Composition

Quick Tips

Quick tips for starting a composition

The Brook Street Band will perform the shortlisted compositions and premiere the winning works
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NCEM launches Young Composer Award 2025

The big band at Stafford Grammar School is working with composer Kamea Nemeth
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Young composers partner school big bands

Teaching Materials

Composing activities on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

Teaching Materials

Notation in composition

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New Master of the King's Music is announced

Teaching Materials

Composing activities inspired by OCR AoS6 (Innovations in music 1900-present day)

BCMG musician Bridget Carey interpreting graphic scores composed by children in Birmingham
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Composerly thinking in primary schools

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Avid launches Sibelius on Android and Chromebook

Getting the ideas down at Knightsbridge School
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Getting started with songwriting

Winning composers Ryan Collis and Charlotte Robertson
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NCEM reveals 2024 Young Composers Award winners

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Composing for exams