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Arts funding available now: - Up to £30,000 for creative and cultural practitioners for R&D - £4,000 for live performance, new works & artist development alternativeclassical.co.uk/classical-musi…

Jobs & opportunities in the classical music industry: - Assistant opera director - Musician in residence at school - Residency programme for composers and music creators alternativeclassical.co.uk/arts-jobs

Thank you for the shout-out @ClassicalNEXT for our new Composers' Hub! Composers: find opportunities, awards, funding, bursaries, interviews & more: alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub

Email of the day: "Thank you so much for all of the incredible work that you and Alternative Classical do to promote real change in our industry - it's so important and so under-appreciated." 🥹🥹

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Jobs to apply for with deadlines in early January: - Concerts and tours manager at choir - Marketing assistant at festival - Musical director for philharmonic choir alternativeclassical.co.uk/arts-jobs

Today we unveil our new composers' hub 🙌  It brings together opportunities, concerts featuring world premieres, funding and bursary information, interviews with composers, and more.  Take a look here: alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub

Start the new year with some new music, including a world premiere and a London premiere! It's the LSO Jerwood Composer+ Showcase on 10th January alternativeclassical.co.uk/concerts-calen…

"Classical music remains “the most conservative” performing art ... This is true both in the repertoire performed and in the racial and gendered makeup of most ensembles." publicbooks.org/can-literary-f…

Stop the Closure of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Music Department change.org/p/stop-the-clo…

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An RPS Isserlis Scholarship supported Owen to study piano in Budapest - find out how an RPS Isserlis Scholarship could help support your plans to study abroad, and apply by 18 February 2026, here: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/ins…

Which classical music organisations or musicians do you genuinely enjoy following on social media?

Music jobs to apply for this week: - Social media manager at experimental music festival - Chief executive of piano concerto competition - Conducting fellowship at opera company alternativeclassical.co.uk/arts-jobs

Do you have any music book recommendations from this year? Fiction and non-fiction both welcome.

The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Prize has been created by @mozartplayers to support young composers from underrepresented backgrounds. Prize: £1,000 bursary Deadline: 5 Jan londonmozartplayers.com/sctprize-2025/ #ad #classicalmusic #composers

Christmas Choral Music by Female & Non-Binary Composers alternativeclassical.co.uk/features/chris…

Current opportunities: - Compose a short anthem - Senior producer at opera house - Performing competition for under 18s Jobs, competitions & more: alternativeclassical.co.uk/arts-jobs

Funding & bursaries for classical musicians and creative projects: - £16,000 per academic year for postgraduate instrumentalists - £3,500 for independent promoters - £1,000 to for people of colour looking to make a leap with their creative practice alternativeclassical.co.uk/classical-musi…

An exhilarating re-imagining of Holst’s The Planets for folk duo and orchestra. 28-30 January in London, Norfolk & Cambridge brittensinfonia.com/events/earth-a… #ad #classicalmusic #folkmusic