Partners and Affiliate Organisations

Affiliate Status for Community Music Organisations

Call for Applications 2025 – 2027

About the Tung Auditorium

The Tung Auditorium is a high specification, state-of-the-art 399 seat concert hall designed for teaching and performance, based at the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre at the University of Liverpool. In addition to timetabled teaching and student activity, The Tung Auditorium presents an annual programme of around 140 public concerts and events, featuring a wide variety of professional, amateur and University performers.

We are looking to offer Affiliate status to two community music organisations from the Merseyside region through a process of competitive tendering. Affiliate status will commence in September 2025 and run for two academic years, subject to review.

Offer to The Tung Auditorium Affiliate Organisations

Up to three concerts each year in The Tung Auditorium programme on a partnership basis (exact arrangements to be mutually agreed). Affiliates will be featured as official partners and included in all venue print and online publicity.

The Tung Auditorium will provide:

• Access from 2pm for a weekend, evening performance.
• Concert lighting including basic colour wash.
• Use of in-house technical equipment to include Meyer PA, Front of House desk, house microphones and cables (if required).
• Epson EB-L1750U projector and screen (if required).
• Stage furniture: Stage risers, music stands, orchestra chairs, rostra.
• Use of in-house instruments, subject to availability.
• Concert grand piano (not including tuning).
• Dressing rooms and backstage kitchenette.
• Artist Wi-Fi.
• Concert day staffing to include Front of House and Technical support.
• The Tung Auditorium Box Office service and events listing on website.
• Inclusion in seasonal Events Guides and other applicable print.
• Standard marketing activity.
• A contribution of 50% towards applicable PRS royalty fees.

Optional extras:

• Additional staffing at cost.
• Piano tuning at cost.
• Additional rehearsal/recording days at partnership rate.
• Potential to collaborate with and draw on expertise of colleagues from the Department of Music.

What we ask of you

• Publicise that you are an Affiliate of The Tung Auditorium.
• Promote The Tung Auditorium as a part of your marketing.
• A minimum of one event per academic year in collaboration with the Department of Music. Examples could include:
  • Concert alongside students of the Department of Music.
  • Workshops with students (University students and/or school/college students).
  • Performing student compositions as a part of programming.
  • Supporting research of department staff or students.
  • Any other mutually beneficial opportunities for students that you can offer.

Applications for Tung Affiliate Status

We invite all interested organisations to participate in a two-stage application process.

Stage 1: Expression of Interest

Please prepare your expression of interest to include the following information:

• Name of organisation.
• Name of contact and contact details.
• 50 word summary of organisation’s activity and link to website if appropriate.
• 400-word (max) statement explaining the nature of your interest in becoming an Affiliate organisation. The statement should include:
  • Details of how Affiliate status will help your organisation to develop and prosper.
  • Imaginative ideas about what benefits your organisation can offer to the University and the Department of Music e.g. learning and teaching, research, the student experience on campus, community engagement
  • Mutually beneficial opportunities to collaborate with students.

Please email your expression of interest, with the subject title ‘The Tung Auditorium Affiliate Organisation – Expression of Interest’, to [email protected] by NOON on FRIDAY 30 MAY 2025.

Applications will be considered by a Selection Committee comprising the Artistic Director of The Tung Auditorium, the Head of Music and Senior Lecturers from the Department of Music. All organisations will be notified whether or not they will be invited to Stage 2 of the application process by the end of June.

Stage 2: Shortlisting

Shortlisted organisations will be invited on a tour of The Tung Auditorium, following which we will ask you to provide a more detailed proposal in support of your application. Successful applications will be announced as soon as possible, with a view to the partnership starting in September 2025.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of their gender, sexuality, disability or ethnicity. We are conscious that there is a lack of diversity within the sector generally, including in the Department, and therefore we particularly encourage applications from individuals who self-identify as members of groups who are under-represented in academic organisations.

The Tung Auditorium and the Department of Music are committed to providing organisational and cultural practices that promote equality and inclusion and create a better working environment for everyone. The School of the Arts’ Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee oversees and supports the School’s work and practices on inclusion matters for all under-represented groups.

Alternative formats of this document can be provided on request.

Please direct all informal enquires to Richard Hartwell, Artistic Director of The Tung Auditorium [email protected]

The Tung Auditorium Affiliate Organisations

Allerton Brass and Liverpool Mozart Orchestra are the inaugural Affiliate Organisations at The Tung Auditorium. Between 2022 and 2025, they presented a total of 18 concerts at the Tung and have become a core part of the programme. In addition to this, they have worked with student composers, conductors and soloists, even performing as part of student assessments.

We would like to thank them for all of their contributions on and offstage and look forward to continuing to work together in new ways as we start the search for the next round of Affiliate Organisations.