composers’ hub
calls for scores, composition prizes & more
A round-up of the composing opportunities available at the moment in the UK. All composition prizes and schemes included here are free to enter. Opportunities included in this list are not endorsement. If you find this page useful, please consider donating £3 to go towards website costs by buying us a coffee. Organisations can submit opportunities here.
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Composing opportunities
Find a list of the current composing call-outs, including calls for scores, composition prizes, and grants for UK composers, on our opportunities hub.
Funding & bursaries
Find a list of the funding pots and bursaries that are currently open for applications on our new arts funding hub!
composer schemes & support for composers
articles
A mind-boggling selection of some of the longest pieces of classical music.
Let’s play “I’m a feminist but”, the classical music edition… Here are your anonymous confessions.
An introduction to festive choral pieces by female composers.
What’s it like to be an “emerging” musician after music college?
Is the music I am working with ‘new’? Or ‘contemporary’? Is it ‘experimental’? Or maybe ‘contemporary classical’?
concerts & events
Totally relaxed and friendly environment to share something you are working on, have completed or something original/improvised.
Tonic Music will be providing a FREE online Peer Support Group for anyone who works and/or studies in music, who identifies as LGBTQIA+.
Tonic Music will be providing a FREE online Peer Support Group for anyone who works and/or studies in music, who is diagnosed with or currently being assessed for ADHD, Autism or any form of neurodivergence.
This concert is a transportation to wild, remote, visceral coasts — like those in the West Highlands — exploring cultural connections to the sea and the risks presented by the changing climate.
Step back in time for some joyous singalong tunes from your primary school days.
Step back in time for some joyous singalong tunes from your primary school days.
A Sunday morning series of music and science for inquiring and curious minds.
Automatic negative thoughts can become such a habit for musicians, they stop noticing they even have them.