Features

Features

Here you can read all the latest feature articles covering issues from across the entire music sector.

You'll find a wide variety of opinion pieces, practical advice and the results of our latest fees surveys.

Ashley Fripp and Jury

Pianist Ashley Fripp wins GSMD Gold Medal

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has announced the winner of this year’s Gold Medal, the School’s most prestigious prize for outstanding soloists.

Going for Gold - ISM Conference 2012. Views from our student and graduate members

Student and graduate members of the ISM share their experiences of this year's ISM Conference.

Sounds New supports all that’s British in its 2012 Festival. 4 - 15 May 2012

Sounds New presents the Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival 2012.

Gwilym Simcock (Photo: Eric Richmond)

Good Days at Schloss Elmau

Gwilym Simcock's solo jazz album, Good Days at Schloss Elmau, was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize. The album was recorded in just one day, and mixed and mastered in another.

Gwilym gives his personal account of the recording process.

Ask the adjudicator

ISM member and professional harpist, Gabriella Dall’Olio, shares her valuable insight on competitions for young musicians.  Gabriella was the strings adjudicator for the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2010 Competition.

Suzi Digby

Going for Gold - ISM Conference 2012

This year's annual conference at LSO St Luke's and Guildhall School of Music & Drama (13 and 14 April) was a hugely enjoyable event with performance at its heart.

Sing Up group of children

Sing Up sings on

Sing Up announces new membership scheme for schools

Heli Rajasalo

Value of personal coaching to musicians

Heli Rajasalo introduces personal coaching or life coaching as a practical and effective way to create a fulfilled life for yourself.

ISM Music Directory

The ISM Music Directory replaces the ISM’s three online Registers as the UK’s most comprehensive online directory of professional musicians.

Partnerships in Music Education

A paper written by Bridget Whyte, music education consultant, to support 'hub' working. The paper explores the what, why and how of partnerships in music education. It considers the findings of the ten Music Partnership Projects (MPPs) funded by Government between 2008 and 2010, and in doing so provides information and advice for others wishing to develop relationships between organisations that truly work as a partnership.

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