Things to consider when buying & selling an instrument at auction
Tim Ingles, director, and co-founder of Ingles & Hayday, provides some of the steps musicians need to follow before purchasing or selling an instrument at auction.
Blog: Advice
Professional skills for musicians
Live musical entertainment company Viva Live Music blogs about their top tips for performers.
ISM launches the Composers Pack: Composers Edition
As part of the launch of the ISM's Composers Pack, our corporate member and partner Composers Edition blogs exclusively for the ISM blog series.
Make the pianist to organist conversion
Morwenna Brett made the shift from piano to organ several years ago, and started her website The Lady Organist to help others who were interested in doing the same. It’s now grown into an online magazine with news, interviews and resources for organists at all levels.
Frances Wilson's survey Perceptions of Independent Piano Teachers
In September 2014, Frances Wilson ran a survey to determine if private and independent piano teachers regard themselves as "professionals", the survey revealed some interesting and unsettling thoughts...
'I don't enjoy music; I just can't get into it'
These were the words of a Year 5 teacher at St. Teresa’s Primary School in Basildon, Essex who was featured on Channel 4’s Don’t Stop the Music broadcast on 9 September 2014.
Is our ending your beginning?
It's not too early in the school year to be thinking about your students performing an original, comical, marvellous musical production.
