There are several organisations who can provide financial support to composers affected by the coronavirus crisis. But we know that navigating this information can be challenging. Sound and Music and … Read More
Be quiet. Be still. Listen… Let us take you from Beethoven to Bjork, Chicago to Sudan, cityscapes to sandy shores. If you’re teaching primary school kids in the classroom or … Read More
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
One of Sound and Music’s New Voices, Supriya Nagarajan, recently visited India to carry out a ‘tea residency’ for her ongoing project as part of the programme. In this blog post reflecting … Read More
In 2017 Sound and Music made a commitment that “By March 2020, at least 50% of the composers we work with will identify as women”. In 2019 with one year to … Read More
