BBC Performing Arts Fund Community Music Grants 2012 East of England Essex Marching Corps Essex Marching Band To run advanced training workshops and perform with 4,677 an army band South Oxhey Choir Hertfordshire Community Choir To run workshops for the members to learn to read music and to improve diction and breathing and to recruit new members Stevenage Symphony Hertfordshire Symphony Create new piece with local composer and school 3,500 children Woodford Symphony Essex Amateur Set up a children s concert for the local community to engage a completely new audience 3325 East Midlands Glossop and District Choral Society Derbyshire Choir Workshops to increase choir s skills and abilities; open up to potential new members and culminating in a performance at an Glossop Carnival 4,000
London Advent Community Stratford, Youth Choir create and record original performance pieces on the 9,000 Association East London theme of peace -- featuring instrumental performers from RPO, and vocalists from Young N Gifted choir and local schools BM Pink Singers London LGBT Choir Commissioning a new piece of music to celebrate the 10,000 Choir With No Name London/Birmingha m Choirs for people who have experienced homelessness choir s 30 th anniversary with workshops and a concert To bring the 3 choirs together to record a cd to raise the confidence and skills of the group as well as increase their profile ENO Community Choir Central London Community Choir Create a bespoke training course for members of the choir to and use its resources to help support improving the quality of life for older and vulnerable residents I Love Thunder Ealing Rock band made up of people with learning disabilities The Band Southwark, Lambeth Youth Band Workshops to expand and develop stage act and to enable group to get more gigs in the mainstream Professional composer and The Band (the London Philharmonic 's group for 16-19s in South London) members will create a new piece, which will tour to recruit new members with a final performance at the Southbank Centre. Regent Brass Wembley, London Brass Band Commission of new work and performance to celebrate one year of Regent Community Brass Strung Out Waltham Forest, Community String To collaborate with a composer to produce a new piece London of music for performance at local festivals Vasari Singers London Choir To commission David Briggs to write a new choral work to premiere in February 2013 4,970 4,500 4,250 6,550
North-East Core Music Hexham, Community Ceilidh To create a new composition in the Northumbrian music 9,350 Northumberland Band tradition incorporating influences and ideas from a Semi-Tones Voicemale Men s Choir Newcastle Upon Tyne Morpeth, Northumberland Community Male Voice Folk Choir diverse group of musicians To work with a group of elderly residents and a music therapist, to improve the orchestra s ability to engage elderly residents in their music with two public performances Collaborate with a local women s choir in creating workshops and new performances around songs reflecting the working lives of local people in Northumberland 1,460 4,850 South-East Dacorum Community Choir Hemel Hempsted Community Choir To perform Jonathan Dove s Community Opera Tobias and the Angels: the culmination of a long-term series of rehearsals and workshops, combining professional forces with amateur forces of all ages Milton Keynes Chorale Milton Keynes, Choir For the 40th anniversary celebrations the choir plan to 2,500 Bucks learn and perform Thomas Tallis' 40-part motet 'Spem in Alium'. Readipop/Moving On Reading, Berkshire Senior Citizens Choir Project to recruit new members and create a live band 4,000 to accompany the choir Southampton Choral Southampton Choir To commission and perform a work which unites the diverse choral groups in the city: gospel, community, church and school choirs. Included in the commission will be opportunities for local soloists to work alongside an internationally acclaimed soloist 10,000
