Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Picture Justin Slee)

Opera North’s Resonance residency programme was launched in 2017 to supply funding, area, time and technical assist to skilled World Majority musicians and composers based mostly within the North of England and the Midlands. Now the corporate is searching for functions from music creators from the World Majority working in any style for the following iteration of the programme. In 2024-25, six profitable artists will probably be invited into Opera North’s house in Leeds to develop new concepts, collaborate with performers from different disciplines, and take their work in new instructions. Every artist will obtain as much as every week of free rehearsal area in central Leeds between November 2024 and March 2025, a grant of as much as £4,000 to cowl charges for these concerned and different prices, and assist and recommendation from technicians, producers and different specialists. There are additionally choices for a piece in progress efficiency and a brief movie to doc the mission.

Many Resonance alumni have continued to work with Opera North. Music Director on the inaugural Resonance residency, Jasdeep Singh Degun, turned the corporate’s first Artist-in Residence in 2022. His work with Opera North has included composing Arya, a sitar concerto for the Orchestra of Opera North, and being the composer and co-Music Director on the award-winning opera Orpheus. [see my 2023 interview with Jasdeep]. 2019 Resonance artist Nishla Smith is now the Programmer for the Howard Meeting Room and, earlier this yr, Girls of Midnight Blue carried out A Love Revolution, the family-friendly present they’d devised throughout their 2022 residency, on the Howard Meeting Room stage.

To use, see the shape on the Opera North web site.