SOUND INVENTOR PROJECTS is a company established by the music education practitioners who created the award-winning Sound Inventors. As well as our tried and tested composition projects, SOUND INVENTOR PROJECTS is now working with new ideas for delivering composition and creative approaches to music education from improvisation to fully notated, scored composition.

Alongside hands-on workshops and projects led by expert, experienced practitioners, SOUND INVENTOR PROJECTS offers a wide range of printed material ranging from books on composition and project management to complimentary worksheets.

Artistic, educational and project management consultancy is also available as well as access to a large database of specialist teams and individuals - leading UK composers and performers in their own right. 

The directors of Sound Inventor Projects have worked for most of the UK's orchestras, ensembles, opera companies and festivals including: ENO, SCO, SNO, LSO, Barbican, Goldberg Ensemble, Highland Festival, Paragon Ensemble, TAG, Theatre Workshop, Citizen's Theatre, National Youth Orchestra and Youth Music, Britten Pears School, Spitalfields Festival, City of London Sinfonia, spnm, Opera North, CLS, Tunbridge Wells Festival, Leeds College of Music, RNCM, The Scottish Office, St Magnus Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Glasgow City Council, Fettes College, the Ruskin Ensemble, BBC Scotland.

Other clients include public authorities in the UK and across mainland Europe as well as voluntary and community groups and the private sector.

 Directors:  Alasdair Nicolson and Vincent O'Connell