For our Conservatoire students, BGME is a platform for close collaboration across departments: performance, music technology, and composition departments. For our performers, it’s a chance to play repertoire they might not otherwise get to perform, while developing their contemporary classical and experimental performance skills whilst engaging with composers and arrangers collaboratively. For our music tech students, it’s an opportunity to join the production team and take on professional-level concert production roles, gaining orchestral recording experience in both studio and live settings, something rarely available elsewhere. For our composition students, it’s a chance to write and develop large-ensemble creative arranging and writing skills, with mentorship from our creative director along the way.

BGME is also a core part of Motta’s PhD research, which explores how contemporary classical techniques and experimental music practice can be woven into video game music arranging to enhance audience immersion in the concert hall. When you come to one of our concerts, you’re not just hearing your favourite game tunes; you’re stepping into an experience that draws on the music and everything that surrounds it, reimagined into something unique and powerful.