It’s something of a cliché to me and my composer colleagues that the second performance of a new work is more important than the first,...

When visiting Glasgow in the last few years I’ve regularly stayed in the west of the central grid, on the edge of Sauchiehall Street....

I’ve been doing one of my occasional teaching weeks at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. A pleasure of my outsider/insider...

After spending two beautiful days in unbroken sunshine on Arran, I strolled into the Royal Conservatoire sporting a suave Scottish...

Things have come a long way at the RCS (formerly the RSAMD) since I taught there in the 1980s. On a short teaching visit this week I...

I was puzzled about what to do with this Straight D Trumpet (or “Bach Trumpet”) left behind by my father when he died last year. Although...