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Welcome After what seems to have been an interminable wait, summer is finally upon us. Although with some of the recent flash flooding, it does feel more like monsoon weather rather than being suitable for outdoor festivals and barbecues. With the academic term almost behind us and the Proms about to begin, many of you will be performing in and enjoying the summer music festival scene.
Above: Deborah Annetts Photo: Mark Thompson
Festivals have now grown to be an extraordinarily important part of the music lexicon. The Proms, of course, has been going since 1895: Glastonbury, likewise, is an institution. However, over the course of the summer there will be countless music festivals covering absolutely everything from Latitude in Suffolk which presents a smorgasbord of ballet, opera, theatre, poetry and bands, through to Cambridge Folk Festival which has been going for 52 years, and WOMAD the UK’s premier world music gathering at Malmesbury. And then there are some more classically focused music festivals like the London English Song Festival which features the poetry and songs of Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth and Frederick Kelly commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the battle of the Somme. Deal Festival of Music and the Arts brings together music, drama, visual art and dance to a coastal area of great beauty and Presteigne Festival brings together composers and artists in the glorious setting of the Welsh Marches. There is so much going on it is almost impossible to choose which festival to go to.
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News from our members News from our corporate members Local events listings Classified advertising Ask me a question
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But is this all about to change? On page 2 we highlight a new report entitled Facing the Music: The Hidden Cost of Festivals which uncovers the true cost of delivering a world-class festival.
Front Cover Laurretta Summerscales as Medora and Jinhao Zhang as Lankendem in Le Corsaire See feature on pages 18-20 Photo: Laurent Liotardo Inset images: Left: Fry-Up, HMP Send. Worshipful Company of Weavers Bronze Award for Needlecraft
This edition of Music Journal itself feels a bit like a festival! We discover the crucial work of the Koestler Trust and the Irene Taylor Trust, who talk us through the ways in which creativity helps with those who are detained; and we go beneath the stage and meet our member Gavin Sutherland, the esteemed Music Director of the world-renowned English National Ballet. We also have a summary of Members’ Day, which exceeded all expectations and was a fabulous event. Find out more on pages 8-9. So whatever you are doing over the next couple of months, enjoy. If you would like to share your event with us, please post details and photos at facebook.com/myismis. Have a great summer.
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News & campaigns BBC Radio 3 listening figures reach three-year high The most recent figures from the beginning of 2016 have shown an increase in audience figures for BBC Radio 3.
Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs, ISM
Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) figures show that BBC Radio 3’s audience has grown to its highest figure in three years. The classical radio station reached an audience of 2.12 million, up from 2.05 million last quarter. Meanwhile, Classic FM has a total of 5.1 million listeners.
European Union Youth Orchestra funding cut In May of this year the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) announced its closure following funding cuts from the European Commission. There was an immediate outcry from leading musicians and music organisations, including Conservatoires, conductors and the ISM, in support of the orchestra as it fought a campaign to secure ongoing funding. The good news is that by 1 June 2016, the European Commission claimed that it had found funding for the orchestra. The EUYO is ‘now in discussion with the EU about a new funding offer from the European Commission, and as soon as that discussion is concluded we will be announcing the result.’ More information about the campaign can be found at euyo.eu/about/saveeuyo or on social media using #saveEUYO.
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International Showcase Fund impact measured PRS for Music Foundation’s International Showcase Fund (ISF) has boosted artist income and industry revenue by millions over the past three years, according to a new report. The Impact Report, which covers the period of 20132016, shows that every £1 invested by the ISF has generated an additional £8.90 for its beneficiaries, nearly a nine-fold return on investment. The Fund responds to the challenge for artists of travelling to, and performing at, overseas industry showcase events including SXSW in Austin, A3C in Atlanta, JazzAhead in Germany and CMJ New York. It has supported the careers of Slaves, Kate Tempest, Everything Everything, Jake Isaac and Wolf Alice among others.
The real cost of festivals A new report titled Facing the Music: The Hidden Cost of Festivals by delivery group ParcelHero reveals that the music festival industry, worth an estimated £2.3bn, may be under threat from rising infrastructure, security and logistical costs, as well as weather-related cancellations. The significant rise in costs mean as many as 100 out of a total 1000 festivals on the UK circuit this year might not return in 2017. A reported one quarter of ticket prices are typically taken up by VAT and royalty fees to songwriters. The logistical costs are for water, electricity, waste management and security to police the event. After all of this, the festival still needs to cover the costs of the actual live acts, with bands requesting anything between £25,000 to £1m for performance fees. In context, the UK’s biggest festival Glastonbury has a turnover of £37m but after all costs are taken into consideration, it only sees profits of over £86,000 – less than 50p a ticket. To read the report in full, visit parcelhero.com/blog/ press-releases/real-cost-delivering-festivals.
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Our partnership with the Royal College of Organists If you are both a member of the ISM and the Royal College of Organists (RCO), take advantage of our new partnership designed to increase the breadth and availability of support for organists and choral directors. The partnership sees the ISM and RCO working together to build and deliver a wide range of services, information and development opportunities for organists and choral directors. Members of either organisation are able to join the other at a 25% discount. The RCO supports and represents organists and choral directors of every age and all levels of attainment.
Coalition of artists, musicians and creative businesses call for EBacc rethink More than 90 creative organisations, businesses and artists have signed a letter, published in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday 19 May, calling on the Government to rethink its planned English Baccalaureate (EBacc). The letter can be read online at http://bit.ly/1ToYenn. As proposed the EBacc will require pupils to study a minimum of seven, and up to nine, GCSEs. The list of subjects includes no creative, artistic or technical subjects and music is left out. The letter was organised by the Bacc for the Future campaign, which is run by the ISM. The petition on the Parliament Petitions website secured the necessary 100,000 signatures to secure a debate about arts within the EBacc which will take place on Monday 4 July. Please keep writing to your local MP and local newspapers to raise the profile of this important issue. You can find template letters at BaccfortheFuture.com and ism.org.
Stricter enforcement on ticket touting The Government has published (26 May 2016) Professor Michael Waterson’s independent review of consumer protection measures for the reselling of tickets. The review looked at the online resale of tickets for events in the UK ‘including music, sporting and cultural events.’ Responding, artists’ managers said: ‘Professor Waterson exposes a dysfunctional and under-regulated ticketing market. His review calls on Government to enforce the law, and for secondary ticketing sites to apply the law and show responsibility. Fans must have clarity and fairness.’
For more information about this exciting new partnership including how to join either organisation, visit ism.org/join/rco, contact the ISM membership team on membership@ism.org or 020 7221 3499 or visit the RCO website: rco.org.uk
BBC White Paper published Funding protected, but some changes inevitable The BBC White Paper kept funding largely static which was a good result, with no attempts to reduce the investment in the arts, and music and creative industries as a whole. The Government does however intend to appoint directly six of the 14 members of the board of the BBC, and pre-existing funding pressures remain in place. Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC and an honorary member of the ISM, said: ‘This White Paper delivers a mandate for the strong, creative BBC the public believe in. A BBC that will be good for the creative industries – and most importantly of all, for Britain.’
ISM launches new reward scheme for schools with GCSE music at their heart The ISM has, for the first time, been able to officially recognise schools with a high proportion of pupils being entered to study GCSE music and attaining high grades. Using publicly available data from the Department for Education (DfE), a certificate was sent from the ISM and sister charity the ISM Trust to schools where the proportion of pupils achieving an A*-C grade in music was more than 10%, 15%, or 20% (bronze/silver/gold) of the whole school GCSE cohort. This recognition will help teachers protect their music department in the future and we hope to continue the scheme year-on-year. However, this research has also highlighted differences in access to GCSE music. Of the 87 schools where more than 20% pupils achieved an A*-C in GCSE music, 50 are independent schools and a further 18 are selective. The full list of schools achieving more than 20% will be published at ism.org. Continued overleaf È
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ë However, 40% of respondents were not members of PRS for Music! We strongly recommend – unless you are a member of another collecting society for composers – that you join PRS to receive the royalties you deserve. The next Composers’ Round Table (see below) will discuss the results in full, with more news to follow in a future edition of Music Journal. The next Composers’ Round Table will take place on Tuesday 12 July to discuss the findings of the Composers’ Survey; the PRS for Music Classical Account Manager will also attend. If you would like to attend, you can email Derin Adebiyi, our Public Affairs Officer, at derin.adebiyi@ism.org or phone him on 020 7313 9319.
Composers’ Survey: The results are in! We conducted a Composers’ Survey in March/April 2016, receiving 140 responses from professional contemporary composers. The survey focused on the BBC commissioning process (and where the BBC should look for new music), PRS for Music and what support composers could be looking for across the industry. The headline findings were as follows: ë 89% of composers did not know how the BBC commissioning process worked, and this included people who had been commissioned by the BBC. We will be aiming to help the BBC make its processes more transparent. ë A large range of suggestions were made as to where the BBC could look for new commissioning opportunities including the John Armitage Memorial concerts, and a request for an open call of submissions of new music. ë 74% of respondents were happier with the direction of travel of the PRS for Music website which they said was easier to use, and a much higher proportion of composers (36%) than in our last survey (12%) felt that the royalties they were paid by PRS for Music were correct.
