⌛ Funding deadline on Friday!

We are welcoming applications for our VWF bursaries, available to support students accepted on MA courses in composition, and who intend to follow careers as composers.

Find out more here: bit.ly/43z8nYT

With Vaughan Williams copyrights divided between several different publishing houses, it can be hard to locate scores or set of parts.
Our searchable catalogue lists the publisher of each piece and guides you towards more information.

Find it here 👉 bit.ly/3IWtt9T

One for fans of the Wiltshire Downs (not for those from the Lakes or Scotland though!)

Explore our beautiful archive of photos, from the collection of Ursula Vaughan Williams, which can be found on our website.

Vaughan-Williams's Sea Symphony was written for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra in the early 1900s.
David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version on BBC Radio 4's Record Review with Andrew McGregor
📻 listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The VWF is a grant-giving charity upholding the values and vision of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and his wife Ursula.
Our principal aims are to honour RVW’s desire to support his fellow composers and to help make his own work widely accessible.
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org

Vaughan Williams in Context is out now from Cambridge University Press. Was delighted to contribute a chapter on the theme of his 'Personality'. Big congrats to co-editors Julian Onderdonk and Ceri Owen! cambridge.org/core/books/vau…
Ralph Vaughan Williams Society #RVW Vaughan Williams Foundation Vaughan Williams info Cambridge University Press

In our first year we made 165 grants worth a total of £350K.

We supported festivals, composer career development, composer-led projects, recording projects, commissioning, student bursaries as well as projects celebrating the legacy of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

A typically direct quote from Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor and Cellist 😅

While we might not complete agree with this (!), we can see why RVW liked him so much...

⌛ Funding deadline approaching!

We are welcoming applications for our VWF bursaries, available to support students accepted on MA courses in composition, and who intend to follow careers as composers.

Find out more here 👉 bit.ly/43z8nYT

A major donation of Vaughan Williams items made by Oxford Music to the British Library is now listed on the The National Archives website - the first step in ensuring the accessibility and visibility of these materials.

Explore the 98 catalogue listings here: bit.ly/3TTQOiK

Love #Elgar #Finzi #VaughanWilliams ? #Reading Sat Apr 6th for a wondrous programme. British Music Society Petroc Trelawny Gerald Finzi FinziFriends Ralph Vaughan Williams Society #RVW Vaughan Williams Foundation Edward Elgar Elgar Society London Elgar Society South Elgar Society buytickets.at/henleychoralso…

What a wonderful Launch to the 2024 season we had at Leominster Museum on Saturday! The place has never been so full. Thanks to The Fetch Theatre, Marches Family Network, Leominster Morris, Vaughan Williams Foundation, EFDSS, and all our wonderful volunteers for making it such a special day. Come & see us soon!

Ralph Vaughan Williams nurtured a generation of female composers, including Elizabeth Maconchy, Ruth Gipps, Ina Boyle, Grace Williams and Helen Glatz.

Here music historian Dr Leah Broad goes in search of RVW's legacy as a teacher of women composers: 📻 bbc.in/4anlcaK

Want to know a little more about who we are and what we do?

Explore our website, which includes lots of free resources relating to the life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, here ⬇️

vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org

'This is a wonderful recital. The programme has been constructed with imagination and perception. The performances are outstanding'.
MusicWeb reviews Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland, with Roderick Williams and Susie Allen.

Concert on Thursday! 🎶

Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, performed by the wonderful Barts Choir at the Festival Hall in London.

Details and tickets here 👉 bit.ly/4apmEte

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it.
We discovered this rather wonderful song, written by Ursula Vaughan Williams which RVW set to music and gifted to the Leith Hill Musical Festival in 1955 under the strict terms set out in this letter.
We imagine they were delighted!

Happy Easter weekend! 🐣

'Well, it’s Vaughan Williams because you know, how can we live here and not have Elgar and Vaughan Williams with us all the time?'

Dame Judi Dench talks to Zeb Soanes for Classic FM about her love of The Lark Ascending.

📻 listen here: classicfm.com/discover-music…