PRS Foundation secures funding from European Union
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…
John Adams Appointed as Visiting Professor of Composition
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…
British Composer Award Winners Announced
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…
Composition Opportunities for Emerging Composers
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…
Martyn Brabbins announced as new Music Director of ENO
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…
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 18th–27th November
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…
Wien Modern, 30th October–20th November 2016
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…
SaM Commissioning Survey 2015
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,…
Arts Council England capitulates over ENO Funding
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…