Contemporary Music for All
@comanewmusic.bsky.social
Our vision is for contemporary music to be open to everyone, celebrating participation in new music-making as a meaningful and essential part of our lives. CoMA Festival 2026 Fri 6-Sun 29 March! https://linktr.ee/contemporarymusicforall
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📣Announcing CoMA Festival 2026
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
📆With one month until the CoMA Festival 2026, it's time to discover how *you* can join in with our joyful celebration of new music, across the UK and beyond!
🎻Dust off an instrument, make graphic scores or find the songs of your inner bird - come and have a go.
www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
🎻Dust off an instrument, make graphic scores or find the songs of your inner bird - come and have a go.
www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
February 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
📆With one month until the CoMA Festival 2026, it's time to discover how *you* can join in with our joyful celebration of new music, across the UK and beyond!
🎻Dust off an instrument, make graphic scores or find the songs of your inner bird - come and have a go.
www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
🎻Dust off an instrument, make graphic scores or find the songs of your inner bird - come and have a go.
www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
📣Announcing CoMA Festival 2026
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
📣Announcing CoMA Festival 2026
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
Fri 6 – Sun 29 March
Be part of a new music adventure!
CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us.
Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
It was lovely to have nearly all of our Board of Trustees plus the CoMA team together in one room in Leeds last Fri to catch up and make plans.
We welcomed our newest Trustees Leon, Mimi, Colin and Sharon and said a sad but appreciative farewell to Tony Harris, stepping down after many years.
We welcomed our newest Trustees Leon, Mimi, Colin and Sharon and said a sad but appreciative farewell to Tony Harris, stepping down after many years.
January 20, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It was lovely to have nearly all of our Board of Trustees plus the CoMA team together in one room in Leeds last Fri to catch up and make plans.
We welcomed our newest Trustees Leon, Mimi, Colin and Sharon and said a sad but appreciative farewell to Tony Harris, stepping down after many years.
We welcomed our newest Trustees Leon, Mimi, Colin and Sharon and said a sad but appreciative farewell to Tony Harris, stepping down after many years.
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A reminder we are fundraising to exist this year. We spent all of 2025 applying and re-applying for arts funding which were all rejected.
We've reached 4%. Any help would be appreciated to bring you more music, tea & cake in what will be our 17th year.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
We've reached 4%. Any help would be appreciated to bring you more music, tea & cake in what will be our 17th year.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £30000 to Daylight Music 2026 – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Daylight Music 2026. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
A reminder we are fundraising to exist this year. We spent all of 2025 applying and re-applying for arts funding which were all rejected.
We've reached 4%. Any help would be appreciated to bring you more music, tea & cake in what will be our 17th year.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
We've reached 4%. Any help would be appreciated to bring you more music, tea & cake in what will be our 17th year.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
👀Nice work, @alterclassical.bsky.social!👏🏼
Today we unveil our new composers' hub 🙌
It brings together opportunities, concerts featuring world premieres, funding and bursary information, interviews with composers, and more.
Take a look here:
www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub
It brings together opportunities, concerts featuring world premieres, funding and bursary information, interviews with composers, and more.
Take a look here:
www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👀Nice work, @alterclassical.bsky.social!👏🏼
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Had a good time at a concert by the @comanewmusic.bsky.social London ensemble
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Had a good time at a concert by the @comanewmusic.bsky.social London ensemble
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💖 Spread the word: PRXLUDES IS GOING .LIVE! 💖
Tickets are flying out for our launch party at Folklore Hoxton, London on 5 February, with Standard Issue and Stomping Ground - are we seeing you there? Get yer tix now:
dice.fm/event/8er2p5...
Tickets are flying out for our launch party at Folklore Hoxton, London on 5 February, with Standard Issue and Stomping Ground - are we seeing you there? Get yer tix now:
dice.fm/event/8er2p5...
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
💖 Spread the word: PRXLUDES IS GOING .LIVE! 💖
Tickets are flying out for our launch party at Folklore Hoxton, London on 5 February, with Standard Issue and Stomping Ground - are we seeing you there? Get yer tix now:
dice.fm/event/8er2p5...
Tickets are flying out for our launch party at Folklore Hoxton, London on 5 February, with Standard Issue and Stomping Ground - are we seeing you there? Get yer tix now:
dice.fm/event/8er2p5...
🎵🎻MUSIC TEACHERS: if you’re planning next term’s pieces to suit a youth ensemble, classroom or school-aged students, don’t miss our handy list of 10 inspiring, educational and accessible contemporary pieces!
