Nantwen Ensemble Receives Trust to Foster Dementia Awareness

The award will support the ensemble’s use of arts projects and outreach opportunities to spread awareness around Dementia

The Dementia Trust provides grants and support to foster meaningful change in its community. Its Disruption Awards are offered to projects that inspire creativity and engage public imagination.

A recent winner of the award is the Nantwen Ensemble, a classical music group working out of North Pembrokeshire in Wales, who will be supported by the grant in a project spanning 2025 and 2026. 

The ensemble, led by cellist Daniel Davies, will collaborate with a composer to create a new piece of music to help foster conversation and awareness around Dementia.

Titled “Euterpe’s Song,” the new work will integrate spoken phrases and stories from people living with Dementia, their carers, friends, and families, and ensure these voices resonate within the music.

Upon completion, the new piece will be performed in community and concert venues across the UK throughout 2025 and 2026 in a journey that will also culminate in a documentary film. 

“Music has a unique ability to comfort, support, and respond to society’s challenges,” Davies said in the press release. “This project is deeply personal to many of us in the Ensemble, particularly as my own grandfather lived with Alzheimer’s. We aim to connect with communities impacted by Dementia and expand understanding far beyond.”

“We’re proud to support the Nantwen Ensemble’s bold and moving project,” added a spokesperson for the Dementia Trust.

For more information on the ensemble’s project, click here.