Young Conducting Scholarships

Young Conducting Scholarships

Sing for Pleasure has opened applications for its Young Conducting Scholarship 2024-25. This specially designed, year-long programme offers promising young musicians, ages 18-25, funded places on Sing for Pleasure courses, plus one-to-one mentoring and support to...
Composers’ group

Composers’ group

The Composers’ Group next meets online on Saturday 14th September at 2pm.  All involved in writing music or texts for the liturgy, from beginners to advanced, are welcome.  The session lasts no longer than 2 hours.  Please contact Alan Smith, the group’s...
Schweitzer 2025

Schweitzer 2025

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Albert Schweitzer’s birth and the 60th anniversary of his death.  Various events are planned to mark this important occasion in organ musicianship.  More information here.    
Happy feast day!

Happy feast day!

A happy feast day and every blessing on this patronal feast of St Gregory the Great to all SSG members and followers of our website. “For, as on the festival of Saint Gregory, you bid your Church rejoice, so, too, you strengthen her by the example of his holy...
Season of creation

Season of creation

Sunday 1 September is the beginning of the Season of Creation which continues until the feast of St Francis of Assisi on 4 October. In a joint statement, Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby, write, “Future generations will...