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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.