Katy at a podium in a church, smiling and looking off-camera to the side
Lecture at New Paths Festival Beverley 2023, © Matthew Johnson

Events 2026

13 January-17 February10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Michael Tippett: an introduction to his music at City Lit
14 January-25 March10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Beethoven’s Vienna at City Lit (taught online)
24-31 JanuarySpeaker and interviewer throughout the week for the String Quartet Biennale, Amsterdam
13 February11am-12.30pm: A City Lit book club session on Sebastian Farr’s Death on the Downbeat (held online)
21 February11am-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 March10.30-12.30pm: A weekly course, Florence Price: an introduction to her music at City Lit
 2 March 7.30pm: Lecture recital, The Landscape of Exile with Katy Thomson and Rustam Khanmurzin, Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne
12 March6pm: Philharmonia Debates ‘Composing across Cultures’, Level 5 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall 
15 March11am-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 MarchExpert speaker for the Barbican Quartet’s weekend festival at the Castle Hotel, Taunton, for Martin Randall Travel 
27 March6.45pm: Interview with the Takács Quartet at Pickering Book Tree, part of the 2026 season launch of Ryedale Festival
10-12 AprilInterviewer and panel host for the Ludlow English Song Weekend, including conversations with Libby Larsen, Ceri Owen, Alex Jennings and Arthur Keegan
16 April6.30-7pm: Pre-concert talk for the ‘Seven Deadly Sins Cabaret’ by Axelle Fanyo, Fleur Barron & Julius Drake at Leeds Song, Howard Assembly Room
25 AprilPresentation at the Annual Study Weekend of the International Association of Music Librarians UK & Ireland, as a trustee of the Music Libraries Trust
7 May7pm: Insight talk on Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse for Garsington Opera, at Garsington Studios
21 May7pm: Beethoven Mixtape concert with the Consone Quartet, Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
22-29 JuneExpert speaker for Piano along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel
11 July3pm: Building a Library on Felix Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony Op.56 for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review
23 JulyHost, speaker and interviewer for ‘Schubert Day’ at the Ryedale Festival, with Zee Zee, Erika Baikoff, Christopher Glynn The Erlkings, Aris Quartet and Laura van der Heijden
31 August-7 SeptemberExpert speaker for Music along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel

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