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Posted on 18 April 2016
British composer Guy Woolfenden, patron of Making Music member Birmingham Symphonic Winds, has passed away. Woolfenden composed more than 150...
Posted on 15 April 2016
'A Choir in Every Care Home' is an initiative to explore how music and singing can feature regularly in care homes across the country....
Posted on 8 April 2016
The winners can be engaged by Making Music's 3000+ members - music clubs, amateur choirs and orchestras - at fixed fees and substantial subsidies...
Posted on 22 March 2016
Could you be the UK’s best, undiscovered singing group?  Whether you’re a gospel group with gusto, a band of beatbox bravados or a...
Posted on 15 March 2016
Whatever reputation he may have had as an enfant terrible – cheerfully watching Prommers storm out of his performances in the 1960s –...
Posted on 2 March 2016
Classic FM’s John Brunning might be best known for presenting the station’s popular Drivetime programme but he’s also a skilled...
Posted on 1 March 2016
Celebrating a decade of CoMA's ground-breaking Open Score project, the Festival promotes contemporary music with a participative approach and...
Posted on 1 March 2016
An official Parliamentary petition asking the Department for Education (DfE) to include expressive arts in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) has been...
Posted on 26 February 2016
As part of the VCM Choral Music Foundation's outreach programme for the 2016/17 season, British vocal ensemble Apollo5 is available to...
Posted on 26 February 2016
We are sad to announce the death of Andrew Potter, Vice President and former Chairman of Making Music, at his home in Sussex on February 18th 2016....
Posted on 3 February 2016
It is a curious feature of Thame that if one looks upwards, there is often a surprising abundance of birds of prey meandering across the sky. ...
Posted on 28 January 2016
If you’re a registered charity, then once a year, no later than 9 months after the end of your financial year, you need to file an annual...