After losing its last thread of core funding, London Mozart Players has found its feet again. Alex Stevens explains how.
On 28 January 2014 the London Mozart Players released its first statement suggesting that a drastic change was being undergone. It simply announced that managing director Simon Funnell was to leave the orchestra, saying: ‘The London Mozart Players has a major funding problem that has necessitated a re-evaluation of the way in which the management of the orchestra operates. The orchestra has become increasingly dependent on local authority grants that are no longer sustainable.’
What to do when arts cuts hit home? The LMP had been funded by Arts Council England until 2008, after which it had no longer figured in ACE’s portfolio; and 2013/14, it had by then become certain, was the last of Croydon Council’s 25-year support for the orchestra (it had been resident, and still has an office in, Croydon’s Fairfield Halls)... Keep reading on Classical Music Magazine
On 28 January 2014 the London Mozart Players released its first statement suggesting that a drastic change was being undergone. It simply announced that managing director Simon Funnell was to leave the orchestra, saying: ‘The London Mozart Players has a major funding problem that has necessitated a re-evaluation of the way in which the management of the orchestra operates. The orchestra has become increasingly dependent on local authority grants that are no longer sustainable.’
What to do when arts cuts hit home? The LMP had been funded by Arts Council England until 2008, after which it had no longer figured in ACE’s portfolio; and 2013/14, it had by then become certain, was the last of Croydon Council’s 25-year support for the orchestra (it had been resident, and still has an office in, Croydon’s Fairfield Halls)... Keep reading on Classical Music Magazine