Sound And Music

By Graham Davies, Chief Executive Officer, The Ivors Academy and Susanna Eastburn MBE, Chief Executive, Sound and Music On a call together in November 2020, we shared our great concerns about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on composers. Through conversations we’d both been having, we were picking up not…

Words by Susanna Eastburn MBE This is the third consecutive year that Sound and Music has released data regarding applicants to our programmes from backgrounds who have experienced racism. It is still surprisingly rare for organisations to be open about such data. Which is a shame, since an honest acknowledgement…

Words by Susanna Eastburn MBE Every year since 2016, Sound and Music has marked International Women’s Day and the month of March by using it as a springboard to showcase the work and lives of ground-breaking, inspiring and significant composers past and present across our programmes, websites and in our…

Words by Susanna Eastburn MBE On 25 February 2020, Sound and Music launched our Fair Access Principles. Developed and tested over many months with composers and partner organisations, their aim is to remove the many non-musical barriers that can prevent composers from fairly accessing artist development opportunities and programmes. Less…

Sound and Music’s Francis Chagrin Award is searching for composers looking for a ‘quick top-up’ of financial backing to get them to the next step when creating new work. An ‘easy’ application process could ‘lead to getting awarded on average £100 for costs associated with composing’, the organisation has stated. …

Sound and Music is looking for two Yorkshire-based composers to work with music from the British Music Collection as part of a new project. The composers will select scores from the Music for Young Players series. They will then use this music as starting points to work with children from…

Georgie Buchanan, Gemma Nash, Blasio Kavuma, Jason Yarde and Samantha Fernando are the five composers selected for the Sound and Music Pathways programme. Launched in spring 2016, Pathways is a strand of the Sound and Music Active Encouragement work that seeks to explore how to address inequalities in opportunities for…

The Next Wave 2017 programme has launched calling for applications from composers keen to develop their work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Sage Gateshead. The initiative has been launched by music charity Sound and Music and record label NMC Recordings in partnership with Sage Gateshead. As part of the…

The Sound and Music Summer School is now open for applications from young composers looking to take the next step in their musical careers. Running from 30 July until 5 August, the initiative is now in its ninth year and is a residential course for 75 young composers aged 14–18. …