We are delighted to present you go, once before by Sara Rahman, a composition for cello and voice, accompanied by a visual essay and commissioned as part of Beyond the Edge, an open call delivered in partnership with Heritage Quay.

Join us for the online premiere of you go, once before by Sara Rahman, winner of the British Music Collection Beyond the Edge open call.

Heritage Quay have just opened their new exhibition The Cutting Edge, a celebration of scores, manuscripts and more, including items from our very own British Music Collection.

We're excited to announce the winner of our Beyond the Edge Open Call, delivered in partnership with Heritage Quay. Hear from the selected composer about their project below. 

Composer and landscape painter Marc Yeats announces his new book Music, Painting, Landscape and Me, to be published by Vision Edition with an anticipated Spring 2024 release.

Composer, promoter, workshop facilitator and 2022 Sound and Music Composer-Curator participant Steven Chell tells us the Durham folk tale of the Lambton Worm, and walks us through how he uses it as a base inspiration for The Loathsome Worm, his music-making workshops for young composers.

In partnership with Heritage Quay, Sound and Music is launching a new opportunity for a composer to engage with the British Music Collection physical archive and respond to its history and themes by producing a new work.

The British Music Collection is running a user survey to learn more about how users interact with the platform. We want to hear from composers and audiences about their user experiences, and find out what we can do to make the British Music Collection better.