Concert introduction with the Heath Quartet at the Ryedale Festival, © Gerard Collett
Events 2022
| 11 January-22 March | 11.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century II: Salons and symphonies at City Lit (taught online) |
| 13 January-24 March | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, What is Music? at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 13 January | 7.30pm: Livestream introduction for Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Dmitry Shishkin, Wigmore Hall |
| 15 January | 9.30am: Record Review survey of recording by Amy Beach, BBC Radio 3 |
| 28 January | 6.30: Pre-concert talk on Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
| 19 February | 9.30am: Record Review survey of Brahms’s orchestral music by Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Radio 3 |
| 20 February | 5.30pm: Insight event with Natasha Loges on Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony ‘From the New World’ for the Philharmonia Orchestra, Southbank Centre |
| 8 March | 8.45pm: Post-concert discussion with Elaine Mitchener and Gilane Tawadros at Wigmore Hall after the performance WOMENS WORK for International Women’s Day |
| 12 March | 5.30pm: Interview with Leslie Caron at Wigmore Hall as part of the Nash Ensemble’s series reconstructing National Gallery wartime concert programmes |
| 13 March | 4pm: ‘Brahms and the Cello 1‘, lecture recital with Selma Gocken and John Lenehan, Razumovksy Trust |
| 20 March | 4pm: ‘Brahms and the Cello 2‘, lecture recital with Selma Gocken and John Lenehan, Razumovksy Trust |
| 22 March | 5.30pm: Learn Live: Exploring Beethoven, online session on Beethoven’s music and the current exhibition at the British Library |
| 23 March | 7:30pm: Interview with Evelyn Glennie as part of the British Library online event, Feeling Sound Revisited |
| 24 March | 7pm: ‘The Healing Power of Music‘, discussion panel for Royal Philharmonic Society with Amina Hussain, Katherine Spencer, David Ayre and Natalie Ellis, at Marylebone School |
| 6 April | 11am: Red House Discovery Session on Ethel Smyth, in connection with the Red House’s exhibition Britten & Women |
| 7 April | 2-4pm: A one-off session, ‘Great Works: Janáček’s “Intimate Letters” Quartet’, City Lit |
| 8-10 April | Panel discussion chairing at Ludlow English Song Weekend, including discussions with Kate Kennedy and Donald Macleod, and narrations for the closing recital ‘Still Alive and Frying Bacon’ |
| 21 April | 6.30pm: Friends insight event on Monteverdi’s Orfeo for Garsington Opera, held at Wolfson College Oxford |
| 26 April-5 July | 11.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century III: National Pride and New Directions at City Lit (taught online) |
| 26 April | 6.30pm: French Operetta evening at Fidelio Café, Clerkenwell, for friends of Opera Rara |
| 28 April-26 May | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Ethel Smyth: An introduction at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 29 April | 6.20: Pre-concert talk on Vaughan Williams’s London Symphony ahead of a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Royal Concert Hall Nottingham |
| 1 May | 12pm: ‘The Birds and the Bees: Lieder and the natural world’ study event for Leeds Lieder, Howard Assembly Room
7pm: Pre-concert talk for Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton at Leeds Lieder, Howard Assembly Room |
| 6 May | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of music by Beethoven and Weber, Hexagon, Reading |
| 15 May | 6.30pm: Online presentation for the Wagner Society of Scotland, ‘Wagnerism, “Smetana-ism”, and cosmopolitan Bohemians’ |
| 28 May | 10.30am: Review of Richard Strauss’s orchestral works on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 30 May | 8pm: Lecture, ‘At home with the Schumanns’, for Kingston and District Chamber Music Society, New Malden |
| 10 June | 2pm: Pre-performance talk on the String Quartets of Béla Bartók, ahead of a complete performance of his quartets by the Doric Quartet, Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings |
| 18 June | 4pm: Festival talk, ‘Bettering Beethoven?’, for the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival, Wimbledon |
| 19-25 June | Guest Lecturer for the Martin Randall ‘Schubertiade’ tour to Schwarzenburg (including daily presentations) |
| 28 June | 2.30pm: ‘Research Communication’ presentation for the Centre of Applied Research in the Arts, University of Hull |
| 12 July | 2pm-5pm: One-off course for City Lit, ‘Classical Music: An Introduction‘ (taught online) |
| 14 July | 1.30pm-3.30pm: One-off course for City Lit, ‘Wagner’s Ring Cycle: An Overview‘ (taught in person) |
| 15 July | 10.30am-5.30pm: Convenor for Cheltenham Festival’s annual Composium, with Mahan Esfahani and Fenella Humphreys |
| 17 July | 7pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘The Wanderer’ at Duncombe Park for the Ryedale Festival |
| 19 July | 2pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘Handels Acis & Galatea‘ at All Saints’ Church, Helmsley for the Ryedale Festival |
| 20 July | 7pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘Mystical Songs’ at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Pickering for the Ryedale Festival |
| 25 July | 7.30pm: Guest in the box at the BBC Proms for BBC Radio 3 – the CBSO with Kazuki Yamada (Glinka, Smyth, Rachmaninov) |
| 30 July | 6pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘Looking West’ with Julian Philips and Rebecca Hurst, at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Pickering for the Ryedale Festival |
| 20 August | 7.06pm: Guest on BBC World Service for BBC Proms broadcast of music by Dvořák and Eisendle |
| 10 September | 9.30am: Guest on Radio 3’s Building a Library panel discussion about how to build a library! |
| 21 September-30 November | 10.30-12.30am: A weekly course, The long 19th century I: Romantics, poets and virtuosos at City Lit (taught online) |
| 22 September-1 December | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Music Criticism: A History at City Lit (taught in person) |