School can be the only place young people get the opportunity to learn music; yet government cuts to the arts are causing a creativity crisis, and those from minoritised backgrounds are often hit the hardest. Please help us reach out through Future Sound🙏 #ChampionsForChildren

Satnam Rana Bham City Council Sense Bambi Bains Bobby Friction FriendlyFireBand Emily Jones // Echo Juliet SANITY Team England Sampad Arts Soweto Kinch Chitraleka Dance Co LibraryofBirmingham FABRIC LYNNEBEC FattProjects Autin Dance Theatre ZoieLogic Dance Theatre Birmingham Restaurant Festival EZL Birmingham Irish Appearing on Tue 1 Aug are Neighbourhood, The Rep’s Grimeboy, jazz from David Austin Grey’s A Hologram Maze and BIMM Birmingham’s rock & metal showcase. We are nothing if not varied! #BirminghamFestival23

A joy to hear The Notebenders perform at Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival Jazz Funk & Soul Festival. They played a great set and I’m really happy to have written their opening piece, as part of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's Flourish project. Many thanks to James, Liam and the whole band for all their hard work. —

How misconceptions help perpetuate homelessness, brilliantly explained by Matt Downie of Crisis Watch the whole interview with Rachael Amy Williams at streetwiseopera.org/the-opposite-o…

Back on EAVA FM 102.5 on Wednesday night 8-10pm, with tunes from David Austin Grey Dennis Rollins Camilla George Marcus Joseph arun ghosh ahead of Cosmopolitan Arts #ForTheLoveOfJazz on Sunday 13th August in #Leicester #Jazz

What’s up world. 🌎 I’m playing at For The Love of Jazz Festival, Leicester, this Sunday! 🙌🏾 Presenting a new lineup, ‘Glowseeker’ feat. featuring Matthew Holmes on drums and Josh Vadiveloo on electric bass guitar.🔥 Bringing you grooves, jams and good times. See you there. ✌🏾

We were thrilled to welcome writer and actor Paterson Joseph to our workshop at the Southbank Centre this week. Paterson will be the librettist for #ReDiscover, a triple bill of new operas inspired by the music of composers of African and Caribbean heritage.

If you wish to apply to be one of our Re:Discover Directors in London, Manchester or Nottingham, make sure to submit your application by 5pm on Friday 6 October. Find out more at streetwiseopera.org/vacancy/redisc…

You will lead the co-creation of a 12- to 15-minute opera, working with people with lived experience of homelessness and with writer/actor Paterson Joseph and composers Pete Letanka, Lavender Rodriguez and David Austin Grey. The fee is £3,125.

Announcing Re:Discover! In 2023-2024 we will co-create a triple bill of operas inspired by composers of African and Caribbean heritage. We'll work with amazing artists including Abigail Kelly Paterson Joseph Pete Letanka @ohitslavender David Austin Grey streetwiseopera.org/projects/redis…

Oh and obviously we got some of brum's best artists to perform and lil old me gets to call them my friends... 🥺 NAMYWA, Sipho and David Austin Grey, who are all outrageously talented.

Our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge is now live! Help us transform the lives of people affected by homelessness. For the next 7 days, all donations made via Big Give will be matched, doubling the impact of your gift! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

I’ve been sinking hours into adventure games and listening to loads of Shostakovich, Scriabin etc. Here’s a tiny little snippet of a new piece. 📝

We are co-creating three exciting new short operas with amazing artists Paterson Joseph Lavender Rodriguez @letankapete David Austin Grey. Support our Re:Discover project via the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and your donation will be doubled 🤩🤩 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

The final train back to Brum was delayed for ages the other night! 🙄 Ended up chatting to this lovely lady, Jo, an actress in the west end. We played piano together and decided to do a little song to pass the time.🎵 Chance encounters are often some of the loveliest moments!

Please, please will someone sample Amol Rajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊

Manchester! Glowseeker are playing TONIGHT (29th Jan) at The Yard NQ Jazz. 🙌🏾 We’d love to see you there. 🫶🏾👀 David Austin Grey: piano/keys/synth/electronics Josh Vadiveloo: bass guitar Jack James: drums Music from 7:30pm ✌🏾 seetickets.com/event/glowseek…

We had a blast on Saturday at manchester jazz festival. Thanks to everyone who came out. 🌞 A HOLOGRAM MAZE David Austin Grey - piano Sam Wooster - trumpet Kyran Matthews - tenor/soprano Shivraj Singh - double bass Nathan England-Jones - drums

The incredible Streetwise Opera Nottingham team pictured with their well deserved Royal Philharmonic Society 2025 #RPSAward! The team created and performed a new opera co-written with Paterson Joseph and David Austin Grey for Re:Discover Festival Nottingham Playhouse - rediscover.streetwiseopera.org