🎼See in your new year with some sparkling new music!
www.coma.org/a-handy-guid...
🎼See in your new year with some sparkling new music!
www.coma.org/a-handy-guid...
December 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🎵🎻MUSIC TEACHERS: if you’re planning next term’s pieces to suit a youth ensemble, classroom or school-aged students, don’t miss our handy list of 10 inspiring, educational and accessible contemporary pieces!
🎼See in your new year with some sparkling new music!
www.coma.org/a-handy-guid...
🎼See in your new year with some sparkling new music!
www.coma.org/a-handy-guid...
Catch up on a year's worth of projects, events and making music together with CoMA's Annual Review 2024-25!
Read it online or download from our website: www.coma.org/read-comas-a...
Read it online or download from our website: www.coma.org/read-comas-a...
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Catch up on a year's worth of projects, events and making music together with CoMA's Annual Review 2024-25!
Read it online or download from our website: www.coma.org/read-comas-a...
Read it online or download from our website: www.coma.org/read-comas-a...
🎄Give CoMA this Christmas🎄
📚Did you know that we have three anthologies of exciting and approachable contemporary pieces for sale?
🎁Perfect for the music teachers, choir leaders, ensemble organisers and enthusiastic amateur musicians in your life!
🧵1/4
📚Did you know that we have three anthologies of exciting and approachable contemporary pieces for sale?
🎁Perfect for the music teachers, choir leaders, ensemble organisers and enthusiastic amateur musicians in your life!
🧵1/4
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎄Give CoMA this Christmas🎄
📚Did you know that we have three anthologies of exciting and approachable contemporary pieces for sale?
🎁Perfect for the music teachers, choir leaders, ensemble organisers and enthusiastic amateur musicians in your life!
🧵1/4
📚Did you know that we have three anthologies of exciting and approachable contemporary pieces for sale?
🎁Perfect for the music teachers, choir leaders, ensemble organisers and enthusiastic amateur musicians in your life!
🧵1/4
Here's a taste of the recent KNM Campus Days event in Berlin, where a CoMA Allcomers ensemble joined KNM Campus Ensemble plus others to rehearse and play a concert at this year's Klangwerkstatt Festival.
Thank-you to everyone who made all our CoMA musicians so welcome!
Photo credits in alt text
Thank-you to everyone who made all our CoMA musicians so welcome!
Photo credits in alt text
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here's a taste of the recent KNM Campus Days event in Berlin, where a CoMA Allcomers ensemble joined KNM Campus Ensemble plus others to rehearse and play a concert at this year's Klangwerkstatt Festival.
Thank-you to everyone who made all our CoMA musicians so welcome!
Photo credits in alt text
Thank-you to everyone who made all our CoMA musicians so welcome!
Photo credits in alt text
🌳Tuesday timeline cleanse!🌲
Watch this delightful new film showing our Little Woodland Heights project being delivered in Scoil Mhuire Eimhín in County Limerick earlier this year, facilitated by composer Fiona Linnane, soprano Tríona Walsh and teacher Nuala Dooly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6v...
Watch this delightful new film showing our Little Woodland Heights project being delivered in Scoil Mhuire Eimhín in County Limerick earlier this year, facilitated by composer Fiona Linnane, soprano Tríona Walsh and teacher Nuala Dooly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6v...
Little Woodland Heights: Scoil Mhuire Eimhin
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November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🌳Tuesday timeline cleanse!🌲
Watch this delightful new film showing our Little Woodland Heights project being delivered in Scoil Mhuire Eimhín in County Limerick earlier this year, facilitated by composer Fiona Linnane, soprano Tríona Walsh and teacher Nuala Dooly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6v...
Watch this delightful new film showing our Little Woodland Heights project being delivered in Scoil Mhuire Eimhín in County Limerick earlier this year, facilitated by composer Fiona Linnane, soprano Tríona Walsh and teacher Nuala Dooly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6v...
You can now watch every CoMA Bespoke: Showcase performance on our YouTube channel – that’s 13 new pieces, plus extras! Delivered in partnership with @unisouthampton.bsky.social, CoMA Bespoke embedded composers @frazireland.bsky.social, Franklyn Oliver and @uriagnon.bsky.social with UK ensembles 🧵1/3
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You can now watch every CoMA Bespoke: Showcase performance on our YouTube channel – that’s 13 new pieces, plus extras! Delivered in partnership with @unisouthampton.bsky.social, CoMA Bespoke embedded composers @frazireland.bsky.social, Franklyn Oliver and @uriagnon.bsky.social with UK ensembles 🧵1/3
Deadline now extended to 30 November - don't miss out!
