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JUDITH WEIR
Composer
New Elizabethan Award
My latest activity to migrate online has been jury service on the New Elizabethan Award. This is a guitar and lute competition, run by...
Sep 2, 2020


NYO, Barbican
I try never to miss a concert by the National Youth Orchestra. Who else would team up (as on this evening) Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem...
Jan 6, 2020


St Sepulchre's
Kudos to Proms supremo David Pickard for inventing the ‘Proms at…’ series, thanks to which we concertgoers travel to interesting London...
Aug 18, 2019


The Hague String Trio
An upside of a composer’s life (let’s not start on the downsides) is attending your own performances and hearing additional music you...
Jul 1, 2017


The Queen's Medal
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies established the Queen’s Medal for Music twelve years ago, when he noted that there had been a Queen’s Gold Medal...
May 20, 2016


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