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Shu-Yao Fenton

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Beneficiaries 2019 – 2020

OrganisationGenreDescriptionAreaGRANT 19-20
Sound FestivalMusicSupporting 5 emerging Scottish composers through a residential weekend developing works for oboe & cello to be performed at soundfestival19.Aberdeen2500
Kate IveArtThis project develops innovative techniques on a little-known hand-operated lathe, which cross-pollinates materials/processes to make new artworks.Edinburgh1860
Anna AlvarezDanceChi’isi (Moonlight): a group dance project rooted in native Mapuche culture, it is selected for CASA festival and programmed for The Roundhouse.Brighton4000
Adam RussellDanceArtistic Spending to support early stage choreographer and other professional performer. Mentoring from established industry professionals.Newcastle2500
Samantha PotterTheatreI would like to fund an Arts Lab Graduate Director to work with me on my R&D project, Charlie Charlie at the North Wall in Oxford.Tring/Oxford1413
Virtually OperaOperaPresenting 'The Perfect Opera' (a new opera by Peter Davis and Leo Doulton) in London and Edinburgh, demonstrating a new approach to opera.London2000
Adam GilbertOperaI am a professional Opera Singer. Funding is sought for new Vocal Recordings following a change of voice from Baritone to Tenor.Ceredigion500
Alex WilsonMusicDebut CD recording of the unpublished piano music of F.S.Kelly, released on Toccata Classics. Unearthing exciting music for a new audience.Devon1500
Animikii TheatreTheatreAnimikii Theatre will follow up their award-winning play Origins with their first cross art-form collaboration with Manchester’s Vonnegut CollectiveW.Yorkshire6000
Chinese Arts NowMusicMusic programme offering professional and artistic development for early career British Chinese composers/musiciansLondon4433
Cove ParkCross-ArtsEarly Career Artists Residencies: a programme for emerging UK-based painters/sculptors, designers, writers and musicians/composers.Argyll & Bute5500
Directors Charitable FoundationTheatre6-month UK-wide mentoring scheme supporting 10 early-career directors, culminating in 10 mentee-led workshops for entry-level directorsLondon2800
English National OperaOperaENO BAME Chorus FellowshipLondon3500
Ex CathedraMusicEx Cathedra Choral Scholarships to support talented music graduates make the transition from student to professional choral singerBirmingham4000
Film LondonFilmSupporting 12 early career moving image artists with comprehensive development programmes to strengthen careers and facilitate production of new worksLondon5100
Glasgow Sculpture StudiosArtFunding to support its annual MFA Graduate FellowshipGlasgow2000
Highly Sprung Performance CompanyPerformanceOffer two artists a programme of training, performance experience & pedagogic practice to become facilitators of arts and education projectsCoventry5000
Iris TheatreTheatreIris Theatre seeks funding for development of our programme support and launch careers of the next generation of costume designers.London3000
Lunchbreak Opera
OperaArtist fees for the 2019/20 season of Lunchbreak Opera consisting of two operas performed within the City of London for the public for freeLondon5000
Mid Wales OperaOperaYoung Artists’ Support - Tosca Spring 2019 ToursPowys3000
National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)MusicProvide vital studio experience for our emerging musicians and advance the big band genre by recording and releasing an album of new works London5000
NoFit State Community Circus LtdPerformanceA year-long launch pad programme for Emerging Circus Artists & Fledgling Companies to develop their creative and business skillsCardiff5000
Old Vic, TheTheatreCONNECT ‘Create’ gives emerging artists the chance to develop and perform new work together , as part of our CONNECT network project London5000
Sinfonia CymruMusicCurate’ - A series of four cutting-edge contemporary concerts created and performed by young professional musiciansCardiff5000
Soft Fiction ProjectsArtMaking Space - A Project on Housing, Feminism and Urban Change’ by artist run collective Soft Fiction Projects at Guest Projects London.Belfast/London3270
Stephen McAllanMusicAssistance with the purchase of a professional instrument to enable the recording of the debut album by Constant Follower.Stirling400
Swaledale FestivalMusicFunding 3 concerts in Swaledale Festival 'Young Artists Platform' 2019 to showcase "endangered" instruments played by aspiring artists N.Yorkshire2000
The Night With...MusicSupport Timothy Cooper in the development of a new work for baroque quintet and electronics for première in The Night With...'s 2019 season Glasgow3125
TransformPerformanceCommission fee and associated mentoring support for emerging artists 70/30 split to perform as part of Transform 19Leeds2900
Fuel ProductionsTheatre3 seed commissions and a 3-year programme of support for diverse, early stage theatre makers Tom Stuart, Racheal Ofori and Rosemary Kingsley.London2000
Soho TheatreTheatreSupport one emerging playwright on Soho Theatre's year-long development programme for early-career artists, Soho Six 2020.London5417
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