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Deadline now extended to 30 November - don't miss out!
We've extended the range of our Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands callout so it's now open to ages 16-21.
If you'd like to:
🎶Write and play new music for the CoMA Festival 2026
🤯Expand your creative experience
🎻🥁🎺Meet other musicians
Find out more here: www.coma.org/get-involved...
If you'd like to:
🎶Write and play new music for the CoMA Festival 2026
🤯Expand your creative experience
🎻🥁🎺Meet other musicians
Find out more here: www.coma.org/get-involved...
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We've extended the range of our Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands callout so it's now open to ages 16-21.
If you'd like to:
🎶Write and play new music for the CoMA Festival 2026
🤯Expand your creative experience
🎻🥁🎺Meet other musicians
Find out more here: www.coma.org/get-involved...
If you'd like to:
🎶Write and play new music for the CoMA Festival 2026
🤯Expand your creative experience
🎻🥁🎺Meet other musicians
Find out more here: www.coma.org/get-involved...
📣Opportunity: CoMA Trustee
Help shape our vision as the UK’s charity for joyful new music-making!
We are looking for a passionate and inspiring Trustee to join CoMA’s Board. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the new music landscape of the UK.
www.coma.org/opportunity-...
Help shape our vision as the UK’s charity for joyful new music-making!
We are looking for a passionate and inspiring Trustee to join CoMA’s Board. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the new music landscape of the UK.
www.coma.org/opportunity-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📣Opportunity: CoMA Trustee
Help shape our vision as the UK’s charity for joyful new music-making!
We are looking for a passionate and inspiring Trustee to join CoMA’s Board. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the new music landscape of the UK.
www.coma.org/opportunity-...
Help shape our vision as the UK’s charity for joyful new music-making!
We are looking for a passionate and inspiring Trustee to join CoMA’s Board. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the new music landscape of the UK.
www.coma.org/opportunity-...
CALLOUT TIME!
We’re looking for composers and instrumentalists aged 16-18 in the West Midlands to write and play new pieces in the CoMA Festival 2026.
If you’re interested in contemporary classical music, expanding your creative experience and meeting other musicians, we want to hear from you!🧵1/2
We’re looking for composers and instrumentalists aged 16-18 in the West Midlands to write and play new pieces in the CoMA Festival 2026.
If you’re interested in contemporary classical music, expanding your creative experience and meeting other musicians, we want to hear from you!🧵1/2
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
CALLOUT TIME!
We’re looking for composers and instrumentalists aged 16-18 in the West Midlands to write and play new pieces in the CoMA Festival 2026.
If you’re interested in contemporary classical music, expanding your creative experience and meeting other musicians, we want to hear from you!🧵1/2
We’re looking for composers and instrumentalists aged 16-18 in the West Midlands to write and play new pieces in the CoMA Festival 2026.
If you’re interested in contemporary classical music, expanding your creative experience and meeting other musicians, we want to hear from you!🧵1/2
📣Our latest newsletter is out now, with callouts for:
💥Immediate Pieces
🎼CoMA London residency
🎶Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands
plus chances to:
🎻play in Berlin
👂🏽do Deep Listening in Glasgow
🛋️or just stay put and watch concerts from our 2025 Summer School
Read it all here: mailchi.mp/coma/coma-up...
💥Immediate Pieces
🎼CoMA London residency
🎶Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands
plus chances to:
🎻play in Berlin
👂🏽do Deep Listening in Glasgow
🛋️or just stay put and watch concerts from our 2025 Summer School
Read it all here: mailchi.mp/coma/coma-up...
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📣Our latest newsletter is out now, with callouts for:
💥Immediate Pieces
🎼CoMA London residency
🎶Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands
plus chances to:
🎻play in Berlin
👂🏽do Deep Listening in Glasgow
🛋️or just stay put and watch concerts from our 2025 Summer School
Read it all here: mailchi.mp/coma/coma-up...
💥Immediate Pieces
🎼CoMA London residency
🎶Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands
plus chances to:
🎻play in Berlin
👂🏽do Deep Listening in Glasgow
🛋️or just stay put and watch concerts from our 2025 Summer School
Read it all here: mailchi.mp/coma/coma-up...
