Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica - Project

BBT Community Grant funding has been fundamental in enabling Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica to widen its scope and increase its outreach both to underprivileged members of society and potentially new generations of music lovers.

Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica

This long-established music foundation in Umbria was founded in 1937 to promote the classical music concerts of Sagra Musicale Umbra and then Amici della Musica in 1947. Since 2003 the Foundation has developed a range of music programmes and activities for the wider communities around Perugia who cannot attend concerts for reasons such as disability and isolation.

A new BBT Community Grant of £45,000 over the next three years will enable Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica to further develop its Musica Come Dono (Music as a Gift) programme, which was first supported by BBT in 2023. This project reached out to underprivileged people in and around the city, including residents in retirement homes and hospitals, school children, local families and prison detainees. This new award will allow the programme of music workshops, events and concerts to reach over 1,400 people and will extend even further into the city’s suburbs, where there is very little music provision, as well as to even more facilities that provide for disadvantaged people of all ages. The commitment and leadership of the musicians from the Perugia Chamber Orchestra, along with actors, narrators and singers, is at the heart of the project’s ongoing success in delivering a sense of community and well-being to these marginalised social groups.

Photographs by Claudia Ioan