Music - what's on

Current music events, activities and news.

Renaissance Music for a Royal Chapel

Siglo de Oro, a new chamber choir of young professional singers from the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Trinity College of Music, King’s College London, St John’s College and Clare College, Cambridge will present a concert of breathtaking Renaissance choral works in the beautiful setting of All Saints, West Dulwich.

Their programme presents music written for and performed in the royal chapels of Renaissance Europe. The concert will encompass a variety of styles, chosen to demonstrate the range of powerful compositional approaches employed by royal musicians at this time. 

Address: All Saints, West Dulwich, London 
Date/time: September 14, 8pm.
Tickets: £10/£5 (concessions) available from email: siglodeoro@hotmail.co.uk, or telephone: 07984 449 937 or on the door.

Sampler culture clash

Date: 18 September 2008
Time: . 6.30 – 11.00pm
Venue: London Printworks Trust, Unit 7, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, Brixton, SW9 8DJ

Curated by David Littler, this embroidery versus DJ event is filled with live sets, embroidery, film and visual designs.

Tel: 020 7738 7841
Website: Sampler culture clash website

Making Music

Making Music, The National Federation of Music Societies, represents and supports amateur and semi-professional music groups of all genres throughout the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of artistic and administrative services and development and training opportunities. Making Music also lobbies on behalf of their members to national and local government and other agencies.

With over 2000 member societies, they represent over 138,000 musicians and music lovers throughout the UK.

Their activities are grouped into five areas:

• Membership services. These include financial support, artistic support and information services
• Member support and development
• Lobbying and advocacy for voluntary sector music making
• Working with and for young people
• Advancing the cause of live music making across the UK

Musical Routes

Signposting your musical route.
Musical routes helps you promote your musical activities to young people who can search for new opportunities to develop their skills by style, genre or place.

Musical Routes will map music provision to raise the profile of music education and help influence changes in policy by government decision-makers.

Be part of this exciting new initiative by spending a few minutes signing-up to the Musical Routes database. 

For more information contact info@musicalroutes.co.uk

Musicians, Have Your Say

Take part in the biggest ever UK and Eire survey of musicians, and you could get £150 of Amazon vouchers.

The Musicians Benevolent Fund (MBF) is the music business's own charity. Each year, they spend around £2.5 million, helping professional musicians, music students and others who work in the profession. Their mission is to 'listen to musicians - respond to their needs', and that's why they are asking for your help.

They’d like you to tell them what they should be doing to help musicians today.

MBF are launching Musicians…Have your say, which is there biggest ever survey of professional musicians and music students across the UK and Eire. The plan is to use the musicians’ results to help determine what the MBF’s money will be spent on.

They are distributing over 50, 000 of these to shops, recording studios and rehearsal spaces around the country, so that they get feedback from as wide a range of musicians as possible. They are also working with industry bodies, such as the Musicians' Union and AIM to spread the word.

If you're a professional musician or a music student, please free up the ten minutes or so it will take you to fill it out a questionnaire and tell some facts about your life. What you tell them could directly affect how they support professional musicians and music students in the future.

The hub is working with the Musicians Benevolent Fund on what they think is the biggest UK and Eire survey of musicians and music students. Check out Musicians Have Your Say.

St Bartholomew’s Orchestra

Founded in 1973 as a small wind ensemble, the orchestra is now a chamber/symphony orchestra playing most of the classical repertoire. It gives five or six concerts a year, and in all has given some 150 concerts since its formation.

Most are in local churches, but other venues have included St George's Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Arundel Castle and Fairfield Hall. Entrance standard is Grade 8 or equivalent, but a lower standard is acceptable provided players are able to play their parts with practice and are making genuine efforts to improve. The orchestra has a number of members who have come back to playing after an absence as a result of, for example, a course of study or rearing a family - they are referred to as Grade 8 Rusties. Subscriptions are unusually low, currently running at £20.00 a year, £10.00 of which is payable on joining.

There are the usual concessions, and there are no other fees, except for donations for the occasional party. Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings, 8.00 to 10.00pm, in South Streatham, near to bus routes and Norbury and Streatham Common railway stations. There are no parking problems, and lifts can sometimes be arranged.

For more information and to apply contact: Bernard Jupp on 020 8764 7523 or email: bernard.c.jupp@btinternet.com