ISM MUSIC JOURNAL SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 | NEWS FROM OUR CORPORATE MEMBERS
NEWS FROM OUR CORPORATE MEMBERS We welcome your brief news (max. 150 words for platinum and gold members, max. 100 words for silver members) and good photographs. Please email mj@ism.org. The next deadline for copy is 1 October 2020 for the November/December issue.
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For promoters who are new to livestreaming we’ve created a detailed guide and collected top tips from promoters who have tried it out. Making Music members can find out more: makingmusic.org.uk/ resources
Charanga Teacher training In recent months, Charanga’s CPD & Training team has provided over 5,000 free webinar places to help teachers get the most from our music platform. To book or find out about upcoming events, visit the CPD & Training section once you’ve logged in. You’ll find a series of videos, articles and webinar recordings there too. Remote learning Teachers are increasingly adopting Yumu, our online learning space, to support students’ music education at home and outside the classroom. Over 700,000 students are using Yumu today. You can set assignments containing your own favourite resources, exercises and pieces, or Charanga’s. You can also invite students to access a range of readymade Yumu Packages to help grow their interest in specific areas of learning or activity.
The Musicians’ Company Making Music
Throughout the past few months of the COVID-19 pandemic the Musicians’ Making Music promoter groups have Company has continued to run awards had to cancel their concerts due to for postgraduate musicians by holding the COVID-19 pandemic. We know auditions by video to ensure that those how disappointing this is for them, studying at conservatoires from the and that it’s crucial to keep engaging autumn have the necessary support. professional musicians while staying We also launched a new online concert connected with their audiences. series in June to offer support both Making Music is delighted to be financially and creatively to over offering promoters subsidies to enable 60 young musicians who are part of them to book artists and provide the Musicians’ Company Young Artists’ concerts in an alternative digital Programme. The #MiddayMusic Young format. With support from the Philip Artists online series premieres twice a and Dorothy Green Music Trust, we week on the charity’s YouTube channel have also made additional subsidies at Midday 12.00GMT (+1) on Mondays available for promoters who want and Wednesdays. to livestream our Philip and Dorothy youtube.com/ Green Young Artists. themusicianscompany and facebook.com/ TheMusiciansCompany/videos
Awards for Young Musicians
New resources In June we added nine resources to our ‘Music At Home’ series, complementing all existing, shareable content available on the platform. They include ‘Encore!’ – a set of age-specific collections featuring three popular songs, two pieces of classical music and activities introducing students to a variety of musical concepts.
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In this way, we hope to be offering some support to professional musicians and ISM members who may not yet be able to rebuild their full professional engagement agenda due to performing restrictions.
Awards for Young Musicians (AYM) has named a record number of award winners;189 young musicians will join its 2020 awards programme, the highest number in its 22-year history. The charity has received a record number of eligible applications this year. Each young person will receive a means-tested grant of up to £2,000
