PRS Foundation announces 55 talent development partners
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Each of the partners receives a grant from the Foundation for their year-round activity
This year's partners are:
- AudioActive
- Baby People
- Brighter Sound
- Bristol Music Trust
- British Underground
- Britten Pears Arts
- Britten Sinfonia
- Cheltenham Festivals
- Come Play With Me CIC
- Cryptic
- LIMF Academy
- Drake Music
- Drake Music Scotland
- English Folk Dance & Song Society
- FOCUS Wales
- Forté Project
- Future Bubblers
- Generator
- Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
- Heart n Soul
- Higher Rhythm Ltd
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//)
- Jazz re:freshed Ltd
- Manchester Collective
- Manchester Jazz Festival
- Mercury Musical Developments
- Moving On Music
- Music:Leeds
- Nonclassical
- Norwich Arts Centre
- Oh Yeah Music Centre
- Opera North
- OTO Projects
- Oxford Contemporary Music
- Performances Birmingham Limited
- Psappha
- Punch Records
- Red Note Ensemble Ltd
- Roundhouse Trust
- Saffron Records C.I.C
- Sage Gateshead
- Scottish Music Centre
- Serious Events Ltd
- Sneaky Petes Limited
- Sound and Music
- Sound Festival
- sounduk Arts
- South Asian Arts-UK
- The Music Works
- The Tin Music and Arts
- The Warren Youth Project
- Tomorrow's Warriors
- Tŷ Cerdd
- UD
- Wide Events CIC
Launched in 2016 and expanding each year, the network of Talent Development Partners brings together organisations working at the frontline of talent development in the UK.
Organisations are selected for the quality and range of opportunities on offer for music creators in their specialist field or region and the year-round impact of their work.
New to join the network this year are organisations Manchester Collective, Nonclassical, South Asian Arts-UK and sounduk Arts.
Each will receive a grant from the Foundation for their year-round activity. They also work closely together and with PRS Foundation to address talent pipeline gaps through joint work and signposting.
Joe Frankland, CEO of PRS Foundation said: 'Our network of Talent Development Partners are some of the most passionate, resilient and adaptive people working in the music sector today. The determination of the network to ensure that it meets the changing needs of music creators has been admirable. So we’re pleased to help existing members of the network and to have a small number of new organisations joining to make strategic connections. Thanks to all partners, we look forward to a crucial year of recovery together.'