Red Note Ensemble Ltd (TDN 2025)
Organisation Biog:
Red Note’s Talent Developing Talent programme is a bit like a “development pipeline” for new music creators in and from Scotland, starting at school level or even earlier, and leading to professional credibility and national and international visibility. Developing Talent is closely linked to Commissioning and Performance and Working with Communities, and aims to remove barriers to the profession faced by those with specific protected characteristics, by attracting, mentoring and supporting emerging new music-makers from diverse backgrounds. We provide first contact with new music creation (often at school, or in a community setting), through secondary and tertiary education, to emerging-professional opportunities, and to commissioning, national and international touring, and recording. Undertaken in partnership with schools, colleges, conservatoires and other organisations, music creators who have been part this programme since they were at school now have international careers.
Short Project Title: A year-long programme of commissions, performances, talent and career development for Scotland and UK- based composers and artists, 2025-26
Organisation Biog: Red Note’s longstanding approach to music creator development is to provide a “development pipeline” for music creators within contemporary classical music, from first contact with contemporary music creation (often at school, or in a community setting), through secondary and tertiary education, to emerging-professional opportunities, commissioning, national and international touring, and recording. We focus primarily but not exclusively upon working with and developing Scottish and Scottish-based creators, in particular directly addressing inequalities of access and opportunity in music creation and performance for people with specific protected characteristics according to our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion policy and plan.