org.uk
Classical Music Artists > www.classicalmusicartists.com.
Compendium - Cultural Policies in Europe > www.culturalpolicies.net
Composition Today > www.compositiontoday.com
Creighton's Collection > www.creightonscollection.co.uk/ Hard to find CD's by independent artists & labels
Free scores for choirs & piano & singing teachers >www.freemusicscore.co.nz
Global Music Network > www.gmn.com
Gramophone > www.gramophone.co.uk
Maggie Cotton's Percussion Work Book > www.percussionworkbook.com
Music Business Plus > www.musicbuisnessplus.com Sheet music resource
Music Industries Association > www.mia.org.uk
National Association of Music Instrument Repairers > www.namir.org.uk
NotePerfect - Note Perfect Learning The Easy Way > www.noteperfect.net
Publication for Brass Players (Book) The Call of the Trumpet
Percussion Resource www.adaptatrap.co.uk
The Lab: creative recording studio www.thelabonline.com
Disc Wizards > www.discwizards.com - CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Disc Duplication, London UK
NYOS Variations >
www.nyosvariations.co.uk/content/ Chamber music in Scotland
Partability > www.partability.co.uk - Rehearsal CDs for Choirs
AboutEqualOpportunities > www.aboutequalopportunities.co.uk - Useful articles on equal opportunities issues
 
 
Magazines & Journals
  Andante > www.andante.com
Fanfaire > ffaire.com
La Scena Musicale Online > www.scena.org
Music & Vision > www.mvdaily.com
San Fransisco Classical Voice > www.sfcv.org
The Strad > www.thestrad.com
Musical America > www.musicalamerica.com
The Journal of Music in Ireland > www.thejmi.com
 
 Online Music Listings

www.concert-diary.com > www.concert-diary.com
UK live music and musician listings www.nationalgigguide.com
Gerontius > www.gerontius.net
Where can we go > www.wherecanwego.com

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Photo Credits

Lindsay Wilson www.lindsaywilson.co.uk

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12 May 2008
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