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大象传媒
launches 拢1 million Fame Academy Bursary
Proceeds
from Fame Academy to support young musicians
The
大象传媒 has launched a major new bursary aimed at helping young musicians
across the country.
The
大象传媒 will be making in excess of 拢1 million available over
the next three years to the Fame Academy Bursary.
It
will provide up to 400 musical instrument awards (worth up to 拢1,200
each), for young people aged between 11 and 15, and five educational
grants to aspiring young musicians aged between 16 and 30.
The
大象传媒's profits from record sales and voting from the first series
of Fame Academy will be used to nurture musical excellence in young
people and encourage them to pursue their musical ambitions.
Instrument
and equipment awards will be given to young music makers with a
proven passion for music and who are looking for a new instrument
or musical equipment.
Substantial
educational awards will be given which could support a musician
through three years of advanced musical development and education
- including dance, vocal, performance or academic musical training,
perhaps in a further education college or music school.
When
Fame Academy returns later this year, all the profits from the voting
will be given to the Bursary scheme to help even more young people
buy instruments, equipment or take up a fulltime educational course
in music.
The
bursary has been established in conjunction with Youth Music, a
respected charity which brings a wealth of experience and expertise
to the scheme, especially in the areas of providing both music making
and music education to young people all over the country.
The
Fame Academy Bursary is looking for young people who are exceptionally
talented and passionate about making music.
Award
winners might be playing in a band, or honing turntable skills,
or locked away composing music on a computer or writing songs.
The
awards will be given to young people with a genuine love for music,
a proven commitment to performing and creating music and a wish
to further develop their musical talent.
A board
of trustees has been set up to oversee the management of the scheme.
The
members are:
Jane
Lush, Controller, 大象传媒 Entertainment Commissioning (Chair of the
Trustees);
Alan
Yentob, Director, 大象传媒 Drama, Entertainment and Children's;
Andy
Parfitt, Controller, 大象传媒 Radio 1 and 1xtra;
Stuart
Murphy, Controller, 大象传媒 THREE;
Sally
Stote, Head of Operations, Youth Music;
Anne
Gilchrist, Head of Entertainment, 大象传媒 Children's;
Marc
Jaffrey, 大象传媒 Music Learning Education Executive;
John
Kieffer, Director of Performing Arts and Head of Music for the British
Council:
Michael
Hastings CBE, Head of 大象传媒 Corporate Social Responsibility and Chairman
of Crime Concern;
and
Lorna Clarke, Head of 大象传媒 Talent.
The
trustees are in the process of applying for status as a registered
charity.
Applicants
can apply online for the first round of instrument awards.
An
online application form is available from the Fame Academy Bursary
website: .
An
online call centre will be open from 8.00am to 10.00pm explaining
how to get free local online access to an application form. The
number is 0800 771 234.
The
instrument awards are open to 11 to 15-year-olds.
The
closing date for applications is 19 July 2003, although in order
to maximize the amount of money available for awards, only the first
7,000 completed applications will be considered.
Applications
for the educational grants will open on 1 August 2003, when
forms will be made available on the website - .
These
awards will be open to young people aged between 16 and 30-years-old.
Details
of both schemes can also be found on Ceefax page 623 or from the
Fame Academy Bursary Hotline - 08705 100 777.
Notes
to Editors
Fame
Academy series two (02.05.03)
Set
up in 1999 with Lottery funding through Arts Council England, Youth
Music is a charity providing music-making opportunities for children
and young people up to the age of 18 who principally live in areas
of social and economic need.
By
the end of 2005 Youth Music aims to have reached more than one million
people, providing many of them with their first ever music-making
experiences.
Youth
Music funds programmes and schemes which support music-making principally
outside school hours, in communities, youth clubs and groups where
music-making can be introduced and developed amongst young people
who otherwise may not have the opportunity.
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