Concert introduction with the Heath Quartet at the Ryedale Festival, © Gerard Collett
Events 2018
| 16 January-20 March | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Vienna and Music 1890-1920 at City Lit |
| 18 January-22 March | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Music Criticism: a history at City Lit |
| 20 January | 9.30am: Conversation with Andrew McGregor of new chamber releases on Record Review, Radio 3 |
| 14 February | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘Light and Landscape’ with Jo Lewis |
| 23 February | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, for the Hallé |
| 7 March | 7.30pm: Directing Middlesex University Singers’ Ensemble Concert (music by Bernstein and Sondheim) at Burgh House, Hampstead |
| 12 March | 6pm: Performance skills workshop with Sally Burgess, Royal College of Music |
| 14 March | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘The turning tide’ with Jo Lewis |
| 19 March | 2.30pm: ‘Brahms and his Poets‘ discussion panel led by Natasha Loges, Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| 6-8 April | Presentations and panel discussions at the Ludlow English Song Weekend |
| 17 April-26 June | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Beethoven, Bartók and the String Quartet at City Lit |
| 19 April-28 June | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Music and Philosophy at City Lit |
| 21 April | 9am-11.45am: Discussing new releases live in conversation with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 25 April | 7pm: Insight talk on Strauss’ Capriccio for Garsington Opera |
| 26 April | 10am: Interview with Sir James MacMillan for ISM Members’ Day, LSO St Luke’s
7pm: Host of Golden Sounds, on the history of the Saxophone, at Christ Church Kensington |
| 4 May | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk at The Hexagon, Reading, for the Bruckner Linz Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus |
| 12 May | 12.15pm: Slot on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters discussing composers who were also artists |
| 16 May | 10.15am: ‘Brahms in Context’, a talk with musical illustrations by Joo Yeon Sir, for Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington
8.45pm: Post-concert talk with Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside at the Wigmore Hall |
| 16 June | 4pm: Festival lecture, ‘This timeless town…’: Music in Paris, from Franck to Stravinsky Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival, Wimbledon, for the |
| 13-19 July | Four talks on the music of Antonín Dvořak at the Ryedale Festival |
| 14 July | 9am-11.45am: Discussing new releases live in conversation with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 19 July | 5.30pm: In Conversation with Chi-Chi Nwanoku at the Ryedale Festival |
| 20 July | 2pm: In Conversation with Judith Weir at the Ryedale Festival |
| 25 July | 7pm: In Conversation with Robert Hollingworth at the Ryedale Festival |
| 2 August | 2-5pm: Classical Music: An Introduction at City Lit |
| 4-5 August | Come and Sing Duruflé’s Requiem at City Lit, with Edward Breen |
| 7 August | 5.45pm (and later on Radio 3): Proms Plus talk on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with Lucy Winkett |
| 9 August | 2-5pm: Wagner’s Ring Cycle: An Overview at City Lit |
| 16 August | 2-5pm: Lieder: A Beginner’s Guide at City Lit |
| 19 August | 4pm: An introduction to Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the North Norfolk Music Festival |
| 13 September | 9.30pm: Post-concert interview with Pekka Kuusisto at the Wigmore Hall |
| 18 September-27 November | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century I at City Lit |
| 20 September-29 November | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Lieder:Music and Poetry at City Lit |
| 30 September | 6pm: Insights talk on the music of Bruckner, Wagner and Schoenberg for the Philharmonia Orchestra |
| 6 October | 12pm: Study day on Mahler’s Symphonies 1 and 5 with Gavin Plumley at the Southbank Centre |
| 10 October | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune |
| 16 October | 7pm: Introduction to a curated concert at Leighton House for Kensington & Chelsea Music Society |
| 20 October | 6pm: Pre-concert introduction to the Nash Ensemble’s 2018/19 season ‘German Romantics’ at the Wigmore Hall |
| 31 October | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on Walton’s Symphony no.1 |
| 8 November | 6pm: Pre-concert interview with Lionel Meunier, founder of Vox Luminis, at the Wigmore Hall |
| 10 November | 9am-11.45am: Discussing the best releases of 2018 live in conversation with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 14 November | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on Ives’s ‘Concord’ Sonata and Copland’s Quiet City |
| 16 November | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk on Mozart’s Symphony no.41 for Sinfonia Viva at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
| 24 November | Presentation on Berlioz and the 1851 Great Exhibition as part of the Berlioz Society‘s annual study weekend |
| 2 December | 7.30pm: Hosting live stream of Jonathan Plowright’s Wigmore Hall recital, including interval interview |
| 6-13 December | 2-4.10pm: A two week focus course on Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at City Lit |
| 15 December | 9am-11.45am: Discussing new releases live in conversation with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |