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Making Music announces 2025 Adopt a Music Creator pairings

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Making Music is delighted to announce the 2025 pairings for Adopt a Music Creator, our

flagship project that brings together emerging music creators and leisure-time music

groups to collaborate and create inspiring new music.


Over the course of a year, each music creator will work closely with their paired group,

culminating in a premiere performance, professional recording, and a possible radio

broadcast. Since its inception in 2000, Adopt a Music Creator has supported artistic

development, fostered creative partnerships, and celebrated the diversity of the UK’s

vibrant leisure-time music scene.


Introducing the 2025 Adopt a Music Creator pairings:

• Barnet Choral Society with Au Arias (mentored by composer Jenni Pinnock)

• Funded by Creative Scotland: Linlithgow String Orchestra with Deborah Shaw

(mentored by composer Ailie Robertson)

• Southend Vox Chamber Choir with Aran O’Grady (mentored by composer

Fraser Trainer)

• Redland Wind Band with Katrine Aziz (mentored by composer Lynne Plowman)



Left to right: Barnet Choral Society and MD Rory McCleery; composer Au Arias
Left to right: Barnet Choral Society and MD Rory McCleery; composer Au Arias

This year, we are proud to welcome Composers Edition as a new project partner,

alongside continued support from the PRS Foundation, Creative Scotland, and the

Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust.


Barbara Eifler, Chief Executive of Making Music, said:


'This project every year offers a small group of leisure-time music groups and music

creators the funded and mentor-supported opportunity to work out the nitty-gritty of

creating a new piece of music in a collaborative way. It is not ‘just’ four groups and

creators who benefit – the groups usually, having built their confidence, go on to

commission again; and the creators build their careers knowing how leisure-time music

groups work and what the opportunities are for them in this area.'


Read about the 2025 project pairings as well as past collaborations at the Adopt a



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