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Composer Help Page

Here are some resources and contacts within the classical music industry.

Useful Industry Bodies

Funders/grants/research/opportunities

  • Information on Applying to Grants for the Arts
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  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ [Classical] Introducing supports emerging and UK-based classical music performers and composers. Upload your best performances and compositions to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing and get your music heard. We are asking classical musicians and composers to upload recordings of their performances or compositions via the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing Uploader. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 team will download them, listen and decide on the best tracks to play with further opportunities on the network.
  • : Funding directory for visual artists and composers
  • : Composers’ Toolkit
  • : Competitions and opportunities:

Publishers

Great art needs to reflect the society from which it emerges.
Alan Davey – Controller, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
  • : directory of MPA members This usefully allows you to filter a search by genre of music and specifies which publishers accept unsolicited material

Performing Groups

  • NB: this page has been ‘archived’ but is otherwise a useful list…

Education

There are many UK-based universities, conservatoires and colleges which offer the study of composition at higher education level. Here are a few of them…

Shirley J Thompson's Timeline

for composer and conductor Shirley J Thompson's Timeline: Towards a Legacy of African, Caribbean & Asian Classical Composers 1480 - 1940

Speakers from Radio 3’s Diversity and Inclusion in Composition Conference