National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) will mark its 40th anniversary on 11 April 2023 with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The theme of the concert and a new music commission will be Celebration and…
The recent announcement that the English National Opera (ENO) was to lose its entire Arts Council England (ACE) grant and that the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) would lose a third of its support was not entirely surprising.…
Melanie Spanswick introduces her new three-book piano series. Women Composers – A Graded Anthology For Piano was published by Schott Music in February/March 2022 and was one of my ‘lockdown’ projects. Schott and I worked on these publications over a…
Arts Council England (ACE) has published the details of its new national portfolio of 990 funded organisations for 2023-26, offering £446m annually ‘for more people in more places’. Representing a policy shift towards decentralisation of funding away from London, 78…
The 2023 edition of the Scottish International Piano Competition will take place in Glasgow from 1-10 September, with applications open until 24 March. Recital rounds will be held at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with the concerto final being held in Scotland’s…
This year’s Youth Music Awards ceremony took place on 19 October at Troxy, London, with entries judged by renowned music industry figures including BRIT-nominated singer-songwriter Mahalia, internationally acclaimed DJ duo BICEP, BBC Radio 1’s Sian Eleri and many more. National…
The chaos within the UK Conservative government is hampering the music education sector’s ability to prepare for the revised National Plan for Music Education, music hubs are saying. Although all music hubs are expected to re-apply for their contracts by April…
As Womex 2022 convened in Lisbon, Portugal, the Galician city of A Coruña has been declared the host for next year. At a ceremony with the city’s mayor, Inés Rey, and members of the Galician Agency for Cultural Industries and…
Naomi Pohl, the Musicians’ Union (MU) General Secretary, has joined the call for a general election following the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss. In an article on the MU website, she accused the government of being in ‘utter disarray’…
The NHS and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra have established a year-long project with the charitable organisation Improving Me to benefit the lives of women and children in the Cheshire and Merseyside region. Improving Me is a women’s health and maternity programme…
