New track up - Check it out! 🎶

THINGS AS... - on.soundcloud.com/Uzgr5

Created as part of Cheltenham Festivals Composer Academy 2023. Performed by The Carice Singers, directed by #georgeparris .

📢Composers! I'd be interested to know how many of you work full-time jobs that are unrelated to your creative work.

For those that do: What do you do? How do you balance your time? How does it influence the way you create?

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

Our first YCP mentor training for the brand new team is today! Excited to see everyone and discuss how we can support young composers #MusicEd Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

We are thrilled to be working with a new batch of six incredibly talented composers at this year's Cheltenham Festivals Composer Academy! 🥳 They are: Mary Offer, Anibal Vidal, Alice Beckwith, Alexander Papp, Effy Efthymiou, and Robert Crehan.

Get in your applications for our YCP creative weekend this summer! Deadline 1st July youngcomposersproject.com/join-us/ Not sure whether to apply or how to answer a question 🤔 message us! Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Birm Cons Composers #NewMusic

On the one year anniversary of a terrible incident (described on link) my amazing wife Kirsten is running 10 miles Sunday week to raise money for LONDON'S AIR AMBULANCE, who we are intensely grateful to. You can donate here --
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This year we heard new pieces from Edwin Hillier Rafael Marino Arcaro ROBIN HAIGH Robert Crehan Lara Agar Litha Efthymiou and returning works from Christian Drew @stefconner whose pieces will be performed by us live in concert next April.

Fantastic morning in the audience of London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Workshop, hearing fantastic pieces from Edwin Hillier Rafael Marino Arcaro ROBIN HAIGH and Robert Crehan - what a wonderful cohort, led by the incomparable francois-xavier roth

Incredibly thrilled to be a part of this! 🎶

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek this week. This is a small article I did for the 2023 Proms guide about living and working with OCD a condition that is often misunderstood and misrepresented in the media!
Bambos Charalambous MP Gavin Higgins Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 OCD Action Catherine Benfield OCD-UK

31 May - Finally come and get a behind the scenes look at the workshopping process of an orchestral piece at our free LSO Panufnik Composers Workshops conducted by francois-xavier roth

Booking required - lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalr…

In my session I’ll be showing some single-breath pieces from Coming Up for Air project incl Nina Whiteman joanna ~ Robert Crehan Yshani Perinpanayagam. How have these composers responded to writing for a specific flutist with respiratory conditions (me)? Come along & find out!

I met a composer who urged me to check out the music of Mel Bonis and when I tell you the Wikipedia article about her personal life had me going WHAT...it's wild

Last year, we spoke to Robert Crehan about a load of things incl. text-setting, Steve McQueen, the rhetoric of gesture, and much more - have a read: prxludes.net/robert-crehan

The Observer Please sign the petition: music must not be silenced!

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Composers, if you haven't signed this already please do so by 1300 today - we need to stand together to provide a powerful message of support for the greatest cultural institutions.

Composer Robert Crehan and teachers from Allenscroft Primary School presented on their experience on supporting young people develop new compositions. Their thoughts on setting limits to inspire greater creativity were perceptive!

PaulHamlynFoundation @BeaconLearning_@SFE_MS Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Birmingham City University

🌟Learning Takeover🌟

Hello from Beacon Music Centre! Today we’re in Bristol for another Listen Imagine Compose Primary Seminar. I’m Naomi, BCMG’s Project Manager for #LICPrimary and I’ll be tweeting throughout today’s seminar.

PRXLUDES is run entirely on a DIY basis - if you like what we do, please consider donating or buying us a coffee to keep us afloat:
buymeacoffee.com/prxludes

In keeping with our commitment to emerging composers, we've also set up a page keeping track of the many organisations who provide amazing opportunities for composers and music creators (thanks for the inspo Sound and Music!)
prxludes.net/opportunities