🎶 Applications for In Motion 2026 are now open!

Across 18 transformative months, composers receive tailored mentoring, coaching and funding to refine their artistic vision and bring new public-facing work to life ✨

📆 Apply by Monday 3 November 2025
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/InMotion26

🎶 Join our Board of Trustees 🎶

💡 We’re looking for two new Trustees with finance/accountancy expertise to help shape the future of new music and sound in the UK.

📥 Deadline: 19 Oct 2025, midnight

🔗 Learn more and apply: bit.ly/TrusteeSound...

🎶 Meet the 8 recipients of the 2025 Seed Award ✨

🌱 The Seed Award offers coaching, funding and support to help composers take the next step in their creative journey.

⭐️ Learn more: bit.ly/SeedAward2025

#SoundandMusic #SeedAward2025 #FundedByPRSF #NewMusic

🌍 We’re partnering with @britisharts.bsky.social for the New Music Commissioning Programme — pairing UK and international artists to co-create new works 🎶

🇧🇷 Yantó
🇨🇴 María Gabriela Rubio Hernández
🇮🇩 Fahmi Mursyid
🇬🇧 Tony Onuchukwu
🇬🇧 RIEKO
🇬🇧 Yasmin Rai

🔗 bit.ly/NewMusicComm...

🎶 Applications now open to represent the UK at ISCM World New Music Days 2026 in Bucharest!

📩 Submit your work via Sound and Music for the chance to perform in Romania next May.



📅 Deadline: 8 September 2025 at midnight

🔗 Apply here: bit.ly/ISCM2026Brit...

#ISCM #NewMusic #OpenCall

🎶 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to welcome 10 bold and boundary-pushing composers to the second-ever cohort of In Motion, our flagship artist development programme.

⭐️ Meet the composers and follow their journeys!

🔗 bit.ly/InMotion-2025

#InMotion2025 #FundedbyPRSF #NewMusic

📣 Calling all ensembles!

🎼 Be our Ensemble in Residence for In the Making 2025 — a week-long residency supporting young music creators. Help us shape the future of new music!

💷£6K fee + 🚉Travel + 🏨Accommodation

📝 Apply by Monday 26 May: bit.ly/EnsembleInRe...

🎵 We’re delighted to reveal the 13 outstanding recipients of the Essentials Fund: Round Two!

🎹They each represent the immense innovation, diversity, and vision that define the UK’s music-making community today.

🌟Meet the winners and learn more: bit.ly/EssentialsFu...

🎵 Applications for In the Making 2025 are closing SOON!💫

The UK’s only year-long artist development programme for talented young composers aged 14–18. 🎸🎶

📆Apply by Monday 5 May 2025!
🔗Learn more: bit.ly/IntheMaking

🎵 The Essentials Fund Round Two is now OPEN! 🎉

💷 Get £250–£400 to support your creative practice—covering self-learning, equipment, mentoring & more.

📆 Apply by 20 March at midnight
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/EssentialsFu...

🎵 Applications are OPEN for In the Making 2025! 💫

The UK’s only year-long artist development programme for young composers (14–18). 🎸🎶

📅 Apply by Sunday 13 April 2025!
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/IntheMaking

🖼️🎵 We’re thrilled to announce #SoundEscapes, a groundbreaking collaboration with the renowned @sainsburycentre.bsky.social, bringing their world-class art collection to life through music! ✨

🎧 Listen to the inspired works from ten incredible composers: bit.ly/DiscoverSoun...

🎵 We’re delighted to reveal the 11 outstanding recipients of the first-ever round of the Essentials Fund!

🎹 They each represent the immense talent, diversity, and creativity within the UK’s music-making community.

🌟 Meet the winners and learn more: bit.ly/EssentialsFu...

We’re thrilled to announce that @fabermusic.bsky.social has renewed its significant annual support for our young artist development programme, In the Making, for another three years ✨

📰 Read the full press release here: bit.ly/FaberMusicPa...