Making Music 2014 Spring Conference programme

A guide to the

2014 Spring Conference

Saturday 17 May Over-Seas House, London

This page and front cover: Samba drumming workshop at the 2012 Making Music conference Š Kate Carrington Photography

Contents

Welcome 5 At a glance

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Programme 8 Speaker biographies

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Exhibitors 16 Performers 17 Corporate members

We reserve the right to alter the published programme and speakers without prior notice

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Paul Mealor at the 2012 Making Music conference Š Kate Carrington Photography

Welcome

I’m especially delighted this year that you can join us at the home of the Royal Over-Seas League, host to one of the most prestigious music competitions in the UK. Previous winners include Jacqueline du Pré, John Lill and Ian Bostridge.

Maybe some of the winners of Making Music’s Award for Young Concert Artists that you hear later today will be destined for greatness as well.

We’ve had an exciting year at Making Music: new members are joining regularly, and our new range of training options across the country are attracting positive reviews. We’ve also opened our doors to individual members, meaning we can truly support everyone who performs or promotes music for the love of it.

We have a packed day where you can meet fellow music makers and learn more about how to run a music group. I hope everyone will enjoy it to the full.

Peter Lawson Chair, Making Music

Our conferences are highlights of the year for me, enabling me to meet many Making Music members, supporters and suppliers in one day.

It’s great to be able to put faces to names, and to learn ever more about what support amateur music needs to flourish.

We all know music ‘works’, with enjoyment and benefits for individuals and communities apparent at 12,000 concerts promoted by Making Music members every year to audiences of 1.5 million people.

If this conference encourages you to continue performing and promoting music, and if it makes it just that little bit easier by giving you the right advice and tools to develop practically and artistically, then it will have done its job.

Please do tell us if it does or doesn’t – in person or online – and I hope you enjoy a full and pleasant day.

Barbara Eifler Executive Director, Making Music 5

At a glance Princess Alexandra Room 10.15

Registration opens

10.45 – 10.55

Welcome Including an informal performance from Making Music member choir Just Voices

11.00 – 11.50

Session 1 Marketing your events

12.00 – 13.00

Keynote speech Suzi Digby OBE

13.00 – 14.00 14.00 – 14.45

Session 4 Annual General Meeting

15.00 – 15.45 16.00 – 16.45 16.45 – 17.30 17.30 – 19.00

Evening concert * * A chance to see the UK’s brightest young performing talent, all winners of Making Music’s prestigious Award for Young Concert Artists

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Hall of India

Wrench Room

Rutland Room

Session 2 Recording and CDs

Session 3 Managing your nerves

Session 5 Top touring tips

Session 6 Handbell ringing

Session 7 Panel debate

Session 8 Performing rights explained

Session 9 Breaking free

Session 7 (cont.)

Panel debate

Session 10 Promoters’ top tips

Session 11 Music and refugees

Tea and coffee

Lunch

Drinks reception †

Including an overview of the Royal Over-Seas League from Roderick Lakin MBE, and an informal performance from the London Saxophone Choir

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Morning 11.00 –11.50 Session 1 Marketing your events

Session 2 Recording and CDs

Session 3 Managing your nerves

Princess Alexandra Room Sarah Hayward and Ollie Mustill, Making Music

Wrench Room Matthew Sackman, SCOre

Rutland Room Charlotte Tomlinson

Tips for how to make a great recording of your music group, particularly focusing on microphone types and placement. The session is appropriate for complete beginners and for those on a budget.

If you suffer from stage fright, the techniques demonstrated in this expert-led session will help you have a more positive performance experience. Psychological insights and practical tips are combined with a mini-masterclass to put some of the ideas into practice.

A practical session outlining the various ways to effectively market concerts, led by Making Music’s own marketing experts.

12.00 –13.00 Keynote speech Suzi Digby OBE Princess Alexandra Room We’re thrilled to have Suzi Digby OBE as this year’s keynote speaker.

