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Adopt a Music Creator blog: Our year of collaboration
Posted on 14 May 2025
Music creator Emily Hazrati reflects on her collaboration with Uckfield Concert Brass as part of Adopt a Music Creator 2024. It is very...
INCLUDE: Encouraging diversity in music-making
Posted on 17 December 2024
Sue Benson, Managing Trustee of the Great Bowden Recital Trust, gives us an update on their group's involvement with Making Music's INCLUDE...
four musicians, three standing and one sitting, playing their instruments
INCLUDE: Bringing music groups together
Posted on 17 December 2024
Marian Pearson, Chair of Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire Concert Society (SNLCS), tells us how her group acted as a catalyst for bringing music...
INCLUDE: Taking steps towards change
Posted on 28 November 2024
Mike Cocke, Secretary of the Luton Choral Society, provides us with an update on his group's involvement with Making Music's INCLUDE...
INCLUDE: The transformative potential of inclusion
Posted on 28 November 2024
Jan Sheward, founder of Cancer United and OutSingCancer choir, gives us an update on her group's involvement with Making Music's INCLUDE...
musicians and audience sitting down at premiere concert while CEO Barbara Eifler makes a speech on the podium
Adopt a Music Creator blog: Something for everyone
Posted on 17 October 2024
Music creator Fraz Ireland talks about the final preparations for the premiere of their piece with Blackheath Choir as part of Adopt a Music Creator...
members of the choir and orchestra on stage, sitting down, ready to being the concert
60 years of Helensburgh Oratorio
Posted on 3 April 2024
Margaret Hastings, Treasurer for the Helensburgh Oratorio Choir, tells us how their group organised their Diamond Jubilee concert.Susannah Wapshott,...
Classical’n’Fries
Posted on 28 March 2024
Barbara Eifler explores how the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s unique approach to live events in non-traditional venues could inspire...
members of the choir throwing sheets of music in the air
Coming out to your music group
Posted on 19 October 2023
Michelle Devon, member of the Exeter Festival Chorus and Axminster Choral Society, talks to us about how her music groups accepted her as Michelle....
Affordable and accessible repertoire with YOURACCOMPANIST
Posted on 29 September 2023
Corporate member, YOURACCOMPANIST, introduces their mission, their library of downloadable piano accompaniments and their piano recording services....
Making Music launches INCLUDE, a programme supporting...
Posted on 22 September 2023
Making Music, the UK’s association for leisure-time music groups, is delighted to introduce our new inclusion-focus programme Making Music:...
Accessible music education with TiME
Posted on 30 August 2023
Corporate member TiME is committed to promoting the use of music technology in education and taking down barriers to music education.TiME (Technology...

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