Adopt-a-Composer is run by Sound and Music and Making Music, funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music.

Sound and Music

Sound and Music is the UK’s landmark organisation championing new music and sound. Created by the merger of the British Music Information Centre, Contemporary Music Network, Society for the Promotion of New Music and Sonic Arts Network, Sound and Music works in partnership with artists and producers with the ambition to attract larger and more diverse audiences to engage with innovative and sometimes challenging work. Its programme consists of four areas: live events, knowledge and resources, digital, and learning and participation.

Join Sound and Music free of charge by registering at www.soundandmusic.org.

Making Music

Making Music, the National Federation of Music Societies, is one of the largest arts umbrella organisations in the UK, representing and supporting over 2,800 voluntary music groups. Its members include choirs, orchestras, music promoters, jazz and wind bands, community festivals, samba groups, sitar ensembles, barbershop choruses and brass bands. It provides a comprehensive range of financial, artistic and administrative services, as well as development and training opportunities to member groups. Making Music also lobbies on behalf of its members to national and local government and other agencies. Collectively, Making Music’s 200,000 musicians and music lovers present around 10,000 concerts each year to an audience of 1.6 million people.

Making Music exists to ensure that music making flourishes in your local community. We believe that music making is vital to the health of our communities, our people and our economy. Our members provide rich musical experiences and opportunities within their communities all around the UK. We will continue to help create an environment in which communities and individuals flourish through music making.

Making Music celebrates its 75th birthday in 2010/2011. Founded by composer Sir George Dyson in 1935, the organisation was created to give a collective voice to the hundreds of voluntary classical music societies around the UK. Today we support a wonderfully diverse range of voluntary music groups including choirs, samba groups, barbershop groups, handbell ringers, festivals, steel pan groups, orchestras and many more. We are proud to say that over 25% of our members are now rooted outside the classical music genre.

The PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF)

The PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF) is a refreshingly approachable and adventurous funding body. As the UK’s only independent funder of new music across all genres, the Foundation supports a huge range of new music activity – everything from unsigned band showcases to residencies for music creators, from ground-breaking commissions to live electronica. Its main aims are to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK, ensuring this reaches a wide audience. In addition, it motivates public debate about creative music-making in the UK, for example through ground-breaking projects such as the New Music Award. Over the past 8 years the Foundation has proved itself a significant force in supporting pioneering musical activity. The Foundation provides essential core support for creators, performers and producers of new music, while also underpinning exciting new music projects. Since March 2000 it has supported over 3000 new music initiatives with over £12 million.
www.prsfoundation.co.uk