Each year Making Music’s Adopt a Composer scheme, funded by PRS Foundation, sets up amateur choirs, orchestras and ensembles from across the UK with composers for a year to produce a new piece together.
The selected pairings for 2017/18 are as follows:
Anna Appleby with Merchant Sinfonia (Glasgow)
mentored by David Horne
Ben See with Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra Society (Surrey)
mentored by Colin Riley
Edmund Hunt with The Singers (Tyne & Wear)
mentored by Fraser Trainer
Esmeralda Conde Ruiz with The Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra (East Sussex) (pictured)
mentored by Fraser Trainer
Max Charles Davies with Côr Crymych a’r Cylch (Wales)
mentored by Colin Riley
Peter Yarde Martin with Bellfolk Handbell Ringers (Norfolk)
mentored by Jenni Pinnock
Scottish Project
Gaynor Barradell with Edinburgh Concert Band
mentored by David Horne
Adopt a Composer is run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, in association with BBC Radio 3, and funded by PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust. For the second time Creative Scotland has provided additional funding for a Scottish project.
