1 year at Sound and Music by numbers

9 tours co-produced promoting new work12 Composer-Curated festivals and event series10 Embedded composer residencies14 Portfolio programme opportunities6 Adopt-a-Composer opportunities12 Higher Education Programme opportunities12 Francis Chagrin Awards1 George Butterworth Prize 75 places on the Sound and Music Summer School30,000 scores in the British Music Collection available to view

Sound and Music are England’s national agency for new music. Our mission is to unlock the creative potential of composers, to open up their work for more people to discover, and to develop a vibrant future for new music as a result.

We work in partnership across all styles and genres of new music and sound art, and across the country, striving to build profile and public awareness of all that is exciting and innovative about new music.

Over the next pages you will find a summary of what we do. Whatever your involvement is with new music, I hope you will find projects here to become involved in. Just as importantly, I hope we can work together to make that vibrant future a reality.

Susanna EastburnChief Executive

Talent development

We offer a progressive pathway of 3 flagship composer residency programmes (Adopt A Composer, Portfolio, Embedded) working nationally and aimed at composers seeking to establish their careers and/or develop their practice. There is a growing body of evidence that the sustained and trusting relationships nurtured by residencies are a significant factor in talent development and also artistic risk-taking.

Adopt A Composer is a partnership with Making Music and funded by the PRS for Music FoundationEmbedded is supported in 2013-14 by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Find out more about our composer residency programmes Adopt A Composer, Portfolio and Embedded at www.soundandmusic.org/create

“Sound and Music manoeuvre in a way that makes you feel confident and at

ease in what you’re doing...this creates an ideal, productive environment for

emerging composers to work in.” Joanna Lee, Embedded Composer-in-

Residence with BCMG 2012-13

Growing audiences for new music

Sound and Music see a huge opportunity for more people to discover and explore new music.

Sound and Music now has the largest, fastest growing and most insightful audience database for new music in the country. Our national and data-driven approach to audience development means that we are ideally positioned to work with partners of all sizes to grow their audiences, and to generate innovative approaches to doing that. All of our development work is shared across the sector to ensure that both organisations and indiviudals can become a part of the work.

Find out how we can work with you to help develop an audience for new music events near you: www.soundandmusic.org/knowledge-hub

Growing audiences for new music

Sound and Music’s new music listings site and

blog offers a lively platform for composers and new

music organisations

The Sampler

Transforming musical discovery

The British Music Collection is a unique resource consisting of over 30,000 scores and recordings from 20th and 21st century British composers, available to browse online and hosted at the University of Huddersfield.

We want to develop the British Music Collection into a vibrant music discovery service, and a 21st century research tool. We are committed to expanding the British Music Collection, including a Heritage Lottery Fund project to create a state of the art Archive Centre at the University of Huddersfield.

Browse the Collection online and keep in touch with its future development at www.soundandmusic.org/create

Transforming musical discovery

Working in partnership across the country

All of our work is in partnership and we continuously seek to address gaps in the infrastructure for new music development, placing composers and artists at the centre of our plans, and driving sectoral change through innovative approaches that are largely composer-led.

Composer-curator programmeWe have developed the Composer-Curator Programme, the first national programme of its kind anywhere in the world, to catalyse the emerging trend of composers becoming producers and curators of independent new music events and festivals that bring artists closer to audiences.

Find out more about the composer-curator programme and events at www.soundandmusic.org/create

TouringWe have also launched a new, transparent and more artist-led approach to touring: in 2013-14, we will support a total of 9 tours across a broad range of scales and styles of music.

Find out more about our touring programme and how you can get involved at www.soundandmusic.org/listen

Supporting teachers and schools

Primary schoolsThrough our Minute of Listening application, we want every child in the country to benefit from at least one minute of reflective listening in the classroom every school day. Our evidence is growing about the positive benefit this can have on their musical and learning development. Secondary schoolsWe are moving into the second phase of our action research pilot Listen Imagine Compose, which offers research and resources to support teachers in a progressive, imaginative approach to teaching composition which not only delivers results but supports pupils’ wider social and musical development.

Visit www.soundandmusic.org/learn to find out more about our work in primary and secondary schools, and the resources we offer.

“Minute of Listening has broadened the children’s experience of sound and music...It has given them the opportunity to talk about the unfamiliar, share their views and ideas.”

Primary school teacher

Supporting young people to become composers

Summer SchoolThe Sound and Music Summer School is unique, offering 75 young people aged 14-18 an intensive residential week learning from professional composers and creating new work for outstanding professional musicians across a range of genres.

Go Compose!Working in partnership with local music education hubs, Sound and Music delivers intense weekends of composition with young people aged 12-17, working with professional musicians and composers to create an original work which is performed and recorded.

Visit www.soundandmusic.org/learn to find out more about how we support teenage composers.

“Hearing my piece was like a dream come true”

Summer School participant

Student composers

Higher Education ProgrammeThis brand new programme works nationally to develop and showcase exceptionally talented composers in higher education, before they make the transition into a professional composing career. A peer network of 12 selected composers will work with a pool of elite performers to compose new pieces, culminating in a showcase at the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and works recorded by NMC.

Creative internshipsEvery year we offer internships to students, offering hands on creative experience and mentoring to support their insight into new music organisations. Previous interns have produced events, worked in communications and marketing, and contributed to creative planning as well as being trained in office skills.

Visit www.soundandmusic.org/learn to find out more about what we can offer to students in higher education.

Professional development for composers

Sounding OutSound and Music’s Sounding Out series is a rolling programme of public professional development events offering practical insights, advice and perspectives on how to manage a professional career as a composer, particularly targeted at emerging composers, artists and producers. Each event is themed, and offers a varied programme of panel discussions, keynote presentations from leading industry figures, Q&As, 1:1 surgeries and networking opportunities.

Composer ToolkitRelaunched in September 2013 and completely free on the Sound and Music website, the Composer Toolkit is a wide-ranging and flexible source of advice and information aimed particularly at early career composers but potentially of much wider interest. Subjects covered include “Earning a Living” and “Promoting Yourself”.

“I think that events like these are essential for emerging artists mainly because it’s

very difficult to see your place in this huge world and all the doors seem very closed.”

Sounding Out participant

Awards and prizes

Francis Chagrin AwardsSince the relaunch of these awards in February 2013, we have supported more than nine composers with the costs of creating new work, an area less established composers can often struggle.

George Butterworth PrizeWe also relaunched this annual prize in 2013, which recognises an outstanding work created on one of Sound and Music’s talent development programmes. Brahim Kerkour (pictured) is the first winner of the relaunched Prize, in recognition of his work ‘In Circulation’ written whilst he was in residence with the Manchester Camerata.

Find out more about our awards and prizes for emerging composers at www.soundandmusic.org/create

National advocacy and networking

As a national organisation we are uniquely positioned to draw together and share evidence about the value of new music to the future health of music as a living art form, and as a central part of cultural life. Whether it is championing the value of teaching composition well in schools, encouraging debate about addressing gender and diversity imbalances, transforming traditional models of philanthropy and audience development, or opening up new opportunities – Sound and Music is committed to a vibrant future for new music.

In 2013 we have launched networks in individual fundraising (supported by the Arts Council’s Catalyst scheme), Music Archives, Museums and Heritage Partnerships, and Composer Talent Development.

Find out more about how you can connect into our networks at www.soundandmusic.org

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