ABRSM
The Associated Board is the world's leading provider of graded music examinations, trusted and respected by tens of thousands of teachers and hundreds of thousands of candidates around the globe. The Board's 'Grades' are recognised as international benchmarks - a transferable currency understood by teachers and institutions from over 80 countries.
Amazing Internet
Specialists in Internet services for the Arts. The company that designed and built this website.
British Music Information Centre
BMIC - the first place to look for details of British composers, particularly twentieth-century
Chelsea Schubert Festival
The Chelsea Schubert Festival was founded in 2005.
The festival's professed aim is to put on performances of a variety of instrumental and vocal music by Schubert and composers he was influenced by or influenced himself.
Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain
Founded in 1976, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society was formed for the benefit of everyone who has an interest in the clarinet or saxophone and their repertoire.
It publishes a quarterly magazine, organises regular conferences and workshops and runs an extensive music library.
The British Saxophone and Clarinet Congresses are held bi-annually sponsored by CASS.
Classical Artists Worldwide
One of the Internet's prime resources for performers, agents and organisations in the classical music business.
Grubser's
Music lessons for adults in Central London with World-Class London Music Teachers.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
One of the world's finest conservatoires for music and drama. Details of courses online. Guildhall is a lively friendly community of musicians, actors, stage managers and theatre technicians, with an unrivalled reputation for excellence across the wide range of courses on offer.
Incorporated Society of Musicians
Support for music and musicians
Italian Journeys, tailor made holidays to Italy
Cultural experiences are central to Italian Journeys' tailor-made travel itineraries. As well as booking tickets for concerts and festivals, special guided tours with a musical theme can be arranged.
- Opera at the Verona Arena
- Puccini Festival
- Opera at La Scala
- Ravello Festival
- Umbria Jazz Festival
- and much more
Kings College London
Undergraduate and postgraduate study, programmes for international students and open days
Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library
Lebrecht Music and Arts is the world's most comprehensive image bank for classical music and one of the foremost resources for cultural activity from ancient antiquity to last night's performance. In addition to its own specialist archive, Lebrecht has access to over 10 million pictures from museums, academic institutions, our exclusive photographers and our partner libraries in Europe and North America. We are now offering music lovers the chance to own their own piece of history in the form of a beatufiul artist's giclee canvas of their chosen image, stretched and mounted, to have in their own home. These are currenlty available for delivery in the UK, the USA, and outside the UK by request, prices on application. We are very pleased to offer Chimes customers a 5% discount on all orders, simply quote 'Chimes Offer' when ordering. Click the link and navigate to the Lebrecht Print Shop.
London College of Music
This music conservatoire has recently re-located to become part of Thames Valley University.
Morgensterns Diary Service
Morgensterns Diary Service, established by Julian Morgenstern in 1983, is more than a simple musicians answering service, and more than a simple musicians diary service. Morgensterns is a booking agency for orchestral and session musicians, with the special advantages of an outstanding client list and an expert teleteam who actively seek work for clients through our unique suite of fixer support services, our availability list service, who's doing my date list service and through our finely tuned, instantly responsive computerised diary management systems.
Philharmonia Britannica
Philharmonia Britannica, a classical symphony orchestra, was formed in 2007 by its conductor Peter Fender.
It aims to provide opportunities for more accomplished amateur musicians, and music students, to rehearse and perform music in a small amount of time (often with only about 7 hours rehearsal time)
PB is starting to explore partnerships with other art forms.
Richmond upon Thames Performing Arts Festival
Richmond Festival is one of the largest competitive festivals in the South of England with over 2500 entries in 2002 and with many more people of all ages taking part, in groups and choirs and their enthusiastic supporters. It has some of the highest standards of amateur performance in the country with many of the young dancers, actors and musicians become professionals in their chosen field.
