Community Music Winners 2012 Organisation Name Amount Region Project Description Advent Community £ 9,000.00 London This project will create and record original performance pieces on the theme of ‘peace’ – featuring Association instrumental performers from RPO, and vocalists from Young N Gifted choir and local schools. Young N Gifted will work with the London Borough of Newham Integrated Youth Service and Newham Pathfinder Youth Club to organize a showcase event with themed workshops to celebrate the international Peace One Day Campaign. Aestaewast £ 1,000.00 Scotland To bring a high quality African drumming tutor to Shetland for an intensive weekend of tuition for our group members. Castaway Sing £ 6,736.00 Yorkshire and the Castaway Sing commissions York-based composer Emily Crossland to compose a piece for the choir, Humber which is rehearsed and performed with singers from East Yorks Federation of Women's Institutes, and professional and Castaway instrumentalists in Goole and Beverley. Cheltenham Youth Choir £ 8,550.00 South West NEW GLOUCESTERSHIRE SONGS A suite of new songs by Gloucestershire composers in a performance at the Cheltenham Music Festival. This concert would also feature CYC forming the backbone of a performance of Britten's Noye's Fludde Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile £ 4,600.00 Scotland We would like to produce a CD to mark the 10th anniversary of Comunn Gaidhealach Mhuile. We feel that this would be an exciting challenge which would develop the Club and help to sustain it into the future. Core Music £ 9,350.00 North East The aim of this project is to create a new composition which is fully based in the Northumbrian music style and tradition while incorporating some of the musical influences and ideas created by, and reflecting the interests of, a diverse group of Core musicians. Cumbria Community £ 4,965.00 North West The purpose of our project is to establish the Cumbria Community Gamelan in its new home in Carlisle, Gamelan to attract and retain a new cohort of members from the local community, and create exciting and challenging performance opportunities for new and old members alike. We hope this project will create a buzz, putting our group on the cultural map and cementing our future in Carlisle.

Dacorum Community Choir £ 5,000.00 South East Dacorum Community Choir performs Jonathan Dove’s Community Opera Tobias and the Angels at St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead. The performances will be the culmination of a long-term series of rehearsals and workshops, combining professional forces with amateur forces of all ages.

Dales Jam £ 7,000.00 Yorkshire and the To produce an original extended 45 minute piece of music, with 4 - 7 movements, consisting of a Humber "Suite" developed out of improvisational workshops and then structured into a formal composition.The composition would be developed in workshop sessions with local partners, including young musicians from (a) local school(s), (b)the young participants in the 2013 RamJam project, and with (c) Dales Jam members.The sections centreing around local historical stories. The first performance to be at Grassington Festival 2013 by all participants and followed by performances at local venues. Dunbartonshire Concert £ 7,580.00 Scotland 2013 will mark the 40th 'birthday' of the Dunbartonshire Concert band. We want to have a unique piece Band of music to play at our celebratory concert in June 2013 which can then be shared with the Wind Band community. We really want to encourage new compositions for wind / community bands rather than adaptations or arrangements. Composers who understand windbands provide us with more challenging work which stretches us and provides the audience with a real treat - a wind band at full stretch. We have raised funds to cover the cost of other anniversary events but this would be the icing on the cake. Essex Marching Corps £ 4,677.00 East of England Providing advanced training and music materials to young leaders to develop the groups skills. Participating within a workshop and performance with a professional army band, workshops at local schools to promote our group and the performance with the army. Fascinating Rhythm £ 800.00 South West To produce another Winter Celebration including the same aspects as last year plus a new dimension. We will invite community members to perform in our show. In preparation they will take part in a workshop run by Fascinating Rhythm prior to the winter show. Fireflies Choir £ 6,700.00 North West The project is to commission an anthem celebrating the history and life of the local community, to be created and performed by as many members of the community as possible in a venue that is free and accessible to all, with Fireflies as the lead organisation. Friends of Wighton £ 5,000.00 Scotland To present a public concert featuring all the participants from all our various classes, workshops and Outreach programmes. The concert would provide a rich and varied journey through Andrew John Wighton's Collection. Glossop and District Choral £ 4,000.00 East Midlands Our project will take us out of our 'comfort zone' to increase our skills and confidence, it will attract Society new younger members and raise our profile in the community; culminating in a performance at a local festival in 2013. I Love Thunder £ 4,970.00 London We would like to develop our stage act to be one that people remember on its own merits, not just because of our disabilities. We want our audience to share in the happiness that we get from performing music. We will work towards producing a show specifically to encourage more organisers to consider hiring us for their mainstream events. Lochwinnoch Choral Society £ 1,298.00 Scotland To enhance the community aspect of the choir by identifying, encouraging and enabling local musicians to work with the choir in the production of future concerts Milton Keynes Chorale £ 2,500.00 South East As a challenge for our 40th anniversary celebrations, we shall plan, organise and recruit tutors and participants for a two-day workshop on 7 & 8 September 2013, to learn and perform Thomas Tallis' 40- part motet 'Spem in Alium'. Pagoda Chinese Youth £ 5,000.00 North West This project will be celebrating the youth orchestra’ s 30 years anniversary in August 2013. Through Orchestra the project, we will create 3 different elements:1. Produce a 20 min short film documentary on the 30 years of the PCYO, to promote the orchestra for recruitments, potential funders and future collaborations.2. A new piece to be featured in the film documentary and the live celebration performance;3. Outreach to a wider community (schools, youth clubs and interest groups) by our apprentices to promote the orchestra and recruit new participants using the film. Pink Singers £ 10,000.00 London On 7 April 2013, the Pink Singers will be 30 years old. This is no small achievement – as Europe’s oldest LGBT community choir, the Pink Singers has evolved against a backdrop of three decades of political and social change. We wish to celebrate and look forward to a bright future by commissioning a new piece of music and by organising a day of workshops to which as many LGBT choirs as possible are invited, culminating in a concert. The working title for this day is 'Sing Out'.

