Participation - the 2012 Making Music National Conference
The 2012 Making Music conference, the annual national conference for UK voluntary music, was hosted in Wales, at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff across the weekend of September 15 & 16.
The theme of the conference was participation, and saw two days packed with a wide variety of music making and participatory presentations and activities. Guest speakers included Prof. Paul Mealor, David Alston (Arts Council of Wales), Rhian Hutchings (WNO), Suzanne Hay (BBC NOW), Zoe Smith (RWCMD), Kathryn Deane (Sound Sense) and many more.
Saturday evening also featured a grand scale concert in the splendid surroundings of the new Dora Stouzker Hall. Featured artists included an ensemble from World and Welsh Brass Band Champions The Cory Band, the Richard Williams Singers and Gentlemen Songsters, Welsh League Brass Band Champions Abergavenny Borough Band and Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society.
The programme included major works by Edward Gregson and Gareth Wood, and also featured the premiere performances of works by Gareth Wood, Paul Mealor, Duncan MacLeod and Evan Dawson.
Soundbytes from the conference, including the keynote speech by Professor Paul Mealor, can be found here while the 2012 conference brochure can be found here
The theme of the conference was participation, and saw two days packed with a wide variety of music making and participatory presentations and activities. Guest speakers included Prof. Paul Mealor, David Alston (Arts Council of Wales), Rhian Hutchings (WNO), Suzanne Hay (BBC NOW), Zoe Smith (RWCMD), Kathryn Deane (Sound Sense) and many more.
Saturday evening also featured a grand scale concert in the splendid surroundings of the new Dora Stouzker Hall. Featured artists included an ensemble from World and Welsh Brass Band Champions The Cory Band, the Richard Williams Singers and Gentlemen Songsters, Welsh League Brass Band Champions Abergavenny Borough Band and Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society.
The programme included major works by Edward Gregson and Gareth Wood, and also featured the premiere performances of works by Gareth Wood, Paul Mealor, Duncan MacLeod and Evan Dawson.
Soundbytes from the conference, including the keynote speech by Professor Paul Mealor, can be found here while the 2012 conference brochure can be found here