Adopt a Music Creator 2020

Deadline: July 1st 2020 Adopt a Music Creator – Now in its 20th year, with over 120 fantastically creative and successful projects between leisure-time music groups and composers to date, … Read More

George Butterworth Award 2020: Winner Announced

George Butterworth Award 2020: Winner Announced

The George Butterworth Award is awarded annually to a UK-based composer, for an outstanding new work created through one of Sound and Music’s Artist Development Programmes. We’re delighted to announce … Read More

Meet the 2020 Composer-Curators

We’re thrilled to announce the five projects that have been selected to be a part of this year’s Composer-Curator programme. Each of the chosen artists will be supported to develop … Read More

International Women’s Day 2020

Since 2016 Sound and Music has been marking International Women’s Day with a range of different activities including publishing our data on gender equality celebrating and highlighting the brilliant work … Read More

Our #CanCompose Commitments

As part of the annual Music Mark conference in November 2019, Susanna Eastburn MBE, Chief Executive of Sound and Music calls for urgent and meaningful change to perceptions, provision, practice and policy … Read More

Black History Month 2019: Our Data

‘We continue to evolve our language around race and ethnicity, and in May 2020, we made the decision to no longer use the acronym BAME.’ It has been one year … Read More

Meet the 2019/20 Composer-Curators

We’re excited to announce the six projects selected for this year’s Composer-Curator programme. Each of them will be supported for the next nine months in developing public programmes that focus … Read More