New magazine for contemporary music launched through a crowd-funder Composers’ Edition, responding to calls from composers to help build the networks between composers and performers is launching a magazine, called Sounds Like Now to promote contemporary classical music. The organisation is running a crowdfunded campaign to get the magazine off the ground, after which it will be able to sustain itself. If you’d like to help ensure that contemporary classical music gets the professional and celebratory outlet it deserves (and get your name in the premiere edition!) then please support them by donating to crowdfunder.co.uk/sounds-like-now. Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs, ISM 020 7313 9327, henry.vann@ism.org
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Membership services Business development advisory service Being a musician these days can often be about much more than the music. Running a business, promoting it and finding ways to develop are all part of the modern musician’s portfolio, but making the most of your opportunities can be a challenge. Whether you are just setting up, or seeking to develop, the ISM can help you keep things on track or help you take it to the next level with our business development advisory service. Over the past year, many ISM members have taken advantage of our service to seek advice on any aspect of business development, from promotion, building networks and social media through to marketing, record labels, publishing and touring.
Our most recent webinar (available at ism.org/ webinars) Engage to succeed: essential social media and content marketing skills for musicians saw Joel explore how to use social media to engage potential customers, content marketing to increase awareness of you and your services and how to use high-quality media and websites to promote what you do. If you want to maximise your business potential, you can find out more or book a session by contacting Joel at info@joelgarthwaite.com or 07971 256262.
New legal and motoring benefits for ISM members Discounted personal legal services We are partnering with Morrish Solicitors to offer our members a range of low-cost personal legal services, including: ë a fixed fee of £100 plus VAT for writing your will, or £150 plus VAT for a pair of mirror wills ë 10% off Morrish’s usual fees on probate, estate administration and tax planning ë a 10% discount on conveyancing charges and ë 10% off their fees for matrimonial and family law services. To take advantage of this new benefit, members can contact Morrish on 033 3344 9600 or email them at info@morrishsolicitors.com. New accident after-care protection
Above: Joel Garthwaite, the ISM’s business development advisor Photo: Emile Holba
All ISM full members (including students) are entitled to an hour of consultancy advice with our business development adviser, Joel Garthwaite. You can choose how to get the advice you need: Joel can reach you by telephone, email or Skype. A professional musician himself, Joel is an arts consultant and business director, with many years’ experience of running his own businesses, in a career which includes work in education, publishing, performance, recording and marketing.
In addition, ISM members can now obtain additional free benefits under our new accident after-care scheme provided by Assist Protect. This gives you prompt free recovery and repair of your car if you are involved in a road accident which is not your fault and could save you money by protecting your no claims bonus on your motor insurance. By registering you will get all these free benefits if you are involved in a road accident which is not your fault: ë Assist Protect will arrange for the recovery of your damaged vehicle wherever it is in the UK.
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ISM Discounts+ … giving you access to discounts including Sainsbury’s, M&S, Apple and Virgin This September we will be launching a brand new service within our discount area which will give you access to hundreds of discounts and offers at high street stores and supermarkets, travel, music & technology, eating out and more. If you would like to find out more about this, please contact us at membership@ism.org with the title ‘ISM Discount+’
ë They will have it taken to an approved repair centre Even if the accident is your fault Assist Protect will and ensure the vehicle is repaired without your recover your vehicle to a repair centre as long as there having to make a claim on your motor insurance. is someone from whom they can be reimbursed the ë This saves you money because you do not have to cost of this, such as your motor insurance company. pay the amount of any excess on your insurance policy or make a claim on this policy, meaning that your no claims bonus is protected. ë Assist Protect will provide you with a like-for-like replacement car while your own vehicle is being repaired and deliver it to your home. ë Assist Protect will arrange for private healthcare if you or anyone in your family are injured in the accident and there is an identifiable, at-fault, insured third party.
You have to register for the scheme before you can make any claim. To register, go to ism.totalmotorassist.co.uk/JoinFree.cfm and use discount code ism29. Assist Protect will then text their 24/7 helpline number to your mobile phone and send you details of the scheme to keep in your glovebox. Caroline Aldred, Business Support Officer, ISM
ë The scheme covers all your family cars and all members of your family as well as other passengers in your car when the accident occurs. ë Assist Protect will handle all the paperwork for you. ë Their specialist lawyers will provide full legal support if the accident is the fault of an identifiable, insured third party and if the amount of any damages to you is likely to exceed £1,000.
ISM/MMA JOINT MEMBERSHIP Join the two leading independent bodies in music education via our joint membership scheme, offering superb value. Music teachers holding an ISM/MMA membership will have access to the complete range of services a music teaching professional needs today, along with connections across the music education sector in the UK. Joint membership is just £193 for ISM/MMA full membership, or £188 for ISM/MMA instrumental membership – both levels represent a saving of 15% on the normal subscriptions. For more information, including how to sign up, visit ism.org/join/ism_mma, contact the ISM membership team on membership@ism.org or 020 7221 3499 or visit the MMA website: mma-online.org.uk
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Professional development Virtuoso Teacher One day seminar in Scotland with Paul Harris Saturday 29 October 10.15am-4.15pm at The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX Above: Paul Harris
Following the huge success of his previous ISM seminars and recent ISM webinar, we are pleased to present this inspirational training event from Paul Harris in association with the department of Music at the University of Aberdeen. This is an opportunity for those working in music education including private and peripatetic teachers, to explore a range of innovative music teaching techniques that will embrace imagination, diligence and practicality.
ë Put on a musical, build a community! – Ruth Kenward ë Music at the heart of the KS1 & 2 – Sue Nicholls ë Tuneful Technology: Internet and iPads in Primary Music – Jo Vaizey The day is arranged so that all delegates will be able to participate in all sessions. Places cost £55 for ISM or ISM-SMA members and £75 for non-members including refreshments and lunch. For further details and to download a booking form, go to ism.org/seminars. Alternatively, call Carole Lindsay-Douglas on 01767 260815 or email carole@lindsaymusic.co.uk.
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During this training event you will learn how to: ë engage and inspire your students ë apply techniques that encourage and motivate students ë create a memorable and moving learning experience for your students
ISM webinars offer members the chance to access key professional development opportunities at work, home or on the move. Our next webinar is: An introduction to Grants for the Arts
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Are you looking for funding for your music project but not sure where to start? Arts Council England’s Senior Relationship Manager, Ben Lane, will present a webinar about ACE’s Grants for the Arts scheme. Ben will provide essential advice and talk you through the process of applying for funding including how best to address the questions in the application form and how to design suitable projects for funding.
Places cost £50 members, £65 non-members including refreshments and lunch. To book your place, visit http://virtuoso-teacher.eventbrite.co.uk.
Music at the heart of school life One day practical music CPD for teachers at KS1 & 2 led by the Schools Music Association (part of the ISM) Friday 21 October 9.30am-4pm at The Broadway Hotel, Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 3NZ This one-day practical course for teachers at KS1 & 2, is divided into four sessions: ë Bringing many cultures to life in your music lessons at KS1 & 2 – Andy Gleadhill
Grants for the Arts offers awards from £1,000 to £100,000 to support a wide variety of arts-related activities including music, visual arts, dance, theatre and combined arts. Project funding is available for activities carried out over a set period, and which engage people in England in arts activities and help artists and arts organisations in England carry out their work. Register for this free webinar at http://bit.ly/GrantsForTheArts
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Members’ Day With thanks to our former President Professor Gavin Henderson, our annual ISM Members’ Day took place in the vibrant setting of the Embassy Theatre at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD) in Swiss Cottage, London, on 14 April 2016. This year, we saw more than 160 people attend, travelling from the length and breadth of the country. Swiftly following Professor Henderson’s welcome to RCSSD, our President 2015-16 Jeremy Jackman welcomed members and thanked them for taking the time to attend the day. He gave a rousing and amusing overview of the day ahead, with jokes aplenty preceding his introduction to the hugely-anticipated in-conversation session with the acclaimed Americanborn film composer and conductor Carl Davis. Carl proved extremely entertaining, humorous and fascinating to listen to. He took us on a journey from the very start of his life – his upbringing in New York, his ‘promiscuous schooling’ – referring to his chopping and changing of various courses at many universities – his ‘much-needed’ settling in London in 1961, the development and progression of the process of film composition and how he became the illustrious composer we now know.
‘ What a superb start with Carl Davis – a truly inspirational musician… and the afternoon session with Dame Emma Kirkby showed off the talents of stars of the future. A day well spent.’
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After the first session drew to a close, the AGM took place where members heard about the ISM’s activities over the course of the financial year (see pages 10-12 for details).
‘ It was lovely to catch up and network with colleagues – some from a long way back.’
After a bustling lunchtime break where members could catch up on the day so far, we were ready for the long-awaited masterclass with celebrated soprano Dame Emma Kirkby. She was accompanied by four supremely talented young musicians: sopranos Lottie Bowden and Roberta Diamond, tenor Joel Williams and lutenist Toby Carr. Each singer, in rotation, performed two pieces for Dame Emma and was accompanied on lute or theorbo by Toby Carr. Each singer performed their piece all the way through at the beginning of their slot in order for Dame Emma to learn their strengths and weaknesses. She then took each performer through their piece, providing critique and positive feedback before the singer performed their piece again. The most magical aspect of Dame Emma’s masterclass was that everyone in the audience, singer or otherwise, thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and was able to leave armed with knowledge for their own performances.
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‘ The ‘conversation’ and master class sessions were a delight and served to remind us that working musicians, composers and performers have special gifts to share.’ After the masterclass, Dame Emma was presented with the Distinguished Musician Award 2015 by Jeremy Jackman, his last duty before handing over the Presidential medal to Nicolas Chisholm MBE.
On receiving the award, Dame Emma said: ‘I am delighted to receive a Distinguished Musician Award from the Incorporated Society of Musicians; and greatly honoured to be among such prominent musicians as have been presented with this award.
Above: Dame Emma Kirkby with the masterclass performers. Right: Dame Emma Kirkby receives the Distinguished Musician Award 2015
Dame Emma was presented with the award, in recognition of her illustrious career as one of Britain’s most celebrated sopranos, one of the world’s most renowned early music specialists and her services to musicianship.
Bottom left: Carl Davis
‘I salute also the campaign, by ISM and others, to defend a proper study of music in our schools from the threat posed by the proposed EBacc curriculum. For many children GCSE and A-level music courses have been a vital foil to the demands made on them by less creative subjects, however important those are deemed to be; and many studies have shown that young people who work on music and art show improved progress in other areas of the curriculum. It will be a great shame to see a return to times when only those with private means could secure this precious educational resource for their children.’ To see video footage of Carl Davis in conversation with Gavin Henderson, and Dame Emma Kirkby’s masterclass, visit ism.org/features/members-day-2016.
Photos: Kris Brown
Have you seen the new ISM website? We have re-designed our website to make it even easier for you to find the information you need. Have a look around and let us know what you think: ism.org. Our new Advice Centre holds hundreds of resources for ISM members including articles, videos, advice packs, and template documents including contracts and d invoices: ism.org/advice-centre. Visit the Members’ Area, ‘My ISM’, to access exclusive members-only content including discounts, details of our new membership benefits, your insurance documentation, e-publications, resources, useful contact numbers and more. You can also update your Handbook and Music Directory listings from here as well as renew your membership, set up direct debits and edit your contact details. When you log in to ‘My ISM’ you will be asked for your username and password. Your username is the h emaill address dd you registered with us. If you do not know your password, you can reset it by clicking the ‘forgotten password?’ link at the bottom of the ‘My ISM’ login page: ism.org/my-ism.
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Annual General Meeting The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, 12 noon, Thursday 14 April 2016 In the Chair: Jeremy Jackman, President 2015-16 The signatures of the full members present were recorded in the AGM file. The President welcomed all members to the AGM and introduced the PresidentElect, Nicolas Chisholm MBE, Amy Healey, Accountant (Lindeyer Francis Ferguson). The Chief Executive, Deborah Annetts was in attendance, as were Stephanie Collier, Henry Vann, Francesca Treadaway and Derin Adebiyi. Apologies for absence had been received from Hilary Bracefield, Peter Dunkley, Beryl Foster, Linda Hardwick, Anne Hodgson, Richard Hallam, Barry Ife, Lis Lewis, Emma Lines, Jean Phillips, Jane Rowan, Karen Vaughan and Jeremy Huw Williams. Members stood while the Chief Executive read out the names of colleagues who had died during the past year.
Minutes of the last meeting The minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, held at the Royal Overseas League on Thursday 23 April 2015 and printed in the July/August 2015 issue of Music Journal, were approved (proposed Elizabeth Partridge, seconded Sue Sturrock) with one abstention. The minutes were signed by the President.
ISM Annual Report, 2014-15 First the Chief Executive informed the room of breaking news that on the morning of 14 April 2016, the Parliamentary EBacc petition had reached 100,000 signatures which meant that a debate in Parliament will now take place on the EBacc. The Chief Executive thanked everyone who had signed the petition. The Chief Executive then introduced the Annual Report of the ISM for the year ended 31 August 2015 which was included in the March/April 2016 issue of Music Journal. A high-profile, large scale event entitled Make Music Work was devised following a decision by Council to hold a large-scale conference. Make Music Work featured many key speakers from the industry, and focused on helping aspirational performers and
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composers build their knowledge around key business developments such as marketing, networking, negotiation techniques and copyright. The then President, Professor Barry Ife CBE, very kindly made Milton Court at the Barbican available free of charge to the ISM for Make Music Work which was held on 31 March 2015. Over 25 partners worked alongside the ISM on the event and over 300 delegates and participants attended. Outside Make Music Work, partnerships continued to play an important role at the ISM. The ISM was delighted to be invited to join the BBC Ten Pieces Secondary project as a stakeholder and the promotion of this important work will continue into 2016. The prestigious ISM Distinguished Musician Award for 2014 was presented to Dame Felicity Lott by the President Professor Barry Ife CBE on 30 January 2015 at Milton Court following a masterclass. Dame Felicity was awarded the Incorporated Society of Musician’s Distinguished Musician Award for her illustrious career that spans a wealth of musical achievements as a performer with many of the world’s leading opera companies at some of the most iconic venues. The ISM continued to expand its professional development programme for members in the financial year 2014-15 with a total of 4 seminars and 12 webinars. A total of 707 musicians engaged with the ISM’s professional development programme during the 2014-15 year, of which 488 were members and 219 were non-members. In order to support and develop the professional development work of the ISM the Directors of the ISM set up a new charity called the ISM Trust. The objects of the ISM Trust are to: ë advance education; ë advance health; and ë promote the arts particularly music. The ISM Trust has already started to deliver professional development and 140 people have engaged with these programmes in the year in question. A total of 43 Local Group events were held by the Society’s 24 active Local Groups during the 201415 financial year. Events included networking, professional development events and pupils concerts.
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‘ Make Music Work focused on helping aspirational performers and composers build their knowledge around key business developments such as marketing, networking, negotiation techniques and copyright’
The ISM continued to strengthen its services to members. Legal services were delivered via the in-house legal team, the legal helpline run by Law Express and legal expenses insurance which is a benefit for all ISM members. The Public Affairs team held more than 133 meetings with external organisations and key stakeholders in 2014-15. Fourteen consultation submissions were submitted to key stakeholders (an increase of more than 50% on 2013-14) covering a wide range of topics. In particular the ISM secured changes to GCSE music to include a wider range of music. This campaign was subsequently shortlisted as a finalist for the 2015 Public Affairs Awards. The profile of the ISM was raised through a range of media outlets. The ISM also supported the Association of British Orchestras’ (ABO) efforts to secure an orchestral tax relief for UK orchestras (following on from the theatre tax relief) and successfully campaigned to ensure it covered a wide range of ensembles and not just a larger orchestra.
It is with great sadness that the ISM noted the passing of Virginia Rushton during the course of the year having served the Society with such distinction for many years in a variety of positions. The Chief Executive thanked Council, the staff team and the many members of the ISM who give their time voluntarily to the ISM. Without their substantial efforts, the ISM would not be as successful as it is today. She also thanked Jeremy Jackman for his work as President for the past year.
Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2015: Auditors’ Report The CEO presented the accounts on behalf of the ISM’s Treasurer, Peter Dunkley, in his absence. The Treasurer was in Australia and New Zealand for a long-planned holiday to celebrate 40 years of marriage.
From the ISM accounts audited by Lindeyer Francis Ferguson Limited, the figures clearly show that the Under the transitional rules pursuant to the new Articles, Society’s overall finances are in a very healthy state. For the financial year 2014-15 the ISM achieved a surplus three Elected Council members, namely Graham Phillips, Jeremy Huw Williams and Walter Blair and two of £167,001 at year end. This was slightly lower than Appointed Council members, namely Virginia Rushton the surplus from the previous year. The total income and Tim Daniell (who had been co-opted) stood down reduced from £1,678,543 to £1,613,633, largely as a result of a reduction in cable income and investment at the AGM in 2015. Professor David Smith, Virginia income. Cable fell from £331,578 to £283,866. Rushton and Meinir Heulyn were elected unopposed However income from membership subscriptions as Council members for Scotland & Northern Ireland, increased from £872,291 to £898,109. the North and Wales. A number of ISM members applied to be considered as Appointed Council ISM membership increased without watering down Members and after careful consideration, Tim Daniell any of the Society’s criteria for joining the ISM. and Sue Sturrock were both appointed by Council to By 31 August 2015 membership had risen to over this role. Council also appointed Nicolas Chisholm MBE 7,000 individuals. Retention levels continued to be to become President-Elect for 2015-16. Council would strong at 92% overall. Prudent management resulted like to thank the tremendous contributions made in a fall in total expenditure from £1,420,377 (2014) by Council members who retired during the course to £1,395,917, a reduction of nearly 2%. There was of the financial year namely Graham Phillips, an increase in the costs of Membership Services and Jeremy Huw Williams and Walter Blair. Having served this was reflected in a significant increase in the cost the ISM for six years as Treasurer, Trevor Ford retired of legal services to members – very nearly £40,000. from the Board in April 2015. The ISM is greatly The purchase of our offices in Bayswater has proved a indebted to the tremendous guidance and support tremendous asset in both logistical and financial terms. Mr Ford has given the ISM over so many years. Following the presentation of the accounts there Peter Dunkley who has a strong management were a few questions regarding legal fees and background and holds an MBA as well as being cable income. These were answered by Amy Healey, a performer and conductor took on the role of the ISM’s Auditor from Lindeyer Francis Ferguson. Treasurer at the AGM in 2015. Continued overleaf È
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Thanks were extended to the Treasurer, the Auditors and the ISM for the preparation of the accounts which were approved (proposed Gavin Henderson, seconded Beverley Downes) with no abstentions.
