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UK Composer Groups
Click here for spnm's guide to composer groups
throughout the UK.
The guide is continually updated, so see if any more groups have been
added in your area.
UK Composers
Click here for links to UK composers
International
organisations
Classical Composers
Database
Maintained by Jos Smeets in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Located one hour south of San Francisco, California. Offers four-week
residencies, at no cost, to artists in the disciplines of music composition,
media arts/new genres, literature, choreography, and visual arts.
Gaudeamus
International Association of Music Information
Centres
Ircam
Paris-based Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musicque
Irish Contemporary Music Centre
The Contemporary Music Centre documents and promotes Irish music
New Music Network
Australian new music resource
Other Minds
San Francisco based festival dedicated to new and unusual music in all
its forms
re-sound
Australian new music resource
International performing groups
Ensemble Aleph
duo46
UK performing groups
BBC Symphony Orchestra
One of the country's leading orchestras
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
The core work of BCMG is the performance of new and 20th century music.
London Sinfonietta
The specialist new music ensemble
New Noise
Oboe and Percussion duo
Nosferatu
New music ensemble
Psappha
Manchester-based new music ensemble
Tete-a-Tete
Specialising in new opera
UK Performers
Jeremy Huw Williams
Baritone
Darragh Morgan
Violinist
On line Resources
Classical.com
Offering online listening, downloads, custom CDs, and information to expand
your classical music knowledge
Digital
Music Archives
The Future of Modern Music
Featuring articles on music
New Music
An online journal, featuring articles on contemporary music and interviews
with international composers, edited by Christopher Fox and James Saunders
newmusicworks.com
A network ofcomposers and performers aiming to propagate knowledge of
music by composers unfamiliar to the listening public.
SibeliusMusic
featuring compositions from unpublished composers all over the world.
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UK organisations
British
Council Music Unit
A range of information resources on British music for colleagues and partners
around the world
British
Music Information Centre
A library and a resource for 20th Century British classical music, including
a database of the complete BMIC collection
CMN
The Arts Council's touring scheme, which aims to increase range and availability
of new music to audiences across the country
COMA
Promotes contemporary music performable by amateur players. Visit its
music library, and listing of events and music-making opportunities
Composers-UK
Offers website design and email services specifically for UK-based composers.
Contemporary Music Promotions
Provides a service to composers in need of assistance with the contractual
and financial detail of any commission that has been offered.
Fulbright Commission
Extablished in 1948 to promote and support educational exchange between
the UK & USA.
Genesis Foundation
Organisers of the Genesis Prize Opera
Jazz Services
The UK's national organisation for jazz – has one of the most exhaustive
series of jazz links pages
Making Music
Making Music, The National Federation of Music Societies, is the nationwide
organisation for amateur music-making groups.
National Campaign for the Arts
The site of the only independent campaign covering all the arts. News
and briefings on current issues, information on lobbying ministers and
MPs and links to many UK arts organisations
National
Foundation for Youth Music
A major source of information for young people on music issues. They
offer advice and guidance in all areas of music, with the aim of supporting
and assisting young people to achieve their musical aspirations.
NMC
Independent record label set up to record new music by British composers.
Oriana Publications
Small independent music publisher specialising in contemporary music.
Paulos Records
A small independent record label specializing in avant-garde classical,
jazz and crossover musics.
PCAM
Scottish
Music Information Centre
promoting Scottish composers
Short Songs
Music with really good titles... which is not difficult or challenging!
Sibelius
Score notation package
Sonic Arts Network
The national association of composers, performers, teachers and others
interested in the creative use of technology in composition and performance
Soundcircus
New sounds from open ears - mail-order CD releases from Joanna MacGregor
through Unknown Public
Welsh Music Foundation
an Economic Development project offering information adn advice contemporary
music industries in Wales
UK educational establishments
Lambeth Music Service
Manchester
University
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