Events 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 |
| 2 March | 7.30pm: Lecture recital, The Landscape of Exile with Katy Thomson and Rustam Khanmurzin, Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne |
| 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 |
| 27 March | 6.45pm: Interview with the Takács Quartet at Pickering Book Tree, part of the 2026 season launch of Ryedale Festival |
| 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 |
| 25 April | Presentation at the Annual Study Weekend of the International Association of Music Librarians UK & Ireland, as a trustee of the Music Libraries Trust |
| 7 May | 7pm: Insight talk on Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse for Garsington Opera, at Garsington Studios |
| 21 May | 7pm: Beethoven Mixtape concert with the Consone Quartet, Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield |
| 6 June | 7.30pm: Interview with Ian Bostridge and Piotr Anderszewski as part of their concert of music by Brahms and Robert Schumann at Wigmore Hall |
| 22-29 June | Expert speaker for Piano along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel |
| 11 July | 3pm: Building a Library on Felix Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony Op.56 for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 13 July | 10.30am-1.30pm: A one-off session, Classical Music: An Introduction at City Lit |
| 23 July | Host, 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 |
| 4 August | 7pm: Interval guest for BBC Radio 3 Proms broadcast, discussing programming for the week ahead |
| 21 August | 7pm: Interval guest for BBC Radio 3 Proms broadcast, discussing Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde |
| 31 August-7 September | Expert speaker for Music along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel |
| 18-20 September | Dalky talks for Shipston Song, introducing repertoire and interviewing performers, at St Kenelm’s Church, Enstone, Oxfordshire |
| 22 September-1 December | 0.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, String Quartets: Beethoven and Bartók at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 23 September-2 December | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Barber, Copland, Ives and Gershwin at City Lit (taught online) |
| 3 October | Guest tutor for Exploring Lieder at Benslow Music, Hertfordshire, with Anna Tilbrook and James Gilchrist |
| 10 October | 11am-12pm: ‘Song Sofa‘ with Sarah Connolly and Sholto Kynoch at Holywell Music Room, as part of the Oxford International Song Festival 6-6.45pm: ‘Listening to Winterreise‘, a first-timer’s introduction and pre-performance talk at St Edward’s School, as part of the Oxford International Song Festival |
| 18 October | 11.30am-1pm: ‘Schubert in Love‘, a study event with Sebastian Hill and William Harmer, Trinity College, as part of the Oxford International Song Festival |