Annual Report of the ISM Members Fund 2014-15 This item was for information since the Trustee of the ISM Members Fund is responsible for approving and adopting the Members Fund Annual Report and Accounts which were printed in the March/April 2016 issue of Music Journal. The Fund’s objective continued to be for the public benefit of the relief and prevention of poverty amongst ISM members and their dependants. The Fund spent £87,691 on grants. In total, 59 individuals received assistance (67 in 2013-14) and included 19 new beneficiaries. Through the year, the Head of Members Fund Operations liaised with the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Royal Society of Musicians over shared help for joint beneficiaries. During 2014-15, the value of the Fund’s investments rose by 4% to £3.5 million. Thanks were given for a bequest to the Fund from the estate of the late Joan Carter. The Fund received £42,495 from this estate during the year (2014: £50,000). During the year, the Fund was notified of a bequest from the estate of the late Colin Thomson. The Trustee thanked all those who help further the work of the Fund particularly the Grant Making Committee, Gregor Logan, the Fund’s Honorary Investment Adviser, all members of the Society and others whose donations have made it possible to support members in need and to Caroline Aldred the Head of Operations of the Fund, for her hard work and commitment.
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Trevor Ford, Stephen Goss and Jeremy Huw Williams were interviewed and have been appointed to serve the Board as Appointed Council Members. Susan Sturrock has been appointed by Council as President-Elect and will become President in 2017.
Next Annual General Meeting The next Annual General Meeting will provisionally take place on 12 April 2017 in London.
Open Forum The Annual General Meeting was followed by an Open Forum. There were a variety of questions from members. The questions were mainly in connection with external matters and covered such topics as PPL and PRS, the next stages in the EBacc campaign, academies, recent partnership with RCO, safeguarding, location of the AGM, visas for students, career advice for aspiring composers and teacher training. The President gave a few closing remarks and explained that the handing over of the Presidential Medal to Nicolas Chisholm MBE would take place at the end of the day, following a masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby. The meeting closed at 13.15.
Members of the ISM Council for 2016-17 Nicolas Chisholm (President) Susan Sturrock (President-Elect) Jeremy Jackman (Past President) Peter Dunkley (Treasurer)
Elected Council members Marius Carboni Jay Deeble
The meeting unanimously agreed to appoint Lindeyer Francis Ferguson Limited, Chartered Accountants, as auditors for the ISM and the ISM Members Fund and to authorise Council to fix their remuneration (proposed George Pratt, seconded Trevor Ford) with no abstentions.
Beverley Downes
Retirement of Council members
Appointed Council members
It was noted that Geoffrey Poole and Beverley Downes (Elected Council members) and George Pratt and Ivor Flint (Appointed Council members) were retiring. The Chief Executive gave special thanks to George Pratt who has been a member for almost 50 years and was President from 1997-1998. Following the advert in Music Journal in January/February three members came forward in respect of the Midlands, the East and the South; namely Geoffrey Poole, Beverley Downes and Marius Carboni who were elected unopposed.
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Meinir Heulyn Elizabeth Partridge Geoffrey Poole David Smith
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The future’s bright We all know the importance of creativity in our own lives. But how can the power of music, art, dance and drama transform the lives of those who are in prison? The ISM’s Francesca Treadaway speaks to Sally Taylor, Chief Executive of the Koestler Trust and Sara Lee, Artistic Director of the Irene Taylor Trust to ďŹ nd out how their work changes lives for the better.
‘We get letters from people saying how creating their art for the Koestler Trust has made such a big impression. We had a letter from somebody inside – a long term prisoner – telling us what an impact we have made. He ended with, “when you’re having a bad day, remember this letter.â€? And you think, this guy is inside and he is telling ME to remember this letter when I am having a bad day!’ The situation in prisons in this country has never EHHQ ZRUVH RYHUFURZGHG ZLWK UHRÍżHQGHUV drug abuse and other crises plaguing the system. Several organisations facilitate opportunities for those detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure and otherwise. I have spoken to two organisations in particular, the Koestler Trust and the Irene Taylor Trust, who are best known for their Music in Prisons SURJUDPPH WR Ă€QG RXW PRUH DERXW WKH HÍżHFW RI their work. ‘Some people do wonder why we are doing this “for the dregs of society’’’, Sally Taylor, Chief Executive of the Koestler Trust explains. ‘When Michael Gove got the title of Secretary of State for Justice, people were wondering what would happen as his predecessor was completely unsupportive and banned books from going into prisons. But Gove understood very quickly that if VWD΀QJ LQ SULVRQV GHFUHDVHG ² RYHU WKH SDVW few years yet the prison population hasn’t gone GRZQ ² KRZ GR \RX JHW SHRSOH WR VWRS UHRÍżHQGLQJ" :H IHHO WKDW WKH EHVW ZD\ WR JHW WKH UHRÍżHQGLQJ UDWH down is to educate them while they are inside.’ Left: Sunderland Northgate Hospital (Secure Mental Health Unit) G. & J. Charitable Trust First-Time Entrant Award for Watercolour and Gouache
Sally, a year into her appointment as Chief Executive, now heads up the dream of extraordinary thinker, philosopher and writer Arthur Koestler, who successfully campaigned against the death penalty, DQG IRXQGHG WKH .RHVWOHU 7UXVW LQ +LV LGHD ZDV WR JLYH RÍżHQGHUV VRPHWKLQJ WR RFFXS\ WKHLU
minds – and as far as he was concerned, the way to do so was to be creative. The organisation is the best known prison arts charity and has been awarding, exhibiting and VHOOLQJ DUWZRUNV E\ RÍżHQGHUV GHWDLQHHV DQG VHFXUH patients for 50 years. They receive thousands RI HQWULHV IRU FDWHJRULHV RI )LQH $UW &UDIW DQG 'HVLJQ 3HUIRUPDQFH DQG $XGLR )LOP DQG Animation and Writing. Every participant receives D SDUWLFLSDWLRQ FHUWLĂ€FDWH ZKLFK WKH\ FDQ WDNH WR WKH parole board as part of their rehabilitation progress, and there are platinum, gold and bronze awards with small cash prizes for the best entries in each category. After 11 years teaching music at Wormwood Scrubs, Sara Lee, Artistic Director at the Irene Taylor Trust, was awarded a Butler Trust Award (‘awarded to anyone in the prison service for “ordinary work extraordinarily well done’’’, she tells me) by the prison, with Irene Taylor on the panel. After Irene’s passing, her family approached Sara to set up the Trust in her memory and to continue bringing music to those in prison. This year is the Trust’s VW DQQLYHUVDU\ Both have had several reports detailing the positive impact of their work. A report into the Koestler Trust’s mentoring programme – for those who want to pursue their art on release and are matched up with D SUDFWLVLQJ DUWLVW DV D PHQWRU ² LQ 'U /HRQLGDV &KHOLRWLV /RQGRQ 6FKRRO RI (FRQRPLFV IRXQG WKDW WKHUH ZHUH ORQJ WHUP SRVLWLYH HÍżHFWV RQ WKH PHQWRUHG RÍżHQGHUV HVSHFLDOO\ ÂśSUR VRFLDO DWWLWXGHV¡ WKDW UHGXFH WKH OLNHOLKRRG RI UHRÍżHQGLQJ Unemployment among the sample group fell from WR DQG RQO\ ZHUH NQRZQ WR KDYH UHRÍżHQGHG RU EHHQ UHFDOOHG WR SULVRQ GXULQJ RU since their arts mentoring. Continued overleaf Ăˆ
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Above: Fishy Journey HMP Dovegate There Will Be Sunny Days Ahead Bronze Award for Theme: Journey Above right: Birds Arbury Court (Secure Mental Health Unit) Partnerships in Care Women in Secure Hospitals Platinum Award for Painting
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But it is not a linear relationship, Sally tells me. ‘It isn’t a case of an inmate entering the Koestler Trust and then never robbing a bank again. But there is a much more nuanced way of looking at it, which is if people start to do art, they start doing it in their cells or they go into the education wings. It tends to be a way of getting people into the education part of the prison or to become involved in positive teamwork and socialisation.’
