Previous events
Events 2024
| 9 January-13 February | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Fanny Mendelssohn at City Lit (taught online) |
| 13 January | 9.30am: New Releases for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 15 January-25 March | 6-7.30pm: A weekly course, Greek stories and musical settings, co-taught with Nikoletta Maniotti, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 21 January | 6.30pm: Online talk, ‘The curious case of Brahms, Wagner and the Wesendoncks’ for the Wagner Society of Scotland (online) |
| 28 January-3 February | Daily talks host for the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam |
| 17 February | 11am-5pm: Host of Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival’s ‘Discovery Day’, exploring the music of Eugène Ysaÿe, Treowen Manor, Monmouthshire |
| 20 February-19 March | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Smetana at City Lit (taught online) |
| 8 March | 10.10am: Presentation as part of the British Library’s Celebrating Women Musicians past and present, Piggott Theatre, British Library |
| 9 March | 10.30am: Building a Library on Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony D944 for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 26 March | 3.30pm: Host of the Nash Ensemble’s Side-by-Side performance with students from the Royal Academy of Music, part of their Celebration of the music of Harrison Birtwistle, at Wigmore Hall |
| 12-14 April | Panel chair and interviewer at the Ludlow English Song Weekend, including discussions with John Bridcut, Jess Walker, Harriet Burns, Christopher Churcher and Grant McLachlan |
| 16 April | 7pm: Talk for Friends of Garsington Opera, introducing Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée |
| 7-12 May | Expert lecturer for the Salzburg String Quartet Festival, organised by Martin Randall Travel |
| 18 May | 2pm: New Releases for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor |
| 15-21 July | A series of talks, ‘Hamilton’s Half Hour’, as part of this summer’s Ryedale Festival, covering works by Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Herbert Howells (see the Ryedale Festival website for details) |
| 25 July | 3pm-4.30pm: ‘My Music’, an interview with Sheila Hancock and the Carducci Quartet as part of the Ryedale Festival |
| 29 July | 7.30pm: Guest in the Radio 3 box for a BBC Proms performance of music by Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür (interval discussion) |
| 17 August | 2pm: 5 top recordings of works by Antonín Dvořák for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review with Andrew McGregor
In conversation with Samira Ahmed on the BBC World Service, discussing Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter & Daniel Barenboim at the BBC Proms |
| 24 September-22 October | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Exploring the music of Anton Bruckner at City Lit (taught in person) |
| 25 September-4 December | 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, The Schumanns: A Romantic Partnership at City Lit (taught online) |
| 5 October | 3pm: Building a Library on Brahms’s Symphony no.1 on Record Review, BBC Radio 3
6pm: Pre-concert interview with Amelia Freedman and Julian Anderson at the opening of the Nash Ensemble’s 60th Anniversary season, Wigmore Hall |
| 14 October | 3pm-5pm: ‘The Landscape of Exile‘, an illustrated talk on émigré musicians of the 1930s and 1940s, as part of Oxford International Song Festival 2024. With Rustam Khanmurzin & Katy Thomson |
| 20 October | 2pm-3pm: ‘Schubert & the City‘, an introduction to Vienna in all its messy reality during Franz Schubert’s lifetime, as part of Oxford International Song Festival 2024. |
| 15-17 November | Expert lecturer for the Martin Randall weekend festival Brahms & Beyond, with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective with Matthew Rose at the Castle Hotel, Taunton |
| 30 November | 9am-5pm: Chair/speaker for Oxford Philharmonic’s Insight Day, ‘From Bach to Mendelssohn‘, Magdalen College, Oxford |
| 2-6 December | Guest on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week, discussing Louise Adolpha Le Beau (4pm each weekday) |
| 25 December | 9.30apm: Guest on BBC Radio 4’s How to Play, in a special Christmas episode on Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf |
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 |
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! – POSTPONED – SEE BELOW |
| 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) |
| 1 October | 2.30pm: ‘At home on stage’, festival talk for the Beverly Chamber Music Festival, Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley |
| 4 October | Talk and discussion as part of the Bach Cello Suites day at Temple Music Foundation, Temple Church |
| 14 October | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk on the music of Dvořák, Janáček and Pavel Haas for the Orsino Ensemble at the Two Moors Festival, Dulverton |
| 22 October | 7.30pm: Reader for Ludlow English Song Day at the Wigmore Hall: ‘Still alive & frying bacon: Gerald Finzi’s life in songs and letters’ |
| 23 October | 5.30pm: Pre-concert talk, ‘Music Among Friends’, for Greenwich Trio at Conway Hall (part of the Bloomsbury Festival) |
| 25 October | 2pm: Panellist for a conference and professional development day for emerging young artists run by OperaWorks, Chelsea Theatre |
| 14-28 November | 5.30-7pm: A 3-week online course, Learn Live: 19th-century Song, run with the British Library |
| 16 November | 6.20pm: Pre-concert talk with Isata Kanneh-Mason at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
| 19 November | 10.30am: Building a Library on Grieg’s 3rd Violin Sonata for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review
4.30pm: Introductory talk ‘Beethoven and the Romantics‘ for the Nash Ensemble’s new season of concerts at the Wigmore Hall |
| 3 December | 9am: Panellist on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review discussion about how to build a library!
