Arts and Culture
Celebrating creativity in all its forms
Arts and culture
The J.M. Mouskos Foundation supports people, organisations and institutions that allow creativity to flourish.
From music and dance to the wider creative arts, we strive to create opportunities for artistic expression, participation and discovery.
Our partners
Supporting the English National Ballet
The English National Ballet celebrates the classics and creates the new, nurturing talent from communities traditionally underrepresented in Ballet.
In 2026 the ENB will deliver 104 performances featuring 15 different works respecting tradition and foreign cutting edge innovation with new creations.
Our partnership fosters creativity and collaboration opening up possibilities to present ballet in new ways that excite and engage audiences. Our focus is to support diverse voices shaping ballet today for younger audiences.
Thomas Knowles, Head of Individual Giving at English National Ballet.
“English National Ballet is incredibly grateful to The J.M Mouskos Foundation for hosting two outstanding events in support of our work. A Young Leaders Collective cocktail reception celebrating Body & Soul, and an intimate fireside conversation with Charlotte and Deborah MacMillan exploring Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty.
Both events were a tremendous success, and we are delighted to have partnered with The J.M Mouskos Foundation with such a genuine support for the arts.”
J. M. Mouskos Foundation supporting Genaro Rivas
Congratulations to Genaro Rivas on his breakthrough year, being featured in Forbes 2026 - he is a visionary and my support for him dates back to 2024, each collection more inventive, more inspiring. I hope to collaborate with Genaro on my movie Polyphony in 2027.
Genaro Rivas’s Autumn/Winter 2026 collection explores renewal: how something broken can be reimagined and rebuilt. Across 26 looks, predominantly womenswear, precise tailoring combines with deconstructed shapes, elongated sleeves and deliberately disrupted fabrics to create expressive, sculptural silhouettes.
Materials play a central role. Printed silk, mohair and denim sit alongside innovative biomaterials developed with Ponda, Savian by BioFluff and Banofi, bringing a fresh approach to texture and form.
Advising the Museum of Music History
The J.M. Mouskos Foundation has contributed to the forward-thinking vision for the future of the Museum of Music History, supporting new ideas and innovation as the Museum continues to develop.
We believe musical heritage should not simply be preserved but told through stories – of lives in music, in the arts, of objects.
Our support reflects a shared ambition to protect culturally important collections while finding imaginative new ways to experience them. Through technology, education, research and performance, the Museum is opening musical history to young musicians, schoolchildren, researchers and audiences around the world.
Our ideas centre on Point · Balance · Movement inspired by the human form, this concept explores how movement and expression can bring the notes on a page to life.
Our concept brings something ‘universal’ to the thinking around the Museum, combining the past and the future to create new ways for musical heritage to be preserved, experienced and shared, and we have suggested the name: MAUVE, Music Archive of Universal Value and Experiences.
Celebrating Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
The J.M Mouskos Foundation were delighted to support Dr Kate Kennedy in the launch and promotion of her book, Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound.
The evening celebrated Kate’s exploration of the cello through the extraordinary musicians, instruments and stories that have shaped its history – bringing together music, storytelling and a shared passion for preserving musical heritage.
The J.M Mouskos Foundation congratulates Dr Kate Kennedy on her extraordinary journey to rediscover the long-lost cello of Pál Hermann, the Jewish-Hungarian cellist and composer who was murdered during the Holocaust, bringing a remarkable musical story back to life.
More than 80 years later, Hermann’s daughter Cornelia was reunited with her father’s instrument and heard his music performed on it once again. The remarkable story was subsequently recognised by the European Parliament, where Cornelia paid tribute to her father and the journey that brought his music and memory back to life.