Cornwall International Male Voice Choir Festival has launched its 2014 Composers’ Competition. The competition, unique among composition competitions, has no age limit on entrants and awards a single prize of £1000 to the winner. The aim of the competition is to bring new music to the attention of male ensembles across the country. The competition is open to any composer resident and living in the UK. Posted: Thu 19th December 2013 | Read More
To mark the centenary of the birth of poet Dylan Thomas the London Welsh Chorale has launched a competition for young composers to set Thomas’s poem The Hand That Signed The Paper for SATB choir and keyboard accompaniment. Posted: Mon 09th December 2013 | Read More
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We're delighted that our app WellRehearsed, developed as a joint initiative between abcd and Making Music, is now available to download from both the Google and Apple stores. The app will allow us to compile weekly, anonymous statistics on safe group music-making.
abcd has worked alongside colleagues at Making Music, Singing Network UK, ABO and ISM to write to Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, and Dr Jenny Harries OBE at Public Health England regarding the guidance for amateur choirs in England at Step 3.
Our new campaign page is up and running! We've been working with our partner organisations to shape a response to the recent and unexpected guidance for choirs in England which single out amateur singing.
Updated performing arts guidance has now been published. Guidance for non-professionals is at section 2.4. Sadly this only seems to allow for a single group of up to 6 singers indoors. We'll post again after consulting and reading in more detail.
We're sorry we have no further updates on performing arts guidance for England from 17 May. Updated guidance has now been published for worship and for community facilities and like everyone, we are very concerned to see the wording.
