CoMA (Contemporary Music-making for All) provides opportunities for amateur musicians of all abilities to take an active part in contemporary music making by means of:

·       An extensive programme of commissioning works that are artistically challenging yet technically accessible to musicians of all standards.

·       Premieres and re-performances given by a network of contemporary music ensembles established by CoMA.

Dartington International Summer School is a three-week combined music festival and summer school artistically directed by Nicholas Daniel, internationally acclaimed conductor and oboist. Dartington provides an opportunity for talented amateurs of all ages and abilities to mingle with professional musicians and composer at weekly master classes and workshops.  With over fifty major courses spanning the whole of the western musical repertoire as well as music from other cultures from Viol Consorts and Early Brass, to Gospel Choir and Improvisation, this event offers great diversity. 

Drake Music (DM) is the leading organisation in England using assistive and digital technologies to remove disabling barriers to musical participation. DM provides fully accessible instruments and opportunities so disabled people can create music. We explore different ways of working at the intersection of music, disability & technology and break new ground in terms of artistic and participatory practices.                                           

Duncan Chapman is a Lincoln based, freelance Composer, Sound Artist, Educator and Performer regularly works with many leading music organisations in Britain including The Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Festival Hall, Spitalfields Music, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Wigmore Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sound Festival, Buxton Festival, BBC and Sound & Music. He is a frequent traveller to more exotic locations with projects and performances in Tokyo, Singapore, Budapest and throughout Europe.

ENO Baylis is ENO’s Learning and Participation Team. Established in 1985, ENO Baylis is named after Lilian Baylis, the pioneering theatre manager whose vision of making opera accessible to all led to the founding of ENO.

Our aim is both to introduce new audiences to opera and to deepen and enrich the experience of current audiences in an adventurous, creative and engaging manner.

English Touring Opera’s award-winning education department delivers about 250 workshops and interactive performances each year for 10,000 people of every age and ability.

The scope of the company’s work includes residential in-school projects (secondary, primary and special), brand new operas for young people, a long-term partnership for primary schools with the National Portrait Gallery, full-scale community operas, and creative work for people with dementia.

Fraser Trainer is a composer and workshop leader with over twenty years experience working with some of the world’s leading arts organisations in a wide variety of creative contexts.

John Christie and his opera singer wife, Audrey Mildmay, founded the Glyndebourne Festival in 1934. Today the Festival runs from May to August with a programme of six operas and together with the Tour, which runs throughout England from October to December, Glyndebourne presents about 120 live performances each year to a total audience of around 150,000.

Internationally renowned for creating innovative music educational projects and performances, Hannah’s flair and versatility has led to engagements with some of the world’s leading opera houses, festivals and orchestras as a music educational consultant, presenter, musical director and composer. Projects range from specially commissioned BBC broadcast concerts, opera-films (Royal Opera House) transmitted across the UK on outdoor screens, to conducting staged spectacles involving hundreds at the O2 Arena and Southbank Centre in London.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is an annual international festival of contemporary and new music that takes place over 10 days consisting of approximately 50 events, including concerts, music-theatre, dance, multimedia, talks and film, with a related Learning and Participation programme devised and implemented to reflect the artistic programme and respond to regional need. The Festival was established in 1978.