BMS Prize winners 2022 The activities of the New Talent Festival 2022 have finally come to a close with some great British music performances this year. The jurors have selected 2 winners for the British Music Society Prizes both singing Sleep by Ivor Gurney: Winner:...
Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary series The third group of recordings in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary series are being released digitally by Linn Records. The recordings feature Royal Academy alumni Julie Park (viola); Camilla Harris (soprano), and...
The Dionysus Ensemble was awarded National Lottery funding to commission female Scottish composer Seonaid Aitken to write a new suite for the Platinum Jubilee for string quartet, clarinet and harp. The work is all about female empowerment, celebrating strong women who...
Applications are now open for the Composers Academy 2022-23. This established programme has been developed by the Philharmonia Orchestra for exceptional musicians looking to develop their skills in composition through coaching and mentoring. The programme is...
The theme of this year’s London Song Festival is ‘Friends and Lovers’. Each concert paints an intimate and revealing portrait of a close relationship, whether romantic or purely friendship, between a poet and a composer. Taking place at the Hinde Street...
Some members might be aware that the British Music Society existed in various forms with branches around the world before the formation of the current society. Mr. Raju S M wrote to the BMS recently from Bangalore in India as follows: ‘Many years ago, we found a...
