Lecture at New Paths Festival Beverley 2023, © Matthew Johnson
Events 2023
18 January-29 March | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century II: Salons and symphonies at City Lit (taught online) |
19 January-16 February | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Rachmaninoff: An Introduction at City Lit (taught in person) |
2 February | 6pm: Insights Talk for Philharmonia’s Dances of Death & Desire, Royal Festival Hall |
18 February | 11am-5.30pm: Leader of Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival ‘Discovery Day’, with music by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák, Treowen Manor, Monmouthshire |
26 February | 10am-2pm: Speaker for Philharmonia’s Insights Day: Music, Protest and Change, Royal Festival Hall |
2-30 March | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Amy Beach: An Introduction at City Lit (taught in person) |
8 March | 1pm: Livestream introduction for Héloïse Werner and Tippett Quartet at Wigmore Hall (International Women’s Day)
7.30pm: Livestream introduction for The Hermes Experiment at Wigmore Hall (International Women’s Day) |
3 April | 8pm: Lecture, ‘Name that Tune?’, for Kingston and District Chamber Music Society, New Malden |
6 April | 2-4pm: A one-off session, Great Works: Grieg’s Piano Concerto, at City Lit (taught in person) |
15-16 April | Panel discussion chairing for Ludlow English Song Weekend, Ludlow Assembly Rooms |
22 April | 9.30am: Discussion of ‘New Releases’ for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
26 April-5 July | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century III: National Pride and New Directions at City Lit (taught online) |
26 April | 6.20pm: Pre-concert talk on the music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Tchaikovsky for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham |
13 May | 6pm: Pre-concert talk for the Sitkovetsky Trio and Friends, Menuhin Hall, Surrey Hills International Music Festival |
15 June | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk on the songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann and Kurt Weill for Leeds Lieder |
16 June | 12.30pm: Study event for Leeds Lieder, ‘I am’, with performances from Leeds Lieder Young Artists |
6.30pm: Pre-concert talk introducing an evening concert by Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton at Leeds Lieder | |
23-30 June | Expert lecturer for ‘Music Along the Rhine‘, cultural tour with Martin Randall Travel |
9 August | 10.30am-12.30pm: A one-off session, Great Works: Grieg’s Piano Concerto, at City Lit (taught in person)
2-5pm: A taster session, Classical Music: An Introduction, at City Lit (taught in person) |
10 August | 9am: Guest on How to Play: Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet with the Heath Quartet on BBC Radio 4 |
19 August | 9.30am: Choice of 5 top recordings of Robert Schumann for Record Review on BBC Radio 3 |
19 September-28 November | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Topics in Romantic Music, at City Lit (taught online) |
20 September-18 October | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Exploring Samuel and Avril Coleridge-Taylor, at City Lit (taught in person) |
22 September | 2.30pm: Festival talk, Old Sounds, New Histories, for the New Paths Autumn Festival, Beverley |
25 September | 7pm: Season overview talk for Ripon Concerts, Holy Trinity, Ripon |
14 October | 4.30pm: Pre-concert talk and season overview for the Nash Ensemble’s series From my Homeland, Wigmore Hall |
1-29 November | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Exploring Brahms’s Symphonies, at City Lit (taught in person) |
3-5 November | Expert lecturer for ‘Consone Quartet – From Haydn to Bruckner on period instruments‘, cultural tour with Martin Randall Travel, Taunton |
11 November | 10.30am: Building a Library on Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony no.9, ‘From the New World’, for Record Review on BBC Radio 3 |