SULVRQHUV VDLG WKDW WKHLU FRQĂ€GHQFH KDG improved over a projectâ€? and so on. We also get extraordinary letters from participants, sometimes years after taking part, telling us how important a project was to them. One recently described it as “a cup of hopeâ€?.’
Sally showed me around the Koestler Trust’s HQ, located on the outskirts of Wormwood Scrubs (‘The Scrubs’ as it is better known) which features URRP DIWHU URRP Ă€W WR EXUVW ZLWK WKH PRVW YLEUDQW ‘We want to help people through their sentences DQG KHOS SHRSOH WKLQN GLÍżHUHQWO\ DERXW ZKHUH WKH\ interesting, occasionally disturbing and downright are going to in the future; how they can contribute, humbling creations of the inmates from prisons, mental hospitals and immigration services up and and what talent they have. We get lots of letters down the UK. The deadline for submissions for saying “I never thought I was talented – nobody the upcoming Koestler Trust Awards exhibition thought I was any good, and the fact I have won had just passed and the team at the Trust have been an award is a really big dealâ€?.’ .H\ Ă€QGLQJV LQ WKH ,UHQH 7D\ORU 7UXVW¡V HYDOXDWLRQ tasked with checking, labelling and recording every by the University of Cambridge (Beats and Bars: Music single piece of art, poetry, compositions and a wealth of other creative materials – thousands of them. in Prisons, An Evaluation A Cox and L Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, 7KH SLHFH WKDW WDNHV P\ EUHDWK DZD\ LV D IW FORFN LQFOXGHG D UHGXFWLRQ LQ SULVRQ DGMXGLFDWLRQV made entirely out of matchsticks. Resources are evidently limited in prisons but they can both during and after the project and an purchase a small amount from the prison canteen. LQFUHDVH LQ FRQĂ€GHQFH WR SDUWLFLSDWH LQ RWKHU Âś/DVW \HDU ZH KDG QHDUO\ HQWULHV IURP RYHU educational programmes. HVWDEOLVKPHQWV DQG LW LV TXLWH DQ XQGHUWDNLQJ ² ‘We monitor our projects for funders and our I think there is more this year!’ Sally laughs. own learning,’ Sara tells me. ‘We are a charity The Music in Prisons programme sees a team of and we don’t receive any money from the three musicians go into prisons across the country, Government so it’s important that we monitor PHHWLQJ D JURXS RI SDUWLFLSDQWV ZKR ZLOO QRW and evaluate all the work that we do. On a weeknecessarily have played any music before but will ORQJ SURMHFW ZH ZRXOG DVN WKH SDUWLFLSDQWV WR Ă€OO all love music. in questionnaires at the beginning, at the end, Sara tells me that they have a week-long process and a few weeks after the project, to allow us to working with these participants, who are there chart any changes. The project team also keep a on a voluntary basis. The initial take-up when the diary from which we can compile case studies scheme is advertised is large, ‘but there are things of how things have developed over the week. :H JHW SULVRQ VWDÍż IHHGEDFN DQG DXGLHQFH IHHGEDFN that prisoners do on a day to day basis that may mean they can’t come for a whole week – they have ZKHQ ZH FDQ DQG DOO RI WKDW LV FROODWHG )URP WKDW to work, they have visits, education sessions – \RX FDQ FRPH XS ZLWK Ă€JXUHV VD\ ´RYHU
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anything that can impact on turning up every day,’ she explains. At the end of the week, the group unveil the work they have written together as a group. Âś7KH LQĂ XHQFHV ZRXOG KDYH FRPH IURP ZKDW WKH group wants to play and what they want to do,’ Sara describes. ‘We teach the instruments and we write songs with them and we perform to other SULVRQHUV DQG VWDÍż DQG ZH UHFRUG LW ² ZH JLYH the recordings to them as a thank you and make spares for them to send to their families and friends so they can keep positive links going.’ Sally also ensures that families of the participants DUH DOVR LQYROYHG LQ WKHLU ZRUN Âś)DPLO\ LV UHDOO\ LPSRUWDQW IRU RÍżHQGHUV VR ZH KDYH IDPLO\ GD\V around our exhibitions and we pay for families of the artists to come to the show. The artists for the most part cannot come themselves – some of them can come by means of day release or if they are accompanied, but that is a very small number, and some of them may have been released since they did their art.’ Both organisations ensure that there is lasting LPSDFW ZLWK WKHLU ZRUN E\ RÍżHULQJ PHQWRULQJ DQG ongoing support. Music in Prisons, Sara explains, has installed musicians in residence in various prisons across the country. Their brief is to work on D ZHHNO\ EDVLV ZLWK RÍżHQGHUV LQ RUGHU WR NHHS WKH HÍżHFW RI WKH ZHHN ORQJ SURMHFW JRLQJ Âś$W WKH HQG of the week, inmates who have really enjoyed the H[SHULHQFH VD\ ´ZKDW¡V QH[W WKHQ"¡¡¡ 7KH Sounding Out programme provides these additional musical and training opportunities for former prisoners on release in the community.
WKHQ ZH ZLOO ÀQG VRPHRQH ZKR FDQ VXSSRUW WKHP They want to use their art as a way back in to a VRFLHW\ WKDW LV GLͿHUHQW WR WKH RQH WKH\ KDYH OHIW ¡ 7KH .RHVWOHU 7UXVW DOVR KHOSV H[ RͿHQGHUV ZLWK HPSOR\PHQW LQ WKH DUWV DQG JLYHV H[ RͿHQGHUV hosting opportunities at their annual awards H[KLELWLRQ œ)LYH RXW RI WKH VL[ KRVWV ZH KDG WKLV year applied for jobs at the Southbank Centre post-exhibition and they all got one,’ Sally tells me, proudly.
Above:The Music in Prisons programme Photos: Lizzie Coombes
As I saw when I approached Wormwood Scrubs on my way to the Koestler Trust, when inmates OHDYH SULVRQ WKH\ OHDYH ZLWK Â… DQG D FOHDU SODVWLF bag of the belongings in which they went in with. With organisations like the Irene Taylor Trust and the Koestler Trust working tirelessly to break the F\FOH ² Âś RI FKLOGUHQ ZLWK D SDUHQW LQ SULVRQ ZLOO end up in prison themselves’, Sally tells me – inmates have the opportunity to leave armed with the skills DQG FRQĂ€GHQFH WR FUHDWH D PXFK EULJKWHU IXWXUH Francesca Treadaway, Communications Manager, ISM The 2016 Koestler Trust Awards will take place over a period of eight weeks in October. As well as hosting listening posts at the Koestler Trust exhibition (tbc at the time of this going to print), the Irene Taylor Trust will be celebrating their 21st anniversary with a series of events, details of which can be found at irenetaylortrust.com/blog/ celebrating-21-years-of-the-irene-taylor-trust To ďŹ nd out more about the Koestler Trust and how to volunteer to give feedback to the inmates who participate in the awards, visit koestlertrust.org.uk/about-us/jobs-volunteering
Sally tells me that inmates often ask for mentoring on release. ‘If there are particular people we have spotted during their involvement with the Koestler Trust or if they come to us and ask to be mentored
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A meeting with the Maestro: Gavin Sutherland It’s the day job he never really gave up but Gavin Sutherland is the man behind the music at the world-class English National Ballet. The ISM’s Francesca Treadaway met with the esteemed Music Director, conductor, composer and arranger to discover the performance below the stage.
Above: Gavin Sutherland Photo: Arnaud Stephenson
‘I had teachers who became real icons for me over the years – but that has to go hand-in-hand with class teaching. The music education system‌ too many people see it as antiquated. I don’t care what they say, it has to be there!’
England, you went into engineering, shipbuilding, coalmining – not music.’
He began the piano from the age of three, self-taught in a home of non-musicians.
the tuition and encouragement of fellow ballet FRQGXFWRU -RKQ /RQJVWDͿ ZKR KDG MXVW VWDUWHG ZRUNLQJ DW 1RUWKHUQ %DOOHW 7KH\ œKLW LW RͿ¡ DQG Gavin was invited to play piano for a local school before beginning at the company as a pianist only a matter of weeks later.
