Creating musical partnerships, projects and performances across the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth Resounds is an officially accredited Commonwealth musical organisation. Established in 2005, our mission is to connect musical cultures, and to promote initiatives and partnerships in Commonwealth countries. We have a special focus upon music education and composition.
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Commonwealth Composition Challenge Audience Vote Now Live!
The Commonwealth Composition Challenge is a special project launched at the beginning of the lockdown in March/April 2020. The aim of the project is to offer online opportunities to school-aged musicians and composers all over the Commonwealth who have been stuck at...
Commonwealth Head of Policy – a message of support for the Commonwealth Composition Challenge
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 &...
Join Nathanael to perform HOPE!
HOPE! by Nathanael (Nat), a 10-year old composer from Singapore is a beautiful composition written to support front-line workers and everyone affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat has already encouraged musicians from New Zealand, Singapore, and Australia to perform...
Shortlist Announced: Commonwealth Composition Challenge
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....
Go Compose 2020!
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...
Home Slough – Poetry Day
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...
His Majesty, King Charles III sends his heartfelt thanks for the wonderful musical accompaniment by young musicians from The Commonwealth Resounds at the launch of the Prince’s Trust International in Malta. They added something very special to the occasion.
’A Song for the Commonwealth’ has been a masterpiece of a project, with its wonderfully international ‘cast of thousands’, and its extraordinary reach, via music, all around the world. I will continue to be inspired by it; it was my own personal highlight from the Platinum Jubilee. I hope all of you who took part will remain proud of your involvement, as this was something really special. The life-affirming song, and the hundreds of new arrangements and projects it gave life to, form a major piece of heritage from the Jubilee, and a very positive portrait of choral life around the world in 2022. Thanks to all who sang or played this music, who taught, arranged and filmed it – something very important was created here.
In celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s extraordinary 70 year dedicated reign over the UK and the Commonwealth, the Lighting of the Beacons will occur on 2nd June 2022 throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, UK Overseas Territories and for the first time, in each of the capital cities of the Commonwealth. I thought it would add to this special moment in The Queen’s life, if a unique song was sung by individual choirs throughout the Commonwealth as the Beacons are lit throughout the various time zones, on 2nd June next year. I could think of no better organisation than my friends from The Commonwealth Resounds to organise a competition to find the winning song to be sung during this historic evening of celebration.
The sights and sounds of Commonwealth Resounds and of the Kampala CHOGM will long live with me
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