Sound and Music is thrilled to announce the second-ever cohort of our flagship artist development programme, In Motion—welcoming 10 bold and boundary-pushing composers from across the UK to join the 2025 edition of the programme.
This year, we received an incredible 450 applications, showcasing the breadth and depth of talent from music creators working across experimental pop, folk, jazz, classical, electroacoustic, sound art, performance and more. The selected composers represent a powerful mix of voices, visions and practices, each bringing something wholly distinctive to this 18-month journey of artistic development and collaboration.
Now in its second year, In Motion builds on the legacy of our past artist development programmes while responding to the evolving needs of today’s music creators. Whether exploring data, diaspora or distortion, grief, storytelling or improvisation, the 2025 cohort reflects the immense richness and originality of new music in the UK today.
Our In Motion 2025 artists are:
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Bofan Ma — Read Q&A
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Grace Stubbings — Read Q&A
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Harry Burgess — Read Q&A
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John Falsetto — Read Q&A
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Nichola Scrutton — Read Q&A
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Sarahsson — Read Q&A
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Shamica Ruddock — Read Q&A
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Sonia Allori — Read Q&A
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Tendertwin — Read Q&A
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Ushara — Read Q&A
These artists are working across disciplines and borders—blending field recordings with electronics, voice with sculpture, poetry with punk and folklore with ritual. They also include composers working in sound installation and theatre, multi-instrumentalists creating new performance practices, and producers exploring gender, memory and community.
Meet the In Motion 2025 composers
“It’s always an incredibly exciting part of the year to welcome in a new cohort. Each artist is about to embark on their own unique journey and that potential is an amazing thing to be a part of.
It’s a privilege to get to work with such talented artists as a Creative Programme Leader and I’m looking forward to welcoming in the In Motion 2025 cohort.”
— Fiona Allison, Creative Programme Leader at Sound and Music
At Sound and Music, we believe in long-term, bespoke and artist-led support. In Motion is designed to help composers navigate the challenges of sustaining a career in music and to amplify their practice on their own terms. It is a space for reflection, experimentation, connection and growth.
Join us in shaping the future of new music
We are the UK’s charity for new music and sound. Our mission is to be the base camp for anyone in the UK who wants to make, experience or support new music and sound to shape the modern world.
We deliver artist-centred development programmes and essential funding to young, emerging and established artists breaking new ground across music-making in the UK. We lead research, campaigns, networks, archives and collections to further originality, discovery and equity within music.
For over 15 years Sound and Music has worked with thousands of music creators and hundreds of organisations to boost musical creativity, careers, cultures and communities; progressing inclusion and representation within new music in the UK.
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With thanks to our funders and partners
Sound and Music is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL.
In Motion is made possible with the generous support of Arts Council England, Jerwood Developing Artists Fund, The Garrick Charitable Trust, Creative Scotland National Lottery, The Marchus Trust and PRS Foundation.
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