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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Go Compose, Solomon Islands!
The Commonwealth Resounds Ensemble-in-Residence, the Dionysus Ensemble recently travelled to the Solomon Islands to lead a musical project for young people. The Dionysus Ensemble ran a “Go Compose Solomon Islands” day, introducing composition and trained the students...
The Commonwealth International Composition Award Shortlist Announced
YOUNG COMPOSERS SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINAL ‘ FLYERS ’ Childhood Impressions by Xiaole Zhan (New Zealand) Hero’s Journey No 2 by Andrew Udal – (Australia) Time by Devon Mallin Halim – (Indonesia) Vorfreude by Nathaniel Koh – (New Zealand) Be the Light by Hui Zhou Rong...
10th Anniversary Christmas Concert
Dear music-lover, Child's Play India Foundation is pleased to invite you to our 10th Anniversary Christmas Concert. This concert will be full of good cheer and traditional Christmas music and will feature the Child's Play Chorus, Camerata Child's Play India and Goa's...
The Commonwealth Resounds travelled to Rwanda
In July 2018, two members of The Commonwealth Resounds travelled to Rwanda for a partnership-building trip linked to CHOGM 2020. Read their report here. There was a great deal of interest from musical and cultural partners in the different regions of Rwanda, and...
Instruments of Creation
We've been using the Commonwealth's Blue Charter and Climate Change policies as our starting place and theme for creating and composing new pieces of music with the children in three Jesuit Missions schools and they will be performing them, alongside some of our own...
Concert at the Indian High Commission’s Nehru Centre
Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1K 1HF 6.30pm, Thursday September 12th 2019 Our musical programme showcased the fusion of Western Classical music with Indian Traditional music, by combining the strings and tabla of our Ensemble. Classical works...
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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