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Tell us about your Event
The BMS is always delighted to share details of upcoming concerts and events featuring British music – and we have now made it even easier for you to tell us about them!

Festival to feature British music
Hertfordshire Festival (HFoM) will feature a terrific range of British Music at its 2022 festival.

New publications of Darke piano music
Australian music publisher, Crescendo Music Publications has produced three new first editions of the music of Harold Darke..

English Music Festival unveils programme
The 15th English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire on the 27 – 29 May opening with the BBC Concert Orchestra…

Violinist launches RVW150 project
Violinist, writer and composer Midori Komachi is on a mission to bring the music of British composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, to a wider audience…

GWYN PRITCHARD: Features and Formations
Features and Formations, released to celebrate Gwyn Pritchard’s 75th birthday, includes five ensemble works…

C H H PARRY: Prometheus Unbound
Parry’s Prometheus Unbound has suffered decades of neglect, the only recent performance being in 1980. It now finds a champion in William Vann…

BARRY MILLS: Winter Images
Mills paints pictures with his music. Actually, these are not just still pictures, they are motion pictures. Movement is so very crucial to his music…

ISOTONIC: Commissions for Clarinet
This disc is testimony to the artistry of clarinettist Robert Plane who features in all four works all of which he also premièred. He is clearly a phenomenal player…

EDWARD COWIE: Where the Wood Thrush Forever Sings
Following on from his birdsong cycles of Great Britain and Australia, Edward Cowie’s latest two-disc set explores birds of the USA…