June Emerson Wind Music 2009 Launchpad Prize
We are absolutely thrilled and extremely proud to announce the winners of the inaugural
June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize. They are:
Royal College of Music
The Emerson Quintet
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Crown Quintet
Trinity College of Music
Ayre
Royal Northern College of Music
Souza Winds
About the prize
The Launchpad Prize was an idea that began as a desire to help young musicians in
some significant way. With our limited financial resources it was difficult to come
up with something that would make enough of a difference to make it worthwhile.
The idea of sponsoring a prize at one of the UK music colleges was something we
just couldn’t afford, and we also felt that we’d like to be able to offer something
to more than just one college and be a little more ‘hands on’. We eventually decided
that we would assist one young final year wind ensemble from each of the major UK
music colleges to launch themselves onto the professional circuit.
The Launchpad Prize consists of practical help including: a substantial JEWM music
voucher; dedicated space on the JEWM website, with the opportunity to use it as
a powerful marketing tool; publicity in the printed JEWM catalogues; editorial coverage
wherever possible; free advertising flyers in JEWM music orders in order to publicise
themselves; exclusive access to the JEWM shop with use of all music and facilities;
complimentary copies of any Emerson Edition titles which fit their instrumental
line-up; anything else we can think of!
So far, we have teamed up with four colleges, three of which have announced winners
for 2009. We are looking forward to forging similar relationships with the other
colleges in due course.