The choral guru and Last Choir Standing judge has promised an inspiring and enlightening hour, including a speech and, of course, some singing.

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DJ workshop, Making Music conference 2012 Š Kate Carrington Photography

Afternoon 14.00 –14.45 Session 4 Annual General Meeting

Session 5 Top touring tips

Session 6 Handbell ringing

Princess Alexandra Room

Wrench Room Rayburn Tours

Rutland Room Keith Rowland, Rowland Ringers

Gain a greater insight into what it would be like for your group to go on tour. By sharing the experiences of other groups who have travelled on an international concert tour, the team at Rayburn Tours will help you understand the hows, whys and wherefores.

Prepare to be inspired!

A chance to try your hand at handbell ringing with Making Music member group Rowland Ringers.

The 79th Annual General Meeting of Making Music, the National Federation of Music Societies.

15.00 –15.45 Session 7 (until 16.45) Panel debate

Session 8 Performing rights explained

Session 9 Breaking free

Hall of India Sharon Moloney, Making Music; Mike McKillop, Charity Commission; Graham Finegold, Tank Consulting

Wrench Room Nicola Dillon, PRS for Music

Rutland Room Philip Emery, Changing Tunes

Learn about copyright, royalties and the role of collecting societies.

Changing Tunes uses music to aid the rehabilitation of prisoners and ex-prisoners. Hear their music and their stories and find out how you can get involved.

Our expert panel lead a discussion on public benefit and trustee responsibilities.

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16.00 –16.45 Session 10 Promoters’ top tips

Session 11 Music and refugees

Wrench Room Peter Lawson, Making Music

Rutland Room Tom Green, Platforma

A session led by Making Music Chair Peter Lawson, who will give advice based on his own experience of programming and running concert series.

The Platforma network supports and develops art by, about and with refugees. This session looks at what musicians from the network could contribute to a Making Music group and how the musicians might benefit themselves. There will also be an exploration of issues that can arise when working with people from refugee backgrounds.

An excellent day. All sessions attended were incredibly useful and specific to what I’d wanted to find out. The one-toone session with Ollie was fab and it was really great to get such good advice.

Feedback from the Making Music Autumn 2013 conference 11

Speaker biographies Keynote speaker Suzi Digby OBE Suzi Digby OBE is an internationally renowned conductor, choir master and teacher, who aims to get the whole nation singing. She has been instrumental in the revival of singing in schools and the community in the UK for over two decades.

She was a judge on the BBC TV series Last Choir Standing, a competition for Britain’s favourite choir, which attracted 10 million UK fans and many more worldwide. She is also the founder of The Voices Foundation, a leading music education charity that works with schools to deliver sustainable solutions to teaching music at primary level.

Nicola Dillon Nicola is the Key Accounts Manager for public performance licensing at PRS for Music. The Key Accounts Team is responsible for managing the relationships with large corporate accounts, live music venues and festivals, ensuring that customers have a dedicated single point of contact to assist with the entire licensing process. Nicola joined PRS for Music in 2006 having previously worked as a client account manager within the telecoms industry.

She has worked internationally with adult and children’s choirs for many years. She founded Voce in 2003, now widely acknowledged as London’s finest young chamber choir, as well as founding the award-winning group Coro in 2000.

Graham Finegold Graham is a director of Tank Consulting. Prior to setting up Tank, he worked extensively in the voluntary sector, and he now advises a wide range of voluntary and third sector organisations on business planning, growth and governance.

Graham works with organisations ranging from small volunteer-run membership bodies to large national charities, offering them creative ways to deliver even better services.

Barbara Eifler

Philip Emery

Barbara is Making Music’s Executive Director.

She joined the organisation in 2012 as Head of Membership Services, having served as Executive Director of the Stage Management Association for 13 years. She is responsible for Making Music’s overall direction, and acts as ambassador for members and voluntary music, meeting with key personnel from local and national government, and the music, voluntary and education sectors.

