Concert introduction with the Heath Quartet at the Ryedale Festival, © Gerard Collett
Events 2019
| 15 January-26 March | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century II at City Lit |
| 17 January-28 March | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Benjamin Britten: Place, Poetry, Music at City Lit |
| 24 January | 6pm: Pre-concert interview with Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Alice Sara Ott, Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall |
| 31 January | 6pm: Pre-concert talk celebrating Franz Schubert’s birthday at the Wigmore Hall |
| 10 February | 5pm: Guest on The Listening Service on BBC Radio 3 |
| 27 February | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on John Adams’s Nixon in China |
| 18 March | 6pm: Pre-concert talk on Brahms’s Piano Concertos for the OAE, Royal Festival Hall |
| 20 March | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington with Karl Lutchmayer |
| 21 March | 7pm: Directing Middlesex University Singers’ Ensemble Concert at Burgh House, Hampstead |
| 28 March | 6pm: Pre-concert talk for the Doric String Quartet, Reading Town Hall |
| 4 & 11 April | 2-4.10pm: A two-week focus course on Brahms’s Ein deutches Requiem at City Lit |
| 5-7 April | Presentations and panel discussions at the Ludlow English Song Weekend |
| 9 April | 3pm: Wigmore Hall Friends’ event on women composers with archivist Emily Woolf |
| 13 April | 9.30am: Building a Library on Brahms’s Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor, Op. 38, on BBC Radio 3 |
| 16 April | 10am: Interview with Param Vir for ISM Members’ Day, Birmingham Conservatoire |
| 23 April | 7.30pm: Pre-concert talk on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45 for Cambridge Brahms Festival |
| 30 April-9 July | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century III at City Lit |
| 2 May-11 July | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Disney: Music and Image at City Lit |
| 3 May | 4.30pm: Guest on The Listening Service on BBC Radio 3 |
| 24 May | 6pm: In conversation with Igor Levit at the Wigmore Hall |
| 8 June | 9.30am: Guest on Record Review, discussing new releases, on BBC Radio 3 |
| 15 June | 4pm: Festival lecture for the Marryat Players, Wimbledon, ‘Sound Stories’ |
| 26 June | 7.30pm: Curation and introduction of an evening concert from the Voices of London Festival (further details to follow!) |
| 29-30 June | Introducing concerts in the series ‘A Voyage to the New World‘ at Syde Manor, part of the the Cheltenham Festival |
| 10 July | 10am-6.30pm: Host of Composium, a day-long celebration of contemporary music at the Cheltenham Festival |
| 15-19 July | Four concert introductions on the chamber music of Johannes Brahms, ‘Behind the Beard‘, at the Ryedale Festival |
| 21 July | 3pm: Interview with Roxanna Panufnik, composer in residence at the Ryedale Festival |
| 25 July | 5.15pm: Proms Plus talk on the music of Brahms, Strauss and Broström, Imperial College Union |
| 31 August | 9.30am: Discussing Top 5 Brahms recordings with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 15 September | 11.30am onwards: Hosting the second day of the Wigmore Hall’s Beethoven Festival Weekend |
| 17 September-26 November | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Music in Wartime 1: London during World War II, at City Lit |
| 19 September-28 November | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Clara Schumann and her Circle, at City Lit |
| 24 September | 4.30pm: ‘A brief introduction’, the first of four talks on the history of music for the Royal Overseas League |
| 25 September | 7pm: ‘Why Singing Matters’, a panel discussion for the Royal Philharmonic Society with Sir John Tomlinson, Nadine Benjamin and Matthew Peacock MBE, Royal Festival Hall |
| 27 September | 5pm: Pre-concert talk ‘Written on the Skies – Elgar’s Late Chamber Works’, for the Beverley Chamber Music Festival |
| 4-6 October | A weekend course (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon), ‘At Home with Brahms and Friends’ at Benslow Music |
| 8 October | 4.30pm: ‘A brief introduction’, the second of four talks on the history of music for the Royal Overseas League |
| 12 October | 6pm: Pre-concert talk to the Nash Ensemble’s 2019/20 series ‘Around Schubert’ at the Wigmore Hall |
| 15 October | 7.30pm: Introduction to a programme inspired by the soirees held by Lord Leighton at Leighton House, in a concert by the Kensington & Chelsea Music Society |
| 19 October | 4pm: Sounding out Song, an introduction to art song, at Witney Corn Exchange (part of the Oxford Lieder Festival) |
| 20 October | 3pm: Sounding out Song, an introduction to art song, at St Peter’s Church, Wallingford (part of the Oxford Lieder Festival) |
| 22 October | 4.30pm: ‘A brief introduction’, the third of four talks on the history of music for the Royal Overseas League |
| 26 October | 9.30am: Building a Library on Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Trio, BBC Radio 3 |
| 5 November | 4.30pm: ‘A brief introduction’, the last of four talks on the history of music for the Royal Overseas League |
| 12 November | 6.15pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘A Voyage Around Hardy’, with Iain Burnside and Richard Goulding, as part of the Bath Mozartfest |
| 13 November | 10.15-12.15: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata |
| 20 November | 10.15-12.15: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on Janáček’s ‘Intimate Letters’ Quartet |
| 5 December-12 December | 2-4.10pm: A two-week course on Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune at City Lit |