Because there were no piano teachers in the area where Gavin grew up, he learned the trombone, playing in county wind bands and orchestras I was sitting across the way from Gavin Sutherland, EHIRUH JLYLQJ XS DJHG Music Director at the world-renowned organisation He worked with music groups and music societies English National Ballet and I had just told him through his teens including playing for a ballet the latest developments in the Bacc for the Future school for extra money. Gavin smiles, ‘I thought, campaign. It was safe to say that the subject of the “that’s a skill I now haveâ€?; I might not ever need it Department for Education’s English Baccalaureate again but [playing for the ballet school] has been policy had unleashed a level of outrage. And rightly nice to do.’ so, of course. Gavin’s interest in ballet began developing after On a sunny morning in May, I met with Gavin attending theatrical performances with the local WR Ă€QG RXW ZKDW OLIH ZDV UHDOO\ OLNH IRU D EDOOHW ballet school around Newcastle and Sunderland. conductor. The music, the moves, the magic – how ‘I had considered that light music was going to does the ballet conductor balance the pieces that be my stock-in-trade, whether as an arranger, IRUP WKH ULFK WDSHVWU\ RI D EDOOHW SHUIRUPDQFH" conductor or performer. But seeing these theatrical performances – I was absolutely hooked.’ %XW Ă€UVW , ZDQWHG WR NQRZ DERXW *DYLQ KLPVHOI How did he become one of the most celebrated :KLOH VWXG\LQJ DW +XGGHUVĂ€HOG 8QLYHUVLW\ LQ EDOOHW PXVLF FRQGXFWRUV RI RXU JHQHUDWLRQ" his second year Gavin began conducting under
‘I think my mother had played piano a little in her youth but that was it – I kind of ploughed a lonely furrow but I had brilliant school teachers encouraging me’, he explains. ‘In fact, without the VFKRRO PXVLF V\VWHP WKDW H[LVWHG LQ WKH V DQG V I wouldn’t be sitting here now doing what I do. , SUREDEO\ ZRXOG KDYH JRQH RÍż DQG GRQH VRPHWKLQJ GLÍżHUHQW LQ WKH PXVLF Ă€HOG LI DW DOO I might have ended up doing very little, principally because where I grew up in the North East of
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His journey with English National Ballet began in ZLWK UHJXODU JXHVW FRQGXFWLQJ VSRWV ,Q Gavin was asked to conduct – ‘I was picked from the bottom of a very long list!’ – a performance of the Nutcracker at the Coliseum, a season ENB SHUIRUPV DQQXDOO\ $IWHUZDUGV KH ZDV RÍżHUHG WKH position of Music Director, which he has held until the present day.
that happens sometimes’), with Gavin in attendance IURP ZHHN WZR RU WKUHH Âś:H KDYH WZR YHU\ Ă€QH pianists here who sit for six hours a day, six days a week, hammering through the rep’, Gavin explains, ‘so the dancers never lose the ability to react to live music‌ which some companies have to because of stringent times. We are very lucky to have a group RI FRVW HÍżHFWLYH DQG OR\DO PXVLFLDQV ¡
Smiling fondly, Gavin explains, ‘[Conducting music in ballet] has almost been the day job I never OHW JR , Ă€QG P\VHOI LQ D KRW EDOOHW VWXGLR LQ DQRWKHU city, in another country and then I get onto the stage standing at the pit door, waiting to go on for a performance‌ I see the lights fade to half and I am just about to be pushed on‌ I could run a mile, a thousand miles in the opposite direction – and I can’t run! – but when I get on there, pick up the baton and lift it, I am transported. I have never lost WKDW WKULOO LQ \HDUV RI GRLQJ WKLV DV PDQ DQG ER\ and I hope I never do.’
Gavin will then make notes and ensure that ‘everything is comfortable for the dancers’ before beginning rehearsals with the orchestra in Henry Wood Hall in London. ‘[The musicians] know how I react to situations that arise and they are extremely good at quickly adjusting; which not all orchestras are as some do not play for the theatre. Things can still evolve on performance day and the very best ballet musicians are always on the ball and able to KHDG RÍż DQ\ SUREOHPV ZLWK PH LQ V\QFKURQLVP ¡
What fascinated me most about Gavin’s position in English National Ballet was just how he managed to marry up the music with the action on stage. What was the interface between the music and WKH GDQFHUV" :KDW SDUWLFXODU VNLOOV ZRXOG D EDOOHW FRQGXFWRU QHHG" The process – a period of approximately seven weeks – begins, he tells me, with the choreographer setting the steps with the dancers with piano accompaniment (‘or CD if electronic score‌
Above: Tamara Rojo as Frida in Broken Wings by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Photo: Laurent Liotardo
But how does one keep everything together if VRPHWKLQJ JRHV ZURQJ" œ, VD\ WR HYHU\RQH , ZRUN ZLWK LQ WKLV ÀHOG ² ´IRUJLYH PH LI , DP QRW ORRNLQJ at you, but my eyes will be on the stage. My body language is for you!� I have to make sure that I coordinate what is going on onstage with what is JRLQJ RQ LQ WKH SLW )RU WKDW UHDVRQ VRPH SHRSOH
‘ forgive me if I am not looking at you, but my eyes will be on the stage. My body language is for you!’ Continued overleaf Ăˆ
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Above: Brooklyn Mack as Conrad in Le Corsaire Above right: Laurretta Summerscales as Medora and Junor Souza as Ali in Le Corsaire Photo: Laurent Liotardo
deem it quite a stressful position to be in and yes, it is when you stop and think about it – so I try not to!’
but it was a normal day. So in a way I am dancing with the dancers.’
7KH Ă€UVW WKLQJ *DYLQ WHOOV PH WKDW DVSLULQJ EDOOHW conductors need to realise is that the music is not solely in charge. ‘With a symphony orchestra a conductor can apply his profound thoughts behind a piece completely, and with opera, there is still a hefty amount of music direction. With ballet, you have to let it go a bit, because ultimately the music serves the dance and serves it more than the orchestra serves the singers in opera, because there is still music happening on stage. Music in ballet is like accompanying a concerto, but the soloists PDNH QR VRXQG 7KDW LV WKH FUXFLDO GLÍżHUHQFH ¡
Since the esteemed ballet dancer Tamara Rojo took up the position of Artistic Director at English 1DWLRQDO %DOOHW LQ WKH FRPSDQ\ KDV WDNHQ huge strides forward, performing several new commissions. Their latest production She Said featured new pieces created by world-class female choreographers: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Yabin Wang and Aszure Barton.
Many conductors turn up interested in how ballet works, Gavin continues, ‘and after half an hour WKH\ DVN ´ZKHQ GR ZH JHW WKH RUFKHVWUD"Âľ , KDYH to explain to them that we have to sit and learn WKH FKRUHRJUDSK\ IRU IRXU RU Ă€YH ZHHNV ¡
‘Her view of the horizon is far beyond everybody else’s. We can never discount the heritage and the SURJUHVVLRQ WKH FRPSDQ\ KDV PDGH RYHU \HDUV EXW WKH DUULYDO RI 7DPDUD LQ FRPSOHWHO\ catapulted us forward and there is no sign of slowing. Aside from the classic ballet productions such as Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet, we very rarely look backwards in our repertoire these days.’
Gavin is also frequently asked if he can dance. ‘No, I can’t dance but I know about the language of ballet and dance in the same way that if you are conducting a concerto for example, you understand how a soloist will lead or wait for you. But again, WKH FUXFLDO GLÍżHUHQFH LV WKDW \RX FDQ VWLOO KHDU WKHP but with dancers you can’t, even if they wear heeled shoes!’ It is energetic for the dancers on stage but keeping up with them is also energetic for Gavin. :DYLQJ P\ )LWELW ZDWFK DW KLP KH WHOOV PH WKDW ZKLOVW ZHDULQJ KLV RZQ )LWELW LQ D SHUIRUPDQFH RI the Nutcracker last year, he burned 1,750 calories in one performance. Gavin laughs, ‘I thought, “that can’t be rightâ€? but apparently it was. And my DYHUDJH KHDUW UDWH ZDV ESP DQG \RX WKLQN ´ZDV , UDFLQJ" +DG , EHHQ GULQNLQJ FDÍżHLQH"Âľ
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Tamara, Gavin tells me, places great importance on a future for the young in the arts and in dance in particular, and encourages new productions to engage audiences.
‘You expect a brand-new seminal work or treatment of a seminal work once in a generation. Well, we have had so many come up in recent times.’ Gavin says very happily, ‘to be a part of that process as well just puts the icing on a very large cake.’ Francesca Treadaway, Communications Manager, ISM Find out more about the English National Ballet, including a schedule of upcoming performances, news, the English National Ballet School, image gallery and more at ballet.org.uk
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Right: Elizabeth de la Porte with HRH The Prince of Wales at the RCM’s Annual Awards Ceremony
Sculpting Sound on the Classical Guitar Guitarist, composer, teacher and researcher Dr Martin Vishnick has recently self-published Sculpting Sound on the Classical Guitar – a reworking of his PhD thesis (City University 2014).
