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Click here to check out the first two online podcasts on our Radio page.

These two programmes were made at the Port Eliot Festival and the Extreme Voltage Celebration in July 2009 and were commissioned by The Works and Voltage respectively.

If you are interested in commissioning CYMAZ to create a programme for you, please contact Emily Foulkes or, if you are 19 or under and would like to be involved in CYMAZ Internet Radio station, contact our Radio Station Project Manager, Moss.

Hollaboxx have extended the deadline for their Battle of the Bands competition until the end of February.  The winners will be playing at a gig at the Livewire Youth project in Saltash, where the winner of this will get to record their demo!!!

For more info go to http://www.hollaboxxtv.com/blog/battle-of-the-bands-deadline-extended——–

Just a quick reminder to anyone wishing to apply for CYMAZ Partnership Funding for 2010-11 that the deadline for applications is this Friday, 22nd January.

If you need any assistance with applying or have any other questions, please get in contact with us and we’ll be happy to help.

Young Composers’ Competition

Now in its twelfth year, the prestigious BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition gives young composers aged 12-18 a chance to get their music heard by a wider audience. Young composers will need to enter their own, original piece of music – no more than five minutes long – to the BBC Proms judging panel, who’ll choose the winning compositions, which are then performed at the Young Composers’ Concert during the BBC Proms season and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

If they win, they’ll also receive a commission to be performed and recorded by BBC musicians at the 2010 Inspire events, and get to work with top composers and musicians in a series of workshops to develop thier commission. Last years winners were commissioned to write for the last night of the Proms!

Anyone who enters the Young Composers’ Competition or attends a lab can attend Inspire Day, a day of workshops that will challenge and inspire them to compose in ways they’d never thought of, in London on 2 August 2010.

BBC Proms Composer Labs

As part of the scheme, we offer composer labs throughout the UK. These labs help young people meet other composers, share ideas and discover new ones, develop a deeper understanding on how to use use rhythm, harmony, melody and form and how to make them their own.

Composer Labs are a unique chance to join professional musicians from the UK’s top orchestras and the BBC Singers, top composers and the BBC Proms team in a day of music making, exploration and discovery.

Labs will be held at locations around the UK between February and April.

Composer Lab Date in Cornwall 

Truro High School for Girls, Falmouth Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2HU
14 March 2010, 10.30am to 4.30pm
In partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers

How to get involved

All you need to do is contact promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765
5575 or visit www. bbc.co.uk/proms if you would like to attend any of the Labs.

How to enter the Young Composers’ Competition

Send in two musical scores of your composition, along with two CD recordings and an entry form to:
BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition,
14 Lakeside, PO BOX 105,
Rochester, Kent ME2 4BE.

Entry forms are available from bbc.co.uk/proms, by calling 020 7765 5575 or emailing promslearning@bbc.co.uk

The closing date for entries is 28 May 2010. Any entries received after this date will not be entered in the competition.

All of us at CYMAZ would just like to take this last opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

The CYMAZ offices will be closing on the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd December until Monday 4th January 2010.  If you do need to contact us, please either call and leave a message on the answerphone or e-mail us and we’ll deal with your query when we return in the new year.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved in our activities in 2009 and we look forward to even greater things in 2010!

Nadelik Lowen!
Happy Christmas!

We have just produced our first e-bulletin, a regular newsletter to keep you informed of what we are doing.  If you have not already received a copy you can download it by clicking on the following link:

CYMAZ e-bulletin No 1- December 2009

If you would like to receive future e-bulletins via e-mail, please send an e-mail to robin.leah@cymaz.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list.

CYMAZ is looking for delivery partners for 2010-11 and is currently inviting partnership funding applications.  Please click the following link to go to our Partnership Funding page for more details.

Partnership Funding Applications

The deadline for applications is 22nd January 2010.

The next CYMAZ Annual General Meeting will be held at 7:30pm on Wednesday 13th January 2010 at Trelander and St Clements Community Hall, Trelander Highway, TruroTR1 1PG.

The AGM is open to all members of the community who have an interest in the activities of CYMAZ and further details can be obtained by contacting us on 01872 270074 or e-mailing us at robin.leah@cymaz.co.uk

Last week was Youth Music Week and CYMAZ’s contributions to this nationwide celebration of young people’s music making were a resounding success.

On Thursday 12th November, nearly 30 young people got involved in our free music workshop at The House in St Austell and our spectacular Showcase Talent Gig at the Livewire Youth Project in Saltash on Saturday 14th attracted an audience of well over 200!  Both events were well covered in the local press, which certainly helped the high attendance figures.

We’d like to offer our thanks to all those involved who made both evenings so memorable:  Andy Rance and the crew at Livewire, Jamie Crowe, Roger Luxton, all the guys at The House, Youth Music (especially for providing those exceptionally cool torches!), Young Promoters, all the superb performers and everyone who came along and enjoyed themselves.

Last night was the first introductory session for our new Internet Radio Station, held at The House in St Austell.  The event was well attended and we were wowed by the level of interest in the project, with more than 20 young people signing up to be involved.

If you weren’t able to go yesterday, the second introductory session is being held tonight, Thursday 19th November, at Livewire Youth Project in Saltash, starting at 7:30pm.

If you live in the west of the county and can’t get there, don’t worry; we’ll be organising more sessions in West Cornwall in the near future so keep checking our News board for details.