Just received the score of Philip Grange's new song cycle To The Borders of Sleep. Marcus Farnsworth and I will be performing these in Manchester at the end of March. They look exciting and beautifully imaginative, albeit pretty tricky!
Owing to a double-booking, Steffan Rees is no longer able to take part in February's Music at St Peter's concert. We are extremely grateful to Matthew Lowe for stepping in at short notice! The programme for this concert will still include music by Schumann and Beethoven in the cello half and by Handel, Mendelssohn and […]
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One of the great bonuses of this job is travelling to and performing in beautiful places; one of the great disadvantages is never having time to stay put and explore! Thus our visit to Penrith lasted not much more than twelve hours, and dreams of a lesirurely few days of fell-walking and pub lunches were […]
Proud to have played for James Turnbull in the final of the Prince's Prize tonight, competing for the prestigious medal awarded by the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Great programme of Lutoslawski's Epitaph and York Bowen's Sonata for Oboe and Piano, and we were performing in the beautiful Parry Rooms at the Royal College of Music. Congratulations […]
The first concert in the Chancery Bar Association's new series seems to have gone down a treat! Nicola Corbishley's programme 'Tu fedel? Tu costante?' was a great success in the Edinburgh Festival last summer, and this was a revision of the same programme, with harpsichord accompaniment rather than strings. Handel's cantata Tu fedel? Tu costante?, […]
Very pleased to confirm the performers joining me for next month's Music at St Peter's concert: Laura Kelly (mezzo-soprano) and Steffan Rees (cello). Hope to see you there!
Term has restarted at Eton and it looks set to be another busy one! Many congratulations to the boys on last term's excellent set of exam results at every level, and on audition and interview successes!
Spent the day rehearsing with the Berkeley Ensemble for our concerts in Streatham and Leicester in February. It was great to be able to rehearse in St Peter's Church in Streatham, where the Berkeley Ensemble have a residency which enables them to use the space for rehearsal in return for giving concerts there. A good […]
What an inspiration to be rehearsing the music of Handel in the Handel House Museum this morning! Nicola Corbishley and I were preparing for Tuesday's programme for the Chancery Bar Association in Lincoln's Inn Chapel; there is something quite amazing about rehearsing in the composer's own house 300 years after he lived there….