Free online workshop open to all composers and musicians.
Fiona Robertson leads a session on budgeting and funding for creatives.
6-7pm including approx. 40 min talk with a Q&A session at the end. Please note that although we try to wrap-up opensound sessions by 7pm, they often run over by 5-10 mins.
Fiona Robertson (winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Leslie Boosey award 2019) is Director of sound, a new music organisation based in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, which supports composers, organises outreach and community work and runs the soundfestival, Scotland’s festival of new music.
Brought up in Aberdeenshire where she was a keen young musician, playing viola in youth orchestras, Fiona went on to study politics and economics at Manchester University, followed by a postgraduate qualification in Arts Administration at Dauphine University in Paris. After many years living and working in France, she returned to Scotland, and was approached by Professor Pete Stollery from the University of Aberdeen and Mark Hope, Chair of Woodend Barn, about setting up sound.
She has spent the past 17 years working alongside an enthusiastic staff team and supportive local network to increase the reach of new music to as many people as possible in North East Scotland and beyond. During this time she has been involved in the commissioning of over 120 new works from a range of composers, and supporting many others.
Fiona was also instrumental in setting up New Music Scotland, an organisation bringing together promoters, composer and performers in Scotland.
How to join:
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