In November our Chief Executive Thursa Sanderson and Associate Composer Ben Lunn travelled to Helsingborg in Sweden to rendezvous with Nordic colleagues as part of our New Music ExChange collaboration aiming to advance equity and inclusion in the region’s contemporary music landscape and transform career development for disabled composers and musicians. Working closely with our partners including Share Music & Performing Arts (Sweden), the Danish Composers’ Society (on behalf of the Council of Nordic Composers) and the Baltic Contemporary Music Network the project will deliver a series of events over the next two years including knowledge labs, masterclasses and workshops culminating at Nordic Music Days 2027 in Helsinki. On Friday 15th November 2025 we took the ferry from Helsingborg to Helsingør in Denmark to deliver the first seminar in the series at the beautiful arts centre The Culture Yard – Kulturværftet where the opening speech was delivered by Katrine Feldinger of the Scottish Government’s Nordic Office in Copenhagen.
Read more about the project in this article from our partners Share Music Sweden:
Drake Music Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of our career development work with disabled artists from the PRS for Music Foundation’s Talent Development Network
