Award

Award Information

The SOUNZ Community Commission is sponsored by an anonymous donor and administered by SOUNZ. The commission encourages community groups (amateur musicians) to work closely with a professional composer, and has been awarded since 1999.

Each year proposals are accepted from either community groups or composers for musical projects that will see them working in a creative partnership. The successful proposal is to be completed by the following May with a performance of the resultant collaboration either having taken place or planned by then.

Scilla Askew, executive director of SOUNZ comments: “The SOUNZ Community Commission is all about bringing professional composers and community musicians together. Not only do both these parties benefit in the process, but also, when the result is performed, the audience get to share in the energy and vitality that is engendered in the commissioning of new music.”