Westmorland Music Trust
The change from the Westmorland Music Council to the Westmorland Music Trust now well established, the Trust is continuing to build on the valuable work done over many decades by its predecessor. In addition we are now actively looking for new ways, as an enabling body, to be helpful to all music-making and music-promoting organisations in the region.
Perhaps the most noticeable innovation so far is the development of the Concert Diary. This has been published twice a year for a long time now, in printed form. In a very recent development however, it is now available online via our website. This has at least two advantages: It gives concert organisers who are considering organising a concert a much
more up-to-the-minute view of who is doing what around the date being considered. As soon as a date is fixed it can go onto the web-based concert diary almost immediately instead of having to wait in some cases nearly six months for the printed version to be published.
The diary can be accessed at http://www.westmorlandmusic.co.uk/concert-diary.html and new entries can be created by emailing the relevant information to jeanrobinson1946@gmail.com or on 01539 725955.
We are also trying to achieve much closer collaboration between organisations in the matter of programme building in an attempt to avoid an inadvertent juxtaposition of many performances of the same piece.
Over the coming weeks and months other innovations will be discussed and refined by our new Development Committee. At the same time of course we are continuing with our traditional role of grant aid to our young musicians to help with their studies. To this end we are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to attract new funds so that we can keep this important activity going. We are particularly fortunate in being the administrator of the Katharine Pottinger Fund which is of specific benefit to young singers.
Jolyon Dodgson MBE
Chairman
Perhaps the most noticeable innovation so far is the development of the Concert Diary. This has been published twice a year for a long time now, in printed form. In a very recent development however, it is now available online via our website. This has at least two advantages: It gives concert organisers who are considering organising a concert a much
more up-to-the-minute view of who is doing what around the date being considered. As soon as a date is fixed it can go onto the web-based concert diary almost immediately instead of having to wait in some cases nearly six months for the printed version to be published.
The diary can be accessed at http://www.westmorlandmusic.co.uk/concert-diary.html and new entries can be created by emailing the relevant information to jeanrobinson1946@gmail.com or on 01539 725955.
We are also trying to achieve much closer collaboration between organisations in the matter of programme building in an attempt to avoid an inadvertent juxtaposition of many performances of the same piece.
Over the coming weeks and months other innovations will be discussed and refined by our new Development Committee. At the same time of course we are continuing with our traditional role of grant aid to our young musicians to help with their studies. To this end we are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to attract new funds so that we can keep this important activity going. We are particularly fortunate in being the administrator of the Katharine Pottinger Fund which is of specific benefit to young singers.
Jolyon Dodgson MBE
Chairman
Westmorland Music Trust is a registered charity, number 231433.