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Elizabeth de la Porte
Ave Verum Corpus – a new choral setting
On 10 March Elizabeth de la Porte was honoured by Prince Charles, the Assistant Head of Music Faculty at Prince of Wales and elevated to ‘Fellow St Edward’s College (Choir School to of the Royal College of Music’. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral) Dr Robert Howard has recently Elizabeth is an internationally famous composed a new setting of Ave harpsichordist who has pursued Verum Corpus. The work was an equally distinguished career in premiered by Prescot Parish Church teaching. As a performer, her striking Choir, with Tim Hall accompanying talent led both to appearances on the organ, on Good Friday 2016 throughout Europe and her native in Prescot Parish Church. South Africa, and also to her criticallyacclaimed recordings on London Robert wrote the music to the traditional Independent Records. She now Latin text with simplicity and singability devotes herself to teaching, and has in mind, especially for the younger spent a remarkable 50 years on the members of the choir, which has staff at the RCM Junior Department, recently had an intake of six, eightguiding generations of young students and nine-year-olds. It is structured through the rigours of harpsichord and in two parts, the second of which piano technique, and passing on the repeats the first (musically) with some wealth of her general musicianship. variations. The singing fades as the One such distinguished and avowedly opening lines – translating as ‘Hail the grateful pupil is James O’Donnell, true body’ – return, mirroring the dying Organist and Master of the Choristers of Christ on the cross. at Westminster Abbey; he is one of Further details of Robert’s recent many whom she inspired towards a compositional developments and career in music. other musical activities can be found at his website – roberthowardmusic.co.uk
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Len Rhodes Len Rhodes has added three new titles to his publishing catalogue with Sheet Music Plus (sheetmusicplus.com). He has transcribed Claude Debussy’s Clair de lune in two new arrangements: piano duet, and piano trio (six hands at one piano). Len has also arranged the Mouvement de Menuet from Ravel’s Sonatina for Violin and Piano. His book – A New Dictionary Of Composers is now available through Amazon as a paperback. All these titles are also available as instant downloads on his website – lenrhodesmusic.com Len continues his work as Artistic Director and Artist in Residence with Summit Music and Arts, based in Silverthorne, Colorado. Continued overleaf È
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In March M 2015 Andrew Downes’ Symphonies No 1-4 and his Overtures, Sym Tow Towards a New Age and In the Cotswolds, were recorded in the Cot andrewkeeling.co.uk Dv Dvorak Hall of the RudolďŹ num, Prague, byy the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, All-In-One music directed by Ondrej Vrabec, as part of dir a two tw CDs and one DVD set, on the theory books ArteSmon label. Art Rachel Billings, author All-In-One to On 24 March 2016 a movement from Grade 5, has written a third edition this recording of two of the symphonies along with two new books called was broadcast on Czech Radio, during All-In-One: Grades 1-3 and All-In-One: wa an interview with Ondrej Vrabec. Grades 4-5. The latter two books are based upon the third edition with The UK launch took place on 17 April additional exercises in areas where 201 2016 at the National Film Theatre, students need most practice. London, where excerpts were played Lon and and the Documentary DVD was shown, ‘The most recent (third) edition features tog together with Paula Downes’ ďŹ lms further simpliďŹ cation throughout po portraying Andrew Downes’ Songs the book, making it even more fro from Spoon River and also an excerpt accessible to the young beginner and fro from the DVD of Andrew Downes’ more suitable for students taking the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd. individual grades en route to grade 5 without, most crucially, losing All-InThe CD set can be purchased from One’s integrated approach.’ major book/music shops, amazon. co.uk or from Andrew himself on downlyn@gmail.com. L-IN-ONE
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Andrew Keeling’s community opera, Get Weaving – with a libretto by Young music enthusiasts will learn poet and author Alison Prince – was how to read music and music theory performed to critical acclaim at the in order to be able to write their own Bridgewater Hall in Manchester in tunes. A range of different instruments April. Celebrating the Mass Trespass are introduced along with information of Kinder Scout in 1932, the opera was on how to play them and tunes commissioned by the Bridgewater that can be practiced straightaway. for the combined forces of Chetham’s There is also information about music School of Music, the Maghull Wind history and different music styles – Orchestra, Resurrection School Choir from rock and pop to folk and jazz. and the Bridgewater Singers as the hall’s ďŹ nal event in their Echoes of a Fun activities along the way make Mountain Song series of concerts. learning a blast. Readers can have a go at writing music with sweets, Andrew’s Piano Trio, Unquiet Earth – making a bottle-ute and making which also features on his forthcoming music with a grass reed. With this book CD release, Spiritus (Spaceward at hand, children can enjoy becoming Records – which also includes a marvellous musicians in no time! recording of pianist Steven Wray Music for Children (ISBN 9781849943093) performing six short pieces for piano, Blue Dawn) was also performed in can be used in conjunction with the the series by Suzanne Casey, Kenneth national syllabus and ABRSM theory Woods and Clare Hammond. He has and practical graded exams. also been commissioned to write a
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Choral courses Tenor James Griffett, founder of the early music ensemble Pro Cantione Antiqua, will be directing two forthcoming courses. A choral course, Shakespeare – Music of his time and people, on 8-10 July in the Yorkshire seaside town of Filey
culminates in a concert of madrigal Obituaries and partsongs by composers of Shakespeare’s time on the Sunday With regret, we report the deaths of: afternoon in the Church of St Oswald Elsie Morison-Kubelik of Switzerland on the cliff top. More details from filey@singingdays.co.uk, or telephone Rosalind M Leney of London 01943 601237. Marguerita Musk-Chilvers of Norfolk A week long choral course in the Susan E Cooper of Alderney Mediterranean town of Le Lavandou, Provence will take place on 15-29 Guy Woolfenden OBE of Banbury October. The course, which has now David Mercer of Uxbridge been running for 16 years, mainly covers early music but also includes Michael Pope of Salisbury works specially commissioned for the event. In 2016 a large part of the programme will be devoted to various settings of By the Waters of Babylon sung in Hebrew, English, German, Latin and French. More details from provence@singingdays.co.uk or visit singingdays.com.
Guy Woolfenden OBE, MA (Cantab), FBSM, Hon LCM, LGSM Composer, conductor and former President of the ISM (2002-03) Guy Woolfenden OBE, has died aged 78. A resident of Sibford for more than 40 years, Guy Woolfenden was Head of Music to the Royal Shakespeare Company for 37 years, composing more than 150 scores for the company. Adrian Noble, one of the many directors with whom he worked at Stratford, said: ‘Guy believed that music should be at the heart of a classical company, as it was for Shakespeare.’ Guy was born in Ipswich, the son of Kathleen and Harold (‘Woolfy’), who founded the Cambridge Music Shop in the early 1960s. Educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, he sang at the wedding of HRH Princess Elizabeth to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. From Whitgift School, Croydon, he went on to study music at Christ’s College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. In 1961, he joined Peter Hall’s newly founded RSC and soon became Head of Music and Resident Composer, writing the scores for Peter Hall’s ground-breaking production of The Wars of the Roses in 1963. His musical version of The Comedy of Errors, written with Trevor Nunn, won the lvor Novello and Society of West End Theatre Awards for the best British musical in 1976. Other notable productions for which he wrote the music include Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh, directed by Adrian Noble, and Bill Alexander’s productions of Richard III and The Merchant of Venice, with Antony Sher. Guy had a wide-ranging career as composer, conductor and festival director outside the RSC, composing and arranging scores for several ballets and conducting many British symphony orchestras. His success with composing wind music led to commissions from all over the world. Among his many original works were Gallimaufry, reworked from the music he wrote for Trevor Nunn’s production of the Henry IV plays for the opening of the Barbican in 1982, French Impressions, inspired by the paintings of Seurat, Bohemian Dances, Illyrian Dances and Divertimento for Band, given its first performance in Killarney in 2007 by Birmingham Symphonic Winds of whom he was Patron for 20 years. He was conductor of Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, Liverpool Mozart Players and Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra, Chair of National Concert Band Festival and the Denne Gilkes Memorial Fund, the first Artistic Director of the Cambridge Festival, and a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
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Medal, the School’s most prestigious prize for soloists, for his performance of Ginastera’s Concerto for Harp in the Barbican Hall; and to 17-year-old violinist Didier Osindero, winner of Junior Guildhall’s equivalent award, the Lutine Prize.
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Above: Royal Nothern College of Music’s new President, Sir John Tomlinson
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Guildhall is delighted to announce that its teaching has been judged worldThe RNCM has announced the appointment of Sir John Tomlinson CBE leading as a result of the recent Higher Education Funding Council for England’s as its new President, commencing in institution-specific review. Principal January 2017. Professor Barry Ife commented ‘This is The critically-acclaimed bass has a an excellent outcome for Guildhall and strong connection to the College after a richly deserved accolade that reflects graduating from the Royal Manchester a sustained effort across the institution College of Music (RMCM) in 1970. for many years. It confirms the findings Since then he has performed leading of the recent QS world rankings which roles with companies throughout the placed the School among the top ten world and regularly appears at the institutions for the performing arts Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the world. World-leading teaching with English National Opera, at the would not be possible without Bayreuth Festival and leading opera dedicated staff who put students first houses worldwide. His appointment at all times. They should be very proud replaces that of bass-baritone of this achievement.’ Sir Willard White, who has served Congratulations to harpist Oliver Wass, in office since 2009. who has been awarded this year’s Gold The RNCM has also named its first Honorary Associate Artists; presented to exceptional recent alumni due to their outstanding achievements after graduation. Starting in September, pianist Alexandra Dariescu, composer Tom Harrold, cellist Mikhail Nemtsov, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, and percussionist Le Yu, will work with the College in an ambassadorial capacity, playing an active role in promoting and supporting strategic initiatives, working with staff and students at key events both at the RNCM and, where appropriate, overseas.
