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Adopt a Music Creator pairings 2022

Since it began in 2000, the Adopt a Composer project has inspired over 120 hugely diverse works and performances by music creators and leisure-time groups. Last year Adopt a Composer became Adopt a Music Creator, broadening the scope of the project, with more opportunities for music creators and music groups to take part. 

Adopt a Music Creator matches leisure-time choirs, bands, orchestras and ensembles with a music creator for a year, leading to a premiere performance, recording and radio broadcast. Meet this year's pairings:

Adopt a Music Creator: A musical wash

Melanie Le Breuilly, the Music Director of Reading Youth Orchestra (RYO), tells us about the start of her group's work with Caitl

Adopt a Composer blog: Subtle textures and attentive playing

Carmel Smickersgill describes preparing for the premiere with the Junior Leeds Conservatoire Ensemble Creative as part of their <

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Tunefulness in collaboration

Joshua Brown, a composer from Rossendale in Lancashire, shares his reflections on developing new work for the Glasgow Orchestral

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Bursts of notes

Rebecca Demott of the Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble (BWAFE) describes their group's latest workshop with Edgar Div

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A memorable recording

Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, describes how it was to record for BBC Radio 3 as part of

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A memorable finale

Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, recounts how her music group's premiere of Lucy Callen's compositions went, as part of

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Timbres, textures, and togetherness

Dominic Matthews, experimental composer from Manchester, discusses the power of community, accessibility and exploring new music

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A promising start

Ann Westwood, president of the Glasgow Orchestral Society, recounts their first encounters with music creator Joshua Brown as par

Adopt a Composer blog: Recording at last

Carmel Smickersgill describes the culmination of her collaboration with the Junior Leeds College of Music Ensemble Creative as pa