Postgraduate Awards The number of awards by discipline was:

Voice STATISTICS 2014-15 21 (Opera course) Voice The Help Musicians UK Talent Programme aims to identify the 15 UK’s most talented emerging musicians and improve their chances (Postgraduate) of achieving successful, sustainable professional careers. Strings 13 Our postgraduate awards help many talented young performers every year with the costs of postgraduate study at conservatoires Woodwind 11 and performing colleges. We make these grants - ranging from £1,000 to £5,000 - towards courses in classical music performance, Brass 10 opera, jazz and musical theatre. Keyboard 8 Colleges are invited to nominate talented students in fi nancial Voice need, with quotas in place to balance the numbers per institution. 7 (Musical Theatre) In 2014 we auditioned 161 students (2013: 179) and the success rate was 62% (2013: 58%). Jazz 3

Four students withdrew from their studies before accessing their Repetiteurs 1 grant. During the 2014-15 academic year we helped: Other 7 • 67 students through our Postgraduate Awards with grants 01020515 totalling £166,500 (2013: £175,250) • 21 students through our Opera Awards with grants totalling The fi nancial burden of advanced training £57,000 (2013: £41,000) These are mean averages of the fi gures provided by students auditioning for Help Musicians UK postgraduate awards • 8 students through our Musical Theatre Awards with grants Expenditure totalling £20,500 (2013: £20,500)

WE HELPED 96 TALENTED PERFORMERS WITH THE COSTS OF TRAINING IN 2014-15 These awards were used to study at the following insitutions: Tuition fees Rent Maintenance £9,085 £5,400 £4,303 24 Income 23

Guildhall School of Music 19 & Drama National Opera Studio 7

Royal Welsh College of 5 College Family Personal Music & Drama scholarship help savings Royal Northern College 4 of Music £2,469 £1,479 £1,072 Birmingham Conservatoire 2 Royal Conservatoire of Scoland 2 No. of awards for study at each Trinity Laban 2 institution 2014-15

Others 4 8 Teaching Performing Other work work employment 0 10 20 30 £1,731 £1,910 £521

7-11 Britannia Street, WC1X 9JS | Registered charity No. 228089 Average funding gap: £9,606 020 7239 9119 | [email protected] | helpmusicians.org.uk Survey results 2014-15 What are your plans for the year ahead? Each summer we survey the musicians we’ve helped with study The vast majority (97%) of musicians helped in 2014-15 will either costs during the previous academic year. This time, 72 students continue their performance studies during the 2015-16 academic (75% ) responded to the questionnaire. year or start work as a professional musician. This statistic has What diff erence did our award make to your ability to remained constant for several years. complete this year of study? Since 2012-13 there has been a steady increase in the proportion of respondents entering the profession rather than progressing to Our funding continues “It made a small further study. to make a signifi cant diff erence” Working (not as a musician) diff erence and this This may simply refl ect 3% or not sure year there has been 5% diff erent cohorts a marked jump comprising students in the number of at diff erent stages of individuals stating postgraduate training, 39% or potentially a trend that they couldn’t 53% have completed their towards fewer years of “It made a 56% studies without our postgraduate study. Working as a 44% signifi cant “I couldn’t have professional support (56%, up from diff erence” Further study completed the musician (performance 42% in 2013 and 2014). year without it” course)

FOR 95% OF RESPONDENTS, OUR HELP MADE A 97% OF RESPONDENTS WILL ENTER THE SIGNIFICANT OR CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE PROFESSION OR CONTINUE THEIR TRAINING

There is a clear correlation between individuals’ reponses to When asked to give more detail about their future plans, this question and the size of the grant they’d received, although respondents’ highlights included: the diff erence was less marked than in 2013-14. Students who’d received over £2,000 were 22% more likely to say that our help • Solo recitals at St-Martin-in-the-Fields and Bridgewater Hall made the diff erence between being able to complete their year of • Offi cial Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales study and not. • Harewood artist at • Cover roles Opera North and Welsh National Opera 100 2% 14% What diff erence 90 • Orchestral positions in Scottish Opera, Opera North and did our award make City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 80 to your ability to 39% complete this year 70 of study? 38% How did students rate their experience? 60 71% of respondents rated their audition experience as ‘excellent’, % It made a small 50 diff erence with 28% rating it as ‘good’. 40 72% rated the quality of communication about their award as 59% It made a ‘excellent’, with 25% rating it as ‘good’. 30 48% signifi cant diff erence 44% rated the quality of other correspondence from Help 20 Musicians UK as ‘excellent’, with 38% rating it as ‘good’. 10 I couldn’t have completed the 0 year without it Under £2,000 £2,000 or above Size of grant received

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