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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
  • (pdf)
  • 麻豆社 [Classical] Introducing supports emerging and UK-based classical music performers and composers. Upload your best performances and compositions to 麻豆社 Introducing and get your music heard. We are asking classical musicians and composers to upload recordings of their performances or compositions via the 麻豆社 Introducing Uploader. The 麻豆社 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 鈥� Controller, 麻豆社 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鈥檚 Diversity and Inclusion in Composition Conference