Peer to Peer session: Collaborating to increase commissioning for Scottish composers and performances of new music throughout Scotland
- 28 May 2026, 5 p.m., Zoom, (on-line), Book here
Description
New Music Scotland: Peer-to-Peer Sessions
New Music Scotland (NMS) hosts a series of dynamic peer-to-peer sessions designed to bring together professionals from across Scotland’s new music community. These informal yet focused gatherings create space to exchange ideas, share experiences, and tackle the challenges facing the sector.
Peer to Peer Session 1: How to better collaborate to increase commissioning for Scottish composers and performances of new music throughout Scotland.
28 May 5-630pm, online via Zoom
Hosted by Sarah Gee
This session will allow participants to discuss the challenges involved in commissioning and getting multiple performances for new work, and explore how commissioners and promoters might work closer together to create more opportunities.
Who is it for?
Promoters, producers, ensembles, organisations and artists involved in commissioning and organising performances of new music.
What will it cover?
This session will explore key questions and shared challenges, including:
- The current environment for new music performances
- The challenges involved in getting works commissioned and toured
- Possibilities for collaborating to help get more work off the ground
Promoter New Music Scotland
Submitted by New Music Scotland
Upcoming events
- 12 Oct 2026, 12:30
[Composers' Coffee Club: online coffee chat for composers & musicians] - 22 Oct 2026, 18:00
[Neil Smith: Try Try Try (soundfestival 2026)] - 28 Oct 2026, 18:00
[Composing for Media - NMS Peer to Peer session 3] - 29 Oct 2026, 19:30
[BBC SSO: Enrico Chapela's 'Antiphaser' (Concerto for electric violin and orchestera)] - 30 Oct 2026, 18:00
[James Weeks: weatherworld quartets (soundfestival 2026)]
Recent updates
Works
- Les Mélodies Nutritives, by Julien Lonchamp
- Sòlás Collective - Improvised, by Tom Macfadyen
- Quartet no 6 (Ma), by Matthew Whiteside
Events
- Composing for Media - NMS Peer to Peer session 3
- Neil Smith: Try Try Try (soundfestival 2026)
- James Weeks: weatherworld quartets (soundfestival 2026)
Projects
- Pete Stollery conducts Joe Stollery premiere
- Aides... mémoires... Project album launch
- On a Wing and a Prayer
Opportunities
- Red Note Factory Weekend – 17 & 18 October 2026
- Noisy Nights – Call for Scores
- Nordic Music Days 2027: Call for Works
