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.

• Maitains a commitment to fair, transparent, and professional artist remuneration.

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 through curated historically informed performances on period-accurate keyboard instruments, presented in an intimate chapel setting.

2. Harmony at Heart: The Tonal Composers Society: supporting contemporary 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. 
   

Guiding Principles:

• Artistic integrity and tonal continuity

• Respect for historical instruments and sound worlds

• Fair and transperant compensation for performers and collaborators

• Intimate audience experience (33 guest capacity)

• Long-term cultural sustainability