Opinion: Tomorrow’s classical music audience is out there!

Berlioz’ Les Troyens at the BBC Proms 2023

By Jo Johnson, 11 March 2024

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“More audience members than ever before booked arts and cultural events in 2023”

Bachtrack, 25th February

More than 1,000 musicians – including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Sir James MacMillan – have released an album consisting of silent recordings of their empty studios and rehearsal rooms.

£160m funding “black hole” in music education in England

Bachtrack, 10th February

A new report finds a £160m funding shortfall in the budget for music education across England, noting a shortage of specialist music teachers, and a lack of appropriate and affordable venues.

Opinion: Incompetence or malice? ACE’s new report on opera

David Karlin, 29th April

In March, 15 months after they faced a storm of protest after cuts to UK opera, Arts Council England published Let’s Create: Opera and Music Theatre Analysis. It’s an eye-poppingly poor piece of work.

In the eye of the storm: Welsh National Opera’s Aidan Lang

David Karlin, 25th November

In the latest Arts Council England funding allocations, WNO’s funding has been cut by a third. Their General Director discusses what's happened and how to survive it.

Arts Council England funding: winners and losers in dance

Graham Watts, 6th November

For dance companies, the National Portfolio funding for 2023-26 reveals many new names, with winners for diversity and disability and losers for established companies in London.

Arts Council England’s funding round: its impact on opera

David Karlin, 4th November

The biggest shock in today's round of ACE funding cuts was the news that ENO is no longer to be part of the National Portfolio.

Jo Johnson

Jo joined Bachtrack as Head of Marketing in November 2022, after a 17 year tenure as Senior Digital Marketing Manager at the London Symphony Orchestra. A devotee of orchestras since first coming across the BBC Proms on TV at the age of 7, she loves the buzz of seeing people at concerts enjoying the music and experience as much as she does. By night Jo is an amateur violinist and violist, and is happiest when playing the big symphonic works of the 20th century.

Opinion: All is not lost! Tomorrow’s classical music audience is out there!