Listen Out: International perspectives on music education
Caroline Fentiman finds there is a lot that can be learnt from successful musical education practice from around the world.
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New ideas wanted for accessible music
Designers and makers with new ideas for instruments for disabled musicians are being encouraged to join a ‘hackathon’…
Blowing the youth trumpet
The Scottish Brass Band Association has recently devoted resources to developing a successful youth programme. Clair Tomalin descr…
Programming and partnerships
Ian Ritchie believes that the City of London Festival’s success over 50 years is based on taking programming risks and explo…
Agents behaving reasonably?
2012 was a tricky year for the UK’s many music festivals but Steve Heap reports on how they are determined to ride out the s…
All-party group to meet Exchequer Secretary over National Insurance changes
New rules threaten to “decimate our orchestras and put our musicians out of work” says Lord Lipsey
Music education bodies join together
A new body to represent those working in music education is to be formed as the National Association of Music Educators (NAME) and…
Campaign success as EBacc proposals are scrapped
Government proposals to scrap GCSEs in favours of English Baccalaureate Certificates are thrown out, but planned curriculum reform…
Search for inspiring SEN music teaching
A programme aiming to raise expectations and awareness of what young disabled people can achieve is seeking examples of music proj…
Free music lessons on Learn to Play Day
Music stores across the UK will be offering people taster sessions on instruments for Learn to Play Day on 16 March. Run for the f…
Support for pop musicians, but artists remain on the margins
PRS for Music Foundation (PRSF), the funding body for new music initiatives, has been chosen to deliver Arts Council England&rsquo…
Scottish musicians to get fringe benefits from funding body
Music is now supported under the 'Made in Scotland' scheme alongside theatre and dance.
Sheet music for all in schools
A new agreement between the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the Department for Education will include a new licence with the…
New music biennial seeks compositions
The first UK-wide music biennial, to take place in 2014, is seeking proposals from organisations to work with composers to create…
Musicians’ Unions speak out over copyright law changes
Musicians’ organisations have spoken out against the Government’s announcement of a private copyright concession makin…
Musicians struggle to make a living
More than half of professional musicians get paid less than £20,000, and 60% have worked for free over the past year, says a…
Scottish Government support revives brass bands
The number of brass bands in Scotland has almost doubled over the past five years, following a Scottish Government investment thro…
Arts at the heart
At the end of a year in which Paul Hamlyn Foundation celebrates 25 years of grant-making, Robert Dufton discusses his organisation…
Musicians in court battle over NI
Musicians Benevolent Fund is calling for HMRC to take a more flexible approach to freelance performers.
Lords leap into action on arts in the EBacc
Government shows no signs of changing its view of the arts as an add-on to Secondary education.
New ACE fund to support pop musicians
Small grants will help break down financial barriers to commercial progress.
Sound and Music consults on priorities
A public consultation is asking anyone interested in or involved in new music to give feedback on the role currently being played…
MU campaigns for fair pay
The Musicians’ Union (MU) has launched ‘Work not Play’, a campaign for fair pay in the music sector. Musicians a…
100 per cent commitment
The success of Harrow Arts Centre’s 100% programme of events and festivals is based on the many young people involved in both pr…
