Music Masters

Music Masters

Music Masters (formerly London Music Masters/LMM) is a UK-based music education charity which works with schools, teachers and arts organisations with the aim of making music accessible to all. Founded in 2007, Music Masters provides teaching, mentoring, financial support and performance opportunities to musicians between the ages of 4 and 25. Its flagship music education programme, the Schools Programme, raises the aspirations and nurtures the potential of disadvantaged primary school children across London. Music Masters' creative partners include the London venues Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal College of Music as well as London Contemporary Orchestra and the Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT). It also partners periodically with the US-based Sphinx Organization, a similar non-profit arts and youth development organisation. Internationally renowned musicians such as Nicola Benedetti, Colin Currie, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Harlem Quartet, Randall Goosby, Daniel Kidane, Benjamin Baker, Tom Poster, Elena Urioste, Benjamin Grosvenor, Nadine Benjamin, Anthony Marwood, Tai Murray support this charity's work as Ambassadors. During the last year of his life American composer Elliott Carter was also an Ambassador. Other recognised musicians, such as violinists Maxim Vengerov, Midori Gotō, Isata Kanneh-Mason and Plinio Fernandes have collaborated with Music Masters in specific projects.

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