Burkhard Beins

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,

it´s an undeniable necessity for democratic societies to not only allow
but to actively support critical and sometimes even uncomfortable forms
of art. London has a worldwide reputation for it´s huge potential of
musicians working on a colourful variety of non-academic forms of
experimental music. In my opinion the London Musician's Collective has
been very successful for many many years now in supporting and
presenting this musical area. It has established an important
infrastructure and is annually organising the one and only festival of
this kind in London.
During my first visits of London in the early 1990's, attracted by it´s
lively experimental music scene, is has been the LMC through which I
made all my contacts to local musicians. Since then a substantial
cultural exchange between London and Berlin began to flourish. In the
long run also my present international groups The Sealed Knot (with
Londoners Rhodri Davies and Mark Wastell), Trio Sowari (with Bertrand
Denzler from Paris and Phil Durrant from London), or my duo
collaborations with British guitarists John Bisset and Keith Rowe are
rooted right there and became persistently supported and presented by
the LMC over the years.
Moreover, since with Benedict Drew a younger musician and music
enthusiast became the producer it gave me the impression that the LMC
has managed to gain another peak of quality.
To withdraw the funding for it now will certainly cause a very
substantial loss in cultural variety for the British capital.

Yours sincerely
Burkhard Beins, composer/performer (Berlin, Germany)

www.burkhardbeins.de