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

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