Making Music, the UK's membership organisation for leisure-time music has announced the shortlists for its 2022 Making Music Awards.
The annual awards celebrate the creativity of the organisation's 3,900 member groups and the often unrecognised individuals who help the UK leisure-time music sector to flourish.
Prizes range from promotion across Making Music's networks to financial support towards commissions and other musical projects.
The shortlists and winners are decided by panels of experts drawn from across the music sector.
Announcement
All winners will be announced by Debbie Wiseman OBE, Making Music President, at a special online awards ceremony at 7pm on Thursday 22th September.
Barbara Eifler, Making Music Chief Executive, said: "These awards have drawn an enthusiastic response from members, seizing on the opportunity to lavish much-deserved praise on the professionals or volunteers who help their group flourish.
At Making Music, we are delighted with the quality of the submissions and look forward to announcing the winners next week."
Shortlists:
Best music creator for leisure-time music group
Finn Anderson: Distant Dream, for The Sunday Boys
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange and Alexander L'Estrange: Sing, Sing, Sing!, for Scunthorpe and District Choral Society
Nathan James Dearden: i breathe, for National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Highly commended: Paul Ayres — Reasons for Singing, for Concordia Voices; John C Hayes — Wensleydale March, for Lymm Concert Band.
Best arranger for leisure-time music group
George Morton: five pieces including The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Scheherazade, William Tell Overture, for Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Betteridge: Urge for Going, for The Sunday Boys
Peter Davis: two extracts from William Hamilton Bird's Oriental Miscellany, for Street Orchestra Live
Best project with a focus on new music
Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra
Haddo Arts
The Sunday Boys
Best Music Director
Chris Parsons, Bury St Edmunds Friendly Orchestra
Stephen Marshall, Crickhowell Choral Society
Thomas Leech, Bradford Festival Choral Society
Highly commended: Melanie Le Breuilly, Reading Youth Orchestra
Group Hero
Ben Baughan, The Sunday Boys
Bradford Festival Choral Society team, Bradford Festival Choral Society 
Musicians in Exile, The Glasgow Barons
Nigel Britten and Sally Moran, Beckenham Chorale
