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Posted on 22 August 2023
Sound Escapes is a specialist tour operator based in Nottingham arranging tailor-made concert and performance tours for adult music ensembles who...
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Posted on 15 August 2023
After the recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 12 July, we welcome some new faces and familiar faces in new roles to the Making Music Board of...
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Posted on 14 August 2023
Music creator Anselm McDonnell talks about the beginnings of his collaboration with the Northern Ireland Concert Band as part of Adopt a...
Posted on 9 August 2023
Joi Demery and Val Williams of member group Bristol Choral Society talk to us about their choir's trajectory after winning a Making Music...
Posted on 27 July 2023
Following a consultation on this proposed legislation, the select committee has released a report, reflecting many of our members' main concerns...
Posted on 27 July 2023
Creative producer Holly Hunter and composer Michael Betteridge present their co-creation project Voices Weaving, and invite members to get involved...
Posted on 13 July 2023
Continuo Connect is a concert-finder for music lovers looking for the best of Classical, Baroque, Renaissance and other Early Music events happening...
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Posted on 27 June 2023
Join CoMA for a weekend celebration of community and new music as well as its 30th anniversary on 15 and 16 July at St John's Smith Square in...
Making Music chief executive and Charles Hazlewood smiling, together holding framed Sir Charles Groves prize
Posted on 22 June 2023
Making Music has presented acclaimed conductor Charles Hazlewood with the Sir Charles Groves Prize for his outstanding contribution to the musical...
A man with a bass violin resting on his shoulder as he annotates sheet music on an iPad.
Posted on 12 June 2023
Corporate member Newzik is a digital sheet music app available on iOS products. The app allows musicians to conveniently store all their sheet music...
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Posted on 9 June 2023
Last year, the government consulted on what it was then referring to as Protect Duty, which has resulted in a draft bill – the Terrorism (...
Posted on 24 May 2023
Quietly, working in the background, there are services of enormous importance to leisure-time music groups: the organisations supplying sheet music....