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 |
| 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 |