🦃🎶SQUAWK THIS WAY🦅🎶
Join us in London from 29 April-1 May for The BIRDS, our bold and immersive workshop with acclaimed experimental vocalist @lorelixenberg.bsky.social.
Find out more and sign up here: www.coma.org/whats-on/the...
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🌟NEW OPPORTUNITY🌟
Composer Course Designer & Teacher (freelance)
We’re #recruiting a composer facilitator to design a 10-week online course for beginner and early stage composers interested in writing for amateur musicians.
Find out more and apply by 11 May here: www.coma.org/about/jobs/
Slide showing a photo of peacock with its tail folded up on a sky blue background, with the CoMA logo and text saying: Shed your human form and take musical flight / The BIRDS / Vocal workshop with Loré Lixenberg / 29 Apr-1 May / Book now.
The BIRDS workshop info:
🪶29 April–1 May 2026, 11am-5pm: sign up for three days or just one
🪹People’s Palace, QMUL, London
🥚Pay what you can (suggested £10/day)
🪱🐦Limited places, book here: www.coma.org/whats-on/the... 🧵2/2
Slide showing a photo of a brown owl with feathery head tufts on a sky blue background, with the CoMA logo and text saying: Shed your human form and take musical flight / The BIRDS / Join Loré Lixenberg to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop.
🐣Spring is back and so are The BIRDS!🦅
Join us in London from 29 April-1 May for The BIRDS, our bold and immersive workshop with acclaimed experimental vocalist @lorelixenberg.bsky.social.
Learn to sing like birds, squawk like parliament, and call across imagined skies through aural scores. 🧵1/2
Image of several runners in a race on a city street, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: CoMA London, CoMA Sussex & CoMA Singers ensembles present The Finishing Line with guests The Clarion Trio / concert / Sun 29 March, plus the logo for Arts Council England.
Join us in London tomorrow afternoon for The Finishing Line, our grand finale with CoMA London, CoMA Sussex, CoMA Singers and special guests The Clarion Trio - full details and tickets here: www.coma.org/whats-on/eve... 🧵2/2
Photo of six smiling members of CoMA Sheffield.
Photo of CoMA Sheffield performing in a church and an audience watching.
They may be one of the smallest CoMA ensembles, but for CoMA Sheffield that just means packing extra musical talent into each member!
Thanks to everyone who joined us this afternoon as they soared high with their concert Sky Above the Clouds – the penultimate event of CoMA Festival 2026. 🧵1/2
Loved hearing this #contemporary #music live today in #Sheffield as part of the @comanewmusic.bsky.social #COMAFestival2026 #SkyAboveTheClouds 🎵🎶
Screenshot of CoMA's The Big Give fundraising campaign page, showing £4,580 raised against a target of £4,500.
🎉WE DID IT! A huge thank-you to everyone who supported CoMA's The Big Give #ArtsForImpact campaign over the past week, helping to make our Connect the Dots scheme possible for another year.
Thanks also to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for being our donation-doubling champions!
Image of several runners in a race on a city street, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: CoMA London, CoMA Sussex & CoMA Singers ensembles present The Finishing Line with guests The Clarion Trio / concert / Sun 29 March, plus the logo for Arts Council England.
And on Sunday 29 March it’s the grand finale… we’ll have reached The Finishing Line, a concert bringing together CoMA London, CoMA Sussex, CoMA Singers and special guests The Clarion Trio.
This one is packed with premieres!
See the link in our bio for full details of each event. 🧵3/3
Image of a paraglider alone in a cloud-filled but bright sky, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: CoMA Sheffield ensemble presents Sky Above the Clouds / concert / Sat 28 March, plus the logo for Arts Council England.
Then on Saturday afternoon we’re off to Yorkshire, where CoMA Sheffield present Sky Above the Clouds, a concert of music that rises above the everyday. Look out for pieces by Sarah Hennies, Angela Elizabeth Slater, the group’s musical director Louise Vincent and a new collaborative composition! 🧵2/3
Image of several stylised sound waves intersecting, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: Meet the composers of the CoMA Festival 2026 commissions / CoMA Listening Club / online / Weds 25 March, plus the logos for Arts Council England and Creative Australia.
Can you believe there are just three events to go at CoMA Festival 2026!
If you’re torn between a thirst for new music and wanting a cosy night in, tomorrow’s CoMA Listening Club is for you.
Join us online to meet Alice Chance and Jodie Rottle, creators of two of the festival’s new commissions! 🧵1/3
A man in a patterned shirt plays a yellow melodica, raising his eyebrows.
Close-up of hands playing a glockenspiel, with a score consisting of curving lines of text visible on a tablet.
An ensemble of 10 people seated in a semicircle in a large rehearsal space.
A smiling trombonist.
We had so much fun at the immediate pieces Play Day in Leeds yesterday, trying out some of the scores in CoMA's new 'pick up and play' set.
That's eight pieces under our belts, rehearsed and ready for a concert!
Find out more about the immediate pieces collection here: www.coma.org/our-music/pu...
Thank you to everyone who packed out Nottingham Central Library to see CoMA East Midlands' concert at A Sense of (p)Lace, yesterday's wonderful exploration of Nottingham lace and music inspired by it!
Now it's the final week of CoMA Festival 2026 - see the link in our bio for what's still to come...
A group of laughing people with musical instruments standing inside a cafe-style venue.
A group of smiling and laughing people with musical instruments standing inside a cafe-style venue.
Here's our new CoMA Melbourne group with composer Jodie Rottle at the scene of their first ever gig last night, as part of CoMA Festival 2026...
...Looks as though it went pretty well!
👏🏼Thanks to everyone who made the CoMA Bristol concert last night such a success!
