Vaughan Williams Foundation
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A grant-giving charity, with composers at the heart, formed by the merger of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and the RVW Trust. vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
The Vaughan Williams Foundation invites funding applications from ensembles, organisations and individuals. We offer grants in 2 key areas: 🎶 Support for the music of composers of the last 100 years 🎶 Performance of work of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams
In October, the Sheldonia Theatre in Oxford hosts English Melodies, including RVW's Lark Ascending. With the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Roderick Williams, baritone, Ruth Rogers, violin & Anthony Robb, flute. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins Details 👇
English Melodies - Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
No country’s music embodies a pastoral spirit quite like England’s. Join the Orchestra for their first symphonic concert of the season.
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www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/britt... Excited for this programme of cello and piano music in December, featuring the second performance of my Dialogues commissioned for Guy and Melvyn, supported by the wonderful @vwfndn.bsky.social and @hinrichsenfoundati.bsky.social
Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan | Britten Pears Arts
Main image: Guy Johnston
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In this 2012 episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives, Matthew Parris talks to writer, broadcaster and 6Music presenter Stuart Maconie about the life of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Great Lives - Ralph Vaughan Williams - BBC Sounds
Matthew Parris and Stuart Maconie celebrate the life of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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🎻 One of Britain's best-loved pieces, The Lark Ascending, was written just before World War I, then set aside during the war, giving it an almost haunting quality as a musical farewell to a vanished England.
In this BBC 2026 Proms season showcase, Georgia Mann introduces specially recorded performances from this year's Norfolk and Norwich Festival, including Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs in the seldom-heard version for chamber forces. 📻 👇
BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, 2026 Proms season showcase - Elizaveta Ivanova and Andrew Hamilton
Debussy, Poulenc and and Vaughan Williams from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
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Vaughan Williams created important works in most major musical forms and genres, as well as writing music for film and stage. He championed music-making in the community, was active as a collector of folksongs and was also an inspiring teacher of the next generation of composers.
The Vaughan Williams Foundation online database of correspondence relating to the composer's life and works includes transcripts of more than 5,000 fully indexed and searchable items. Explore it here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/let...
Gaia x BBC Concert Orchestra: Sounds of the Earth 🌍 A special concert at the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall, staged under Luke Jerram’s Gia - a replica of Earth - will open with Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Details here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gai...
Composers are at the heart of our support! The VFW funds: 🎼 The performance, commissioning, or recording of music by professional British or Irish composers 🎼 Projects creating developmental opportunities for composers, or promoting awareness of British or Irish music
While editing The English Hymnal in 1906, Vaughan Williams rediscovered a 1567 psalm tune by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis. Instead of simply arranging it, he transformed the theme into a timeless meditation for double string orchestra and string quartet, premiered in 1910...
The Staples Ensemble bring the music of Vaughan Williams to Guernsey on Tuesday, August 18. The Lark Ascending is performed here in an intimate arrangement, placing the soaring, bird-like violin solo against a lush texture of six string parts. 7.30pm, Town Church, St Peter Port.
For more than 40 years, Vaughan Williams funding has been awarded to support postgraduate study in composition. Each student receives a scholarship of £8,000 towards their studies in 2026-7. Learn about the 2026 scholars here 👇
2026 Vaughan Williams Scholarships - Vaughan Williams Foundation
For more than 40 years Vaughan Williams funding has been awarded to support postgraduate study in composition. This year the Foundation has announced four new scholarships, totalling £32,000, for the…
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The Vaughan Williams Foundation invites funding applications from ensembles, organisations and individuals. We offer grants in 2 key areas: 🎶 Support for the music of composers of the last 100 years 🎶 The work of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth in 2022, Hyeyoon Park and Benjamin Grosvenor released a new version of the original arrangement of The Lark Ascending for solo violin and piano. See and hear them perform it here 👇
Benjamin Grosvenor & Hyeyoon Park – The Lark Ascending (for Violin and Piano) – Vaughan Williams
Listen to ‘The Lark Ascending’ on your favourite streaming platform: https://grosvenorandpark.lnk.to/LarkAscendingID To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth (12th…
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We have soooo many questions... 🐾 Have a lovely weekend. And don't leave your tuba on the floor... 🤣
Dame Evelyn Glennie, the BBC Singers, and the Fantasia Orchestra will perform an arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music alongside works by Radiohead and John Coltrane at a Late Night Prom at 10.15pm on Tuesday, August 11. Details here 👇
Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and…
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Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe | Waterstones
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Find out more about what we fund and how to apply via our website 💻
Vaughan Williams was a great advocate of the arts in a community setting 🎶
This Sunday at The Strand in London! La Locura: ‘Invisible Threads’ 🎶 Interwoven with medieval and Baroque reflections in a meditative programme threading old with new, the world premiere of Emma-Ruth Richards’ Three Rilke Songs was commissioned for La Locura with support from the VWF. Details 👇
LA LOCURA: ‘Invisible Threads’ — ANA BEARD FERNÁNDEZ
The world premiere of Emma-Ruth Richards’ Three Rilke Songs , commissioned for La Locura with support from the Vaughan Williams and Hinrichsen Foundation, is interwoven with medieval and Baroque…
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With Vaughan Williams’ copyrights divided between several publishing houses, it can be hard to locate any particular score or set of parts to perform. Our searchable catalogue lists the principal publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information. Find it here 👇
Published works - Vaughan Williams Foundation
Search our catalogue of Ralph Vaughan Williams' published scores and find the principle publisher and contact details.
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As a radical young modernist, Maxwell Davies initially rejected the pastoral tradition associated with Vaughan Williams, but he grew to deeply admire the older composer's structural daring, later honouring him through major musical commissions.
Our website has a carefully curated set of useful links for those wanting to explore more about the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Useful Links - Vaughan Williams Foundation
Research tools, teaching resources and fascinating insights into the music and life of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Find out more about funding opportunities offered by the VWF via our website 💻
"Unquestionably one of the most significant and influential English composers of the 20th century, if not of all time" - BBC Music Magazine explores the life, times and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams - "the grand old man of British music" Read here:
Ralph Vaughan Williams: folk music, the English countryside, and moments of transcendent beauty | Classical Music
Meet Ralph Vaughan Williams - England's greatest composer? Get to know all the great composers with BBC Music's insightful online guides
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RVW’s best friend and fellow composer Gustav Holst set several settings of Walt Whitman too. @dulwichchoral.bsky.social will be rehearsing pieces by both next term, including RVW’s To the Unknown Region. Looking forward to it already (concert in November).
Vaughan Williams Foundation@vwfndn.bsky.social · 3w agoA weekend listen! RVW was a lifelong devotee of the poet Walt Whitman, carrying a volume of his work to WWI and setting his words across several decades. Laura Barton explores what it was about Whitman’s work that so appealed to the composer. 📻 👇
A weekend listen! RVW was a lifelong devotee of the poet Walt Whitman, carrying a volume of his work to WWI and setting his words across several decades. Laura Barton explores what it was about Whitman’s work that so appealed to the composer. 📻 👇
Sunday Feature - Whitman and Vaughan Williams - BBC Sounds
Laura Barton explores the connection between Ralph Vaughan Williams and Walt Whitman.
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Did you know that the VWF not only supports the music of our founder but, at his request, that the majority of our funding goes to help other composers? Find out what grants are available, how much they are worth and how to apply for them here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/funding/how-...
See and hear one of RVW's most famous and well-loved works, The Lark Ascending, performed by candlelight by London Concertante. Details of dates and venues, including Leeds, Bristol and Norwich, here: londonconcertante.com/series/vival...
