CHARM benefited from informal collaborative relationships with numerous national and international research partners (including Queen Mary, University of London; Goldsmiths, University of London; IRCAM; and University of New South Wales). CMPCP is building on these links. Its research projects have been designed to involve UK-based institutions in formal collaborations, with John Rink’s research centred on two major London conservatoires (Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Royal College of Music) and Eric Clarke’s Oxford-based project embracing a number of associated universities with particular strengths in composition and performance; these links will directly involve a large number of UK-based performance researchers in CMPCP’s work. In addition, Nicholas Cook’s research and the Centre’s doctoral students are either developing or extending existing contacts with relevant resource centres such as British Library Sound Archive, Music Preserved and Gus Dudgeon Foundation. CMPCP will also unite research effort that is currently fragmented across different institutions and disciplines: that is why its projects include workshops linked in turn to a Performance Studies Network, enabling interested individuals (from within higher education institutions as well as outside them) to contribute to a widely owned research agenda and ensuring dissemination of outputs through conferences. In short, CMPCP’s projects are intended as one element within a broad enhancement of research capacity in musical performance across and beyond the UK. The programme of Visiting Fellowships will add to this by enabling individuals to become intensively connected with CMPCP’s research during defined periods, representing a means of engaging with others on an international basis.