Porthywaen Silver Band £ 5,000.00 West Midlands Porthywaen Silver Band wishes to work with composer Matthew Hall to create a new piece of music suitable for the beginners, youth and senior sections. The band members are excited at the idea of being involved in the process of composition. The new piece will tell the story of the band, why it has survived when other local bands have fallen, and it will celebrate the ‘intergenerational magic’ which makes this band so special. Readipop £ 4,900.00 South East Moving On will undertake an ambitious project to recruit more members and create a live band of other senior citizens who can accompany the group. Developing their performance to include live instruments will broaden their repertoire and the scale and quality of their performances, to include bigger stages and events. In turn this will help the group to continue to expand and recruit new members. Regent Brass £ 4,250.00 London Regent Brass proposes a low cost, high impact project comprising the commissioning of a major new work and its June 2013 launch at a concert which will, at the same time, celebrate the first anniversary of Regent Community Brass. ReSound Community Choir £ 4,650.00 North West To extend our current A-May-Sing programme by staging a large free (or very very cheap) performance at the Civic Hall, featuring music from war time and inviting participants and audience members from local care homes and homes for the elderly. RNCM Youth Perform £ 4,950.00 North West A Taste of Perform' will be a five week development project to encourage new members and raise the profile of RNCM Youth Perform within communities across Manchester. Through a series of targeted outreach workshops followed by an intensive half-term project, the project will encourage collaboration between local community youth groups, professional musical theatre artists and the RNCM, focusing particularly on reaching those organisations supporting young people (aged 13 – 18 years) currently marginalised and/or deemed 'at risk'. Rock It! Collective £ 4,770.00 North West There are two main parts to the development project we wish to undertake. 1) Music Leader, Trainee and Young Leader professional development 2) Composition project with classical music students from Bolton's Music Service. Sat'dy Allsorts £ 6,800.00 North West Sat’dy Allsorts’ would work together for the first time to create ten new pieces of urban music inspired by their lives. Pieces would focus on issues affecting them. They would then record, distribute and perform their album for peers and local community. Semitones £ 1,460.00 North East We will work with a group of elderly residents and a music therapist, to improve our ability to engage elderly residents in our music. We will engage tutors to improve our musical skills and confidence. We will perform two public concerts. Severn Valley Samba Band £ 2,760.00 West Midlands We will run 3 community workshops in local areas to recruit new members and 1 masterclassworkshop to attract people with some drumming experience in other genres. This will be followed by a beginners course to consolidate membership. South Oxhey Choirs £ 5,000.00 East of England To run workshops for the choir and potential new members. These workshops will will focus on the following:Section Rehearsals - this will give each section the opportunity and more time to learn/rehearse together under direct leadership from our Musical Director without having to worry about other section parts.Theory - an opportunity to learn about the "theory" side of musci. As stated before, many of the members cannot read music and in these workshops we would have the opportunity to learn. Something that many members want to do.Breathing - this can at times cause many problems with the songs we sing. Not all members can breath properly and we just do not have the time at rehearsals to undertake more breathing techniques to help us.Diction - It was very noticable when we sang at 'St. Martin's in the Fields' that our diction was not very good. Having workshops to remedy this problem will enhance the sound of the choir and our confidence would grow.Working with other community choirs - we would love to sing with other community choirs at our own concerts. Inviting other choirs to our workshops would be an ideal way for this to happen

