Lecture at New Paths Festival Beverley 2023, © Matthew Johnson
Events 2025
| 14 January-25 March | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Topics in Romantic Music at City Lit (taught online) |
| 15 January-12 February | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Rebecca Clarke at City Lit (taught online) |
| 8 February | 3pm: Building a Library on Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio no.1 in D minor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 22 February | 11am-5pm: Host of Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival’s ‘Discovery Day’, exploring the music of Mel Bonis, Friedrich Gernhsheim and others, Treowen Manor, Monmouthshire |
| 26 February-2 April | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Gabriel Fauré at City Lit (taught online) |
| 8 March | 1pm: Interview with Caroline Shaw, Wigmore Hall |
| 18 March | 3pm: Host for Side by Side concert with Nash Ensemble & students from the Royal Academy of Music, Wigmore Hall
4.30pm: Pre-concert talk for Nash Ensemble with Julian Anderson, John Casken, Helen Grime, Simon Holt, Colin Matthews, David Matthews & Huw Watkins, Wigmore Hall |
| 21 March | 6.30pm: ‘Born in Britain: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony‘. Panel discussion with Leanne Langley, Errollyn Wallen & Martyn Brabbins, British Library Piggott Theatre (and livestreamed) |
| 8 April | 6.30pm: Leeds Lieder pre-concert talk for Katharina Konradi & Joseph Middleton, Howard Assembly Room |
| 9 April | 10.30am-1pm: A one-off class, ‘Great works: Smetana’s Má Vlast‘ for City Lit (online) |
| 12 April | 10am: Panel discussion, ‘The Art of Translation’, with Jeremy Sams, Jessica Duchen & Ian Tindale, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, for Ludlow English Song Weekend |
| 13 April | 10am: Interview with Brett Dean, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, for Ludlow English Song Weekend |
| 26 April | 2pm: Discussion of New Releases on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 27 April | 11am-3.30pm: Study day, Exploring Schumann’s Dichterliebe, with Anthony Phelan, Ellen Pearson and Francesca Lauri, Trinity College Oxford, for Oxford International Song Festival |
| 30 April | 7pm: Insight talk on Handel’s Rodelinda, Garsington Studios, for Garsington Opera |
| 5 May | 10am: ‘Singing Shakespeare’, a talk for the brand new Shakespeare in Music festival, Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 6 May | 12.30pm: Onward Journeys – Music, exile and pilgrimage, talk and performance with Londinium Consort for Surrey Hills International Music Festival, Stone Hall, West Horsley Place |
| 8-15 May | Expert lecturer for Music along the Rhine, a seven-day festival for Martin Randall Travel |
| 13 July | 6pm: Hamilton’s Half Hour 1 – an introduction to string quartet repertoire by Haydn and Schubert for a performance by Quatuor Mosaïques, All Saints’ Church Helmsley. Part of the Ryedale Festival 2025 |
| 14 July | 10am: Hamilton’s Half Hour 2 – an introduction to string quartet repertoire by Haydn and Schubert for a performance by Quatuor Mosaïques, St Mary’s Church Birdsall. Part of the Ryedale Festival 2025 |
| 16 July | 7pm: Hamilton’s Half Hour 3 – an introduction to string quartet repertoire by Haydn and Schubert for a performance by Quatuor Mosaïques, St Mary’s Church Birdsall. Part of the Ryedale Festival 2025 |
| 20 July | 1.30pm: In Conversation with Eric Whitacre, All Saints’ Church Hovingham. Part of the Ryedale Festival 2025 |
| 5 August | 10.45am-1.15pm: A one-off class, Great Works: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Trish Shaw at City Lit |
| 9 August | 7.06pm: BBC Proms broadcast on the BBC World Service, discussing music by Rachmaninoff and Artie Shaw |
| 26 August | 7.30pm: Interval guest with Hilary Hahn on BBC Radio 3 for the evening’s BBC Prom (music by Pärt, Dvořák and Sibelius) |
| 16 September-25 November | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the Music of Richard Strauss at City Lit |
| 17 September-26 November | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Lieder: Music and Poetry at City Lit (taught online) |
| 10 October | 2.30pm3.15pm: Welcome event for Oxford International Song Festival, with festival director Sholto Kynoch, Holywell Music Room |
| 11 October | 10.45-11.45am: ‘Song Sofa’ with Benjamin Appl and Sholto Kynoch for Oxford International Song Festival, Holywell Music Room |
| 21 October | 5.15-6.15pm: ‘Song Sofa’ with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn for Oxford International Song Festival, Holywell Music Room |
| 20 November | 6pm: Philharmonia Debates ‘Music and Gender’, with Gillian Moore and Laura Karpman, Level 5 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall |
| 22 November | 3pm: Building a Library on Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor Op.132, part of BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 2 December | 10.30am-12.30pm: A one-off class, Great Works: Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet at City Lit |
| 27 December | 9am: Feature on musical leftovers as part of Saturday Morning with Tom Service, BBC Radio 3 |
Looking ahead to 2026…
| 13 January-17 February | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Michael Tippett: an introduction to his music at City Lit |
| 14 January-25 March | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Beethoven’s Vienna at City Lit (taught online) |
| 24-31 January | Speaker and interviewer throughout the week for the String Quartet Biennale, Amsterdam |
| 13 February | 11am-12.30pm: A City Lit book club session on Sebastian Farr’s Death on the Downbeat (held online) |
| 21 February | 11am-5pm: Discovery Day, ‘La Boulangerie’: Nadia Boulanger and her unique circle in Paris, part of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, Treowen Manor nr. Monmouth |
| 24 February-24 March | 10.30-12.30pm: A weekly course, Florence Price: an introduction to her music at City Lit |
| 12 March | 6pm: Philharmonia Debates ‘Composing across Cultures’, Level 5 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall |
| 15 March | 11am-2.45pm: The Story of English Song, a study event at Oxford International Song Festival, with Rosie Lavery, Anna Michels, Mark Padmore, Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale. Held at The New Space, Mansfield Road, Oxford |
| 20-22 March | Expert speaker for the Barbican Quartet’s weekend festival at the Castle Hotel, Taunton, for Martin Randall Travel |
| 10-12 April | Interviewer and panel host for the Ludlow English Song Weekend, including conversations with Libby Larsen, Ceri Owen, Alex Jennings and Arthur Keegan |
| 16 April | 6.30-7pm: Pre-concert talk for the ‘Seven Deadly Sins Cabaret’ by Axelle Fanyo, Fleur Barron & Julius Drake at Leeds Song, Howard Assembly Room |
| 22-29 June | Expert speaker for Piano along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel |
| 31 August-7 September | Expert speaker for Music along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel |