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!

🎶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...

🎶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? ▶️https://www.coma.org/whats-on/events/coma-festival-2026/

🎉🎶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!

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.

CoMA's Dutch ensembles are hosting a friendly one-day workshop in The Hague #denhaag. The perfect opportunity to dip a toe – or a bow, or a reed, or a mallet – into the waters of contemporary music. 📌Sat 14 Mar, 12pm-8pm CET Zandvliet College, The Hague 💷 €20 Email [email protected] to register

📣COMA FESTIVAL 2026 - NEW ADDITION Join CoMA Bristol for Kaleidoscope, a concert of bold and colourful new music. Enjoy works inspired by medieval painters, space debris and the human mind... 📌 Weds 18 March, 7.30pm Victoria Rooms, Bristol 💷 Free (collection at end) www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...

🛍️Who doesn't love a tote bag to put scores, records or groceries in? ❓Or a badge - perfect for starting off those awkward conversations about contemporary music. ✏️Or a pencil - in a colour that won't get lost under your music stand. Come to CoMA Festival 2026 for the music, stay for the merch!

CoMA Festival 2026 starts this Fri and here's just a few of the ways YOU can join in and be part of our new music adventure! Whether you're a regular player, just starting out, or dusting off an instrument, you'll be welcome at our festival workshops and play days. www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...

⏳It’s 10 days until CoMA Festival 2026 kicks off and here’s the full line-up of events at a glance. 👀See what’s happening near you and then head to our festival programme page to find out how you can be part of a new music adventure! 📌https://www.coma.org/whats-on/events/coma-festival-2026/

📆With one month until the CoMA Festival 2026, it's time to discover how *you* can join in with our joyful celebration of new music, across the UK and beyond! 🎻Dust off an instrument, make graphic scores or find the songs of your inner bird - come and have a go. www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...

📣Announcing CoMA Festival 2026 Fri 6 – Sun 29 March Be part of a new music adventure! CoMA Festival 2026 is for all music lovers – whether you play an instrument, sing, would like to have a go or just listen, we invite you to join us. Full programme at www.coma.org/whats-on/eve...

It was lovely to have nearly all of our Board of Trustees plus the CoMA team together in one room in Leeds last Fri to catch up and make plans. We welcomed our newest Trustees Leon, Mimi, Colin and Sharon and said a sad but appreciative farewell to Tony Harris, stepping down after many years.

A reminder we are fundraising to exist this year. We spent all of 2025 applying and re-applying for arts funding which were all rejected. We've reached 4%. Any help would be appreciated to bring you more music, tea & cake in what will be our 17th year. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

👀Nice work, @alterclassical.bsky.social!👏🏼

Had a good time at a concert by the @comanewmusic.bsky.social London ensemble

💖 Spread the word: PRXLUDES IS GOING .LIVE! 💖 Tickets are flying out for our launch party at Folklore Hoxton, London on 5 February, with Standard Issue and Stomping Ground - are we seeing you there? Get yer tix now: dice.fm/event/8er2p5...

🎵🎻MUSIC TEACHERS: if you’re planning next term’s pieces to suit a youth ensemble, classroom or school-aged students, don’t miss our handy list of 10 inspiring, educational and accessible contemporary pieces! 🎼See in your new year with some sparkling new music! www.coma.org/a-handy-guid...

Catch up on a year's worth of projects, events and making music together with CoMA's Annual Review 2024-25! Read it online or download from our website: www.coma.org/read-comas-a...

🎄Give CoMA this Christmas🎄 📚Did you know that we have three anthologies of exciting and approachable contemporary pieces for sale? 🎁Perfect for the music teachers, choir leaders, ensemble organisers and enthusiastic amateur musicians in your life! 🧵1/4

Here's a taste of the recent KNM Campus Days event in Berlin, where a CoMA Allcomers ensemble joined KNM Campus Ensemble plus others to rehearse and play a concert at this year's Klangwerkstatt Festival. Thank-you to everyone who made all our CoMA musicians so welcome! Photo credits in alt text

🌳Tuesday timeline cleanse!🌲 Watch this delightful new film showing our Little Woodland Heights project being delivered in Scoil Mhuire Eimhín in County Limerick earlier this year, facilitated by composer Fiona Linnane, soprano Tríona Walsh and teacher Nuala Dooly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6v...

You can now watch every CoMA Bespoke: Showcase performance on our YouTube channel – that’s 13 new pieces, plus extras! Delivered in partnership with @unisouthampton.bsky.social, CoMA Bespoke embedded composers @frazireland.bsky.social, Franklyn Oliver and @uriagnon.bsky.social with UK ensembles 🧵1/3

Deadline now extended to 30 November - don't miss out!

We've extended the range of our Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands callout so it's now open to ages 16-21. If you'd like to: 🎶Write and play new music for the CoMA Festival 2026 🤯Expand your creative experience 🎻🥁🎺Meet other musicians Find out more here: www.coma.org/get-involved...

📣Opportunity: CoMA Trustee Help shape our vision as the UK’s charity for joyful new music-making! We are looking for a passionate and inspiring Trustee to join CoMA’s Board. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the new music landscape of the UK. www.coma.org/opportunity-...

CALLOUT TIME! We’re looking for composers and instrumentalists aged 16-18 in the West Midlands to write and play new pieces in the CoMA Festival 2026. If you’re interested in contemporary classical music, expanding your creative experience and meeting other musicians, we want to hear from you!🧵1/2

📣Our latest newsletter is out now, with callouts for: 💥Immediate Pieces 🎼CoMA London residency 🎶Mysounds + CoMA West Midlands plus chances to: 🎻play in Berlin 👂🏽do Deep Listening in Glasgow 🛋️or just stay put and watch concerts from our 2025 Summer School Read it all here: mailchi.mp/coma/coma-up...

📣CALL FOR SCORES 💥Immediate Pieces Be part of CoMA’s new online anthology of pick-up-and-play music We’re curating a new collection of contemporary pieces to suit players from a range of backgrounds – ones that can be performance-ready in under an hour. 🧵1/2

Last chance to sign up for The Birds workshop with @lorelixenberg.bsky.social - starts tomorrow! 🐦🐓🐧

Missed our Connect the Dots panel discussion at the recent @royalmusical.bsky.social conference? Watch it here or read a transcript to find out about how we're training composers to make their work more accessible for Disabled musicians: www.coma.org/connect-the-...

It was lovely to get together on Saturday at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social in London and catch up with our ensemble chairs from across the UK (plus honorary CoMA member for the day Emanuel Swedenborg, pictured in the wig). 🧵1/2

Still time to book on this workshop and transcend your earthbound human form!

A big welcome to the newest member of the CoMA team, Sarah Rubin! Sarah is studying a Research Masters in Musicology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and will be with us for three months learning about CoMA's community practice. She'll be at some CoMA events too, so if you see her, say hi!

Open Call: X perimental N counters hcmf// & moers festival invite 4 UK musicians to a 3-day workshop with Carolin Pook, ending in a performance at hcmf// 2025! 27–29 Nov Performance: 29 Nov Fee: £1,400 (travel & accommodation covered) Apply by: 09/10 hcmf.co.uk/open-call-x-perimental-n-counters/

Would your November be brightened by a musical adventure in Berlin? Join the CoMA Allcomers at KNM Campus Days on 14 & 15 Nov, rehearsing and performing a programme that includes winning pieces from an open score contest and a new work by Petros Ovsepyan. Find out more: www.coma.org/whats-on/knm...

Shed your human form and take musical flight! Join @lorelixenberg.bsky.social to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop exploring birdhood. Queen Mary University, London, 15-19 Oct - come for one day or all five, PAYF. 🪶Book here www.coma.org/whats-on/the...

We're at the Royal Musical Association 2025 conference today, sharing what we've learned from our Connect The Dots project. Chaired by CoMA Project Manager @francescalelohe.bsky.social, our panel features reflections upon the content, findings and impact of the programme. Come say hello!

George came to our 2025 Summer School to explore the contemporary music that he loves, make friends and discover something new. He didn’t realise that @lorelixenberg.bsky.social's music theatre workshop would also have him embracing his inner puffin...

🌞🎶Time for more reflections from our Summer School 2025 participants! Here’s Parveen from our CoMA West Midlands ensemble, who took every opportunity to try something new and enjoy the ensemble playing and workshops at her first Summer School…

👏🏼🎚️🎤Let’s hear it for Eloise, the tech wizard who kept workshops running smoothly during our Summer School! Here are some thoughts from her on being busy behind the scenes but still immersed in that unique Summer School atmosphere.

🌞🎶We're missing our 2025 Summer School already, so here's the first happy reflection from people who joined us at Keele. @gustavogilgodinho.bsky.social came from Portugal for his first-ever CoMA event! It's great to hear that he'll be taking inspiration from Sonic Bothy's workshop back with him.

…And it’s all over! Summer School 2025 has officially ended, and what an unbelievably amazing week! Thanks so much to everyone who supported the event and came together to make it a success, from the team at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social who made us so welcome...🧵1/3

Last night our Summer School attendees enjoyed a wonderful visit to Keele Observatory, where @manasamitrauk.bsky.social performed her enchanting 'Lullaby - Sonic Cradle' ragas inside one of the domes. Thanks to the observatory staff for showing us all the giant telescopes!

Testing out the timbres at our Little Woodland Heights session led by @francescalelohe.bsky.social at Summer School today. 🌿🌳

Avian a lovely time at our 2025 Summer School as @lorelixenberg.bsky.social leads our music theatre workshop on becoming a bird!

Warming up at Summer School last night with a fun playthrough of Amber Priestley's 'We can't find our piano'. It all kicks off in earnest today, rehearsing @elifkarlidag.bsky.social's new piece 'Chorea', plus workshops with Sarah Nicolls, @francescalelohe.bsky.social and @lorelixenberg.bsky.social!

🪧MARCH recording out now! Relive our London performance of @uriagnon.bsky.social's energising piece, which took place at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 6 July, as part of @prsfoundation.bsky.social's #NMB2025.

Our Summer School isn't just for those taking part during the week - you're all invited to the closing concert! Experience the premiere of Elif Karlıdağ's Chorea, plus music by Judith Weir, Hollie Harding, Fergus Hall and Michael Pisaro. Find out more: events.humanitix.com/coma-summer-...