Making Music partners with Royal Over-Seas League

UK leisure-time music organisation, Making Music has announced that it has partnered with London-based club and arts support programme, the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL). The two organisations will work together on the expanded Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists (PDGYA) scheme.

The new collaboration means that winners of ROSL’s annual music competition will receive, along with cash prizes totalling more than £75,000, membership of Making Music’s PDGYA scheme which enables Making Music members to book participating Young Artists at an affordable rate.

ROSL artistic director, Geoff Parkin, said: ‘ROSL are pleased to collaborate with Making Music in connecting the winners of our renowned Annual Music Competition with the PDGYA scheme. Undoubtedly concert opportunities are crucial for musicians at this stage in their careers, and the opportunity to enhance the experience for ROSL alumni by them joining the PDGYA scheme will be a significant and valued added benefit for them.’

Funded by the Philip & Dorothy Green Music Trust, the PDGYA scheme offers emerging young musicians and composers valuable performing and networking experience through Making Music’s network of over 4,000 members. Alumni of the scheme include cellist Stephen Isserlis, violinist Joo Yeon Sir, clarinettist Mark Simpson, tenor Ian Bostridge, and baritone Roderick Williams.

The ROSL Annual Music Competition grew out of a series of concerts inaugurated in 1947 and became competitive in 1952. A list of past competition winners can be found here.