Each year the Eastern Orchestral Board gives financial support to about 190 concerts by 45 orchestras in over 50 different venues and helps promoters with artistic advice, marketing and finding new audiences. We also sponsor a lively programme of practical community projects in which people work alongside professional composers and orchestral musicians, creating and performing music of their own. EOB encourages the performance of music by today's composers and helps to maintain special relationships between orchestras and local communities in the region.

For some time the Eastern Orchestral Board has had a Composer in Association, a position currently held by Robin Holloway, resulting in many performances of his wonderful orchestral music. Tunde Jegede was appointed as the first EOB Innovations Composer, and over two years, beginning in 1999, he will be working on projects with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, East of England Orchestra, London Mozart Players, the Britten Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

If you would like to know more about the Eastern Orchestral Board, please contact its Director, David Richardson, by email eob@compuserve.com, telephone +44 (0)171 629 9601, fax +44 (0)171 495 4710 or by post at
10, Stratford Place, London W1N 9AE, England.