Support will help inspire audiences and participants through new music.
We are pleased to announce that the London Sinfonietta has secured significant funding to support its work, in the context of reduced National Portfolio Organisation funding from Arts Council England. In the past year this has included:
These funding awards for the arts include:
£100,000 10th Anniversary Celebratory Grant from Cockayne - Grants for the Arts: a donor advised fund held at The London Community Foundation
Major three-year core funding from the John Ellerman Foundation
Major two-year support from the Garfield Weston Foundation to fund a series of 20 concert events celebrating Stories in New Music
£36,759 from Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants supporting our Sound Out! Schools concert tour
Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation funding to support a curated project of concert events.
Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation funding to support Composition Challenges
Simon Gibson Charitable Trust funding to support our work in schools
This is in addition to existing grants from the Jerwood Foundation and many other trusts, foundations and individuals who have responded to the London Sinfonietta’s programme of commissions, performances, school and community work.
"For over 50 years London Sinfonietta has championed the music of the avant-garde. Their back catalogue of commissions and collaborators reads like a who's who of modern and contemporary classical music in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Staying at the cutting edge of musical creation and performance in this manner takes courage and demands resources, especially in the current economic and funding climate. At a moment when art is needed all the more to comment on and make sense of the rapidly changing world around us, Cockayne is delighted in this, its 10th anniversary year, to support London Sinfonietta forge into the future with a special £100,000 Anniversary Commissioning Grant aimed at providing opportunities for a new generation of composers, performers and audiences." Jo Hedley, Cockayne Foundation
Published: 20 Feb 2025
