Composer-Curator Partners: Sunderland Culture

As part of our 2022 Composer-Curator programme, we’re thrilled to continue to our regional partnership with Back to Ours (Hull) and Sunderland Culture. Applications for Composer-Curator 2022 are now open, and … Read More

Composer-Curator Partners: Back to Ours, Hull

As part of our 2022 Composer-Curator programme, we’re thrilled to continue to our regional partnership with Back to Ours (Hull) and Sunderland Culture. Applications for Composer-Curator 2022 are now open, and … Read More

Sound and Music Podcast Episode 5: Invitations

Episode 5: Invitations   Composers Shabaka Hutchings, Alwynne Pritchard and Oliver Leith share their music and thoughts exploring the nature of the human relationships which shape the music they make.   We listen to compositions rooted in friendship, explore attempts to decolonialise music, and intimate performances recorded in a … Read More

New Voices: An interview with Mella Faye

Mella Faye is a musician, actor and director and a composer on Sound and Music’s New Voices 2019 programme. In 2016, Mella set up her company, Pecho Mama, to begin creating work … Read More

UK exam boards fall short on representation

There has been much, well-justified discussion about decolonising the curriculum in recent months, and teachers across the UK deserve praise for their efforts in this field. Unfortunately though, it seems … Read More