Lecture at New Paths Festival Beverley 2023, © Matthew Johnson
Events 2024
| 9 January-13 February | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Fanny Mendelssohn at City Lit (taught online) |
| 13 January | 9.30am: New Releases for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 15 January-25 March | 6-7.30pm: A weekly course, Greek stories and musical settings, co-taught with Nikoletta Maniotti, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 21 January | 6.30pm: Online talk, ‘The curious case of Brahms, Wagner and the Wesendoncks’ for the Wagner Society of Scotland (online) |
| 28 January-3 February | Daily talks host for the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam |
| 17 February | 11am-5pm: Host of Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival’s ‘Discovery Day’, exploring the music of Eugène Ysaÿe, Treowen Manor, Monmouthshire |
| 20 February-19 March | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Smetana at City Lit (taught online) |
| 8 March | 10.10am: Presentation as part of the British Library’s Celebrating Women Musicians past and present, Piggott Theatre, British Library |
| 9 March | 10.30am: Building a Library on Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony D944 for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 26 March | 3.30pm: Host of the Nash Ensemble’s Side-by-Side performance with students from the Royal Academy of Music, part of their Celebration of the music of Harrison Birtwistle, at Wigmore Hall |
| 12-14 April | Panel chair and interviewer at the Ludlow English Song Weekend, including discussions with John Bridcut, Jess Walker, Harriet Burns, Christopher Churcher and Grant McLachlan |
| 16 April | 7pm: Talk for Friends of Garsington Opera, introducing Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée |
| 7-12 May | Expert lecturer for the Salzburg String Quartet Festival, organised by Martin Randall Travel |
| 18 May | 2pm: New Releases for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 15-21 July | A series of talks, ‘Hamilton’s Half Hour’, as part of this summer’s Ryedale Festival, covering works by Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Herbert Howells (see the Ryedale Festival website for details) |
| 25 July | 3pm-4.30pm: ‘My Music’, an interview with Sheila Hancock and the Carducci Quartet as part of the Ryedale Festival |
| 29 July | 7.30pm: Guest in the Radio 3 box for a BBC Proms performance of music by Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür (interval discussion) |
| 17 August | 2pm: 5 top recordings of works by Antonín Dvořák for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor
In conversation with Samira Ahmed on the BBC World Service, discussing Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter & Daniel Barenboim at the BBC Proms |
| 24 September-22 October | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Anton Bruckner at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 25 September-4 December | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, The Schumanns: A Romantic Partnership at City Lit (taught online) |
| 5 October | 3pm: Building a Library on Brahms’s Symphony no.1 on Record Review, BBC Radio 3
6pm: Pre-concert interview with Amelia Freedman and Julian Anderson at the opening of the Nash Ensemble’s 60th Anniversary season, Wigmore Hall |
| 14 October | 3pm-5pm: ‘The Landscape of Exile‘, an illustrated talk on émigré musicians of the 1930s and 1940s, as part of Oxford International Song Festival 2024. With Rustam Khanmurzin & Katy Thomson |
| 20 October | 2pm-3pm: ‘Schubert & the City‘, an introduction to Vienna in all its messy reality during Franz Schubert’s lifetime, as part of Oxford International Song Festival 2024. |
| 15-17 November | Expert lecturer for the Martin Randall weekend festival Brahms & Beyond, with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective with Matthew Rose at the Castle Hotel, Taunton |
| 30 November | 9am-5pm: Chair/speaker for Oxford Philharmonic’s Insight Day, ‘From Bach to Mendelssohn‘, Magdalen College, Oxford |