6.45pm: Pre-concert talk with Anne Rushton for the Essex Symphony Orchestra, Christ Church Chelmsford |
| 11 December | 1.30pm: Insights talk for Philharmonia Orchestra, ahead of a performance with Yuja Wang of works by Rachmaninov, Royal Festival Hall |
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 |
2020
| 14 January-24 March | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Music in wartime 2: émigré musicians abroad at City Lit |
| 16 January-26 March | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Johannes Brahms: Romantic Classicist at City Lit |
| 16 January | 6pm: Pre-concert interview with Mark-Anthony Turnage ahead of the world premiere of his Horn Concerto, Royal Festival Hall |
| 19 January | 6.30pm: ‘Wagner, Paris and the origins of The Flying Dutchman‘, talk for the Wagner Society of Scotland, Edinburgh Society of Musicians |
| 5 February | 10.15-12.15: Music TalksChrist Church Kensington on Berg’s Wozzeck |
| 7 February | 12pm: ‘Listening to Song‘, a pre-concert talk introducing song concerts to the uninitiated, at the Barber Institute, Birmingham |
| 8 February | 9.30am: BBC Radio 3 Record Review overview of the Bruno Walter Complete Columbia Album Collection |
| 24 February | 7.30pm: Insight Event on Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
| 26 February | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington on English Song, with Timothy Salter and Emily Gray |
| 29 February | 6.20pm: Pre-concert talk on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for the Hallé, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
| 4 March | 6.30pm: Interview with Dame Evelyn Glennie for Chiltern Arts, Henley-on-Thames |
| 7 March | 11am-9pm: Focus day on Beethoven string quartets with the Marmen Quartet, Wiltshire Music Centre |
| 10 March | 6pm: Pre-concert talk for Jess Gillam, Reading Town Hall |
| 11 March | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington, in conversation with Sally Beamish |
| 15 March | 10am-12pm: Insights: Beethoven – Fiction and Reality, Royal Festival Hall, with John Deathridge and Flora Willson |
| 2-3 April | Oxford Lieder Festival online interviews for Social DistanSong, with Robin Tritschler and Benjamin Appl |
| 21 April-30 June | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Beethoven for Beginners, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 23 April-2 July | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, Czech Stories: Dvorák and Janáček, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 23 May | 9.30: BBC Radio 3 Record Review, overview of new Beethoven releases |
| 9 June | Online panel discussion on Gender in Lieder, with Roderick Williams, Anna Lapwood, Alice Coote, Carolyn Sampson, Natasha Loges, Joseph Middleton, Cheryl-Frances Hoade and Madeline Robinson |
| 13-20 July | 1.30-3.30pm: A two-week course, Great Works: Verdi’s Requiem, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 18 July | 9.30am: BBC Radio 3 Summer Record Review, with my top 5 Beethoven recordings as part of the summer Proms season |
| 19-26 July | Online introductions and interviews for Ryestream, the Ryedale Festival’s online performance series |
| 4 August | 2pm-5pm: Wagner’s Ring Cycle: an overview, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 9 August | 7pm: Guest on Is It Canon?, The Listening Service, BBC Radio 3 |
| 11 August | 2pm-5pm: Exploring Classical Music Online, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 16 August | 6.15pm: Guest on Proms Preview: A Week at the Proms, on BBC Radio 3 |
| 15 September-24 November | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Choral music from Handel to Weir, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 17 September-26 November | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century I: Romantics, poets and virtuosos, at City Lit (taught online) |
| 22 September | 7.30pm: Introducing the Castalian String Quartet live from Wigmore Hall |
| 27 September | 11.30am: Introducing Gautier Capuçon & Frank Braley live from Wigmore Hall
7.30pm: Introducing Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon & Frank Braley live from Wigmore Hall |
| 1 October | 7.30pm: Introducing IMS Prussia Cove performers live from Wigmore Hall |
| 5 October | 7.30pm: Introducing Sir András Schiff live from Wigmore Hall |
| 12 October | From 11am: Introducing a day’s worth of concerts and study events from the Oxford Lieder Festival, beginning with an hour-long interview with Ian Bostridge |
