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Welcome Welcome to the May/June 2016 edition of Music Journal.

Above: Deborah Annetts Photo: Mark Thompson

A lot has happened since the March/April edition. We were delighted to welcome so many of our members to our most exciting ISM Members’ Day yet. We were fortunate to have two of the most vibrant musicians present two sessions at the Day – the acclaimed composer and conductor Carl Davis and the illustrious soprano Dame Emma Kirkby – and both proved exciting, informative and inspiring. The Open Forum was also very stimulating with members raising a very broad range of issues from concerns around collecting societies through to teacher training and the government’s latest policy on academisation. It has certainly provided us with plenty to be getting on with when it comes to advocacy in the next few months. And many thanks to everyone who signed the Parliamentary petition opposing the EBacc and its exclusion of creative subjects. At 8am on Members’ Day we learnt that 100,000 people had signed it. This will hopefully now trigger a Parliamentary debate on the EBacc. This is great news. You will be able to read a full round-up of Members’ Day in the July/August issue of Music Journal. Outside of the ISM, we have an Education White Paper called Educational Excellence Everywhere, and the ﬁrst Culture White Paper in 50 years, which includes an ‘expectation’ that all publicly-funded arts organisations ‘should reach out to everyone, regardless of their background.’ More on these important developments can be found on pages 2-3. This month, I had the privilege of attending Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank at Shakespeare’s Globe including a performance of Twelfth Night. This annual production is created for young people and offers free tickets to all state secondary schools in London and Birmingham, workshops for students, continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers and award-winning online resources. It promotes access to the arts but also real curriculum learning. Shakespeare’s Globe features in this issue of Music Journal as the ISM’s Francesca Treadaway gives us an insight into the playwright’s life with the Globe’s Director of Music Bill Barclay (see pages 9-11).

Front Cover Tim McMullan as Prospero in Dominic Dromgoole’s The Tempest.

Lastly, I would like to welcome Nicolas Chisholm MBE, singer, conductor, music educator and former Headmaster of the Yehudi Menuhin School as the new President of the ISM. Nicolas has been a member of the ISM since 1992 and has served as part of Council since 2012. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Jeremy Jackman for being a wonderful President over the past year.

See feature on pages 9-11 Photo: Marc Brenner

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News & campaigns Nicolas Chisholm MBE is new ISM President Nicolas Chisholm MBE became our new President at the AGM in London on 14 April.

Nicolas Chisholm MBE, ISM President 2016/17

Until his retirement in 2010, Nicolas was Headmaster for 22 years of the Yehudi Menuhin School, a Specialist Music School which educates 70 gifted young musicians from all over the world. Before then he was Head of Classics and a housemaster at Hurstpierpoint College. It was his experience as a professional musician (a Tenor Lay Clerk in Chichester Cathedral Choir) and as an academic that took him to the Yehudi Menuhin School. He was a member of the Department for Education working party which drew up the ﬁrst Music Manifesto and a member of the DfE Music and Dance Scheme Advisory Group. Nicolas continued to maintain a professional singing career whilst running the Yehudi Menuhin School. He has sung with many of the choral societies in the South of England, and recently given a number of solo recitals. He was a founder member of New Sussex Opera and before that was with Opera 70. He is currently Chairman of Trustees of the Brighton Philharmonic Society, and a council member of Brighton Early Music Festival. As a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, he has been involved in taking the young professional musicians who are Yeomen Prize winners of the Company into primary schools for interactive music workshops in London. He is a governor of St Paul’s Girls’ School and chairman of the Education Committee. Until recently he was a Governor of the Royal Ballet School and Chairman of the National Association of Music and Dance Schools. He was awarded the MBE in 2011 for services to Music Education. On his appointment as the ISM’s President 2016/17, Nicolas said: ‘I look forward with enthusiasm and delight to the coming year, when I will be working closely with this vibrant organisation at the largest it has ever been.’

Culture White Paper – ISM statement The ﬁrst Culture White Paper in 50 years has been published, with the culture minister Ed Vaizey pledging to put arts ‘at the heart of everyday life’ and ensure everyone can access culture ‘no matter what their background.’ The paper, which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said was ‘the ﬁrst strategy for arts and culture in more than 50 years,’ includes an ‘expectation’ that all publicly-funded arts organisations ‘should reach out to everyone, regardless of their background.’ We have responded to the White Paper, welcoming some key elements. However, the absence of any reference to copyright or intellectual property, and the lack of challenge around the English Baccalaureate has been disappointing. Deborah Annetts, the ISM’s Chief Executive, said: ‘We are delighted to see the Government re-state its real commitment to music and the wider cultural sector. It is clear that Ed Vaizey and the wider Department really understand the importance of the creative industries to our economic success; something also recognised by the Chancellor George Osborne. ‘We are however concerned that this White Paper stands in isolation from the wider ecology of the cultural sector. The absence of a commitment around creators’ rights and intellectual property – something that lies at the heart of our profession – is particularly notable. ‘Likewise, the investment in music education hubs and the Mayor’s Music Fund in London continues to be welcome, but music delivered as part of the curriculum in our schools is increasingly under pressure. With a new English Baccalaureate (EBacc) replacing the old EBacc, the future of the arts subjects in schools and in the classroom is at risk. This is where the skills and talent pipeline of the future come from, the entrepreneurs, micro and small businesses of the future and it is an enormous cause for concern for the future of the creative industries.’

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Our partnership with the Royal College of Organists If you are both a member of the ISM and the Royal College of Organists (RCO), take advantage of our new partnership designed to increase the breadth and availability of support for organists and choral directors. The partnership sees the ISM and RCO working together to build and deliver a wide range of services, information and development opportunities for organists and choral directors. Members of either organisation are able to join the other at a 25% discount. The RCO supports and represents organists and choral directors of every age and all levels of attainment.

Education White Paper As well as the Budget announcement and Culture White Paper, the Government published an education white paper on 17 March 2016 titled Educational Excellence Everywhere. The paper makes welcome commitments to professional development but removes the requirement for schools to employ qualiﬁed teachers. Whilst the education secretary suggested this was good news in enabling musicians to teach in the classroom, it was not clear why the abolition of training requirements was seen as positive. We are looking forward to working on supporting the Government’s ambitions towards professional development but the restated commitment to a new un-evidenced and more harmful English Baccalaureate contradicts much of this ambition.

For more information about this exciting new partnership including how to join either organisation, visit ism.org/join/rco, contact the ISM membership team on membership@ism.org or 020 7221 3499 or visit the RCO website: rco.org.uk

Remember, to count towards this new EBacc, pupils will have to study a minimum of seven GCSEs (maths, English literature, English language, double or triple science, an ancient or modern language and either history or geography) and are likely to be forced to study eight or nine. This will leave little room at all for music or other creative subjects in the school day. This is why the EBacc campaign is now supported by the Design Council, Women’s Engineering Society, Royal Institute of British Architects, Aardman Animations (who make the Wallace & Gromit series) as well as the whole music sector including Conservatoires and the music industry.

Sound and Music to challenge lack of diversity in composing

Sound and Music has launched a new programme Equally concerning is the fact that academies do not have to follow the National Curriculum at all – the place that explicitly seeks to work with a broader range of composers and music creators. Called Because It’s of music in the curriculum must be protected. 2016 they will be looking to open up opportunities to a wider range of composers.

EBacc petition reaches 100,000 signatures Thanks to your efforts, the Parliamentary petition opposing the EBacc and its exclusion of creative subjects has been successful and has hit the target of 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a debate in Parliament. Securing this vital opportunity is fantastic news.

As a ﬁrst step, they have launched the Active Encouragement: Pathways Programme which invites UK composers and music creators who are either registered disabled or from backgrounds other than White British to apply for funding.

Susanna Eastburn, Chief Executive at Sound and Music said: ‘Last year, when the new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why his cabinet was 50/50 men and women, he simply answered, “Because it’s 2015”. This is how we feel about the At this stage we do not know when the debate will take place. But while we wait, we are urging everyone data we see regarding the diversity of the composers we are supporting – which we believe reﬂects a wider to write to their MP and ask them to share their problem across the music sector. Why are we concerns with ministers. We have put together a key messages sheet and a two-page brieﬁng note which is doing this? Because it’s 2016.’ available to download from baccforthefuture.com/ Deadline for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday 24 write-to-your-mp. May 2016.

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Clarity from British Airways Instruments on planes There are three airlines (only two major airlines) which now have an acceptable musical instrument policy: LoganAir, who work with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), easyjet, who specifically responded to concerns voiced by the ISM to introduce their new policy, and British Airways who have now clarified their uncertain policy. Extract from BA’s guidance: ‘We’ll even carry instruments larger and heavier than the standard checked baggage limits, up to 45kg (99lb) and 190cm x 75cm x 65cm (75in x 29.5in x 25.5in), providing you notify us at least 24 hours before your flight.’

PRS for Music Foundation launches The Composers’ Fund The PRS Foundation has launched The Composers’ Fund, a deliberately open fund to support composers at pivotal stages in their careers. The Fund amounts to £150,000 annually to support composers and enable them to realise projects and ambitions that may not be possible through traditional commissioning models. Vanessa Reed, Executive Director for PRS for Music Foundation said the fund would ‘provide some of the UK’s most distinctive composers with ﬁnancial support for anything that might enable them to make the next step in their career’.

Sound Cloud launching subscription service You may remember that PRS for Music began legal proceedings against SoundCloud in August 2015 following a breakdown of negotiations on licensing the music played on SoundCloud for free.

PRS have now reached an agreement with SoundCloud to introduce subscription and advertising across Extract from easyjet’s guidance: ‘Musical instruments Europe in 2016 meaning that composers can start to make money from their compositions. are permitted for carriage as Hand Baggage provided that the instrument, including its case, The agreement will allow PRS for Music’s members does not exceed 30cm x 120cm x 38cm. Violins, to receive royalties when their works are used violas, piccolos, ﬂutes, clarinets, bugles and by SoundCloud. trumpets all fall within these dimensions.’ We continue to call for European and UK regulation and for individual airlines to adopt musician friendly policies, but before travelling with an instrument you should always try to get permission from the airlines in writing, and take your ISM membership card.

Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs, ISM 020 7313 9327, henry.vann@ism.org

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New ISM website Explore the new ISM website Thank you to all members who took part in our website survey or sent feedback to us regarding the ISM website. Your feedback and suggestions have helped guide us in creating a beautiful new ISM website which is now available at the usual address: ism.org. We hope the design of the new website will make it much easier for you to ﬁnd the information and advice you need.

record keeping, tax and accountancy, your personal finances, and insurance. Find hundreds of advice pages and download free templates to help you with your work as a musician: ism.org/advice-centre. Visit our new Professional Development section to find out about forthcoming webinars, seminars and events: ism.org/professional-development. Our free Make Music Work advice packs, supported by the ISM Trust, can also be downloaded from this section. You can find out about our campaigns and help us d defend music education, musicians’ rights and the m music profession at ism.org/campaigns and you c catch up with our latest news, read our blog and can fi electronic versions of Music Journal and other find p publications at ism.org/news.

TThe new members’ area – My ISM Go to ism.org/my-ism or click the purple ‘My ISM’ G b on the top right of the homepage to log in to box t members’ area. Once logged in you can access the e exclusive members-only content including your m membership account information, your insurance d documentation, advice pages, template contracts a documents, discounts, e-publications and more. and Y can also update your contact details, Handbook You li listing and Music Directory proﬁle from this section. d h ffree advice d Our new Advice Centre is b brimming with for members. Topics covered include setting up and running a business, careers, child protection and safeguarding, contracts, copyright and performers’ rights, employment and self-employment, fees and pay, health and safety, wellbeing, promoting yourself,

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Professional development A guide to progression, curriculum and assessment One day seminars led by Dr Alison Daubney Tuesday 7 June (for primary school teachers) and Monday 11 July (for secondary school teachers) 9.30am-4pm at ISM, 4-5 Inverness Mews, London W2 3JQ These ever-popular workshops offer a framework for reﬂecting upon the development of the music curriculum and music education in your school or hub. Using examples from schools and hubs, the workshop will present a range of new and developing approaches to music education and will encourage you to share, critique and develop your own work. In order for the workshop to be personalised and in-depth, the maximum number of delegates for each day is 15. To book (£30 members, £40 non-members including refreshments and lunch), email ceri.wood@ism.org or call 020 7221 3499.

Webinars ISM webinars offer members the chance to access key professional development opportunities at work, home or on the move. Our next webinar is:

Engage to succeed: Essential social media and content marketing skills for musicians On Wednesday 25 May from 1-2pm, Joel Garthwaite, the ISM’s business consultant, will explore the following topics: • proper use of social media and how to engage with potential customers • using content marketing to increase awareness of you and your services • the use of high-quality media and websites to promote you and your services There will be an opportunity to ask Joel questions during the webinar. Register for this webinar at http://bit.ly/EssentialSocialMedia

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You can download our template teaching contracts from our website. These can be used not only by private teachers but also by self-employed teachers in schools.

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Public liability insurance ISM members have £10million of public liability insurance cover. This protects you against possible claims for injury to third parties or damage to their property for which you are alleged to be responsible in the course of your work. Schools often expect their self-employed VMTs to provide evidence that they have taken out this type of insurance cover. Members can download their PLI certiﬁcate from our website. Our policy also covers private teachers in their home-based work.

This article outlines the many important ways in which ISM members can get support from us in their work as instrumental or vocal teachers.

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Our in-house legal team can give you prompt and expert advice on any contract you are asked to sign, whether this is for employed or freelance work. If you have any concerns about the terms you are being offered you should contact our legal team immediately.

Legal support in disputes Our in-house legal team will also advise you if you encounter any legal dispute in the course of your work. We will support you on issues ranging from recovering unpaid tuition fees, however small the amount, through negotiating with schools over holiday pay and maternity pay entitlement to more serious situations such as unfair dismissal or redundancy. Our in-house legal team will also support you through grievance and disciplinary procedures. If the dispute goes to court, our legal expenses insurance covers your legal fees.

Fees As well as our recommendations for fees for employed visiting music teachers (VMTs), our annual surveys of tuition fees provide a useful and authoritative indication of market rates for music tuition. We also offer online tips on setting your own fees and deciding where you ﬁt within the overall fee ranges.

If a school where you teach requires you to have professional indemnity insurance cover, you can obtain this at a discounted premium through the ISM. In addition, we can put you in touch with insurance companies who will offer you comprehensive house contents insurance even if you are using your home for your teaching business.

Safeguarding and DBS checks We can obtain DBS Enhanced Disclosure checks. This is particularly useful for private teachers (as such checks cannot be obtained unless a speciﬁed organisation or employer requests it). In addition, we offer extensive training on child safeguarding issues, including seminars and webinars as well as online advice.

Tax advice You can get advice on tax matters from our website, our staff team and our legal and tax helpline. Remember also the £150 ﬂat-rate tax return ﬁling service which Performance Accountancy offers.

Record-keeping

Comprehensive record-keeping not only is a requirement of HMRC for self-employed taxpayers but also makes sound business sense. We have Our staff team can also guide you on an individual record-keeping templates on our website to help basis in deciding what fees you yourself should charge music teachers keep track of invoices which are and whether or not a fee you are offered is reasonable. due and fall overdue and to record their expenses, including business mileage.

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Celebration of Shakespeare This year, 400 years since his death in 1616, we celebrate the legacy of William Shakespeare. Speaking to Shakespeare’s Globe’s Director of Music Bill Barclay, the ISM’s Francesca Treadaway delves into the world of Shakespeare’s Globe and what it means nowadays to set music to Shakespeare’s works.

Above: Bill Barclay, Director of Music, Shakespeare’s Globe Photo: Helena Miscioscia

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Birmingham Conservatoire: The next chapter In September 2017, Birmingham Conservatoire plan to move to a brand new home on the main campus of their parent institution, Birmingham City University (BCU). It will be the coronation of a long process that began more than ten years ago. Lamberto Coccioli, Associate Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, guides us through the process. Left: The new 450-seat concert hall Image: FCBS

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The centenary of Yehudi Menuhin This year marks 100 years since the birth of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the ďŹ nest violinists to have ever existed. But he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happy with being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just a violinistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The ISMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Francesca Treadaway takes us on a journey through his life.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The performing violinist continually reviews the hours, days and weeks preceding a performance, charting the many elements that will release his potential ... he knows that when his body is exercised, his blood circulating, his stomach light, his mind clear, the music ringing in his heart, his violin clean and polished, its strings in good order, the bow hair full and evenly spread, then â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but only then â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he is in command ...â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yehudi Menuhin :KLOH WUDYHOOLQJ DQG SHUIRUPLQJ DOO RYHU WKH ZRUOG <HKXGL UHFRJQLVHG WKH QHHG WR SURYLGH PXVLFDOO\ JLIWHG FKLOGUHQ ZLWK WKH PHDQV WR H[SORUH WKHLU WDOHQW DQG DV VXFK IRXQGHG WKH <HKXGL 0HQXKLQ 6FKRRO LQ 6XUUH\ LQ DGGLQJ Â¶VFKRRO IRXQGHUÂ· WR KLV ORQJ OLVW RI FDUHHU DWWULEXWHV +LV IRXQGLQJ YLVLRQ IRU WKLV VFKRRO ZDV WR JLYH WKHVH H[FHSWLRQDOO\ WDOHQWHG FKLOGUHQ Â¶H[FHOOHQW LQVWUXPHQWDO WHDFKHUV DGHTXDWH WLPH IRU SUDFWLFH IUHTXHQW RSSRUWXQLWLHV IRU SHUIRUPDQFH HQVHPEOH ZRUN ZLWK RWKHU JLIWHG FKLOGUHQ D EURDG UDQJH RI RWKHU PXVLF VWXG\ DQG DFWLYLW\ WRJHWKHU ZLWK D VWLPXODWLQJ DQG FUHDWLYH DFDGHPLF SURJUDPPH Â· 7KH <HKXGL 0HQXKLQ 6FKRROÂ·V )RUPHU 3ULQFLSDO 1LFRODV &KLVKROP LV WKH ,60Â·V 3UHVLGHQW Â² VHH SDJH

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NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS We welcome your brief news (max. 150 words) and good photographs. Please email mj@ism.org. The next deadline for copy is 1 June for July/August issue

Right: Madeleine Mitchell

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Madeleine Mitchell Violinist Madeleine Mitchell will be performing as soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on 12 May at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff in a return invitation to the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, performing the violin concerto written for her by Guto Puw, entitled Soft Stillness (from The Merchant of Venice for Shakespeare 400). valeofglamorganfestival.org.uk

Right: Penelope Thwaites

In the summer Madeleine returns to the Languages and Music for Life courses in Llandovery and Firenze (lmﬂ.org) and ISM corporate member Dartington International Summer School and Festival, performing both a recital and as the violinist in a staged production of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale as well as giving violin masterclasses and chamber music coaching. Bursaries are available: dartington.org. classical-artists.com/ madeleinemitchell @MadeleineM_Vln

Known internationally as a concert pianist, Penelope Thwaites has written music all her life. From an early age she worked with choirs and upon graduating with honours in Music from Melbourne University, she found herself embarking on a number of assignments as musical director for various shows. She continued to write for this medium for several years before postgraduate piano studies in London with Albert Ferber launched her career as a concert pianist. A number of her works are published by Bardic Edition and available from Schott Music, including her song cycle A Lambeth Garland – commissioned for the Lambeth Palace garden renovation in 1987. On Friday 6 May 2016 at 7pm in the Schott Recital Room at 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB, Penelope will present an evening of her compositions featuring performances by Stephen Varcoe, baritone, Jenna Roubos, soprano, Colin Milner, tenor, the Marlborough Singers, and guest artists Lara Bourdeaux, soprano, Mark Bowler, guitar and Guy Passey, ﬂute, clarinet and oboe. Further details from Penelope Thwaites on 020 7794 5090 or Schott Music on 020 7534 0710.

Teaching musicianship through singing, movement and dance Nikhil Dally founded the Stepping Notes Music School in 2000. Stepping Notes is a holistic, integrated, multi-sensory approach to music education for children, aged 2-8, based upon the philosophies of Kodály, Jaques-Dalcroze and Géza Szilvay. The hallmarks of the Stepping Notes approach are: Movement and singing as the prime conduits for musical learning; developing the inner ear; feeling and understanding the inner life of music; maintaining natural body ﬂexibility and sensitivity; the judicious and sensitive use of high-quality musical instruments; and the world of the imagination – this is where young children live.

Nikhil Dally and Maureen Murphy will present a three-day course – Teaching musicianship through singing, movement and dance – for teachers of children aged 2-8, on 25–27 July at the Church Hall, Christ Prince of Peace, Portmore Way, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8JD. For details, contact Nikhil on 01932 241196 or nikhil@dally.org.uk. dally.org.uk/steppingnotes

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From the Clavichord to Casanova

A Bach Family Album

Obituaries

Mark Swinton has recently released a CDÂ of music for organ by members Julian Perkins has just released a of the Bach Family. Johann Sebastian recording of JS Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s French Suites on Bach is, naturally, represented but clavichord with Resonus, which has so too are four generations of his been praised by Early Music Reviews family, from his great-uncle Heinrich for being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sensitive and musicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Bach andÂ cousins Johann Bernhard He has also devised an opera pasticcio and Johann Michael to four of his about Casanova with the writer own sons: Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Stephen Pettitt. This will be performed Philipp Emmanuel, Johann Christoph with his group, Sounds Baroque, with Friederich and Johann Christian, the a cast of four singers and an actor latter two represented in transcriptions headed by the star countertenor, for organ. Recorded in the Collegiate Will Towers, as Casanova. Church of St Mary, Warwick, where Performances will be given at Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mark is currently the Assistant Kings Place on 6 May as part of the Director of Music, the CD entitled Baroque Unwrapped festival in a A Bach Family Album is available from dramatized performance, and on Mark (mark_swinton@hotmail.comÂ / 15 July as part of the JAM on the Marsh 01926 735519) or from Willowhayne Festival in Kent. Featuring works by Records (willowhaynerecords.com) the likes of Arne, Gluck, Handel and where downloadable versions of the Mozart, audiences will be challenged recording may be purchased, including to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Spot the Fakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as one aria will be a couple of bonus tracks not on the CD. by Perkins himself!

With regret, we report the deaths of: Dawn Freer of Tonbridge Margaret P Duffy of Dorchester Kenneth Van Barthold of Dorset Kathleen M King of Devon Barbara M Jackson of Cheltenham Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE of Orkney Christina Bourne of Hampshire Theodore Saunders of Armagh Nigel Dodd of Bristol Joyce Mildren of Walsall

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Our new members We offer a warm welcome to the following members who joined before 31 March. Full members

Birmingham

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Julia Gooding AGSM Fiona Johnson BAHonsDurham Peter Roadknight BAOU Imogen Williamson MMus

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Simon Greenhill BAHons Victoria Turnbull BMusHonsHull

Helen Grifﬁths DipRCM Benjamin Lamb BAHonsManch

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Cambridge Marie Atter BAHonsUEA Barbara Barker AGSM Natania Goldrich GMusColchester MAAngliaRuskin Alyson Ruth Lodge BAHonsCam

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Right: Trinity Laban’s Beyond the Dots summer school is open to young people aged 11 and above Photo: Tas Kyprianou

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance The Beyond the Dots summer school will offer young musicians an eclectic menu that includes jazz jams and looping technology alongside more traditional masterclasses. Daily creative sessions will support students to develop their skills in improvisation and making their own music with others – opening the door to a ‘no dots’ approach to music making. Multi instrumentalists, music technologists and any young musician curious about expanding their skills into new areas of music are welcome. Activities will be led by expert musicians and leaders – including staff from Trinity Laban’s junior and senior faculties – who will work with young musicians towards the creation of a brand-new, original performance piece. The three day intensive course runs from 2 to 4 August 2016 and is open to musicians of all genres. As a mixed ability summer school, you do not need to have achieved a prior musical

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London College of Music Under the stage direction of Morag McLaren, vocal students at LCM presented Henry Purcell’s celebrated short opera Dido and Aeneas on 8-9 March in the University of West London’s Lawrence Hall. Three accomplished performances were given, excellently supported by an authentically compact instrumental ensemble of students and staff under the baton of Ivor Flint. On 24 February a large audience attended a lunchtime recital in St Mary’s Church, Ealing, by The Anglo-American Duo (Lawrence Stomberg, cello, Jane Beament, piano). The highlight of their programme was the new Cello Sonata by LCM’s Professor David Osbon which was later given its ofﬁcial world premiere at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School in Vienna. On 16 March, LCM’s Dr Andrew Bourbon presented the eagerly-anticipated Expo 2016. This ground-breaking event featured performances by students from many courses, showcasing not only their variety of talent but also the University of West London’s Dante audio network. LCM has installed the world’s largest Focusrite RedNet system, featuring 42 RedNet units. This enabled performances to be relayed ‘live’ to a capacity audience from studios across the campus, including the University’s state-ofthe-art radio facility and its newlybuilt annex-studio complex at the Paragon Campus in Brentford. Continued overleaf È

