A message of support for our Commonwealth Composition Challenge from Layne Robinson, Head of Policy at the Commonwealth. Mr Robinson congratulates our brilliant Commonwealth Composition Challenge finalists and speaking about how music is a tool to empower, unite & engage young people.
The Commonwealth Composition Challenge was launched in April to encourage young people to compose music that is relevant to the Coronavirus pandemic in some way. Open to young people aged 11-18 throughout the Commonwealth, the competition received hundreds of entries.
We are delighted to announce that the following composers have been shortlisted as finalists. The date of the Award Ceremony will be announced shortly.
INDIA – Aditya Manik aged 15 – ‘Journey To and Through Agony’
CANADA – Devon Packer aged 14 – ‘Home Fugue Home’
MALAYSIA – Eleanor Inn Rei Shuen aged 12 – ‘Dear Fate’
SINGAPORE – Isaiah Hui Zhou Rong aged 15 – ‘Courage’
INDIA – Ishaan Leonard Rao aged 15 – “Locked Down’
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA – Jahfari Hazelwood aged 17 – ‘Stuck in Quarantine’
AUSTRALIA – James Brew aged 13 – “Pan-Xiety’
UNITED KINGDOM – Maddie Melville Smith aged 15 – ‘Memories’
SINGAPORE – Nathanael Koh aged 10 – ‘Mutation’
UNITED KINGDOM – Oliver Gibson aged 16 – ‘Forever’
INDIA – Tiara Michelle Oberoi aged 17 – ‘Lacrimosa’
Exciting online composition workshops for young people who are stuck at home! Run by brilliant professional composers and musicians.
Compose a piece of music in a single day and hear it performed in an online concert! Two pilot workshops are starting later this week and more projects will be announced in May – so get on board as soon as you can. These are free of charge.
Available to school-aged pupils living anywhere in the world. You may have composed music before or you may be a beginner – no problem! You can be involved.
Sign up now and have a great time learning how to compose music with lots of expert help and support!
To see the full information about GO COMPOSE online, click here.
To apply, please fill in this Application for Go Compose Online.
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Go Compose is a Sound and Music project. We would like to thank both Sound and Music, and the ABRSM for their support in running these workshops.
Our Ensemble in Residence, the Dionysus Ensemble are working with HOME Slough, Aik Saath, and Empoword Slough on a project bringing together poets and musicians to celebrate World Poetry Day on 21 March.
They’ll be performing their work on 21 March at 3pm at a FREE event in Slough town centre. Watch this space for a write-up of their project!