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Posted on 10 October 2022
The latest research by Donne, Women in Music shows the disparity between male and female composers and global majority composers within the global...
Music creator Caitlin Harrison leading the RYO workshop
Posted on 4 October 2022
Melanie Le Breuilly, the Music Director of Reading Youth Orchestra (RYO), tells us about the start of her group's work with Caitlin Harrison...
Posted on 21 September 2022
Carmel Smickersgill describes preparing for the premiere with the Junior Leeds Conservatoire Ensemble Creative as part of their Adopt a Composer...
Posted on 8 September 2022
Joshua Brown, a composer from Rossendale in Lancashire, shares his reflections on developing new work for the Glasgow Orchestral Society (GOS) as...
Edgar Divver conducting the Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble
Posted on 7 August 2022
Rebecca Demott of the Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble (BWAFE) describes their group's latest workshop with Edgar Divver,...
members of choir standing up in a church and singing
Posted on 13 July 2022
Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, describes how it was to record for BBC Radio 3 as part of Adopt a Music Composer 2020/21.Another sunny day...
members of the choir standing up, holding their music scores and singing
Posted on 6 July 2022
Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, recounts how her music group's premiere of Lucy Callen's compositions went, as part of Adopt...
4 people sitting beside each other
Posted on 1 July 2022
Dominic Matthews, experimental composer from Manchester, discusses the power of community, accessibility and exploring new music with leisure-time...
three people playing trombones
Posted on 7 June 2022
Ann Westwood, president of the Glasgow Orchestral Society, recounts their first encounters with music creator Joshua Brown as part of their Adopt a...
people playing instruments
Posted on 3 May 2022
Carmel Smickersgill describes the culmination of her collaboration with the Junior Leeds College of Music Ensemble Creative as part of Adopt a...
The cover of the groups' Adopt a Music Creator premiere programme
Posted on 6 April 2022
Ben Lunn looks back at the last 16 months of socially-distanced rehearsals, Zoom videos, bell caps, face masks, and a storm that nearly stranded the...
Posted on 16 March 2022
In this joint blog, Sheila Biegala of Ugie Voices and Foss Foster of Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra (ASO) describe their tumultuous recording...