📣CALL FOR SCORES
💥Immediate Pieces
Be part of CoMA’s new online anthology of pick-up-and-play music
We’re curating a new collection of contemporary pieces to suit players from a range of backgrounds – ones that can be performance-ready in under an hour. 🧵1/2
💥Immediate Pieces
Be part of CoMA’s new online anthology of pick-up-and-play music
We’re curating a new collection of contemporary pieces to suit players from a range of backgrounds – ones that can be performance-ready in under an hour. 🧵1/2
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📣CALL FOR SCORES
💥Immediate Pieces
Be part of CoMA’s new online anthology of pick-up-and-play music
We’re curating a new collection of contemporary pieces to suit players from a range of backgrounds – ones that can be performance-ready in under an hour. 🧵1/2
💥Immediate Pieces
Be part of CoMA’s new online anthology of pick-up-and-play music
We’re curating a new collection of contemporary pieces to suit players from a range of backgrounds – ones that can be performance-ready in under an hour. 🧵1/2
Last chance to sign up for The Birds workshop with @lorelixenberg.bsky.social - starts tomorrow! 🐦🐓🐧
Shed your human form and take musical flight!
Join @lorelixenberg.bsky.social to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop exploring birdhood.
Queen Mary University, London, 15-19 Oct - come for one day or all five, PAYF.
🪶Book here www.coma.org/whats-on/the...
Join @lorelixenberg.bsky.social to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop exploring birdhood.
Queen Mary University, London, 15-19 Oct - come for one day or all five, PAYF.
🪶Book here www.coma.org/whats-on/the...
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Last chance to sign up for The Birds workshop with @lorelixenberg.bsky.social - starts tomorrow! 🐦🐓🐧
Missed our Connect the Dots panel discussion at the recent @royalmusical.bsky.social conference? Watch it here or read a transcript to find out about how we're training composers to make their work more accessible for Disabled musicians: www.coma.org/connect-the-...
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Missed our Connect the Dots panel discussion at the recent @royalmusical.bsky.social conference? Watch it here or read a transcript to find out about how we're training composers to make their work more accessible for Disabled musicians: www.coma.org/connect-the-...
It was lovely to get together on Saturday at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social in London and catch up with our ensemble chairs from across the UK (plus honorary CoMA member for the day Emanuel Swedenborg, pictured in the wig). 🧵1/2
October 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It was lovely to get together on Saturday at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social in London and catch up with our ensemble chairs from across the UK (plus honorary CoMA member for the day Emanuel Swedenborg, pictured in the wig). 🧵1/2
Still time to book on this workshop and transcend your earthbound human form!
Shed your human form and take musical flight!
Join @lorelixenberg.bsky.social to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop exploring birdhood.
Queen Mary University, London, 15-19 Oct - come for one day or all five, PAYF.
🪶Book here www.coma.org/whats-on/the...
Join @lorelixenberg.bsky.social to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop exploring birdhood.
Queen Mary University, London, 15-19 Oct - come for one day or all five, PAYF.
🪶Book here www.coma.org/whats-on/the...
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Still time to book on this workshop and transcend your earthbound human form!
A big welcome to the newest member of the CoMA team, Sarah Rubin!
Sarah is studying a Research Masters in Musicology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and will be with us for three months learning about CoMA's community practice.
She'll be at some CoMA events too, so if you see her, say hi!
Sarah is studying a Research Masters in Musicology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and will be with us for three months learning about CoMA's community practice.
She'll be at some CoMA events too, so if you see her, say hi!
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A big welcome to the newest member of the CoMA team, Sarah Rubin!
Sarah is studying a Research Masters in Musicology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and will be with us for three months learning about CoMA's community practice.
She'll be at some CoMA events too, so if you see her, say hi!
Sarah is studying a Research Masters in Musicology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and will be with us for three months learning about CoMA's community practice.
She'll be at some CoMA events too, so if you see her, say hi!
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Open Call: X perimental N counters
hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025!
27–29 Nov
Performance: 29 Nov
Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered)
Apply by: 09/10
hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/
hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025!
27–29 Nov
Performance: 29 Nov
Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered)
Apply by: 09/10
hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/
September 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Open Call: X perimental N counters
hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025!
27–29 Nov
Performance: 29 Nov
Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered)
Apply by: 09/10
hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/
hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025!
27–29 Nov
Performance: 29 Nov
Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered)
Apply by: 09/10
hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/