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Performances included virtuoso classical piano music, improvisation around a graphic score (transferring visual images to audio), vocal solos, a Caribbeaninﬂuenced band and LCM’s celebrated ‘Glee Choir’ performing Don’t Stop Me Now, indelibly linked to charismatic alumnus Freddie Mercury and fast becoming LCM’s unofﬁcial anthem.

Association of Teachers of Singing Nicola-Jane Kemp writes: The month of May sees us focusing on our colleagues in Scotland, with Mary Hammond working with singers

in Glasgow on Saturday 7 May and a further ‘Pathways’ Access Day in Edinburgh on Sunday 8 May. Teachers of varied experience can ﬁnd out more about the bespoke training and mentorship programme that is at the heart of the Association’s mission to support singing teaching in the UK.

Immediately following is our annual Summer Conference from 22-24 July – It was all right when it left my lips! – focusing on communication. Keynote speakers include Ron Morris, Outi Kähkönen, Dr Jenevora Williams, Kristin Linklater and a special visit from distinguished composer Jonathan Dove.

On 19-22 July we will be running the new format of our residential Advanced Professional Development Course (for teachers with 4+ years experience). Individual mentoring is available from Margaret Izatt (RCS and NYCS), Liza Hobbs ( Junior RCM) and Russell Smythe (RCM).

There is a discount for booking both events which take place at the University of Chester. All events are open to non-members. aotos.org.uk

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Above: Past winners of the John Christie Award at the 50th Year Celebration Concert: (l to r) Duncan Williams, Simon Lepper, Duncan Rock, Marie Arnet, Lyuba Petrova, Kate Royal, Louise Alder, Nikola Hillebrand and Ryland Davies.

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Michael Lewin, Court Assistant, writes: The Company under Andrew Morris, its new Master, reports with much pleasure on a continuing series of successful events and achievements. Following the major donations to enhance the Prince’s Prize and John Christie Award, a substantial scholarship scheme has been provided by the Biddy Baxter & John Hosier Music Trust, to be administered by the Company alongside its many other charitable works to support young musicians. The Yeoman Programme also goes from strength to strength, with concert opportunities and outreach visits to schools increasing exponentially over the year, while jazz remains a signiﬁcant sphere of the Company’s activity and its ‘Young Jazz Musician’ this year is Adam King.

On 3 March The Queen witnessed the power of peer inspiration as she attended an NYO Inspire session at Lister Community School in Plaistow, London, as part of a day to showcase the work of charities funded by The Queen’s Trust.

Among the most prestigious honours given recently by the Company to established artists have been the Honorary Fellowship to John Wilson, the Santley Award to Jean Rigby and Christopher Maltman, the Cobbett Medal to Steven Isserlis and the title of Honorary Freeman to Dame Gillian Weir.

Talented and committed musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain led a rehearsal with young instrumentalists from the Lister School Orchestra for The Queen before performing a specially-arranged excerpt of Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in front of the entire 1350-strong school audience. In its ﬁrst year, 2015, NYO Inspire enabled this extraordinary ensemble of young musicians to deliver workshops and schools concerts, communicating their passion for

The Guildhall School is expanding its Summer Schools programme which offers a range of opportunities for people of all ages to explore music and drama, whether taking their very ﬁrst steps or putting building blocks in place for a professional career. New short courses for 2016 include a Summer Arts Camp for 11-14 year-olds in association with the Barbican; a Brass and Percussion Week for young musicians at Grade 3 and above; advanced instrumental and singing courses; and aural skills training. gsmd.ac.uk/summer Our Creative Entrepreneurs Scheme is also expanding – from September 2016 this business incubator initiative will be open to entrepreneurs across the creative industries. Run in partnership with award-winning social enterprise Cause4, the scheme helps aspiring entrepreneurs jumpstart their business idea or grow an existing start-up and create a sustainable business. gsmd.ac.uk/creativeentrepreneurs

British Voice Association The British Voice Association, well-known for its ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary approach to education about the voice, is holding its next study day in London on Sunday 8 May. Voice and the Neck will examine how neck posture and tension affect the voice, and explore some common patterns of mis-use. There will be practical sessions in smaller groups, exploring some of the different ways in which these problems can be addressed. britishvoiceassociation.org.uk

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member of staff who was awarded the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl), performed Sine Sole by Michael Ladouceur and Kitchen, her own work composed with Phoebe Garratt. To conclude, Naoka Aoki performed Liebesfreud by Fritz Kreisler. rcm.ac.uk

Drake Music Scotland Drake Music Scotland jointly with the University of Edinburgh are hosting the ISME Pre Conference Seminar on Special Music Education and Music Therapy in Edinburgh on 20-24 July.

Right: HRH The Prince of Wales at the Royal College of Music’s Annual Awards ceremony Photo: Chris Christodoulou

The Royal College of Music HRH The Prince of Wales honoured a number of outstanding ﬁgures in international musical life at the Royal College of Music’s Annual Awards ceremony on 10 March.

Delegates from across the globe will be presenting academic papers and poster presentations on the broad subject of Special Music Education and Music Therapy. In addition to the academic side to the conference, there will be workshops and performances from hosts Drake Music Scotland as well as Drake Music (England), Open Up (Bristol), Resonaari Music School (Finland), Robert Wagner (Germany), and Nordoff Robbins Scotland.

Alongside this growing body of resources, iRCO also features its own online magazine, StopPress, and a comprehensive events and recitals diary to which registered users can upload their own events. The College’s 2015 survey of organists and choral directors attracted more than 900 responses. Among the ﬁndings were a strong demand for more classes, courses and teachers, better local access to learning resources, ongoing professional support and accreditation, and more opportunities for online learning. iRCO is one of a number of initiatives designed to meet these needs, along with the recently announced partnership with the ISM which means that RCO members can get 25% off an ISM subscription (or vice versa). More new member services are planned for 2016.

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Marianne Barton writes: Our 2016 programme of Royal Albert Hall The Pre Conference Seminar is concerts starts with Verdi’s Requiem taking place ahead of the ISME World on 8 May directed by Brian Kay. Conference in Glasgow the following As movements from the Verdi are week at the Royal Conservatoire of Composer Steve Reich and leading included in the BBC’s Ten Pieces Scotland. Delegates are invited to conductors Vladimir Jurowski and Secondary, we are offering Circle register for this event early to avoid Sir Roger Norrington, received tickets (normal price £22) for £12 each disappointment. Honorary Doctorates from HRH The to groups of 8 or more school-aged Prince of Wales, while popular film children. For full details please email: drakemusicscotland.org/isme and TV composer Barrington Pheloung, members@trbc.co.uk and we’ll send an RCM alumnus best-known for film you an order form. Our soloists are Royal College of Organists scores such as Truly, Madly, Deeply and Linda Richardson, soprano; Marta Marc Sanderson writes: The Royal the iconic theme for Inspector Morse Fontanals-Simmons, mezzo; Jung College of Organists has launched iRCO, Soo Yun, tenor and Ashley Riches, and its successful spinoffs Lewis and an innovative virtual campus designed bass-baritone. Endeavour, was honoured with to provide easy access to learning, a Fellowship. Our Summer Singday sees Bob Chilcott research and general information for HRH The Prince of Wales, President conduct Carmina Burana on 10 July. organists and choral directors. of the Royal College of Music since Singing tickets for our annual Messiah iRCO contains a wide range of learning from Scratch on 27 November are 1993, presented awards to several content, professional support, archival selling like hot cakes as always and others who have made significant and scholarly material, plus general contributions to musical life including we’re recruiting schools for our fourth interest information for musicians Arts Council England’s Chief Executive Youth Messiah conducted by Ben Parry Darren Henley OBE and composer and of all ages and levels of attainment and looking forward to being joined and experience. The material includes by young mentors from the National producer Michael Ladouceur, before videos, sound files, articles and attending a short concert featuring Youth Choir of Great Britain. performances from three of the RCM’s documents, images and detailed For further details, or to join our signposting to further resources most exceptional, prize-winning, mailing list, visit trbc.co.uk. recent graduates. Percussionist Louise wherever relevant. Goodwin (the ISM’s newest

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2pm, Christ Church, Lord Street, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 1AA Singers and instrumentalists of all ages and grades. The deadline for entries is now closed, but please come along and support this event. Complimentary refreshments will be served after the concert. Cost: £4 non-members, £2 members and concessions. Children are free. Participants and their accompanists will be admitted free of charge. Contact: Polly Douglas Manley, 01695 580692, pollydouglas@icloud.com

3pm, St Mary’s Church, Harrow-on-the-Hill, HA1 3HL Pupils under the age of 18 are invited to perform one item that is well prepared and suitable for public performance (maximum of three minutes). Light refreshments will be served afterwards. Please contact Ivor Flint by Friday 13 May. Cost: £7 non-members, £5 members and concessions, £1 children, free for performers. Contact: Ivor Flint, 07961 864795, ivor.ﬂint@virgin.net

2.30pm, St John’s Centre in Old Harlow, Essex, CM17 0AJ Pupils’ Concert for pre Grade 1 to Grade 5 standard. Do consider entering your pupils as they glean so much from these experiences in front of an audience, family and friends. Contact: Carolyn Richards, 01245 440004 / 07768 086123, ismleavalley@ntlworld.com

Sunday 15 May West London Flute and Harp Educational Recital 6pm, 8 Ellingham Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 9PR We would like to invite members and students to an educational recital given by Gabriella Dall’Olio (Harp) and Anna Noakes (Flute). Drinks will be served at the interval. Booking deadline: Friday 6 May. Cost: £15 adults, £5 audience members under 18 years of age. Contact: Charlotte Ellis, 020 8740 1611, chellispiano@gmail.com

