We are a group of young com­posers and per­formers based in Manchester, UK, drawing on our varied back­grounds as clas­sical per­formers, ex­per­i­mental im­pro­visers, sound artists, DJs and pop mu­si­cians to pro­mote new and ex­citing music made in Manchester for Manchester. Raise Your Voice Col­lective was founded by Rob Guy, Steve Pycroft and Chris Swith­in­bank and have per­formed music by Hannah Ashman, Tom Coult, Emily Cross­land, John Davies, Luke-Matthew Iveson, Francesca Le Lohe, Maur­icio Pauly, José Guillermo Puello, Camden Reeves, Sam Salem, Richard Scott and Martin Suck­ling among others, in­cluding sev­eral world premi­eres. Our mu­si­cians have in­cluded Jenny Dyson, Jon Guy, Rob Guy, Chris­topher Jones, Mi­chael Jones, Anna Men­zies and Steve Pycroft. The col­lective have twice been awarded the Fu­tur­eEverything Show­case Award (2010 & 2011) and fea­tured in Sound and Music’s Artists’ Toolkit.

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