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Adopt a Music Creator blog: Rehearsals aplenty

Gina Pegg of Newcastle-under-Lyme Community Orchestra (NULCO) provides an update on her group’s collaboration with composer Charl

Adopt a Music Creator pairings 2020/21

Having already developed more than 120 dynamic partnerships between leisure-time music groups and creators over 20 years, our landmark Adopt a Composer project is expanding under a new name for the 2020/21 season

Adopt a Music Creator matches leisure-time choirs, bands, orchestras and ensembles with a composer for a year, leading to a premiere performance, recording and radio broadcast. Meet this year's pairings and find out who has taken part in the past.

Adopt a Music Creator 2020/21 pairings

Adopt a Music Creator premiere blog: Helensburgh Oratorio Choir & Aileen Sweeney

Making Music's manager in Scotland, Alison Reeves, reflects on an uplifting Adopt a Music Creator (formerly Adopt a Composer) pre

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A long-awaited premiere

Kate Foley of the City of Bristol Brass Band recounts her group’s feelings on preparing their premiere and recording with Laura S

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Hepton Singers, Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge

In a new blog for Adopt a Music Creator 2020/21, Hepton Singers MD Richard Bunzl recounts an inspiring visit from Fergus Hall as

Adopt a Music Creator blog: Back with a bang

Sheila Biegala fills us in on a long-awaited return to in-person activity for Ugie Voices, who can now look forward to more joint

Adopt a Composer blog: A marathon, not a sprint – a collaboration reshaped

In a new diary entry for Adopt a Composer 2019/20, Laura Shipsey recounts how her composition for City of Bristol Brass Band took

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A welcome in-person return

Foss Foster of Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra shares her group's delight on returning to in-person activity for Adopt a Music

Adopt a Music Creator blog: A month of ups and downs, but mostly ups

Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra's Foss Foster ponders the pros and cons of life on Zoom, and how the platform has framed her gr