Royal Academy of Music
It is the purpose of the Royal Academy of Music to train musicians of the highest quality. Guided by their professors, who include some of the world’s most distinguished teachers, students work towards technical mastery of their subject (instrument, voice, composition) whilst gaining understanding of the whole art of music. The Academy has been spectacularly successful in producing generations of leading soloists, chamber and orchestral musicians, conductors, opera singers and composers. Brilliant new teachers are regularly recruited; the curriculum is constantly reviewed and updated, new courses introduced and the latest technology applied.
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is one of the world's leading conservatoires, providing specialised musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers and composers. This enables students to develop musical skills, knowledge, understanding and resourcefulness which will enable them to contribute significantly to musical life in the UK and internationally.
Royal Northern College of Music
As a conservatoire, RNCM's main emphasis is on preparing our students for a professional career in performance (including composition). They aim to provide a balanced education in music to draw the very best out of all students. Its consistent and impressive record of student placement in the music profession amply demonstrates Their commitment to the pursuit of the highest standards of professional education and training.
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama is the national conservatoire for Wales. It was founded in 1949 when it was housed in Cardiff Castle and, in 1974, moved to its purpose-built premises in the Castle Grounds, just a few hundred yards from the city centre. With over 300 performances a year, there is a wide range of performance opportunities available in one of RWCMD's six venues, or further afield at venues in Wales, the United Kingdom and beyond.
South Bank Centre
Website of the South Bank Centre, home of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
St Giles International Organ School
St Giles International Organ School is based at the historic church of St Giles Cripplegate, although tuition is offered in many different parts of the UK.
Over two hundred and eighty students, amateur and professional organists from around the world, currently take organ tuition at St. Giles International Organ School.
Susan Collier
Susan is a violinist, teacher and conductor.
Thames Philharmonic Choir
Thames Philharmonic Choir has been thriving for nearly forty years, and is well known for both musical excellence and the warmth and enjoyment it brings to concert audiences, members and fellow-musicians alike. Founding conductor John Bate provides professional training and artistic direction in a variety of music styles.
The Barbican Piano Trio
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Barbican Piano Trio is regarded as one of the UK's leading ensembles.
The Masterclass Media Foundation
Students, music colleges, schools and all music lovers, now have the chance to be inspired and learn from masterclasses given by some of the world's greatest musicians.
The Masterclass Media Foundation is a charity that is creating a unique archive. The unforgettable and inspirational experience of being present when a great musician holds a masterclass is normally a privilege reserved for a handful of students. Now, many of these will become available on DVD and as Internet downloads. With an estimated 30-40 hours of masterclasses being issued every year these will form a teaching resource of priceless value for this and succeeding generations and a means by which the insights and genius of the world's great musicians of our time can be shared by students all over the world as well as being preserved for posterity.
theaudioconcept.com
The Audio Concept provides an unrivaled flexibility in audio production, dealing with projects from solo demos and live concert recordings, to large-scale commercial projects throughout the UK.
Combine this with arrangements and soundtracks to order in all musical styles and our in-house design service, and you have an affordable and convenient way to undertake your project.
Trinity College London
As a leading international examinations board in the performing and communicative arts, Trinity College London provides clients around the world, at times and places convenient to them, with appropriate, reliable and recognised personal assessments conducted by qualified examiners. Trinity is committed to continuous improvement and innovation for the benefit of candidates, teachers and partner institutions. Trinity is a non-profit-making organisation which uses surplus income to support the development and appreciation of skills in music, in drama and speech, and in English language learning and teaching.
Trinity College of Music
These are exciting times for Trinity College of Music, recently described as ‘one of the most dynamic conservatoires in Europe’. Trinity has now been accorded full Premium Funded Status, placing it at the forefront of the UK’s higher musical training provision. Our adaptation of the King Charles Court within the historic Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich means that we can now offer the most up to date teaching and practice studios. The faculty of artists teaching, leading, coaching and encouraging our students are musicians at the pinnacle of this challenging profession.