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JUDITH WEIR
Composer
Nonesuch Orchestra
My fantastic colleague Andrew Toovey alerted me to a composition project he has been doing this term with a group of young composers from...
Mar 5, 2020
Alzheimer's Society
Time for some grandeur on the site. I dropped into Buckingham Palace this week to attend a reception for several charities whose Patron...
Feb 18, 2018
Yorkshire Late Starters
A year or two ago I met some friendly members of Yorkshire Late Starters Strings at a COMA summer course in, naturally, Yorkshire; and...
Oct 31, 2017
CoMA Summer School
CoMA’s summer school assembled last week at High Melton, a college campus up on the hills between Doncaster and Barnsley. In honour of...
Aug 12, 2016
COMA King's Place, London
It seems very bad form (although ubiquitous on YouTube) for singers to photograph the conductor in mid-performance, but that’s what James...
Mar 6, 2016
COMA Gala
21 years ago COMA (Contemporary Music for All) was founded with a Summer School at Wortley Hall in South Yorkshire. I was there, and well...
Oct 27, 2014
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