| 7 November | 9.30am: Building a Library on Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata Op. 106 on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
| 19 November | Online pre-concert talk interview with Charles Owen for concert at the Blyth Centre, Imperial College |
| 3 December | 2-4pm: A one-off session introducing Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at City Lit |
| 26 December | 9am: New releases slot on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review |
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 |
| 14 December | 9am: Guest on End of Year Record Review, BBC Radio 3 |
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 |
2017
| 16 January | 7.30pm: ‘Introducing the miller boy: telling the tale of Die schöne Müllerin‘, talk for the Cathedral Concert Society, Ripon, followed by a performance with Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale |
| 18 January-30 March | 2.00-4.10pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century II at City Lit |
| 26 January | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk for the Carducci Quartet, Reading Concert Hall |
| 1 February | 10.15am: Music Talks at Christ Church, Kensington: ‘All together now! Operatic ensembles’ |
| 8 February | 10.15am: Music Talks at Christ Church, Kensington: ‘A sense of place: Programme music’ |
| 12 February | 1.30pm: ‘Music into Words‘, an exploration of writing about music, panel discussion at Morley College |
| 9 March | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk at the Royal College of Music on Mahler’s Sixth Symphony |
| 19 March | 10am-5pm: LSO Discovery Day on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem and Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, LSO St Lukes |
| 25 March | 7.30pm: Performance with the Ionian Singers, The Full Heart, St Clement Danes |
| 20 April | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk for the Vienna Piano Trio, Reading Concert Hall |
| 21 April | 10.30am: Interview with Mark-Anthony Turnage for ISM Members’ Day 2017 |
| 23 April | 7pm: ‘Love in pen and ink’, a talk for the New Paths Festival, Beverley |
| 25 April-4 July | 3.30-5.40pm: A weekly course, Writing and blogging skills for musicians at City Lit |
| 27 April-6 July | 2.00-4.10pm: A weekly course, The Long Nineteenth Century III at City Lit |
| 20 & 21 May | Talks and discussions for the Ludlow English Song Weekend |
| 24 May | 8pm: Conducting MDX Dances at Artsdepot, Finchley |
| 4 June | 4pm: ‘Among friends, and with special guests: chamber music from 1870 to 1945’, a talk for the Marryat Festival, Wimbledon |
| 1 July | 2pm: Introducing BOAT (for Peter) with artist Helen Stokes, APG Works, Sheffield |
| 22-24 July | Three talks on Schubert’s last year at the Ryedale Festival |
| 25 July | 2pm: Interview with composer Sally Beamish at the Ryedale Festival |
| 3 August | 2-5pm: Classical music: An introduction at City Lit |
| 5-6 August | Come and Sing: Handel Coronation Anthems at City Lit |
| 10 August | 2-5pm: Introducing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at City Lit |
| 17 August | 2-5pm: Exploring Classical Music Online at City Lit |
| 19 September-5 December | 10.50am-1pm: A weekly course, Choral Music from Handel to Weir at City Lit |
| 21 September-7 December | 2-4.10pm: A weekly course, What is Music? at City Lit |
| 22 September | 10am-3pm: Music history sessions for post-16 students at Cornwall Music Hub, Falmouth University |
| 11 October | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘The bigger picture: an introduction to the course’ with Jo Lewis |
| 18 October | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘The power of myth: Bach and Domenichino’ with Jo Lewis
3pm: ‘Songs and Soundworlds’, exploring the Lieder of Richard Strauss at the Oxford Lieder Festival |
| 7 November | 7.30pm: Adjudicator for Bath Young Musician of the Year 2017, The Pump Room, Bath |
| 8 November | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘Ruins and fragments: Schumann and Sir John Soane’ |
| 11 November | 6pm: Pre-concert talk with David Bates of La Nuova MusicaBath Mozartfest for , Friends Meeting House, Bath |
| 12 November | 7.30pm: ‘The relationship between Brahms and Wagner’, a talk for the Wagner Society of Scotland, Edinburgh Society of Musicians |
| 22 November | 10.15am-12.15pm: Music Talks at Christ Church Kensington: ‘When Sondheim met Seurat’ with Jeremy Sams |
