Make Music Happen is a two-day workshop in intensive music-making, followed by a performance on stage at the Theatre Royal Bath's egg theatre.

With full ensemble and small ensemble workshops led by a team of tutors including guest tutor, Matthew Sharp, participants will work together to create original music through improvisation.

Make Music Happen is coordinated by Bath Festivals and supported by Youth Music.

Bath International Music Festival runs from 22 May to 2 June 2013.

Event details

Make Music Happen

Venue: the egg theatre

Dates: 30-31 May 2013

Times:10am-5pm with a performance at 6.30pm on Friday 31 May

Cost: £35.00

Music as Therapy International tutors at the awards ceremonyOrganised by Chamberlain Dunn, the awards were presented by Martine Wright, Paralympian, at a celebration lunch on 19 April 2013 at the Radission Blu Portman Hotel in London.

Alexia Quin, Director, and Sarah Hadley, professional lead music therapist at Music as Therapy International, were runners-up in the Supporting the Future Workforce category for their initiative to help students with no musical skills use music as a way to reach young children. 

The initiative, Interactive music-making for practice - working with the under 5s, is a university credit-rated learning programme for Early Years' practitioners. The programme skills students to use music as a tool to create securely attached relationships between the practitioner and the children where areas of early developmental need are addressed.

Donald Wetherick, Chair of the British Association for Music Therapy, commented:

'Congratulations on  being runners up in your category in the Advancing Health Care Awards 2013. I am very pleased for you and it is wonderful that music therapists are achieving such high-profile recognition. You are doing the profession proud!'

The Hot Rock range features eight tracks in a variety of music genres. The new books include songs from well-known bands and can be used for the 'Free Choice Pieces' in graded exams.

• Hot Rock Guitar Grade 4 features tracks by Razorlight, Thin Lizzy, AC DC, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Oasis, Metallica and Black Sabbath

• Hot Rock Guitar Grade 5 (pictured above) features tracks by Foo Fighters, Lynyrd Skynryd, Velvet Revolver, AC DC, Joe Satriani, Metallica, Steve Vai and Kings of Leon

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In Harmony LiverpoolWhile the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has performed at the BBC Proms before, Prom 66 (entitled The Big Proms Bear Hunt) will be a Proms debut for both Liverpool Philharmonic Children's Choirs and In Harmony Liverpool, the El Sistema-inspired music and social programme led by Liverpool Philharmonic in West Everton.

For the family matinée concert, which takes place on Sunday 1 September 2013, children's author, Michael Rosen, will take his much-loved book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, as the starting point for a new story set to music by Liverpool-based composer, Ian Stephens. Along the way, illustrator, Tony Ross, will conjure up pictures live on big screens as Liverpool Philharmonic's musicians and singers, conducted by Matthew Coorey, take a tour of the music of composers including Mussorgsky, Grieg and Stravinsky.

The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and will also be available via BBC iPlayer.

Michael Eakin, Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, said:

'We are absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to bring the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and two of our children's ensembles to this world-class international music festival. Last year, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir performed at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games and we have just celebrated In Harmony Liverpool's fourth birthday with a packed concert at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

'It is a wonderful testament to the children's musical abilities and achievements that they should now be invited to perform by the BBC Proms alongside our professional musicians and I have no doubt that together, they will all do Liverpool Philharmonic and their home city proud.'

In Harmony Liverpool is part of the national In Harmony programme, funded by the Department for Education and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Sir Willard WhiteThe singer will be joined by four special guest soloists, Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) alumnae, Elizabeth Karani, Kathryn Rudge, Jennifer Rust and Helen Sherman, who have all sung principal roles in RNCM opera productions.

The programme will include arias from Carmen, Don Giovanni, Nabucco, Lakmé, Don Carlos and a selection of songs by Aaron Copland, Rodgers & Hammerstein and George Gershwin, including I Got Plenty of Nothin’ and Summertime from Porgy and Bess, Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific, If I Loved You from Carousel and Ol’ Man River from Show Boat.

The concert will be followed by a reception attended by Emeritus President, HRH the Duchess of Kent, and Sir Willard White.

Concert details

An Enchanted Evening of Song with Sir Willard White

Venue: The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS

Date: 12 June 2013

Time: 7.30pm

Ticket cost: £17.50 - £27.50

Reception cost: £30.00

The first edition of Mondomusica New York exceeded expectations with 2,537 visitors including musicians, instrument-makers, distributors, music teachers, students, collectors and investors.

Violinist, Elizabeth Pitcairn, playing her Stradivari Red Violin before the Sound Investments round table at Mondomusica New York

Modelled on its Italian counterpart, Cremona Mondomusica, the exhibition of contemporary violin-making ran from 15-17 March 2013 at the Metropolitan Pavilion and Altman Building in New York City's Chelsea area.

A packed programme of concerts, seminars and workshops provided a backdrop to the exhibition and provided visitors with an enriching experience.

