Our Mission
At its core, Music That Lives:
Promotes historic keyboard instruments
Encourages historically informed tonal classical music performance
Restores and preserves historically significant keyboards and music manuscripts
Inspires contemporary tonal composers to create new works for these instruments.
The project currently has three main areas of activity:
Music That Lives: The 19th Century Music Salon: concert series, recreating the atmosphere of historic music salons with historically informed performances on period-accurate keyboard instruments.
Harmony at Heart: The Tonal Composers Society: supporting modern classical composers rooted in tonality and comissioning creation of new tonal classical music works for historic and modern instruments.
Education, Preservation, and Historical Practice:
Restoration, maintenance and tuning of historic keyboard instruments,
Restoration, conservation and maintenance of historic music manuscripts and early printed editions;
Educational events, workshops and masterclasses: tonal composition, historically informed performance, scholarship and research.
