Take the Grade 1 challenge
Making Music, the UK membership body for amateur and voluntary music, is challenging people to take up a new instrument and reach grade 1 standard by the end of the year.
Blog: Competitions
Why classical music needs more than musicians
I come from an extremely musical family, and I love that there are a number of great schemes out there to help young and talented artists find their feet.
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.
Music and meaning in reality TV competition finals - and beyond?
Recently reality TV music competitions have received a lot of attention in the public media.
Rivers to the Sea
In 2010 I was approached by Esa-Pekka Salonen to write a work for the Philharmonia's 2012 season. This came as a great surprise, and I leapt at the opportunity of writing for this renowned orchestra and conductor.
Get writing!
Like everyone here at the ISM, I’m a passionate advocate for new music. We decided to create the ISM Composers Competition 2013 as a platform to help the amazing work done by music educators across the UK to continue to flourish into the thriving professional music scene that we all enjoy.
