Good to see the 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize featuring on the Independent Society of Musicians website ism.org/opportunities-… please do share #Composer #Songs

Announcing choral auditions in May for projects with AAM , London Early Opera, Polyphony, Sonoro and ad hoc work. Please apply by 12 April! Choral Consultancy

Sobering statistics in Baroness Keeley of Worsley (also on BlueSky)'s speech on music hubs in UK Parliament a couple of days ago: there are 20,000 fewer state school ensembles, orchestras, bands and choirs than there were just seven years ago...

It’s album release day!!! 💿 🤩 lnk.to/DaniHoward If you can help me spread the word that would be 🙏🏻🙏🏻 hope you enjoy it! 🎶

Completely thrilled with this stunning recording of my new piece written for The Mancunium Consort ... just posted TODAY! 🎶🎉😍 It's a companion piece to #Tallis If Ye Love Me #Earlymusic #NewMusic #Choral youtu.be/7VyG-3jjX3A?si…

Watch us perform our first commission, 'I Will Not Leave You Comfortless' by Richard Barnard - a companion piece to Tallis' If Ye Love Me It has been a treat to work with Richard on this project - catch the world premiere The Bridgewater Hall on 3rd May! youtube.com/watch?v=7VyG-3…

Take 5 mins to listen to some beautifully performed new choral music for #Easter A piece about loss, legacy and undying spirit🕊️🎶 #PalmSunday #Tallis #Renaissance The Mancunium Consort Thomas Tallis Society BBC Radio 3 Classical Music youtu.be/7VyG-3jjX3A?si…

📣📣 CAREER OPPORTUNITY! 📣📣 Exciting opportunity to join Southbank Centre, working with me to curate and deliver the classical music programme, one-off festivals, and other cross-artform projects at Europe’s largest arts centre! Full details here: bit.ly/SC_Programmer

We are saddened to hear of the death of conductor Sir Andrew Davis. In a career spanning over 5 decades, he was the artistic leader of several of the world's most distinguished opera and symphonic institutions including BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and Glyndebourne.

12:45 this Friday! Programme contains some delights from Monteverdi, Certon, Duruflé, Tallis and of course the world premiere of our wonderful commission by Richard Barnard - Don’t miss out!

This week we’ve settled into the wonderful acoustics at All Hallows Church in Gospel Oak to record a new album, ‘Radiant Dawn’. We’re joined by the fabulous Matilda Lloyd, with C16th repertoire by Tallis & White alongside commissions from Deborah Pritchard & Richard Barnard.

We had such a great time The Bridgewater Hall last week opening up Live At Lunchtime 2024. Amongst the highlights was world premiering our first #commission by Richard Barnard to an audience of over 200! Keep an eye out for more #concert announcements soon 🗓️ #choral #manchester

Richard Madeley explaining the plot of his new crime novel on Radio 2 just now is two minutes of pure joy, and the most Accidental Partridge thing I have ever heard

Oh, but this is just delicious 'Thank you to those individuals who donated their own teeth to my study...' Read and rejoice! Lev Parikian nature Dr Lorraine Wilson (mostly on Bluesky) @jonerskine51 science.anu.edu.au/news-events/ne…

This is superb... a must see.

I don't usually watch the Olympics, but I think the bloke in front is cheating. 😐🤣

Horror in Tehran: I am furious, outrage and heartbroken to see how 14-year-old teenagers being savagely attacked by the morality police for not covering their hair. This video, released by a reformist website, coincides with the execution of a protester Reza Rasaei who stood

Today, we mourn the loss of Alexander (Sandy) Goehr, the last of the Manchester school of composers and a composer who has been affiliated with BCMG over decades. He has been an influential figure for the UK contemporary music scene and key for international exchange, as a