Roopa Panesar, receipt of Asian Arts Agency’s Breaking Barriers Innovate music commission.

We are delighted to receive funding from PRS Foundation towards the second phase of our talent development programme, “Breaking Barriers”. This will enable us to create new opportunities over the next 12 months, including new music commissions and training and development support for South Asian musicians. The first phase of our Breaking Barriers programme saw us support a wide range of artists including new music commissions, recording new music, and training and development opportunities for emerging artists. We are looking forward to the next stage of our programme.

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About Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers is an interventionist project supporting South Asian Musicians to develop their work and music. Developed by Asian Arts Agency, it offers new music commissions and provides training and development support for artists and musicians to equip them to prosper as professional artists/musicians. The Phase 1 project provided opportunities for over 40 South Asian musicians to create, perform and distribute new work recorded at one of the UK’s leading recording studios with opportunities to perform new commissioned works via live concerts. It resulted in new recording contracts and new opportunities for several young musicians.  PRS funding will support the wider continuation of the programme including training and development support for emerging musicians and a new round of commissions to make new music for live performance.

We are delighted to be part of PRS Talent Development Network and to receive funding for the next stage of our Talent Development programmes for artists. Support from PRS will enable us to create new music commissions and development support for more South Asian musicians and we look forward to working with PRS Talent Development Network. 

– Jaswinder Singh, Director Asian Arts Agency

For more information please visit: www.ppluk.com and www.prsfoundation.com