🎼 Calling all composers - 2025/26 Composers’ Academy applications close in 5 days! ⏰
Are you a composer ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now for our 2025/26 Composers’ Academy – a fantastic opportunity to develop your craft through mentoring, coaching, and a performance of your work by the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall.
🎙️ Hear from current participants Elif Karlidağ, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Soosan Lolavar, and mentor Christian Mason about their experiences:
👉 https://t.co/AzukKOEi4X
🕔 Deadline: 5pm, Monday 7 July 2025
#Composers #Composition #Philharmonia #NewMusic #TalentDevelopment
🌏What a fantastic first meeting for CoMA Melbourne last night!
Two hours crammed with fun and discovery, including warm-ups, musical objects and the creation and performance of two new graphic scores, all led by Jodie Rottle.
👀Stay tuned for news of the next session...
If you know a 14-18 year-old who would benefit from this programme, encourage them to apply now.
Plus we're delighted to say that our co-founder Eddie (@LizDobsonUoH) is one of the tutors - so we know it'll be an amazing learning experience!
We are very excited about our next concert on 14 June at @dragonhall with @CoMA_NewMusic and our incredible composer-in-residence Franklyn Oliver! Franklyn joins us as part of #CoMABespoke
More details to follow soon 🎶
https://t.co/ZCjhBMPr6j
https://t.co/yLjILhuxdo
Our latest newsletter is out now, with a look back at our MidWinter Composers course, details of 50% funded places at our 2025 Summer School, more chances to join our new West Midlands ensemble and more!
If you’re not already subscribed, read it here: https://t.co/ij4KWfQuyC
2025 marks a decade of Chineke! Orchestra and we're planning on celebrating all year, beginning this month on Fri 24th Jan at @SouthbankCentre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, where we made our 2015 debut 🎊
🟢Last chance to apply for Connect the Dots 2025!
🟡If you’re an emerging to mid-career composer and/or music facilitator who wants to learn about making your work more inclusive and accessible, our Connect the Dots programme is for you! 🧵1/2
We had the most amazing afternoon with @DaviesJoeRobert and Lucy Britton last Sunday! What a treat it was to work with a wonderful singer, new to Cobwebs, and to be conducted by Joe, whom we’ve worked with many times over the years. 🎶
🎟️There are just two places left on our MidWinter Composers Course, taking place 2-6 Jan 2025.
⏩Apply now and take your writing to new levels next year!
https://t.co/HhWv73UNSt
🗞️Have you seen CoMA's latest newsletter?
Read it to hear about:
🎵Our MidWinter Composers Course and Summer School 2025
🎺How to join the new CoMA W Mids group
🎶Another gem from our 900+ scores
📻CoMA on the radio
And more!
👀Read it here: https://t.co/gPtCZ109hv
ppl in westmidlands, wake up, new @CoMA_NewMusic ensemble just dropped, having rehearsals monthly in birmingham, dm for more info, open to everyone and anyone who wants to play some music and explore contemporary/experimental/improvised music
The team at @Orchestras4All are hiring a Programme Coordinator!
Help them deliver OFA’s inclusive music-making programmes, empowering the next generation of young musicians in the UK!
Deadline: 5 November 2024
Learn more and apply 👉 https://t.co/23L1MlA81j
Join us in @YorkStJohn’s Creative Centre this Sunday at 4pm for a final concert by the participants of Create: Explore : CoMA in Yorkshire – including one piece where you, the audience, decide what happens.
📍 Starts 4pm, tickets £7
📍 Find out more: https://t.co/AHVkGGEUsn
🎉Congratulations on the @IvorsAcademy nomination to @HannahKendall_, whose Tuxedo: Dust Bowl #3 had its premiere at our CoMA 30th anniversary celebration.
You can watch the performance here: https://t.co/nJcdJq1sRd
Get the Migration Sounds album!
This 15-track release is a fantastic introduction to the beauty and diversity of the compositions across the project, and is available as a free/pay-what-you-like download, so please listen and enjoy! 🎧💕
https://t.co/MNsaaiBVXb