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7.30pm, Old Library, Charlton House, Charlton Road, London SE7 8RE Come and enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Charlton House, one of the best preserved Jacobean houses in Greater London, and meet other local members of the ISM SE London Group. We are hoping to have musical entertainment from members and pupils. Refreshments will be provided. Cost: £5 members, £8 guests Contact: Janet Munro, janetmunro59@mac.com, 07796 716237
11am, Dorchester Abbey, High Street, Dorchester, Oxford OX10 7HH ISM members are invited to be present at this concert in which autistic members of the audience conduct or otherwise participate in the ongoing music. The concert will be followed by a short presentation by John Lubbock about his Music for Autism project. More information can be found at osj.org.uk, Music in the Abbey. Refreshments will be available. Cost: £6 members and concessions, £8 non-members Contact: Carolyn King, carolyn2king@btinternet.com, 01235 522774
2.30pm, United Reformed Church, Mill Lane, Broxbourne, Herts EN10 7BQ The ISM Lea Valley group is trying out a new venue for our Advanced Autumn Pupils’ Concert (Grade 6 upwards). Situated at the United Reformed Church in Broxbourne, please consider joining us in the audience, even if you do not teach music. We would love to meet you over tea, coffee or soft drinks after the concert. Contact: Carolyn Richards, ismleavalley@ntlworld.com, 01245 440004
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Private and Trade 50p per word, minimum £5. Advertisements from ISM members are half-price (ie, 25p per word, minimum £2.50). Name, address and contact details must be paid for if included. Box numbers £2 extra. Prices include VAT. A series of six or more identical insertions qualifies for 10% discount.
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CONCERT PIECES FOR VIOLIN - Chaconne and Bulgarian Etude – by James Hewitt. View and buy on tutti. co.uk. Further details jameshewittmusic.co.uk
BLUTHNER grand piano 5’6”, mahogany, 1935. Serial 120141. Restored 1992, properly maintained, gorgeous tone, sensitive action. Professionally owned by ISM member now retired. Insured for £23,000; asking price £18,000 ono. Location: Cornwall; lovely accommodation available for viewing. Negotiable re. transportation costs. 01326 290399
YORKSHIRE DALES Wensleydale (centre of village) Self-contained, one bedroom apartment, sleeps 2/3. Full details: Tel. 0169663368 or email: john_joanfoster@ hotmail.com PERFORMANCE NERVES? Stage fright? Call Rosemary Wiseman Tel. 020 8958 8083 rosemarywiseman.com FRENCH HORNS, Several from £150. 01747 828552
VARIOUS BRASS, WOODWIND & STRINGED instruments for sale and/ or rental. Tel: 07974 412269. STUDENT CELLOS, mostly German, various sizes, from £100. Tel. 07974 412269
DOUBLE BASS PAESOLD, concert model 590. Excellent condition cost BASSOONS several, £600, £3k plus in 1997, £1250 07974 412269 ONO: 01747 828552 SPINNETT WITTMAYER SW FRANCE: Beautiful (German) 4 octaves, C-D, gites for rent in the most light walnut. BGC needs idyllic surroundings. tuning, hence £650 ISM members discount for a quick sale. and use of Steinway B Tel 07974 412269 possible. Full details: www.frenchconnections. TRUMPETS! (several) co.uk property 157289 or Excellent condition. tel 07860238733 moira_ All serviced. £100 each. hayward@yahoo.co.uk 07974 412269 SELF ASSESSMENT COR ANGLAIS: SUBMISSION - £120. B&H. Blackwood, Contact 01373 302468 or Conservatoire, Low E, refroudassociates@ Serviced. £1295 ONO. gmail.com 07974 412269
VIOLA 16” /40.25cms. Colin Irving 1986. £1200 ono. Telephone 07798 906393 RODGERS ELECTRIC CHURCH ORGAN C-440 Range for sale from St Matthew’s Church, Derrington, Stafford. It has 2 manuals and a full pedal board. £1,500 ovno – Buyer to collect. Contact: Josephine C Hughes ARCM Tel: 01785 242968 NEW EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS for sale. Visit harpgear.net for details. KAWAI 5ft baby grand piano for sale in shiny black. 7 years old & well maintained. Owned by professional. Contact derazey1840@aol.com
Evensong and to identify opportunities to build up a children’s choir. We are also looking to develop our music at our monthly all age worship services. Remuneration is offered in line with RSCM recommendation, plus wedding and funeral fees. For application or further information please contact the Team Vicar: Rev Julia Boothby, The Vicarage, North Mymms Park, Hatfield, AL9 7TN. ORGANIST AND MUSICAL julia.boothby@ DIRECTOR to start as soon btinternet.com as possible from July 2016. St Mary’s Church, SEEKING North-LondonNorth Mymms, Hatfield, based assistance. If you Hertfordshire. We are A. can read music fluently, seeking an enthusiastic B. are well connected musician to help lead in church music circles, our parish worship. We C. appreciate new have an Allen digital compositions, D. and have and Bevingon (2 manual enough skill to edit and and pedal) organ. We prepare music videos, are looking to explore I would like to employ you new ways to expand the for a few days per month. existing adult robed choir 020 8365 7320 who currently sing at the Eucharist and monthly
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Ask me a question William Vann Pianist, conductor, organist and artistic director
place in the wonderful setting of Wilton’s Music Hall in July. I am the co-Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and the Artistic Director of Bedford Music Club, helping to put together their annual recital programmes, and a conductor and vocal coach on the Dartington and Oxenfoord International Summer Schools. One of the most enjoyable things about a career in music is the variety on offer, and I like to keep busy! Who (or what) has most influenced you and your career?
Tell ell us a little about yourself yourself. I’m the Director of Music at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea Pensioners. It’s a lovely place to be based and my work here has led me to meet a fascinating range of people. My job is to provide music for all the services in our Wren Chapel and other musical events – we have a fantastic professional choir and my first album with them will be released later in the year. It’s only a part-time job though and my career outside is mostly as an accompanist. I work with a wide range of singers, instrumentalists and choirs in the UK and abroad giving recitals, working on opera projects, performing in broadcasts and recording. One of my musical passions is for English Song and a few years ago I founded the London English Song Festival: our Songs of the Somme show takes
It’s impossible to recreate the cumulative experience of working with a large number of musicians from different walks of life, from different countries, who have been trained in different ways and who approach musical collaboration in such a variety of ways. I love the fact that every day involves new learning experiences – only this morning I was thinking about how a recording I was making with a singer had introduced me to new ideas about how to perform a song cycle I’ve played hundreds of times before. But if I had to name one person, I’d have to choose my professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Malcolm Martineau. Just watching him play is a deeply educative experience alone, but being able to work with him for two years was a great privilege and helped form much of my approach not just to song accompaniment but to music-making in general. What would you say is your greatest achievement to date?
We had a great team of musicians recording the album – Mary Bevan, Jennifer Johnston, Nicky Spence, Johnny Herford and Thomas Gould – and we’ve put together some performances that I hope will bring about a reassessment of the quality of those early songs. Who is your all-time favourite artist and why? I’m torn here between voting with my profession and choosing Geoffrey Parsons, a pianist who perhaps did more than anyone else to raise the bar of piano accompaniment to the high level that we are now used to hearing today, or plumping for Pavarotti, the ultimate classical music star. What was the last CD/music download that you purchased? The Nilsson/Solti/Vienna Phil. recording of Salome by Richard Strauss. It’s an astonishing recording of one of the best pieces of music ever written. What are your plans for the future? I’d love to see the London English Song Festival become an established part of the musical calendar and, through our education work, introduce as many young people as possible to not just that repertoire, but art song and classical music in general. Finally, what is your ISM membership to you? Although there are lots of obvious, tangible benefits, the long-termist, less tangible work that the ISM does towards promoting music education (an especially important job when we are living with a government that almost completely ignores the intrinsic value of the arts in society) is at the heart of why I’m with the ISM.
At the moment I’m proudest of the album that I’ve co-produced and performed on that will come out on Albion Records in the Autumn, Purer than Pearl. It includes seven songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams that have never been recorded before and have often been written off as insignificant, immature williamvann.com works by his biographers.
Make Music Work with our free advice packs To follow on from our popular Make Music Work event last year, we have published a series of free advice packs to help you build up a successful and sustainable career. The packs include legal and business advice; template contracts; and guidance on promoting yourself, marketing, fundraising, developing relationships and collaborations. All of the packs are supported by the ISM Trust and can be downloaded for free from the Members’ Area of our website or ism.org/professional-development/advice-packs.
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