PRS has just announced that it has secured funding of €200,000 from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The money will be used to run its European Keychange programme to…

The Royal Academy of Music recently announced that John Adams will join their staff as a visiting Professor of Composition: John Adams, one of the world’s leading composers, has joined the Royal…

The winners of the 2016 British Composer Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at BFI Southbank, London. Here’s the complete list, with information about each piece and, in…

If, like me, you've entered a few composition competitions in your time, you might be interested in this survey (the link follows the description): There are few ‘emerging’ composers active…

Conductor Martyn Brabbins has just been appointed Music Director at ENO, the latest attempt to stabilise the troubled opera company (for more thoughts on this from me, see here). From the ENO…

The programme for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, summarised by Artistic Director Graham McKenzie: This year’s Festival is undoubtedly characterised by the bringing together of often quite disparate forces, to create…

This year’s Wien Modern programme summarised by its new Artistic Director Bernhard Günther: Where do we come from? Where are we going? And where the heck are we, anyway? These are the…

Members may remember Sound and Music’s commissioning survey from last year, which received a fair amount of gloomy press coverage. My own reaction was a little more positive, though maybe a little contrary; I would,…

A bit of good news for anyone interested in the future of ENO. For the last couple of years Arts Council England have been implementing vicious cut to the funding…