About usForum London Composers Group was formed in 1995 by Kerry Andrews, Alan Taylor, and a number of other composers of contemporary classical music, who had met at that year's Huddersfield Festival. The intention was to form a group to promote the new music writing of its members.The group was relaunched the following year as an organisation open to any composer based in the London area. In 2010 the name of the Group was changed to London Composers Forum. One of several composer groups in the regional network of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (BACS), Forum is unique in having access to an affiliated orchestra, the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (see 'Links'). The group has an educational role in providing workshops, tutorials and discussion groups, and promotes concert series including both amateur and professional performers, including several composer-performer members. As far as possible, workshop topics, concert content and performers are chosen democratically. Recent workshop leaders have been Michael Finnissy, Matteo Fargeon and Robert Worby and performers in the past couple of years have included the Consonum Ensemble, Con Brio String Quartet and Frances Lynch. See 'Activities' and 'Concerts' for more about our current and past projects. |