Sunday 5 June South West Scotland Workshop/Discussion with Stephen J Wood 2.30pm, 12 Hamilton Park Avenue, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow, G12 8DU Stephen is a piano teacher (classical and jazz), composer, arranger, classical and jazz pianist and jazz organist. He has had ABRSM exam composition commissions and has his own publishing house. In Stephen’s latest 6 Volume set, Contemporary Scottish Collection for Piano, Grades 1-7 he makes use of 70 lesser known traditional Gaelic and Scottish melodies. These are arranged for piano infused with a twist of jazz and contemporary – classical styles. Contact: Emma E Sinclair, emmaesinclair@ googlemail.com, 07799 100867

South Wales Complimentary Drinks Reception 12.30pm-1.15pm, Cardiff and County Club, Westgate Street, Cardiff, CF10 1DA A complimentary wine reception for all Welsh members of the ISM (South, Mid and North Wales local groups). This will be followed by an optional luncheon, at a cost of £50 a head for three courses including wine. Partners are also welcome to attend. Numbers are limited so please contact Jeremy as soon as possible if you would like to attend. Contact: Jeremy Huw Williams, 029 2084 3753, jeremyhuw@me.com

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Ask me a question D’Arcy Trinkwon International concert organist, Organist of Worth Abbey, Organist to the University of Sussex.

In recent years I also have added an amount of teaching. As they say, if you want to know how to do something, go and teach it. Whilst I avoided it when young, upon reflection, I think it can only help a musician’s development to teach (to some degree): so much is learned from having to refine, define and justify what we do and the advice and help we offer to others. Who (or what) has most influenced you and your career? My years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral certainly influenced everything that followed. Otherwise, I could not fairly cite any one person; there have been many. Whi Whilst I learned a great deal from my teac teachers, it was not always what they exp expected me to! I also certainly misplaced my trust in others during earlier years. How However, there were others with whom I had ha perhaps only one or a few lessons, or w who I was able to watch teaching others, from whom I learned more than can be expressed. e Wh What would you say is your greatest ach achievement to date?

Tell us a little about yourself. I am possessed by, and devoted to, music; my instrument is the organ. Deliberately said because the music comes ﬁrst. In the organ I found something I felt instinctively at one with. I was always drawn to it as a concert instrument – its liturgical place came much later. I love the physical aspect of playing it, its repertoire, colour and magic – and I have always rebelled against those who say the organ isn’t expressive, subtle or sensitive. When organists themselves say this... their playing usually demonstrates that belief. Although initially obsessed by the virtuoso repertoire – and, perhaps more unusually, by the French classical works – I am ever less interested in specialisation. For me, now, the period doesn’t matter: it’s the beauty, the message, the music on an instrument which does. I am not interested in a wilful battle against an ill-suited partnership, trying to force a piece out of an instrument of opposed nature.

Who is your all-time favourite artist and why? I haven’t got one. But I have many I truly admire and am inspired by – present and past. What was the last CD/music download that you purchased? I haven’t for some time. I have quite a collection, most of which I listen to just a few times, but I prefer music ‘live’: the collective spirit of listening, the journey, event, atmosphere, space, emotion. It’s too easy to put it on a CD and miss the magic of live performance. I’ve never bought any music as a download, but do spend time watching YouTube: what joy it is to be able to see all these great testaments of the past, present and future. What are your plans for the future? To work always better to be as strong an ambassador for the art that I love. To demonstrate that music is one of man’s greatest joys; that it can truly enlighten, communicate, build bridges; and that you can do all this work very seriously with true dedication and with great humour and fun at the same time.

Mus Musically this is for others to consider. But I would say I have always wanted music To help those who are coming up where to m matter: to make people ‘feel’ it. In this I can. I never had much fortune with that I have been passionately true to that aim myself, so I know what it might mean. and to myself. And I am passionately against playing I would perhaps cite something else as down to people! I hate it. It’s disempowering possibly my greatest achievement: sticking to deny them the joys of the great music: at it! The organ can be an introverted let’s show others why we love and dedicate cloister, a stuffy, self-protecting network; ourselves to our art, and what magical I’ve had to deal with a lot of hypocritical experience and message awaits them prejudice because some resented that I had there. I equally dislike attempts to play my own path to walk. But I am on a mission weak music on the organ, to reduce it to – and as the American virtuoso Virgil Fox some kind of circus figure just to get a said ‘If you’ve got something to say, get it cheap snigger. out in the open!’ I wasn’t going to just fit in to please them! Why am I supposed to look Finally, what is your ISM membership like a grave-digger or be a funereal spectre to you? just because I play the organ? I want people I have been a member for more than to celebrate the organ and its music: they 20 years and I always urge others to join. are not things that just groan in a dark Apart from all the resources and support corner of the musical galaxy. we all benefit from, it has defended my rights as an artist when I have needed some serious ‘heavy’ backup. darcytrinkwon.com

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