🎶The programme included the world premiere of 'Mithen Cathedral' by Will Frampton, inspired by Javanese gamelan music and the modular theory of evolving consciousness...
CoMA Festival 2026 continues to 29 March.
🎹EXCITING CONCERT ALERT!📯 I wanted to let you know about a very special concert taking place on Sunday 29th March 2026 at 5.30pm at the Brady Arts and Community Centre, 192–196 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5HU (thvenues.co.uk/venues/the-b...).
🌟Donate to CoMA’s The Big Give campaign and support Connect the Dots🌟
🎶Georgie Sparks is in the Clarion Trio, a young ensemble of Disabled musicians. With Clarion, French horn and keyboard, the trio have no standard repertoire...
🙏🏻 Give via the link in our bio and see your donation double!
Poster featuring graphics of swirling musical notation on a pastel pink and yellow background, with text saying: CoMA Leeds invite you to take your next steps in free improvisation. A workshop with Morag Galloway, creative practitioner, www.moragcreative.com. An opportunity to work on improvisation to graphic scores, text-based pieces and more… Wednesday 1 April 2026, 7.30-9.30pm, £10, including refreshments, Roundhay Quaker Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 2BW. Places limited, email jenny@jennybrierley.com to book.
Are you ready to cast aside notated music and be inspired by graphic scores, text scores and improvisation?
Yes! No. Maybe?
Either way, join CoMA Leeds on 1 April for Next Steps in Free Improvisation, a friendly music workshop that will leave you more confident about stepping beyond the stave...
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We're aiming for £2,250: if we hit our target, the Big Give campaign will DOUBLE these funds!
🙏🏻Every donation makes a difference – click the link in our bio to help us reach our target.
#ArtsForImpact
📣The Big Give – we need your support!
From 17-24 March CoMA is taking part in The Big Give Arts for Impact Campaign, raising money to continue our Connect the Dots training programme for inclusive music-making. 🧵1/2
#ArtsForImpact
A group of 14 happy people, some holding instruments, standing and kneeling in two lines in front of a vertical banner, on which a black and white group photo is visible.
OG CoMA members meet the next generation at our Mysounds with Co MA West Midlands workshop as part of CoMA Festival 2026 in Birmingham today.
While the group enjoyed playing new pieces by composers aged 16-21, one of the musicians is also in the photo behind of the first CoMA Summer School in 1993!
View of an ensemble playing onstage.
View of the ensemble with two double bassists in the foreground.
Two percussionists playing drums.
A guitarist, with a percussionist playing vibraphone in the background.
As part of CoMA Festival 2026, CoMA ensemble members from Amsterdam, Maastricht and Eindhoven joined local players in The Hague yesterday for a wonderful day of making and sharing music, led by Mark Daelmans.
Could it be time for a new CoMA ensemble to form in The Hague...?
Image of several stylised sound waves intersecting, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: Meet the composers of the CoMA Festival 2026 commissions / CoMA Listening Club / online / Weds 25 March, plus the logos for Arts Council England and Creative Australia.
Image of a runner’s feet on a road, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: We’ll all get there together / MARATHON by Alice Chance / A new commission for CoMA ensembles, plus the logos for Creative Australia and Arts Council England.
Image of gleaming circuitry, overlaid with a circular pattern of green spots. Below, there is the CoMA Festival 2026 logo and text saying: Connect with the energy / Ambient Voltage by Jodie Rottle / A new commission for CoMA ensembles, plus the logos for Creative Australia and Arts Council England.
🔦CoMA Festival 2026 spotlight:
CoMA Listening Club
🎧Join us online and meet the composers behind two of the festival's most exciting new commissions, Alice Chance's MARATHON and Jodie Rottle's Ambient Voltage!
📌 CoMA Listening Club, Wed 25 March, 8pm-9pm, online
Find out more at the link in our bio.
A happy group selfie from the workshop.
A red-coated figure runs in front of one of the trees.
Two women strike dramatic poses in front of large topiary trees on a lawn.
A group of workshop participants all raising their arms like wings.
Life is tweet: here are a few moments from our CoMA Festival 2026 workshop THE BIRDS with @lorelixenberg.bsky.social in York yesterday. Congratulations to all our newly feathered friends who embraced birdhood with such enthusiasm!
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🎶Congratulations to our Norwich pop-up ensemble for playing the first concert of CoMA Festival 2026 this evening, just a day after they all met!
Find out what else is coming up between now and 29 March and how you can take part (or just watch): www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
A group of seated instrumentalists rehearsing, with a saxophonist in the foreground.
A group of mainly string players at the session.
One of the string players photographed from behind.
The rehearsal group with a conductor standing up.
🎶Here's our brand new CoMA Norwich pop-up ensemble, rehearsing together with conductor Tadeusz Kaznowski for the first time this evening!
They don't hang around - they'll be performing their debut concert tomorrow.
Want to join in the music?
▶️www.coma.org/whats-on/events/coma-fes...
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🎉🎶TODAY’S THE DAY FOR A NEW MUSIC ADVENTURE!
CoMA Festival 2026 is here and we invite you to join us. With concert premieres, unique artistic events and welcoming community, our biennial festival is a joyful celebration of contemporary music.
See it all here: www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...
CoMA Festival 2026
Loads of great stuff happening all over the place
Possibly near you!
Tamara, Madeleine, Bron and Fran all smiling in the sunshine in front of some blossoming trees.
Our CEO Tamara and Project Manager Fran are combining last-minute prep before CoMA Festival 2026 starts tomorrow with making the most of the sunshine!
Welcome to our guests from Australia, Madeleine Jevons and Bron Belcher, who you might see helping out at several of the festival events.