Barbara played the piano until she left home 30 years ago and has since been an occasional accompanist to her four children.

Philip has been a director of Changing Tunes since 2013. Before joining the charity, he managed education and third sector projects in prisons, having previously worked as a teacher for 22 years.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee of two small charities. He is a keen amateur musician, playing clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano and guitar. He plays in a small jazz group and runs Beckenham Concert Band, which is a member of Making Music.

Tom Green

Sarah Hayward

Tom Green is the project manager for the Platforma arts and refugees network, based at Counterpoints Arts in London. He has previously worked for the Refugee Council and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. Counterpoints Arts is a hub of creative arts and cultural projects exploring refugee and migrant experiences. The organisation believes in the dynamic power of the creative arts to inspire social change and enhance inclusion of refugees and migrants.

Sarah joined Making Music in 2008 to look after communications. She is now responsible for branding, marketing strategy and marketing campaigns. Sarah previously worked for Microsoft, where she was brought in to help set up and lead a top-tier customer service team for a new paid search advertising platform.

She has eight years’ experience in search engine marketing, and also used to work as a music promoter and DJ in her spare time.

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Speaker biographies

Roderick Lakin MBE

Peter Lawson

Roderick was born in Aberdeen and educated at Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen and St John’s College, Oxford. He has worked for Oxford Playhouse and Roundhouse Theatre, London, and was Director of the Society for the Promotion of New Music from 1978 –1983.

Roderick has been Director of Arts for the Royal Over-Seas League since 1984, during which time he has expanded the organisation’s international arts programme, which supports outstanding UK and Commonwealth musicians. He was appointed MBE in 2004 and Hon ARAM in 2007.

Peter Lawson is Making Music’s Chair. Alongside an active career in senior management (including with IBM and pharmaceutical company Pfizer), he has been an amateur musician since learning the violin at school. He was formerly Musical Director of the Meistersingers Choir in west London, and is now Chair of promoting society Music in Lyddington. He joined the Making Music Board in 2008, and is also on the Governing Council of Leicester University, Chair of Trustees at Oakham School, a trustee of Rutland Music Hub, and Chair of local arts charity Arts for Rutland.

Ollie Mustill

Keith Rowland

Ollie joined Making Music in August 2013 and is responsible for all things digital. He manages the Making Music website, email campaigns, e-bulletins and social media presence. He also looks at how new tools and resources can benefit Making Music members and the wider voluntary music sector.

His earliest memory is of listening to an LP of The Carnival of the Animals, and since then he has remained a music obsessive, happily going from Bach to bluegrass, trip-hop to Tallis.

Keith started ringing handbells in 1986 with the Hamilton Ringers, with which he has since performed nationally and internationally. Keith also leads a second group, Rowland Ringers, and a bell orchestra, and in 2008 he conducted 800 ringers playing the UK’s music selection at the International Handbell Symposium in Florida. He believes that music is the important part, and that the instruments we use are incidental.

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Mike McKillop

Sharon Moloney

Mike has worked as a manager in the Charity Commission for 22 years in a variety of roles including registration, review visits, charity disputes and recently as a manager in the Partnership Development Team. In this latter role, he aims to strengthen relations with a range of national representative bodies, including Making Music.

Sharon joined Making Music in June 2013. She has a background in arts administration and concert management, having previously worked at the Royal Academy of Music. She has extensive committee experience, including current roles as Secretary of London Saxophone Choir and Chair of Harmony Sinfonia. Sharon continues to be a keen amateur musician in her spare time, playing flute, saxophone and percussion in several groups.

She also works as a woodwind teacher in south-east London.

Matthew Sackman

Charlotte Tomlinson

Matthew is a software engineer by day, working on enterprise messaging middleware and cloud orchestration technologies. By night he plays the French horn in a large number of ensembles and regularly gives performances throughout London and further afield. When possible, Matthew likes to record performances of concerts he’s involved in as a historical record of the event.

Charlotte Tomlinson is a pianist, teacher and coach.

