Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: The Open Fund for Organisations
For:
BCMG's 2016/2017 Season
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group emerged from within the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1987 and quickly established a reputation for exciting performances, innovative audience-building and learning initiatives, and a central commitment to composers and the presentation of new work. The Group thrives on innovation and invention and is critically
acclaimed for championing the most forward-looking music regionally, nationally and internationally.
As a world-leading contemporary ensemble, BCMG has premiered over 170 works, most commissioned through its pioneering Sound Investment scheme (celebrating it’s 25th anniversary in 2016/17), with a family of Investors supporting each new piece. In addition, BCMG’s extensive Learning and Participation Programme supports young people as composers, performers and listeners of new music through an exciting range of projects in- and out-of-school. BCMG is committed to talent development and the BCMG/Sound and Music Apprentice Composer-in- Residence scheme provides access for emerging composers to the full range of the Group’s work.
BCMG features on numerous CDs, including an ongoing series of NMC discs devoted to British composers, with recent recordings of music by Charlotte Bray, Oliver Knussen, Tansy Davies, Alexander Goehr and Richard Causton. The Group has two Artists in Association, Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, and Sir Simon Rattle is the Group’s Founding Patron.