Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer Op 52 (ix) Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen (x) Schlosser auf, und mache Schlösser Live performance from the opening ‘Chamber Classics’ concert of the inaugural Southwell Music Festival. State Chamber, Southwell | 22nd August 2014 with Alison Rose (soprano), Carris Jones (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), William Townend (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (ii) From far, from eve and morning Live performance at the Southwell Music Festival 2014. State Chamber, Southwell | 24th August 2014 with Andy Staples (tenor), Hannah Dawson (violin), Natalie Klouda (violin), Ruth Nelson (viola), Karel Bredenhorst (cello)
Gurney: Sleep Live performance from the Southwell Music Festival 2014, from a programme entitled ‘To Those Who Died’, marking the centenary of the outbreak of The First World War. State Chamber, Southwell | 24th August 2014 with Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
Lovely Konstellation concert in Brighton’s serene Chapel Royal, continuing this year’s tour of ‘Auf dem Strom’, a programme of music for tenor, horn and piano. What a beautiful venue to revisit, this time performing Beethoven’s horn sonata with Francesca Moore-Bridger and An die ferne Geliebte with Peter Davoren, as well as Schubert’s eponymous Auf dem Strom. […]
Very excited to announce that I will be taking on the role of Head of Keyboard at Eton College from September 2014. This is a wonderful way of building on the teaching and accompanying that I have been doing there for the last seven years, and I look forward to getting stuck in!
This new course for singers, run with director Joe Austin, has proved a highly successful new venture. A small group of singers convened in Somerset for a few days of intensive acting and music coaching, drawing together different aspects of the art of singing opera, and with an informal local performance giving them a chance to try […]
Back from a triumphant second chamber music course run in Somerset by the Berkeley Ensemble. We had a lovely group of string players, wind players and pianists to coach, working on repertoire from Mozart to Dunhill. We spent time exploring all aspects of chamber music playing, as well as running sessions on freedom in performance, learning how […]
Pleased to be asked to speak at this year's SongArt conference, Singing from the Piano: a symposium examining how pianists interpret text and the piano in song performance. Details of this event and the SongArt Performance Research Group can be found on www.songart.co.uk.
A busy last month of recitals: Rachmaninov and Beethoven sonatas with Cara Berridge (cello); Bridge Phantasy Quartet and music by Britten and Elgar with the Berkeley Ensemble; Winterreise with Marcus Farnsworth (baritone); a programme of English and French music with James Turnbull (oboe); songs from Howells to Brahms to Poulenc with Carris Jones (mezzo-soprano); Bach and […]
Very enjoyable to have given performance masterclasses to music students at both Bristol and Canterbury Christ Church universities in the last few weeks, as well as at Solihull School. It's always such a pleasure to work with interested, able, and promising students! Looking forward to working with the students at Oxford next.