London-based college LCCM has announced details of a competition open to young musicians interested in attending one of the college’s summer courses, Music Week and Making Music, which run this month. The entry deadlines are 10 July and 17 July. How to enter Applicants need to record themselves playing or singing a favourite song and send the link to shortcourses@lccm.org.uk with their name, age and the choice of course. Music Week: 17-21 July 2017 Course summary: LCCM’s five-day summer music course is for singers, guitarists, bass players, drummers, keyboard players and producers. Participants will hone their instrumental, vocal or production skills, meet, play…
Details of the 33rd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) have been announced. Running from 15-20 July 2018 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the conference will be hosted by ISME in collaboration with the Music Educators’ Society of Türkiye (MUZED) and the International Organisation of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY). With an invitation from ISME President, Professor Lee Higgins, and Congress Chair, Professor Dr Uğur Alpagut, the conference will reflect ‘the lifelong learning, lifespan development and life-changing nature of music in people’s lives around the world’ in its theme, Life’s Journey Through Music. Header photo: Baku, Azerbaijan © Araz Adiloglu
Youth music development charity, NYMAZ, has announced that it is participating in Prosper, a business support programme from Creative United. Designed to improve confidence and capabilities within business in the arts, museums and galleries, Prosper is an Arts Council England-supported programme offering nine months of support activities to 70 organisations – chosen from over 250 applications – to help increase resilience and investment across the sector. Other Prosper partners include: Arts Marketing Association Access: The Foundation for Social Investment Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University Creative Scotland Esmee Fairbairn Foundation NYMAZ will receive 1-to-1 sessions with a designated business advisor plus…
The recently tweaked Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (yes, it’s still the DCMS – the D just stands for Digital now) has launched #CultureisDigital, ‘a new conversation between government, the cultural sector and tech companies’. Stemming from a commitment in last year’s Culture White Paper to review the digitisation of public collections and enhance online cultural experiences, the project looks at how culture and digital technology can work together to drive audience engagement, unleash creative potential and boost the capability of cultural organisations. Participants are invited to join the conversation, discussing four main challenges: Access and Participation: How…
The European Choral Association (ECA) has announced initial details of the 2018 Europa Cantat festival, the ECA’s flagship international event. The 2018 festival takes place in Tallinn, Estonia. Europa Cantat XX offers opportunities for choirs, conductors and audiences, including 44 different offers for children’s, girls’, boys’, mixed youth, female and mixed choirs and National Youth Choirs. There is a wide range of genres, styles and languages, from pop and jazz to classical and folk. The atelier (conference) programme will include sessions led by leading lights from the international choral world including Bob Chilcott, Tõnu Kaljuste, Daniel Reuss, Anu Tali, Merel Martens…
A new report for BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and entertainment retail body, ERA, was unveiled on 27 June 2017. Compiled by Mark Mulligan of MiDiA Research, Generation Z: Meet the Young Millennials explores the music consumption habits and social media behaviour of today’s millennials and looks at how young people’s engagement across streaming and video platforms and social media and messaging apps – including Instagram, Snapchat and Musical.ly – is shaping longer-term trends. The research finds that for today’s tweens and teenagers, YouTube is a pervasive platform not only for new music and content and access to influential YouTubers but…
In celebration of its 10th birthday, Sing Up has launched the Sing Up Foundation, a new charitable organisation focussing on: singing for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) singing for teenagers with anxiety or mental health issues singing for older people with respiratory problems singing for older people with dementia The Foundation convened its first roundtable event on Friday 16 June 2017, inviting experts and practitioners to join the discussion and share their insights on: the nature and extent of the need in each of the four areas what is known in relation to singing as a partial…
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VCM Foundation, the choral charity behind vocal super-groups VOCES8 and Apollo5, has announced its inaugural composition competition. According to VCM CEO, Paul Smith: ‘With VOCES8 and Apollo5 we place great emphasis on supporting the creation of new choral music and bringing new compositions to the world stage. With that in mind, we are delighted to announce this inaugural VCM Foundation composition competition.’ Composers are invited to submit an original composition for SATB divisi a cappella, of not more than four minutes’ duration; the work must not have been performed before. Joining Paul Smith on the judging panel are the composers, Jonathan…
Mahogany Opera Group has announced that it will refocus its activity on two areas from January 2018: MY Opera and Various Stages. MY Opera (Mahogany Youth Opera) aims to give young people ownership of opera and encompasses all Mahogany Opera Group’s work for and with children. Characterised by the way in which young people work alongside professionals, it builds on recent successes, Brundibár and Snappy Operas. Mahogany plans to establish a MY Opera network of music education hubs, arts venues, charities and schools both in the UK and internationally to create youth opera projects. Various Stages is Mahagony Opera Group’s Research…