| 25 November | 9am: Building a Library on BBC Radio 3, Brahms’s Third String Quartet op.67
7.30pm: Concert with the Ionian Singers, All Saints Church, West Dulwich |
2016
| 13 January | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Let there be light: Haydn’s Creation‘ |
| 14 January-17 March | 3.45-5.45pm: A weekly course, Schubert in Focus at City Lit |
| 27 January | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Magical tenderness: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas‘ |
| 5 February | Talk for the Festival Chorus, Wandsworth on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem |
| 10 February | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Life’s consolation: Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem‘ |
| 16 February | 7.30pm: Concert with clarinettist Emily Worthington at St Peter’s Church, Streatham |
| 8 March | 12.45: Research seminar: ‘Instruments and orchestral parts as sources’ with Emily Worthington, University of Huddersfield |
| 9 March | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Song of the Earth: Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde‘ |
| 30 March | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk for the Nash Ensemble, Reading Concert Hall |
| 2 April | 12pm: Broadcast on Radio 3’s Building a Library, choosing a recording of Brahms’s Violin Sonata in G major op.78 |
| 14 April-5 May | 2-4pm: A weekly course, The Schumanns: A Romantic Partnership at City Lit |
| 7 April | 6.30pm: ‘Of romance, role-models and… hedgehogs? Johannes Brahms meets the Schumanns’, talk at the New Paths Festival, Beverley |
| 12 May | 6.45pm: Pre-concert talk on Brahms’s Piano Concertos for performance of Brahms’s First concerto and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony by Denis Kozukhin and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow |
| 26 May-23 June | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Lieder: Music and Poetry at City Lit |
| 11 June | 4pm: ‘Musical hometowns: Vienna, Leipzig and their composers’, talk at the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival, Wimbledon |
| 2 July | 10am-4pm: ‘Of Suffragettes, Singers and Symphonists’, study day for Stevenage & Knebworth Arts Group |
| 11-13 July | Conference paper, ‘Natalia Macfarren and the English German Lied’, at the 19th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Oxford |
| 19-23 July | Four pre-concert talks for ‘A meeting of minds: T.S. Eliot and Beethoven late quartets’, with the Heath Quartet and Jeremy Irons, Ryedale Festival |
| 26 July | In conversation with Sir James MacMillan, Ryedale Festival |
| 2 August | 11am-4pm: Day school, ‘British concert institutions’ at City Lit |
| 4 August | 2-4.30pm: Taster session, ‘Classical music: an introduction’ at City Lit |
| 12-14 August | Workshops with Edward Breen, ‘Come and sing Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas‘ at City Lit |
| 20 September – 29 November | 3.30-5.40pm: A weekly course, An A(merica) to Z(lonice) of Antonín Dvorák at City Lit |
| 22 September – 1 December |
2-4.10pm: A weekly course, The long 19th century I: Romantics, poets and virtuosos at City Lit |
| 7 October | 10am-3pm: Music history sessions for post-16 students at Cornwall Music Hub, Falmouth University |
| 12 October | 10.15am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Consonance and Dissonance: Monteverdi’s Fifth book of madrigals’ |
| 19 October | 10.15am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Keys and harmony: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier’ |
| 23 October | 3pm: ‘Schumann at the Opera’, part of the Oxford Lieder Festival |
| 29 October | Broadcast on Radio 3’s Building a Library |
| 13 November | 6pm: Pre-concert talk for the Nash Ensemble at Bath Mozartfest: the history of the Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts |
| 23 November | 10.15am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘The shock of the new: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring‘ |
| 3 December | 6.30pm: Pre-concert talk on Brahms’s Second Symphony for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham |
2015
| 21 January | Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘At home with friends: the interior world of Brahms’ |
| 27 January | Pre-concert talk: Sinfonia Viva, Brahms’s Symphony no. 4 (Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham) |
