I first heard about ‘Adopt A Composer’ as an anxious teenager who had absolutely no idea how to realise my ambitions; the name fe
Each year our Adopt a Composer scheme sets amateur choirs, orchestras and ensembles up with composers for a year to produce a new
KEMS Concert Band is now back from its summer break (complete with tour to Belgium), and rehearsals for our premiere on 15 Octobe
National choral charity Sing for Pleasure has announced that applications are open for scholarships for its 2017-18 Young Conduct
We're delighted to announce that composer Jenni Pinnock, herself an Adopt a Composer alumna, will be joining our three current me
Conducting; standing at the front waving your hands trying to control the music, without actually making any noise, is a strange
Following the busy weeks and months that led up to the premiere of my work Continuum by the Glasgow School of Art Choir,
Since being paired with Croydon Bach Choir in September 2016, I have worked with the choir on numerous occasions, gradually feedi
Now that the dust has settled on our Fifth Anniversary Gala Concert – and the world premiere of ‘Continuum’, by Shona Mackay – it
In September of last year I found that I was to be paired up with the KEMS Concert Band as part of the 2016-17 'Adopt A Composer'
