Manchester Collective are 'transforming all our perceptions' of performance, one award's judges said.
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"It can be very cold," says violinist and co-founder Rakhi Singh. "Sometimes I'm literally wearing three jumpers. And if you can't feel your fingers and you're trying to play something quite technical, it can be quite an obstacle. They can also get involved in commissioning and choosing the music, rather than just being hired to turn up and play.
"At the same time, the audience for classical music is the least diverse, I think, of all of the art forms. We know that things have to change." The RPS judges said: "Manchester Collective is riding an extraordinary wave, changing the vocabulary of how classical music is presented. From Birkenhead to the BBC Proms, it's joyous to be in the audience and feel part of their collective passion.One of the collective's commissions, Ben Nobuto's Serenity 2.0, also won best chamber-scale composition, while Selaocoe was named best instrumentalist at the same ceremony.
It is perhaps no coincidence that the collective has emerged from Manchester. The city has a healthy classical music scene - from the Royal Northern College of Music to the Manchester Camerata, BBC Philharmonic and Halle Orchestra - but a lower cost of living than London.
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