Beneficiaries of the Bert Jansch Foundation Award

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2022

• Chris Brain

  Direct: for mixing and releasing his second album Steady Away 

• Entropies band

  Direct: for HARVEST, a five-part non-stop immersive musical project.

• Pete Shaw

  Direct: to install new mic pickup system into his electro-acoustic accordion to enable exploration of acoustic/synthesised accordion fusion

• Nia Clarke

  Goldsmiths University: to present her end of year final performance at the Albany theatre

• Stefanos Zafeiriadis

  Goldsmiths University: Portrait of an Acoustic Instrument

• Behn Quartet

  Direct: Recording and release of a digital album championing lesser-known 20th-century female composers

• Lizabett Russo

  Direct: Professional live music videos for Youtube and purchase of new guitar

2021

• Alex Ridout

  Direct: for recording her debut album with the Alex Ridout Quintet 

• Elisabeth Salverda

  Goldsmiths University: to make radio feature about the piano-viole: the process of restoration and reinvention, how it sounds today, and her creative response.

• Roxanna Albayati

  Direct: to study and receive training in Iranian music with Faraz Eshghi and record for the Into The Ocean project

• Ceylan Rogers

  Goldsmiths University: for loop pedal equipment as part of extended flute techniques project

• Louis Tsiattalou

  Goldsmiths University: for musicians’ fees for EP based on Anglo-American acoustic and folk music traditions

2020

• Campbell Baum

  Direct: for a compilation featuring arrangements of traditional songs

• Eliott Morris

  Direct: for ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ – a recording series of performances made from home  

• Dylan Trenouth

  Goldsmiths University: 

• Cassandra Layton

  Goldsmiths University:

2019

• Alice Western

  Goldsmiths, University of London: for Working and Waulking Music in the Scottish Outer Hebrides 

• Maisie Cowburn-Bannister

  Newcastle University: for part-funding of a new instrument, a concertina

• Haringey Young Musicians

  Direct: for after school ensembles

• James Creed 

2018

• Amy Hollinrake-Tune

  Goldsmiths, University of London: Attending special workshops in preparation for final degree show. (Also, Yamaha Voucher)

• Calum Reid

  Newcastle University: Purchasing a new bouzouki for live performance of his own material

• Holly Clarke

  Newcastle University: Recording First Album of Holly and The Reivers (Also, Yamaha Voucher)

• Najia Bagi

  Goldsmiths, University of London: a collective event ‘Voicing the Invisible’

• Sam Grassie

  Edinburgh, Direct: Recording the second single for his band Avocet

• Sara Kalina

  Kracow, Poland, direct: for Studio recording of original songs and purchase of new guitar

2017

• Anita Okienko

  Edinburgh Napier University: Making a Professional music ‘calling card’

• Annie Booth

  Edinburgh Napier University: Recording Debut Album ‘In An Unforgiving Light’ (Also Yamaha Voucher)

2016

• Becky Sikasa and David Scobie 
  

  Edinburgh Napier University: Lunir, a duo ensemble for live performance

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