Adopt a Composer

   We are thrilled that the City of Bristol Brass Band has been chosen to participate in Making Music's "Adopt A Composer" scheme for 2019-2020, and welcome Laura Shipsey as our Composer-in-Residence for the year.

   Since 1935, Making Music has supported and championed leisure-time music groups across the UK with practical services, artistic development opportunities and by providing a collective voice for its members.  Representing over 3,600 groups of around 200,000 musicians of all types, genres and abilities, Making Music helps them with the practicalities of running their group so they can get on with making music.

   The Adopt A Composer project brings together music groups and composers to collaborate on creating a brand new piece of music.  The project pairs leisure-time music groups with a composer for a year, culminating in a premiere performance, a recording and a possible radio broadcast.  The composer has the opportunity to get to know a performing group and write a piece especially for them, while the group has the chance to contribute to the creation of a new work by some of the UK's most promising composers.  Visit Making Music to find out more.

    Laura Shipsey's music draws on ideas of movement, line, and juxtaposition.  Originally a violinist, she first studied composition at Durham University with Eric Egan and Sam Hayden and later completed her masters with distinction under the supervision of Arlene Sierra at Cardiff University.  Laura is currently a Britten Pears Young Artist and a featured composer of the Illuminate Concert Series.  Recent projects include orchestral pieces Samara (for Aldworth Philharmonic) and Hatch (for Cambridge Heidelberg Montpellier Youth Orchestra), Juggernaut Island (for the Ligeti Quartet), and Speak, Rose (a mezzo soprano solo for NewCELF, Cardiff).
www.laurashipsey.com

   City of Bristol Brass Band will be working with Laura during the 2019-2020 season, and we look forward to premiering her new work on Saturday June 27th at Bristol’s prestigious concert hall, St Georges, just off Park Street.
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   Adopt A Composer is run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, and is funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip & Dorothy Green Music Trust.
https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/news/adopt-composer-adventure-begins