Vaughan Williams Foundation
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A grant-giving charity, with composers at the heart, formed by the merger of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and the RVW Trust.
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Postgraduate Scholarships - Vaughan Williams Foundation
Find out about scholarships for postgraduate composers offered by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
📣 Applications open!
Vaughan Williams Scholarships of up to £8K each for postgraduate composition study will be awarded in 2026.
Applicants should demonstrate exceptional talent and be planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
Vaughan Williams Scholarships of up to £8K each for postgraduate composition study will be awarded in 2026.
Applicants should demonstrate exceptional talent and be planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
The manuscript Vaughan Williams used at the 1910 premiere of A Sea Symphony was so large and heavy that a stand collapsed under its weight during one of the rehearsals!
January 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The manuscript Vaughan Williams used at the 1910 premiere of A Sea Symphony was so large and heavy that a stand collapsed under its weight during one of the rehearsals!
Donald Macleod charts the long life and career of Vaughan Williams.
📻 Listen here via BBC Radio Sounds 👇
📻 Listen here via BBC Radio Sounds 👇
Composer of the Week - Vaughan Williams - BBC Sounds
Donald Macleod charts the long life and career of Vaughan Williams.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Donald Macleod charts the long life and career of Vaughan Williams.
📻 Listen here via BBC Radio Sounds 👇
📻 Listen here via BBC Radio Sounds 👇
This BBC Bitesize teaching aid is a good introduction to RVW's The Lark Ascending, with background on the composer and an overview of the piece.
Designed for younger students, it's a great introduction for older audiences too!
Explore here 👇
Designed for younger students, it's a great introduction for older audiences too!
Explore here 👇
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Explore Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending with lesson plans and films, and audio downloads.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM
This BBC Bitesize teaching aid is a good introduction to RVW's The Lark Ascending, with background on the composer and an overview of the piece.
Designed for younger students, it's a great introduction for older audiences too!
Explore here 👇
Designed for younger students, it's a great introduction for older audiences too!
Explore here 👇
Wishing all a #HappyNewYear, and a music-filled 2026! 🎆
January 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Wishing all a #HappyNewYear, and a music-filled 2026! 🎆
Applications are now open for our postgraduate composition study scholarships! 🎼
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and are planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and are planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
Postgraduate Scholarships - Vaughan Williams Foundation
Find out about scholarships for postgraduate composers offered by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Applications are now open for our postgraduate composition study scholarships! 🎼
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and are planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and are planning a professional career in composition.
Details here 👇
In this episode of BBC Radio 3's Record Review Podcast from July of this year, Kate Kennedy picks her favourite recordings of Vaugh Williams' Symphony No. 5.
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
Record Review Podcast - Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5 - BBC Sounds
Kate Kennedy picks her favourite recording of Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In this episode of BBC Radio 3's Record Review Podcast from July of this year, Kate Kennedy picks her favourite recordings of Vaugh Williams' Symphony No. 5.
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, stained-glass artist Tom Denny created a window for All Saints' Church in Down Ampney, the village where the composer was born.
Themed around opera ThePilgrim's Progress, it evokes musical feelings of movement.
Themed around opera ThePilgrim's Progress, it evokes musical feelings of movement.
December 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, stained-glass artist Tom Denny created a window for All Saints' Church in Down Ampney, the village where the composer was born.
Themed around opera ThePilgrim's Progress, it evokes musical feelings of movement.
Themed around opera ThePilgrim's Progress, it evokes musical feelings of movement.
A surprising extra Christmas gift for Ursula Vaughan Williams' friend 😆
December 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A surprising extra Christmas gift for Ursula Vaughan Williams' friend 😆
The words of The Sussex Carol date back to 1684 when Irish bishop Luke Wadding published A Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs.
In the early 1900s, Vaughan Williams heard a tune on a visit to the hamlet of Monk's Gate, which he matched to Wadding's text, creating the carol.
In the early 1900s, Vaughan Williams heard a tune on a visit to the hamlet of Monk's Gate, which he matched to Wadding's text, creating the carol.
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The words of The Sussex Carol date back to 1684 when Irish bishop Luke Wadding published A Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs.
In the early 1900s, Vaughan Williams heard a tune on a visit to the hamlet of Monk's Gate, which he matched to Wadding's text, creating the carol.
In the early 1900s, Vaughan Williams heard a tune on a visit to the hamlet of Monk's Gate, which he matched to Wadding's text, creating the carol.
A lovely insight into Christmas in the Vaughan Williams household - complete with a carol party for 40 people! 🎶🎄
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A lovely insight into Christmas in the Vaughan Williams household - complete with a carol party for 40 people! 🎶🎄
Wishing all a joyful and music-filled Christmas! 🎄 🎶
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Wishing all a joyful and music-filled Christmas! 🎄 🎶
'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, performed here in 2019 by The Cambridge Singers, conducted by John Rutter. ✨
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Vaughan Williams, John Rutter, Cambridge Singers
'Fantasia on Christmas Carols' Ralph Vaughan Williams
From ‘The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album’
Composer R. Vaughan Williams
Conductor John Rutter
Baritone Stephen Varcoe
Cello Stephen…
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December 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, performed here in 2019 by The Cambridge Singers, conducted by John Rutter. ✨
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams set up the RVW Trust (to become the VWF in 2022) in 1956 to support young British composers, and assigned his performing rights income to it.
Find out more about Ursula's life and work here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/the-foundati...
Find out more about Ursula's life and work here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/the-foundati...
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams set up the RVW Trust (to become the VWF in 2022) in 1956 to support young British composers, and assigned his performing rights income to it.
Find out more about Ursula's life and work here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/the-foundati...
