When writing their report, listeners are asked to consider musicianship and technical ability, interaction and engagement with the audience, programming and repertoire, and the audience’s response, as well as their own personal enjoyment of the performance.
We make every effort to ensure that this does not happen – but if it does, then regrettably your application will not be able to be considered. You would of course be welcome to apply again for the following year’s guide.
As long as we have a listener’s report from at least one other live performance, then your application will still be considered.
No. We endeavour to send a listener to as many of your performances as possible, but sometimes listeners are unavoidably prevented from attending at short notice, and sometimes it's just not possible to find someone who is available to attend. The greater the number of performances you are able to list on your application, the greater the chance of listeners being able to attend.
Yes, but we would ask you to let us know if this is the case so that we can pass the information to the listener and take this into account when considering the applications and assessment reports at the selection panel.
Yes. We consider all applications where at least one live performance has been assessed.
Listeners are under no obligation to introduce themselves to the performers: some will choose to do so because they want to find out more about you, but some prefer to remain anonymous during the process. In all cases, listeners will not be able to give feedback to you about the performance.
We will contact you to let you know which performances will be attended and to ask you for the complimentary tickets.
Either one or two. Some of our listeners attend alone, but others bring their partner with them (often because their partner is driving them there and back!). Please assume that we will require two tickets for each performance until we are able to confirm.
We ask that the applicant arranges this, so please do ensure that you will be able to make these arrangements for all the performances you have listed on your application. All tickets will be held under the name ‘Making Music’.
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