Discover Welsh Music is a new online resource developed by Ty Cerdd - Music Centre Wales whose mission is to support, develop and promote the creation, performance and empowering experience of music, both in and of Wales.
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Post date: Friday, 11 December 2015 - 11:59am
Music Education Expo burst onto the scene in 2012 and quickly established itself as the go-to event of the year. It returns on 25 and 26 February 2016 in a bigger venue, at Olympia in London.
Post date: Friday, 4 December 2015 - 11:50am
The Festival of Contemporary Music for All is a celebration of CoMA’s Open Score project, which creates artistically challenging yet technically accessible and flexibly scored music for amateur ensembles. With over 600 works, there is plenty of music to go around!
Whether a musician, music lover, promoter or supporter; the Festival of Contemporary Music for All is open to everyone. The idea is inspiration – alongside leading composers, performers, ensembles and thinkers, you are invited to participate in workshops and ideas forums.
Post date: Thursday, 3 December 2015 - 5:52pm
The high court has quashed regulations, introduced by the government last year, that made it legal for individuals to copy CDs bought for their own private use, including 'ripping' these onto personal music libraries like iTunes.
Post date: Friday, 20 November 2015 - 10:39am
There has been legislation in place since the 1930s to ensure that children in the performing arts are not exploited and that they are properly protected from harm. Until recently, most local authorities have not thought amateur music groups subject to this legislation. In the last year or so, though, an increasing number of members have raised the issue with Making Music that their local authorities have asked them to apply for licenses for each child for each performance, as well as provide trained and licensed chaperones.
Post date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 4:20pm
Reports on singing come thick and fast these days, such as the recent one published by the Royal Society, entitled 'The ice-breaker effect: singing mediates fast social bonding'.
Post date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 3:35pm
BBC Music Day aims to connect communities and generations through a UK-wide celebration of music on TV, Radio, online and at live events.
In June this year, the very first BBC Music Day featured over 20 live music events, including a 73-mile musical relay from dawn to dusk along Hadrian’s Wall, a special educational needs and disability youth concert with The British Paraorchestra in Bristol, and a record-breaking musical event in Cardiff.
Post date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 3:23pm
Are you involved in a group that is doing something new and interesting? Have you struck up an interesting collaboration, inspired others or solved a problem in your home town?
Post date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 3:00pm
So you and your choir fancy a challenge? They don't come greater than the World Choir Games which in July 2016 will take place in Sochi, Russia. Every two years this massive competition comes to a different continent and the last ones were in Riga, in Latvia.
Post date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 1:13pm
It’s easy for conductors starting their careers to regard amateur orchestras as a step en route to the inevitable glory of the Berlin Philharmonic. Some people probably don’t even consider conducting amateurs a possibility. But I cut my teeth with this early on and I started to realise that I enjoyed it more than conducting professionals.