Find out more about Ursula's life and work here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/the-foundati...
“I’ve always loved carols,” Vaughan Williams wrote to Cecil Sharp in 1911.
Despite being called “a cheerful agnostic”, the composer never lost his love for Christmas 🎄
📻 Enjoy BBC Radio 3's A Vaughan Williams Christmas, presented by Kate Molleson 👇
Despite being called “a cheerful agnostic”, the composer never lost his love for Christmas 🎄
📻 Enjoy BBC Radio 3's A Vaughan Williams Christmas, presented by Kate Molleson 👇
BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, A Vaughan Williams Christmas
Kate Molleson explores Vaughan Williams’s experiences of Christmas across his life
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December 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
“I’ve always loved carols,” Vaughan Williams wrote to Cecil Sharp in 1911.
Despite being called “a cheerful agnostic”, the composer never lost his love for Christmas 🎄
📻 Enjoy BBC Radio 3's A Vaughan Williams Christmas, presented by Kate Molleson 👇
Despite being called “a cheerful agnostic”, the composer never lost his love for Christmas 🎄
📻 Enjoy BBC Radio 3's A Vaughan Williams Christmas, presented by Kate Molleson 👇
A well-received gift! 🎄
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A well-received gift! 🎄
Applications are now open for our postgraduate composition study scholarships! ✒️
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and who are planning a professional career in composition.
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and who are planning a professional career in composition.
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Applications are now open for our postgraduate composition study scholarships! ✒️
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and who are planning a professional career in composition.
Grants of up to £8K each will be available to selected applicants who demonstrate exceptional talent and who are planning a professional career in composition.
Enjoy RVW's The Lark Ascending, one of the UK's favourite pieces of classical music, performed here by violinist Liya Petrova at this year's BBC Proms.
Watch and listen here 👇
Watch and listen here 👇
BBC Proms - 2025: 8. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
One of the UK's favourite pieces of classical music performed by violinist Liya Petrova. Great British Classics at the Proms is on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, Sunday 24 August.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Enjoy RVW's The Lark Ascending, one of the UK's favourite pieces of classical music, performed here by violinist Liya Petrova at this year's BBC Proms.
Watch and listen here 👇
Watch and listen here 👇
Explore our collection of photographs relating to the life of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams via our website 💻
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Explore our collection of photographs relating to the life of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams via our website 💻
This BBC Radio 3 programme was made in 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams' birth.
In it, Tom Service explores how community, sound and landscape shaped the composer's music and his thinking.
📻 Listen here 👇
In it, Tom Service explores how community, sound and landscape shaped the composer's music and his thinking.
📻 Listen here 👇
Music Matters - Vaughan Williams Today - BBC Sounds
Tom Service with a Vaughan Williams special to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This BBC Radio 3 programme was made in 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams' birth.
In it, Tom Service explores how community, sound and landscape shaped the composer's music and his thinking.
📻 Listen here 👇
In it, Tom Service explores how community, sound and landscape shaped the composer's music and his thinking.
📻 Listen here 👇
Do you have a favourite recording of Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols? 🎼
Explore Gramophone's selection here ⬇️
Explore Gramophone's selection here ⬇️
Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols – which recording is best?
Jeremy Dibble surveys the available recordings of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols and chooses his favourite
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December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Do you have a favourite recording of Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols? 🎼
Explore Gramophone's selection here ⬇️
Explore Gramophone's selection here ⬇️
With RVW’s copyrights divided among several different publishing houses, it can be hard to locate any particular score or set of parts to perform.
The VWF's catalogue lists the principal publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information.
Find it via our website.
The VWF's catalogue lists the principal publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information.
Find it via our website.
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
With RVW’s copyrights divided among several different publishing houses, it can be hard to locate any particular score or set of parts to perform.
The VWF's catalogue lists the principal publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information.
Find it via our website.
The VWF's catalogue lists the principal publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information.
Find it via our website.
"An effect Vaughan Williams used for the choir was to have them hum, usually on the syllable ‘u’ as in ‘but’, which gives the choir an unseen presence during the first baritone section and at the start of the third section" - Interlude on RVW's Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"An effect Vaughan Williams used for the choir was to have them hum, usually on the syllable ‘u’ as in ‘but’, which gives the choir an unseen presence during the first baritone section and at the start of the third section" - Interlude on RVW's Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
"Dreamy, enigmatic, meditative, Flos Campi summons an intangible sensuality as tantalising as the bitonal harmonies" - The Arts Desk on RVW's Flos Campi, performed this week at the Barbican Centre by the LSO, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Dreamy, enigmatic, meditative, Flos Campi summons an intangible sensuality as tantalising as the bitonal harmonies" - The Arts Desk on RVW's Flos Campi, performed this week at the Barbican Centre by the LSO, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
For more than 40 years, Vaughan Williams funding has supported postgraduate study in composition, with 270 students receiving grants.
Applications are now open for the 2026 Vaughan Williams Scholarships. Read about the 2025 scholars here:
Applications are now open for the 2026 Vaughan Williams Scholarships. Read about the 2025 scholars here:
2025 Vaughan Williams Scholarships - Vaughan Williams Foundation
For more than 40 years Vaughan Williams funding has been awarded to support postgraduate study in composition. This year the Foundation has announced four new scholarships, totalling £32,000, for the…
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For more than 40 years, Vaughan Williams funding has supported postgraduate study in composition, with 270 students receiving grants.
Applications are now open for the 2026 Vaughan Williams Scholarships. Read about the 2025 scholars here:
Applications are now open for the 2026 Vaughan Williams Scholarships. Read about the 2025 scholars here:
Sounds about right to us! 🎼
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Sounds about right to us! 🎼