Last week saw my annual visit to the beautiful Howardian Hills in Yorkshire, for the glorious Ryedale Festival. This is the third year in a row that I’ve had the privilege of speaking at Ryedale, and for the first time this year I was not there primarily to work with
It’s that time of year again, and I’m back in the stunning surroundings of north Yorkshire for the 2016 Ryedale Festival. Better still, I’ve been working again with the wonderful Heath Quartet in four concerts, presenting the entire late Beethoven quartets in tandem with T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, read with
Yesterday, I had the very great pleasure of giving a lecture at the Marryat Players Chamber Festival in Wimbledon. Over the course of the weekend, professional musicians and students from the Yehudi Menuhin school are performing side by side in repertoire by Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Korngold, Enescu, Elgar, Shostakovich and
