After two years of development, London Music Masters is launching I’M IN this summer with two cohorts of 40 music organisations, including some of the biggest brands in classical music and some of the most innovative community-led initiatives.
Each organisation will use I’M IN – our online audit and strategy tool – to better understand where they can achieve success in diversity and inclusion. By helping organisations reckon with the complexities that underpin inequality in our sector, we will see them begin to build a more inclusive music sector. We are motivated to do this so that young musicians from all backgrounds, including those we work with every day, can inherit a stronger and more creative musical future.
Executive Director Rob Adediran says “We were blown away by the response from the sector to the launch of I’M IN. Clearly organisations ranging in size from small community outfits to our major symphony orchestras are recognising the need to go beyond issuing statements about diversity and start creating inclusive cultures.
“The music sector is a complex and interdependent ecosystem. For change to happen it has to happen everywhere: in education, in management, in ensembles, in the commercial sector, in festivals and in venues. We hope that the breadth of organisations who are taking part will inspire others to join us on this mission to change music for good. Change starts by taking a hard look at what we are getting wrong, and what we are getting right and I’M IN will help all of the organisations who signed up this summer to do just that.
“I can’t wait to see what happens when they do and look forward to working with them all to build a platform for real change.”
What is I’M IN? Sign your organisation up to the I’M IN Autumn Cohort
The first I’M IN cohort, taking place this summer, includes the following organisations:
- Awards for Young Musicians
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Cheltenham Music Festival
- City of London Sinfonia
- Edition Peters
- Live Music Now
- London Contemporary Orchestra
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- MishMash Productions
- Multi-Story Music
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
- NMC Recordings
- Opera Holland Park
- Orchestras for All
- Orchestras Live
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- RSNO
- Schott Music Ltd
- Sinfonia Cymru
- Sinfonia Viva
- Sound Connections
- Soundcastle
- Spitalfields Music
- The Nucleo Project
- Tŷ Cerdd
- WildKat PR
The I’M IN Autumn Cohort includes the following organisations:
- Bromley Youth Music Trust
- CBSO
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies Network
- Haringey Music Service
- HarrisonParrott
- Music Education Islington
- Music Teachers’ Association (MTA)
- NYMAZ
- Odyssey Trust for Education
- Royal College of Music
- Royal College of Music Junior Department
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Tri-borough Music Hub