Welcome to the Vaughan Williams Foundation – one of the foremost sources of funding for recent and contemporary music in the UK
The Vaughan Williams Foundation is a new grant-giving charity which upholds the values and vision of the celebrated composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and his wife Ursula Vaughan Williams.
Our principal aims are to honour RVW’s desire to support his fellow composers, and to help make his own work widely accessible to the general public.
VWF was founded in 2022, 150 years after the composer’s birth, and brings together the two charities originally set up by Ralph (RVW Trust) and Ursula (Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust).
Funding
VWF supports the work of British/Irish composers from the last 100 years, as well as projects which further the knowledge and understanding of the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and of the work of Ursula Vaughan Williams.
Applications for our next funding round are now open and ensembles, organisations and individuals are invited to apply.
VWF also offers annual £6,000 annual Vaughan Williams Bursaries to postgraduate composition students.
RVW150
12 October 2022 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the launch of this Foundation but #RVW150 celebrations continue into the summer of 2023.
Find out more about the composer and explore some of the projects going on in the anniversary year
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music@malling
@musicatmalling
Looking forward to this premiere by @DPritchardm with @ingrettable @OliverWassHarp @TDPKemp @cdomaine information and tickets: http://www.musicatmalling.com @WildKatPR @VWFndn @soundandmusic @ace_national @TMBC_Kent @artistchagall @tw_events @tmc_tonbridge #music #newmusic #creative
Madeleine Mitchell
@madeleinem_vln
1 month today, 23.6 my new album Violin Conversations @naxosrecords @naxos_uk is released. Here’s a clip of the 1st of the 10 composers. I’m thrilled to include this by @ErrollynWallen and to have recorded it with her at the 🎹Thank you @_MattBelcher @adaqkhan @RCMLondon @VWFndn
Vaughan Williams Foundation
@vwfndn
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a consummate teacher and unstintingly generous – to others and to many musical and charitable purposes – throughout his life.
Find out more about the history of the Vaughan Williams Foundation ⬇
https://vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/the-foundation/history/
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Vaughan Williams Foundation
@vwfndn
A letter to the @thetimes from Ralph Vaughan Williams contrubting the obituary of his old friend Ralph Wedgwood.
Find the full version here: https://vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/letter/letter-from-ralph-vaughan-williams-to-the-editor-of-the-times-5/
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Alexis Paterson
@leksi_p
I’ve been out of the office for a little bit…a joy to return today and get my first sight of outcomes from our current community project, ‘What the Lark Saw’ including a new song cycle for choirs by @lizlanecomposer. Thanks @VWFndn for backing this through its long journey!
Vaughan Williams Foundation
@vwfndn
Throughout celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams a special series of new works responding to his music, ideas, or life, are being performed around the country. 🎶 #RVW150
https://vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/news/new-commissions-for-rvw150/
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Vaughan Williams Foundation
@vwfndn
A touching and reassuring letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Gretchen, the wife of composer Ross Lee Finney, following the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Read the full letter here: https://vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/letter/letter-from-ursula-vaughan-williams-to-mrs-ross-lee-finney-2/
Three Choirs Festival
@3choirs
PARTICIPATION | As the festival approaches, our celebration of the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, “What the Lark Saw” is in its final stages.
Read More 👇
https://3choirs.org/news/what-the-lark-saw-three-choirs-festival-participation-2023
#3choirs #3choirsfestival #gloucester2023
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Vaughan Williams Foundation
@vwfndn
We have a searchable collection of thousands of letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams, and also a number of letters from Adeline and Ursula Vaughan Williams, available on our website.
🔎 Search the letters here: https://vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/letters/
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The Symphonist
@deeplyclassical
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Good Job it’s nearly the weekend so I can listen to @liverpoolphil and Andrew Manze in RVW’s “masque for dancing” masterpiece. It starts my symphony and orchestral #NewReleases playlist this week http://spoti.fi/3gwHG2X #RVW150
THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Featured Letter
Get to know the man and his music
RVW’s wide-ranging correspondence – with family, pupils, fellow composers, conductors and performers – paints an intriguing portrait of the man, as well as providing fascinating insights into his major preoccupations: musical, personal and political.
Our searchable database includes over 5000 annotated transcriptions of his correspondence all available to read online.
Letter of the Day
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Montgomery
Letter No.: VWL4844
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Dec 5 [1937]
Dear Peter
Thankyou very much for writing – my mother was almost the last of that generation- I think Leonard Darwin is the only one left1
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RVW
1. Presumably Montgomery had written after the death of VW’s mother Margaret.