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Subsidies for groups booking selected Early Music ensembles
Posted on 10 October 2016
Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) run Early Music Live - a nine month training scheme and performance platform programme for exceptional early...
Annual returns - new resources from the Charity Commission
Posted on 22 September 2016
All registered charities with an income of more than £10,000 and all Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) have to submit an annual...
Meet the Adopt a Composer pairings
Posted on 12 September 2016
Each year our Adopt a Composer scheme sets amateur choirs, orchestras and ensembles up with composers for a year to produce a new piece together....
Over 1,200 amateur musicians joined the BBC Virtual...
Posted on 10 September 2016
The BBC has announced that over 1,200 amateur musicians were part of the Last Night of the Proms celebrations, after joining the digital Virtual...
Sing for peace as part of One Day One Choir
Posted on 8 September 2016
Peace Day is coming soon and One Day One Choir are aiming for a million voices, singing around the world for unity and peace on Sept 21. One song is...
Vote for the songs to represent the UK
Posted on 17 August 2016
The UK may be heading for Brexit, but a new non-profit songbook aims to showcase both the individual national identity and shared heritage of...
Don't like scales? A new performance-only diploma...
Posted on 9 August 2016
Musicians looking for a next step after grade 8 that doesn't involve sight-reading, scales and aural tests may be excited to hear about the new...
BBC Radio 3 want their listeners to meet your choir
Posted on 2 August 2016
BBC Radio 3's popular Meet my Choir segment returns this September and they are looking for new choirs to feature. UPDATE (27/02/17): The BBC is...
Five Making Music member groups to appear in BBC series The...
Posted on 2 August 2016
The BBC has revealed the five orchestras chosen to be part of the new series All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge, which the broadcaster...
Do you know a 'non-singer'?
Posted on 21 July 2016
Nearly 20% of the British population call themselves 'tone deaf', and probably many more would call themselves 'non-singers', holding...
Bacc for the Future campaign Parliamentary debate: what...
Posted on 21 July 2016
After over 100,000 music makers and supporters signed an official Parliamentary petition asking the Department for Education (DfE) to include...
A month of health and wellbeing workshops for musicians
Posted on 21 July 2016
Health and Wellbeing Month, in August 2016, will include a series of workshops to demonstrate useful skills and practises for musicians' health....

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