Berklee appoints first female president
Composer and conductor Erica Muhl is to take over from Roger H Brown as the fourth-ever president and the first woman to lead Berklee College of Music
Free foundation year course opens access to Cambridge University
Up to 50 talented yet socially disadvantaged students are being offered a fully-funded, one-year foundation course at 13 Cambridge colleges as part of a programme to broaden the undergraduate intake at the university
Hong Kong Orchestra Academy launched
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts have jointly announced the creation of The Orchestra Academy with support from the Swire Group Charitable Trust
Royal Irish Academy of Music and Music Network unite in unusual charity challenge
The ‘Grade-1-a-thon’ offers people of all ages the motivation to take up an instrument and pass their Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) Grade 1 exam free-of-charge, while raising money for the Music Network Instruments for Older People…
Trinity Laban and National Youth Jazz Orchestra announce first winner of new joint scholarship award
London-based music education organisations Trinity Laban and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra have combined to launch a new NYJO-Trinity Laban scholarship to support a talented young student on the Trinity Laban Conservatoire’s jazz degree…
Free music production courses for young people offered by Education & Bass
The online music production education platform Education & Bass is offering free Beginner Production and DJ courses for children from 7-16 years of age
Music lessons feature in BBC’s largest ever online education resource launch
Music is among the many subjects offered in the huge provision of free teaching resources launched by the BBC in the first week of January
Cabotage sabotage: UK touring crippled by Brexit deal
UK tour vehicles of over 3.5 tonnes are to be allowed only two drops before returning to the UK as a result of the Brexit trade deal, the government has admitted
CHORALSPACE launches as new international learning organisation for choral leaders
An international academy for choral arts, CHORALSPACE, launched on 6 January to provide an online environment for choral musicians to learn, create, perform and connect.
Based in Berlin, the non-profit organisation is governed by an…
Dismay as Brexit deal threatens musicians’ careers
The UK Government’s trade deal with the EU may have been lauded by an exhausted nation, but it threatens the livelihoods of thousands of UK musicians
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