About Music That Lives
Music That Lives is a dedicated home for live classical music concerts, educational events, and a support hub for contemporary composers working in the Western tonal classical tradition.
It is dedicated to preserving and championing Britain’s historic musical heritage, with a particular focus on historic keyboard instruments and music manuscripts and historically informed performance of tonal classcial music.
At its core, it brings together composers, musicians, collectors, historians, patrons, and classical music enthusiasts committed to the appreciation, preservation, and continuation of tonal classical music. Alongside Harmony at Heart: The Tonal Composers’ Society, supporting modern-day tonal composers and creation of new tonal classical music works, Music That Lives offers a space where these traditions are not only safeguarded but actively lived, shared, and renewed.
Our mission is of serious urgency: centuries of historic classical music knowledge and craftsmanship are at risk of being lost, from historically significantkeyboard instruments to historic music manuscripts, together with shrinking music education and disappearing specialist skills.
Preservation and conservation alone is not enough — these instruments must be played, manuscripts studied, and historically informed classical music performance promoted to keep this heritage alive. Through concerts, workshops, and scholarly access, we bring historic keyboards and manuscripts back to the wider public — ensuring audiences, musicians, patrons and future generations can experience and learn from them.
Our mission is to nurture a creative environment in which tonal classical music exists fully in the present — not as a relic of the past, but as a living, breathing, and evolving art form, touching one heart at a time.