North-West Cumbria Community Gamelan Carlisle, Cumbria Gamelan to establish the Cumbria Community Gamelan in its new home in Carlisle, to attract and retain a new cohort of members from the local community, and create exciting and challenging performance opportunities for new and old members alike. 4,965 Fireflies Choir Ellesmere Port Community Choir commission an anthem celebrating the history and life of the local community, to be created and performed by as many members of the community as possible 6,700 Pagoda Chinese Youth Liverpool Chinese Youth Commissioning a new piece of music and a film to celebrate the youth orchestra s 30 years anniversary ReSound Community Choir Ormskirk Community Choir To extend the A-May-Sing programme by staging a large free (or very very cheap) performance at the Civic Hall, featuring music from war time and inviting participants and audience members from local care homes and homes for the elderly. 4,650 RNCM Youth Perform Manchester Community Vocal Rock It! Collective Bolton Community Music Sat dy Allsorts Manchester Young People s Vocal Development programme to recruit new members from hard to reach communities across the city To develop music leaders and to work with local music service on composition project Create ten new pieces of urban music inspired by the lives of the young people to record, distribute and perform for peers and local community. 4,950 4,770 6,800
Scotland Aestaewast Shetland African Drumming Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile Isle of Mull Traditional Gaelic Choir To bring a high quality African drumming expert to Shetland for an intensive weekend of tuition for members to produce a CD to mark the 10th anniversary of Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile 1,000 4,600 Dunbartonshire Concert Band Milngavie, Dunbartonshire Wind Band To commission a new work to celebrate 40 th anniversary and to encourage new repertoire for wind bands 7,580 Friends of Wighton Dundee Musical To present a concert featuring a selection of works from the Wighton Collection featuring rare Scottish music Lochwinnoch Choral Renfrewshire Community Choir Series of workshops to encourage local musicians to Society work with the choir 1,298 Stranraer Drumming Dumfries and Galloway Community Drumming To host drumming workshops given by professional tutors 1,200
South-West England Cheltenham Youth Choir Cheltenham, Glos Youth Choir To commission a suite of new songs by Gloucestershire composers including Philip Lane and Steve Winwood to perform at the Cheltenham Music Festival. Fascinating Rhythm Bristol Ladies Barbershop/ A Cappella Saturday Music School (SaMS) West Devon Folk Choir To run workshops to encourage new membership and to engage the community for their expanded Christmas show Totnes, Devon Youth Musical To devise a new work based on the theme of Around the World in 80 Days Okehampton, Devon Community Folk Choir Commission a cycle of songs that celebrates the wildlife found by two Rivers Ockment for the second Okehampton Lantern project so that the rivers of light (lanterns) are punctuated by pools of song. Wimborne Minster Choir Wimborne, Dorset Minster Choir To commission a new work for choir and children s chorus involving a large number of local schoolchildren in high-quality performance 8,550 800 3,725 6,750 6,127 Wales Wonderbrass Cardiff Jazz Band Work with three different composers (Paula Gardiner, Claude Deppa and Rob Smith) to develop new, distinctive pieces for the band's repertoire as well as developing learning and playing styles with members of the band Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion Ceredigion Young People s Choir To commission and stage a new choral work to celebrate its 20 th Anniversary 10,000 10,000
Yorkshire and The Humber Castaway Sing Goole, Humberside Choir made up of adults with physical and learning disabilities Commission York-based composer Emily Crossland to compose a piece for the choir, which is rehearsed and performed with singers from East Yorks Federation of Women's Institutes, and professional and Castaway instrumentalists in Goole and Beverley Dales Jam Skipton Community Jazz Band To produce an original piece of music developed in workshops to be premiered at Grassington Festival Whitby Community Choir Whitby Community Choir Develop an inclusive inter-generational choral event with a new commission of a song cycle; collaboration with a youth choir and provide opportunities for choir members to develop leadership skills 6,736 7,000 9,360 West Midlands Porthywaen Silver Band Severn Valley Samba Band Porthywaen, Oswestry Wyre Valley, Worcestershire Brass Band Community Samba Band work with composer Matthew Hall to create a new piece of music suitable for the beginners, youth and senior sections 3 community workshops in local areas to recruit new members and 1 masterclass/workshop to attract people with some drumming experience in other genres. This will be followed by a beginners course to consolidate membership Town Hall Gospel Choir Birmingham Gospel Choir To perform a full length show for the first time, reach new audiences and receive vocal training 2.760 4,320