Sound World is a UK music charity founded in 2018. Its motto is “Great music for everyone” and it works primarily in the fields of music education, music outreach, concert promotion and commissioning. Its patrons include Dame

Evelyn Glennie Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Early life Glennie was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The indig ...

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Armando Iannucci Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer, and panellist. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of ...

and it was founded by British composer Julian Leeks. Its first major project was “The Composing Club” which visited schools in disadvantaged areas around Bristol and Bath. It resulted in pupils having their own compositions being performed and recorded by The Bristol Ensemble. In 2019, Sound World created “In The Steps of Apollo” a music and planetarium show produced in collaboration with the planetarium at We The Curious, Bristol. It premièred on 20th July 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic saw all live music events in the UK postponed. Sound World responded with the Coronavirus Fund for Freelance Musicians, a crowdfunded project supporting freelance performers with “lockdown” recording work. Composers, including

Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, ...

, Dame

Nico Muhly Nico Asher Muhly (; born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestras ...

, Graham Fitkin, Sadie Harrison,

Gavin Bryars Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. Early life and career Born on 16 January 1943 in ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE (born 10 June 1960) is a British composer of classical music. Biography Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex. He began composing at age nine and at fourteen began studying at the junior section of the Royal College of M ...

, Michael Ellison, John Pickard, Geoff Poole,

Howard Skempton Howard While Skempton (born 31 October 1947) is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist. Since the late 1960s, when he helped to organise the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Skempt ...

, Sally Beamish and Julian Leeks waived their commission fees and contributed specially written works which were then recorded by members of The Bristol Ensemble in lockdown. The first release to come from the project was “The Grace of Silence” by Evelyn Glennie in January 2021. The album, called ''Reflections'', was released on 8th December 2021 exactly one year after Margaret Keenan from the UK became the first person in the world to receive a Covid 19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Sound World also holds an annual competition for young composers, the Sound World Young Composers’ Prize. With the 2020 and 2021 competition being cancelled due to the pandemic, the current holder of the prize is Jasper Eaglesfield who won with the piece “Birthday Letters.{{Cite web, title=Birthday Letters by Jasper Eaglesfield from Sound World on Vimeo, url=https://player.vimeo.com/video/374151187, access-date=2021-02-24, website=player.vimeo.com

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Music charities based in the United Kingdom 2018 establishments in England Charities based in Bristol