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San Francisco Conservatory of Music is making artist residencies, recording projects and professional collaborations a recurring part of student life through its network of music businesses.
Funding pressures, changing audiences and the future of performing arts centres shaped four days of discussion as the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres marked its 30th anniversary.
Hong Kong’s WestK Performing Arts Centre will open in summer 2027 with world premieres and international collaborations, combining support for local talent with plans to take Hong Kong productions overseas.
At the opening sessions of the 2026 Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres' conference in Hong Kong, performing arts leaders discussed funding new productions, attracting audiences and helping artists earn a living.
Opera for All combines free seats with community outreach to broaden access to the Met.
Paul Tam is the Executive Director of Performing Arts at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA). In this role, he helps shape the WestK Performing Arts vision for WestK, a cultural district taking shape across 40 hectares of reclaimed land beside Victoria Harbour. He discusses WestK’s place in Hong Kong’s cultural ambitions, what artists need from its venues, and the audiences it hopes to reach.
VOCES8 is best known as an eight-voice ensemble, but around it has grown a much larger charitable organisation, with several performing groups, an array of community and education programmes, and operations in the UK, US and France. Co-founder and CEO Paul Smith talks to ArtsCSR about earned income, philanthropy, corporate support and the different funding cultures he encounters in each country.
Support for conductors from outside Europe forms part of the 2027 competition’s international career development offer.
Funding, technology and the changing role of performing arts centres will be among the themes when the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC) holds its 2026 Annual Conference at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District from 6 to 9 October.
Organisations specialising in choirs and group vocal work can apply for grants of up to £100,000 a year to develop ambitious, sustainable partnerships with schools in England.
The long-term partnership with WestK will give Hong Kong Ballet a permanent home while supporting new productions, talent development, education and community engagement.
Four composers will have new works premiered by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and OSM Chorus at the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert, as the Azrieli Foundation continues its substantial investment in contemporary composition.