Help with funding for early music ventures
Do you have an innovative early music* venture that needs some extra funding**? Perhaps a concert of little-known works which might struggle to draw a large enough audience? The preparation of a neglected music score? A specialised event that would benefit from extra publicity? BMEMF may be able to help.
We have a modest financial surplus that we can use to support the promotion of early music in the Border Marches area (Herefordshire, Shropshire, Radnorshire, Monmouthshire and west and south Worcestershire). If you would like to know more about the sort of ventures we have in mind, and how to apply for funding, here are our outreach funding guidelines.
* Early Music – music written up to the middle of the eighteenth century
** Extra Funding – think £100s rather than £1,000s!
Projects already funded
We have given a substantial grant to The Linarol Consort (David Hatcher, Clare Horacek, Alison Kinder and Asako Morikawa) towards their planned recording of a CD featuring pieces from a Venetian manuscript printed by Petrucci. The Consort are based in the Border Marches, and and David and Alison are well-known to us as workshop tutors.
In June 2019, we funded a free concert for children and their families at the Worcester Early Music Festival. The recorder quintet Fontanella led their young audience through musical woods full of birdsong, insects and ... dinosaurs. For more information about this excellent event, click here.
Other ventures we have already funded include a workshop on keyboard concertos by William Felton of Hereford, and some financial support for an inaugural concert by the The Linarol Consort in Discoed. Both of these involved editions of music which were specially prepared for the events.
We are funding the setting up of the new Wales Early Music Forum Cymru, which launched with a very well-received workshop in October. In November, we ran a BMEMF outreach project for string players with leading Baroque violinist Julia Bishop, at an exceptional “come and try” price of £10 - a successful and enjoyable day.
We have a modest financial surplus that we can use to support the promotion of early music in the Border Marches area (Herefordshire, Shropshire, Radnorshire, Monmouthshire and west and south Worcestershire). If you would like to know more about the sort of ventures we have in mind, and how to apply for funding, here are our outreach funding guidelines.
* Early Music – music written up to the middle of the eighteenth century
** Extra Funding – think £100s rather than £1,000s!
Projects already funded
We have given a substantial grant to The Linarol Consort (David Hatcher, Clare Horacek, Alison Kinder and Asako Morikawa) towards their planned recording of a CD featuring pieces from a Venetian manuscript printed by Petrucci. The Consort are based in the Border Marches, and and David and Alison are well-known to us as workshop tutors.
In June 2019, we funded a free concert for children and their families at the Worcester Early Music Festival. The recorder quintet Fontanella led their young audience through musical woods full of birdsong, insects and ... dinosaurs. For more information about this excellent event, click here.
Other ventures we have already funded include a workshop on keyboard concertos by William Felton of Hereford, and some financial support for an inaugural concert by the The Linarol Consort in Discoed. Both of these involved editions of music which were specially prepared for the events.
We are funding the setting up of the new Wales Early Music Forum Cymru, which launched with a very well-received workshop in October. In November, we ran a BMEMF outreach project for string players with leading Baroque violinist Julia Bishop, at an exceptional “come and try” price of £10 - a successful and enjoyable day.