Composers from the Adopt a Composer project Making Music's Adopt a Composer project paired a leisure-time group with an emerging composer, with the composer collaborating with the group on a new piece written specifically for them over the course of a year. Since the project began in 2000, Adopt a Composer has created over 100 partnerships, producing hugely diverse works and performances in the process. Many of the composers have had further performances or commissions as a result of being part of the scheme and several have been nominated for awards, including the British Composer Awards. The talented emerging composers in this section of the Guide, who took part in the project between 2017 and 2019, were selected for their ability to work with
leisure-time ensembles. All Making Music members can book them for commissions by contacting them directly via their websites. You can hear recordings of the Adopt a Composer pieces on our Soundcloud catalogue: soundcloud.com/ makingmusicuk/sets/adopt-acomposer Making Music members can visit the Adopt a Composer legacy project to download and perform rescored versions of some of the project compositions for free at www. makingmusic.org.uk/legacy Adopt a Composer was run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust.
Chloe Knibbs is a composer and songwriter exploring storytelling, theatricality and sidelined voices with a particular emphasis on feminist perspectives. Listed in the British Music Collection, her work includes compositions for opera, song and chamber works and has received performances by Birmingham Opera Company, Riot Ensemble and the Hebrides Ensemble. chloeknibbs.com James Banner is a composer-performer working between jazz, contemporary and improvised music. His music has been supported by Making Music, Initiative Musik and The Berlin State. He lectures at Leeds College of Music, curates a monthly music series in Berlin’s Donau115, and composes and performs with a variety of ensembles across the UK and EU including his own original projects USINE and Voices of Berlin. jamesbanner.com
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