She taught at the Purcell School and now teaches Oxford University students and graduates from the London music colleges. She has developed a unique way of working with musicians that enables them to overcome performing-related injuries and nerves, discussed in her book, Music from the Inside Out. She is now sought after for talks and masterclasses at schools, universities and music colleges around the country. She has written articles for Classical Music, Music Teacher and The Huffington Post among other publications, and has been interviewed on Music Matters on BBC Radio 3.

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Exhibitors You can visit a selection of exhibitors, including our conference sponsors, in the Hall of India throughout the day.

Conference sponsor Making Music Insurance Services (MMIS)

The International Association of Music Libraries (United Kingdom and Ireland Branch)

Launched in January 2013, MMIS has revolutionised the way Making Music members can access insurance, making it simple for them to obtain the cover they need. With a range of standard options that are competitively priced, plus a custom option for larger groups and those with more complex needs.

Exists to represent and promote the interests of music librarians and libraries, promote cooperation between them, and provide training. The organisation runs an annual study weekend, meetings and courses, and publishes a journal and newsletter.

Conference sponsor Benslow Music

LABBS

Whether your musical taste is for classical, jazz, popular or folk, Benslow Music has a music course to suit you. Throughout the year expert tutors lead friendly, supportive residential and day courses or give lively talks. Well-equipped and easily accessible, the campus in Hitchin, Hertfordshire is just a thirty-minute train ride from London.

A national ladies barbershop singing association with more than 50 member clubs and quartets.

LABBS member clubs perform in the community, in concerts with other local music groups, and at music festivals and national competitions. LABBS has an exciting yearly convention (and party!) with competitions, shows and international guests.

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Rayburn Tours

The only UK organisation devoted entirely to supporting individuals who lead choral music, both as amateurs and professionals. abcd is committed to promoting opportunities for the professional development of all those leading singing, whether in the classroom or the community.

Creating great value, tailor-made concert tours abroad and within the UK since 1965. The experienced and knowledgeable team is on hand to help bands, choirs, orchestras and youth ensembles create the perfect tour from start to finish!

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Performers Making Music member groups

2014 Award for Young Concert Artists winners

Just Voices

Alexander Soares piano

Performing at 10.45 Princess Alexandra Room

Alberto Casadei cello

Formed in 2006, Just Voices is a female a cappella chorus from Bromley. The group has twice been a finalist in Top Choir Kent, with recent performances at London’s Southbank Centre and Roundhouse.

This summer will see the choir perform at Bournemouth Music Festival.

Joo Yeon Sir violin

The London Saxophone Choir Performing at 17.15 Hall of India Formed in February 2008, drawing members from all walks of life and from across the capital.

The group plays specially arranged music in a variety of styles, giving formal concerts as well as playing on numerous bandstands in the summer, switching to carol concerts in the winter.

Katherine Birtles flute Matthew Scott clarinet Manus Noble guitar Performances start from 17.30 Princess Alexandra Room The evening concert will feature performances from six of the winners of Making Music’s 2014 Award for Young Concert Artists. Funded by a legacy from the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust, the award is presented annually to some of the UK’s brightest young classical musicians. Making Music offers these artists a number of subsidised engagements with member groups, which pay the artist a set fee of £250 and claim £120 in subsidy.

Unfortunately, pianist Marios Panteliadis, who also won this year’s award, is unavailable to appear at the concert. www.makingmusic.org.uk/ayca

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Corporate members Corporate membership can help your business reach around 170,000 voluntary musicians.

To learn more, or to join, visit www.makingmusic.org.uk/ corporate.

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Association of British Choral Directors

Association of Teachers of Singing

Black Cat Music

City Literary Institute

Dartington International Summer School

English Touring Opera

Going 4 Travel

Holloway Consulting

Incorporated Society of Musicians

Leeds College of Music

Les Howard VAT Consultant

Oxford University Press

Peregrine’s Pianos

Rayburn Tours

Rhinegold Publishing

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