Southampton Choral £ 10,000.00 South East To commission and perform a work which unites the diverse choral groups in the city: gospel, community, church and school choirs. Included in the commission will be opportunities for local soloists to work alongside an internationally acclaimed soloist. Stevenage Symphony £ 3,500.00 East of England To put on a big concert including a newly commissioned work by a local composer, and music Orchestra performed by school children which they will create in workshops with members of the orchestra and the composer, based on ideas from the commissioned piece. Stranraer Drumming Group £ 1,200.00 Scotland To host drumming workshops given by professional tutors. We will invite three experts to spend a full day each with us, they all have different approaches to working with diverse community groups and would provide a range of experiences to suit all members of our group.

Strung Out £ 6,550.00 London To devise a piece of original music, inspired by the word 'Express' in the context of living in East London. Led by Strung Out, it will be a collaboration of local community groups and professionals, with vocalisations provided by audience participation . The Band (previously LPO £ 4,500.00 London A professional composer and LPO FuSE members will create a new piece, the performance of which FuSE) will tour into three communities in South London to drive recruitment for the group. There will also be a final performance at the Southbank Centre. The Choir With No Name £ 5,000.00 London This autumn, our two London choirs and the Birmingham choir will record a joint EP. Each choir will record their vocals in a professional recording studio in their own city, before the final tracks are mixed together onto one EP. The EP will be released commercially and our three choirs will join together for an official launch gig. (Please note the 2nd London choir doesn't yet exist and will be launched this summer Town Hall Gospel Choir £ 4,320.00 West Midlands We are applying for funding that will enable THGC to:• Headline their own concert, performing a full length show for the first time;• Reach new audiences by performing a concert at The Drum in Birmingham for the first time and by extending their work in to the community through performances at 3 hospices in Birmingham;• Receive a master-class and vocal coaching workshop with Ken Burton to prepare them vocally for this challenge. Vasari Singers £ 5,000.00 London We wish to commission the British composer-organist David Briggs, to write the choir a brand new 10 minute extended choral work for delivery and premiere in February 2013. As part of the premiere, the choir will also learn a large-scale Mass, written by the same composer, and the two works will be performed together. Later in the year, these two works will be recorded on CD for release later in Autumn 2013. Voicemale Men's Choir £ 4,850.00 North East The choir wishes to share and pass on the experiences and benefits gained from a Performing Arts Fund project in 2010. There will be a collaboration with a local female folk choir in researching, gathering, rehearsing and then performing, jointly and separately, songs which reflect the working lives of men and women in the coastal, urban/ industrial and rural areas of Northumberland. Both choirs will then deliver three all-day workshops shaped around this material at selected venues followed by evening concerts involving both choirs and the workshop participants. It is proposed to make a selective video recording of the workshops and concerts for archive,website and promotional purposes and material by both choirs will also be recorded to produce a CD for sale to assist in raising the choirs' profiles.

West Devon Folk Choir £ 6,750.00 South West We want to make a cycle of songs that celebrates the wildlife found by two Rivers Ockment for the second Okehampton Lantern project so that the rivers of light (lanterns) are punctuated by pools of song.This form part of Wren Music's 30th birthday celebrations. Whitby Community Choir £ 9,360.00 Yorkshire and the To develop an inclusive, inter-generational community choral event by commissioning a Song Cycle, Humber allowing collaboration with a youth choir and a local arts organisation, and providing opportunities for choir members to develop leadership skills and repertoire. Wimborne Minster Choir £ 6,127.00 South West To commission a new work for choir and children’s chorus that can be used to involve a large number of local schoolchildren in a high-quality performance, and raise awareness of the opportunities provided by Wimborne Minster Choir. Wonderbrass £ 10,000.00 Wales The project involves Wonderbrass working with three different composers (Paula Gardiner, Claude Deppa and Rob Smith) developing new, distinctive pieces for the band's repertoire as well as developing learning and playing styles with members of the band. Creating a relaxed environment enabling simultaneous musical and social development. Woodford Symphony £ 3,325.00 East of England The project is to engage with a completely new audience. We would like to establish a children's Orchestra concert for the local community. In order to do this we would like to provide preliminary workshops in early years settings followed by a daytime concert for all the participants, their families, and others from the community. Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion £ 10,000.00 Wales To commission and stage a new choral work to be performed by the children of Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion, two invited local choirs and an 8 piece instrumental ensemble/band.