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Adopt a Composer blog: Subtle textures and attentive...
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...
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Tunefulness in collaboration
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
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Bursts of notes
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
Adopt a Music Creator blog: A memorable recording
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
Adopt a Music Creator blog: A memorable finale
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
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Timbres, textures, and...
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
Adopt a Music Creator blog: A promising start
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...
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Visualisation and harmonisation
Posted on 27 April 2022
Hayley Hodges of Voices of Exmoor talks about her group's creative workshop with their AaMC collaborator Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones.The atmosphere...
people playing instruments
Adopt a Music Creator blog: A glow of satisfaction
Posted on 13 April 2022
Sheila Biegala of Ugie Voices and Foss Foster of Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra (ASO) describe the grand finale of their performance of '...
The cover of the groups' Adopt a Music Creator premiere programme
Adopt a Music Creator blog: A grand finale
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...
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Recording between storms
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...
photo of branch in a forest
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Release and joy
Posted on 10 March 2022
Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones describes her first meeting with Voices of Exmoor as part of their Adopt a Music Creator 2022 collaboration.As I travelled to...

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