The programme included the event, Stradivari vs. The Modern Violin, which was designed as a showcase for the masterpieces of contemporary violin-making and those of Antonio Stradivari. The complete event was filmed by Japanese national TV network, NHK, which also had an operations base at the show, and its cameramen and journalists were present throughout to film and interview exhibitors and visitors.

Altogether, 164 exhibitors from 15 countries took part in Mondomusica New York.

Cremona Mondomusica and its piano counterpart, Cremona Pianoforte, will run from 27-29 September 2013 in Cremona, Italy.

A video outlining the work of International Honorary Membership recipient, Armand Diangienda, a former airline pilot who founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra in Kinshasa, DR of the Congo

Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallist, Dame Janet Baker, presented the 'silver lyre' trophies to winners in 13 categories for outstanding achievement in 2012.

A further four awards of Honorary Membership were presented to international visionary music-makers on four continents as part of the the RPS's 2013 bicentenary celebrations. 

Speaking at the awards ceremony, RPS Chairman, John Gilhooly, heralded an 'outstanding year' for classical music despite the difficult economic climate. He cautioned about forgetting the 'true value of culture', saying:

'Making money never has, and never should be, the driving force for great art. The Philharmonic Society sent Beethoven £100 on his deathbed to ease his penury, and commissioned Beethoven's 9th Symphony, not because they expected or even hoped for a blockbuster success but because they, quite simply, wanted to hear more of his music.

'So, whilst mindful of the absolute need to unite with the government and funders in framing the positive economic arguments for expenditure on the arts, let's not allow creativity, vision, excellence, enjoyment and culture's potential to change lives to be lost in the debate, even in times of austerity.'

The winners were as follows:

The RPS marked its bicentenary year by awarding International Honorary Membership to five music-makers who have put music at the heart of some of the most challenged communities in the world, supported young musicians and made a profound difference to diversity in music-making:

• Armand Diangienda, a former airline pilot who founded a symphony orchestra in one of the poorest cities on earth, Kinshasa, DR of the Congo
• Dr Ahmad Sarmast, founder of Afghanistan's first national music school in Kabul
• Rosemary Nalden, British viola player and founder of Buskaid who persuaded distinguished musicians to busk at British railway stations to raise funds for a string project in South Africa and now directs the thriving stringed instrument school in Diepkloof, Soweto
• Ricardo Castro, international pianist (and former winner of the Leeds Piano Competition) who established a flourishing youth music programme in Bahià, Brazil
• Aaron P. Dworkin, founder of the Sphinx Organisation which gives opportunities and assistance to aspiring black and latino musicians in the USA. Sphinx's mission is for classical music to embrace the diversity inherent in the society that it strives to serve

The CarnabysThe prize includes a world tour to six cities, a spot on the bill at the Hard Rock Calling festival, an album and music video produced through Hard Rock Records and new music equipment and gear valued at $10,000.

The Carnabys is a five-piece rock band with ICMP alumni, Jack Mercer on vocals and Ben Gittins on guitar. Both studied on the ICMP's intensive one-year Higher Diploma in Music Performance course.

Higher Diploma Programme Leader, Mike Sturgis, congratulated the students, saying:

'We are extremely proud of what Jack Mercer and Ben Gittins have achieved with The Carnabys. Their success is indicative of the huge amount of talent, drive and dedication found in Institute students.'

Following several battle rounds against some of London's top talent, The Carnabys was chosen to represent London and moved on to the global voting round in which the band came 11th out of 25.

In the final stage, a panel of music industry professionals, including Steven Van Zandt (E Street Band), Toby Leighton-Pope (Live Nation's Senior Vice President of Music), John Kirkpatrick (Hard Rock International's Head of Music & Artist Relations), James Buell (Hard Rock Records Co-Head of A&R) and Blake Smith (Hard Rock Records Co-Head of A&R), named The Carnabys as the Grand Prize-winner.

Sir Michael TippettEntitled A Choir of Our Time, the project will bring eight community choirs and a core oratorio choir together with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) and Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) Chamber Orchestra.

As well as engaging with established choirs in the area, A Choir of Our Time has set up a new community choir, The Local Vocals, which serves the two boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. This free choir aims to reach a wide cross-section of the local community and is open to any adult living in the boroughs, regardless of experience. Rehearsals – which operate on a 'show up and sing' basis with no audition and free childcare – are on Monday evenings from 6pm.

Sir Michael Tippett, a pacifist, was Director of Music at Morley College and composed A Child of Our Time during his time there.

Explaining the motivation behind the new initiative, EFA President, Darko Brlek, said:

'EFA set up The Festival Academy based on the success of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, the seven-day training programme and its six editions between 2006 and 2013 in different parts of Europe and beyond, and its predecessor, Eurofest Training Programme, held in Geneva and Estoril in 1999/2000. The Festival Academy incorporates extended partnerships with networks, cultural institutes, embassies and festivals, higher geographical outreach and new training formats in festival management addressed at more diverse target groups.'