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Memorial service to be held for Roy Walker of Tayside Symphony Orchestra
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 6:31pm

The life of accomplished musician, principal teacher and Tayside Symphony Orchestra founder Ron Walker will be celebrated at a memorial service on Friday.
Mr Walker died suddenly in Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, aged 74, having stepped down from the TSO role earlier this year due to ill-health.

Born in Perth and brought up in Newburgh, he began piano lessons at a young age and after leaving Bell Baxter High School in Cupar secured a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow to study music.

Performance opportunities at Westminster Music Library
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 4:44pm

Whether you’re a singer, an instrumentalist or part of an ensemble, WML are happy to consider including you in their events programme; they can even provide an excellent Yamaha Clavinova.

With tailored marketing including all your concert publicity, mail-outs, on-line promotion and printed concert progammes, this is an exciting opportunity for you to perform, to promote yourself and to add to your portfolio of concert experience.

All our concerts are held week days between 6.00pm and 7.00pm, for further information contact:

Journeys - ACT III
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 1:03pm
Composer Alison Willis reflects on Act III of her new piece, written for CYCO as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme.
Flying Kites in Thame
Post date: Wednesday, 3 February 2016 - 10:56am

It is a curious feature of Thame that if one looks upwards, there is often a surprising abundance of birds of prey meandering across the sky.

"A dog ate our accounts" and why you should avoid filing your charity annual return late
Post date: Thursday, 28 January 2016 - 5:57pm

If you’re a registered charity, then once a year, no later than 9 months after the end of your financial year, you need to file an annual return with the Charity Commission.

La Nova Singers reflect on their first Adopt a Composer meeting
Post date: Thursday, 28 January 2016 - 11:47am

Dorset has some beautiful, historic churches, rich with architectural merit. This was not one of them.

Making connections: a carefully programmed concert is greater than the sum of its parts
Post date: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 - 12:50pm
Today we have incredible access to a seemingly infinite amount of music: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music – not to mention an abundance of online score libraries. I see these as far from overwhelming, rather as advantageous resources in enabling increased diversity on the concert platform.
Finding adventures abroad
Post date: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 - 3:29pm

At the Making Music Council meeting in October 2015 a member asked Making Music to facilitate connections abroad. So where can you start?

Apply for £100 to put on an event for Voluntary Arts Week
Post date: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 - 10:55am
The Voluntary Arts Week Microfund invites self-led cultural groups and projects to apply for £100 to put on an event during Voluntary Arts Week.
The Great British Amateur Orchestra - apply for a new BBC series.
Post date: Wednesday, 20 January 2016 - 9:00am

BBC Music today announces a major initiative, Get Playing, aimed at shining a light on amateur music of all kinds across the nation, and launches a search for the UK’s most inspirational amateur orchestras.

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