CLASSIC CONCERTS TRUST
Classic Concerts Trust is a specialist consultancy, limited by guarantee and a registered charity, with the object of facilitating and increasing the scope and availability of live orchestral concerts. The Trust's experience and expertise in every aspect of concert promotion enables it to offer artistic and financial advice to potential sponsors, ensuring good value and attractive programmes to suit the sponsor's expectations and budget. Its advice can save money and improve programme choice. An initial exploratory consultation is free. Classic Concerts Trust has a total commitment to excellence and expects to support only those performances of the highest artistic calibre. The Trust maintains a unique network of contacts with orchestras, concert promoters, agents, festivals and recording companies, which enables it to offer an unrivalled service to sponsors. Firmly committed to widening the audience for orchestral music, the Trust is pleased to develop contacts and projects in the educational world and takes positive steps to encourage young people to explore and enjoy orchestral music, from orchestral workshops to free concert tickets for youngsters. The Trust is enthusiastic about taking musicians into the community and can organise every aspect of public performances in any venue. Classic Concerts Trust has worked with local authorities throughout the south eastern sector of the UK, taking care of every aspect of a sponsor's involvement and devising schemes which will derive the maximum benefit from partnerships with organisations such as Arts & Business. Over twenty years' experience with local authority concert promotion enables Classic Concert Trust to devise programmes, singly or in themed series, and recommend orchestras and artists. The Trust may support any orchestra. Classic Concerts Trust's combination of musical and financial expertise enables it to assess the right price for any programme and to advise or negotiate to minimise expenditure and maximise value for sponsors. From devising interesting ways to attract and keep audiences to advising with regard to printed materials and mailings, the Trust can keep expenditure down and sales up. The Trust is also able to offer box office services. Classic Concerts Trust can help with single concerts or a series: from popular classics, contemporary music, or themed series, such as The Essential Beethoven; Sugar & Spice; The Romantic Concerto; The Virtuoso Violin; Beethoven & Beyond; Beethoven: The Piano Concertos; and many more. Classic Concerts Trust can advise sponsors with: design, artwork, printing, databases, marketing, programming, media relations and incentive schemes. Non-profit distributing by definition, the Trust's involvement attracts supporters which helps to raise money to channel into performances. For further information about the way Classic Concerts Trust helps to keep orchestral concerts live and successful in the community, call the Administrator, Lyn Mumford. Contact: Lyn Mumford, Administrator. Address: Classic Concerts Trust, 25B Epsom Lane South, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5TA. Tel.: 01737 813273. Fax: 01737 215676. E-mail: info@classicconcerts.net link to website
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