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BCMG plus singers Susanna Andersson and Hilary Summers rehearsing Into the Little Hill
BCMG performing Kevin Volans The Partenheimer Project at Ikon Gallery
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BCMG at 2013 Aldeburgh Festival

Tuesday 18 & Saturday 22 June 2013
Various times and venus

On Tuesday 18 and Saturday 22 June 2013 BCMG performs three concerts, featuring a total of three world premieres by Charlotte Bray, Elliott Carter and Magnus Lindberg, as part of the 66th Aldeburgh Festival.

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BCMG at Cheltenham Music Festival

Thursday 4 July 2013
7pm
Parabola Arts Centre

BCMG present two works, one new, both ‘plays for radio’, one on-stage, one off-stage – David Sawer’s The Lighthouse Keepers, a claustrophobic tale for two actors and an ensemble of nine musicians, and Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman’s intensely moving Words and Music.

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BCMG seeking new Director of Development

BCMG is recruiting for a highly motivated individual to play a key role in the company, further developing a fundraising strategy to engage effectively with BCMG stakeholders: major and individual donors (including members of our pioneering Sound Investment scheme), charitable trusts and public funders.

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Join our pioneering commissioning scheme

get your first Sound Unit half price!

Thanks to our Catalyst Arts Award, if you are new to Sound Investment you could get your very first Sound Unit half price, for just £75. Invest now in commissions by David Lang, Benedict Mason or Gerald Barry, and help bring a new piece of music to life.

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celebrating BCMG’s 25th anniversary season

The BCMG25 Sampler,specially compiled by BCMG’s Artistic Director, Stephen Newbould, celebrates the partnership between BCMG and NMC. The album can be downloaded for just £2.99 from the NMC Shop and from Amazon and iTunes.

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ACE Awards £62,665 to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Arts Alive & Craftspace for Textures, Tones and Traces

4th June 2013

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Currently commissioning

Find out more about the composers currently being commissioned through Sound Investment.

Music Maze Small Group

Music-making for young people aged 8 - 18

BCMG has an all year round out-of-school programme of creative music workshops.

BCMG Apprentice Composer-in-Residence 2013 Shiori Usui

BCMG appoints Shiori Usui

As 2013 BCMG/SaM Apprentice Composer-in-Residence - click here to read more.

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