| 8 February | Stage presence workshop, Royal College of Music (with Eric Whitacre, Colin Lawson, Vanessa Latarche, Sally Burgess, Imogen Bland and Joo Yeon Sir) |
| 14 February | ‘New Releases’ on BBC Radio 3’s CD Review, with Andrew McGregor |
| 3 March | 6pm: Introduction to Beethoven Violin Sonatas 1, with Joo Yeon Sir, Royal College of Music |
| 11 March | Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘A(merica) to Z(lonice): an A-Z of the symphonies of Dvořák’6pm: Introduction to Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2, with Joo Yeon Sir, Royal College of Music |
| 6 May | Focus day at Queen’s Gate: ‘How to make a jolly good show: 120 years of British musical life’ |
| 20 May | Focus day at Queen’s Gate: Of Suffragettes, Singers and Symphonists: Women composers in the 19th and 20th centuries’ |
| 30 June | 6pm: Introduction to Beethoven Violin Sonatas 3, with Joo Yeon Sir, Royal College of Music |
| 2 July | Accompanying Emily Worthington for ‘(Re-)Constructing Richard Mühlfeld? Rubato and Rhythmic Freedom in Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata Op. 120 No. 2 Mvt. 1.’ at Performing Brahms in the Twenty-First Century, University of Leeds |
| 7 July | 6pm: Introduction to Beethoven Violin Sonatas 4, with Joo Yeon Sir, Royal College of Music |
| 11 July | 9am: Broadcast of Radio 3 Building a Library episode, exploring Brahms’s Cello Sonata no.2 in F major op.99 |
| 19-22 July | Daily talks for the mini-series, Haydn, Bartók and the String Quartet at the Ryedale Festival, featuring the Doric Quartet & the Heath Quartet |
| 1 October-3 December | 2-4pm: A weekly course, Brahms: Romantic classicist at City Lit |
| 7 October | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘‘Holy Song of Thanks’: Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Op.132’ |
| 21 October | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate with players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment |
| 7 November | Pre-concert talk: Sinfonia Viva, Brahms’s Symphony no. 1 (Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham) |
| 11 November | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Late masterpiece: Schubert’s Piano Trio No.2 in E flat’ |
| 25 November | 10am: Music Talks at Queen’s Gate: ‘Ariel in all his Quality: Singing Shakespeare’ |
| 26 November | 1pm: Lunchtime concert by Bonner & Hamilton at City Lit |
| 22 December | From 3pm: Bonner & Hamilton do St Pancras! Come and hear us play in St Pancras station |
2014
| 21 March | 1pm: Lunchtime concert with Maria Setiadi at Regent Hall, Oxford Street 6pm: Introduction to the Belle Shenkman Music Programme, National Gallery: The Herschel Ensemble, Room 34 |
| 2 April | 1.10pm: Lunchtime concert with Maria Setiadi at Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames |
| 9 May | 6.15pm: Pre-concert talk: RCM Philharmonic, Strauss Horn Concerto no. 1 (Royal College of Music) |
| 23 May | 6pm: Introduction to the Belle Shenkman Music Programme, National Gallery: Trio Incendia, Room 41 |
| 6 June | 6pm: Introduction to the Belle Shenkman Music Programme, National Gallery: Kate Simko, Room 34 |
| 18 June | Presentation at the 18th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Toronto |
| 15 July | Presentation at the annual conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), Antwerp |
| 19 August | Presentation for Chipping Norton Ladies’ Group, ‘Wartime, wizards and the Wigmore Hall’ |
| 5 October | Appearance on BBC Radio 3’s The Choir, discussing Brahms’s vocal music |
| 10 October | Appearance on BBC Radio 3’s Live in Concert from St George’s Bristol, debating ‘The Trouble with Brahms’ |
| 14 October | 4.30pm: Postgraduate seminar, Cardiff University: ‘”A man of many hobbies…”: Alan Adair and the concerts of the Adair War Wounded Fund’ |
| 21 October | Seminar, University of Nottingham: ‘Working with concert programes: Wizards at the Wigmore Hall, and other stories’ |
| 6 November | 5.30pm: Kingston Shakespeare Seminar with Michael L. Roberts: ‘”The radical gap between words and action: Singing Shakespeare’, Rose Theatre, Kingston |
| 22 November | 10.30am-4.30pm: Presentation and concert hosting for the National Gallery’s study day, Culture in Times of Conflict |
| 23 November | 1pm: Concert hosting for the National Gallery’s The National Gallery Remembers Myra Hess and the Blitz |
| 26 November | Book launch for Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall, Royal College of Music |
