Concert introduction with the Heath Quartet at the Ryedale Festival, © Gerard Collett
Events 2021
| 11 January | 7.30pm: Introducing the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed |
| 12 January-23 March | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century II: Salons and Symphonies at City Lit (taught online) |
| 14 January-25 March | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Schubert in Focus at City Lit (taught online) |
| 30 January | 9.30am: New chamber music releases, BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 12 February | 1-2pm: Three’s Company 1 – Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 no.3, a lunchtime talk for Benslow Music |
| 19-20 February | Introducing livestream broadcasts from the Bath Bachfest at Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon |
| 21 February | 5pm: Guest contributor to The Listening Service with Tom Service, BBC Radio 3 |
| 26 February | 1-2pm: Three’s Company 2 – Schubert’s Piano Trio in E flat major, D929, a lunchtime talk for Benslow Music |
| 1 March | 7.30pm: Introducing Septura brass ensemble at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed |
| 3 March | 7.30pm: Introducing the Leonore Piano Trio at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed |
| 5 March | 1pm: Introducing Martin Roscoe at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed
7.30pm: Introducing Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed |
| 12 March | 1-2pm: Three’s Company 3 – Brahms’s Piano Trio in B major, Op.8, a lunchtime talk for Benslow Music |
| 26 March | 1-2pm: Three’s Company 4 – Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Trio, Op.90, a lunchtime talk for Benslow Music |
| 15 April | 2-4pm: A one-off session introducing Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony at City Lit |
| 17 April | 10am: Building a Library on Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet, BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 20 April-29 June | 10.50am-1pm, A weekly course, Robert Schumann in Focus at City Lit (taught online) |
| 22 April-1 July | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century III: national pride and new directions at City Lit (taught online) |
| 24 April | 11.30am & 3pm: Introducing Brian Elias day at Wigmore Hall, livestreamed |
| 4-6 June | A weekend course, Introducing Ludwig, at Benslow Music (taught online) |
| 9 June | 7.45pm: Introducing Michael Foyle & Martin Cousins in a Park Lane Group recital, 22 Mansfield Street |
| 20 June | 10.30am-12pm: Study event, ‘Schubert and Beethoven, the birth of the Lied Cycle and a new voice in Romanticism’ as part of Leeds Lieder 2021, featuring performers from the LL Young Artists scheme |
| 23 June | 1-4.30pm: City Lit one-off course, Dido and Aeneas: From Virgil to Purcell with Nikoletta Manioti |
| 9 July | 10.30am-5pm: Chairman/host of Composium at Cheltenham Music Festival |
| 17 July | 9.30am: Building a Library on Liszt’s B minor Piano Sonata for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 2 August | 7.30pm: Interval guest on BBC Radio 3 for Proms performance with Ryan Bancroft & BBC National Orchestra of Wales |
| 7 August | 9.30am: Introducing top 5 recordings of works by Felix Mendelssohn as Proms Composer on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 10 August | 7.30pm: Interval guest on BBC Radio 3 for Proms performance with John Storgårds & BBC Philharmonic |
| 6 September | 6.30pm: Opening season talk for Ripon Concerts |
| 7 September | 7.30pm: Interval guest on BBC Radio 3 for Proms performance with Mark Elder & the Hallé Orchestra |
| 21 September-30 November | 11.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century I: Romantics, poets and virtuosos at City Lit (taught online) |
| 23 September-2 December | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Benjamin Britten: Place, Poetry Music at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 24 September | 10.30am: In Camera-Ex Camera, a talk for Beverley Chamber Music Festival |
| 3 October | 2pm: Radio interview discussing the forthcoming Nash Ensemble series on the Sunday Supplement with Tony Barnfield, Cambridge 105 Radio |
| 7 October | 1pm: Introducing The Myra Hess Concert 2021 at the National Gallery, given by The Nash Ensemble |
| 8 October | 6.15pm: A talk, ‘Bach: The Mathematics of Beauty and their Origins in Nature‘ for the Two Moors Festival, All Saints’ Church, Dulverton |
| 9 October | 10.30am: In conversation with Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins at the Two Moors Festival, All Saints’ Church, Dulverton |
| 13 October | 11am & 3.15pm: ‘The Brilliant Abyss‘, a two-part conversation and performance with Helen Scales, Laurence Crane, Harriet Burns and Cole Knutson at the Oxford Lieder Festival |
| 16 October | 5.30pm: Pre-concert discussion with Nigel Hess, Libbie Foster and Dame Patricia Routledge ahead of the first of the Nash Ensemble’s season of National Gallery Wartime concert reconstructions, Wigmore Hall |
| 23 October | 9.30am: Building a Library on Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 30 October | 10am: Leading the LESW Think Tank, a panel discussion at Ludlow English Song Weekend, St Lawrence’s Church, Ludlow |
| 12 November | 11am: Talk, online and in person, ‘How to listen to music’, ahead of an evening performance from the OAE Experience Ensemble at the Wiltshire Music Centre |
| 16 November | 7.30pm: Livestream host and interviewer for ‘Female Portraits’, a recital with Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook at Bach Mozartfest |
| 19 November | 11am: ‘Mickey Mouse and the Curious Case of the Musical Goat’, a talk on music and cartoons for Stonar School |
| 21 November | 10.30am: Study morning for the Britten Weekend at Snape Maltings, with Dr Lucy Walker and Prof Simon McVeigh |
| 29 November-3 December | Guest all week on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Composer of the Week‘, exploring the life and works of Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) |
| 9 December | 2-4pm: A City Lit one-off session on William Walton’s First Symphony |
| 10 December | 1.30-5pm: A City Lit one-off session with Nikoletta Manioti on the Orpheus myth, including settings by Monteverdi and Gluck |
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) |
| 15 January | 9.30am: Record Review survey of recording by Amy Beach, BBC Radio 3
5.30pm: Pre-concert interview with Leslie Caron ahead of the first 2022 concert of the Nash Ensemble‘s season of National Gallery Wartime concert reconstructions, Wigmore Hall |
| 28 January | 6.30: Pre-concert talk on Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
| 30 January-6 February | Coffee talks, interviews and streamed events for the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam |