Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica - Project

BBT Community Grant funding has been fundamental in enabling Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica to widen its scope and increase its outreach both to underprivileged members of society and potentially new generations of music lovers.

Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica

This long-established music foundation in Umbria was founded in 1937 to promote the classical music concerts of Sagra Musicale Umbra and then Amici della Musica in 1947. Since 2003 the Foundation has developed a range of music programmes and activities for the wider communities around Perugia who are unable to attend concerts for reasons such as disability and isolation.

Following a BBT Community Grant in 2023, Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica was given further funds in 2025 of £45,000 over a three-year period to develop its programme, An Ever Greater Gift. This project brings music and wellbeing to even more underserved citizens of all ages, including residents in retirement homes and hospitals, school children, local families and prison detainees. Yet another initiative has grown from this, Musica in Periferia, reaching even further into Perugia’s outer suburbs. The commitment and leadership of the musicians from the Perugia Chamber Orchestra are at the heart of the foundation’s ongoing success in delivering a growing programme of music workshops, creative events and concerts, along with engagement and social connection within these marginalised communities.

These concerts created a sense of community and shared experiences that go far beyond the artistic event itself.

Family concert audience member

Music brought a moment of genuine joy to contexts where high-quality cultural experiences rarely reach.

Healthcare professional

Photographs by Claudia Ioan