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

Buckingham Palace have today announced the award of the Queen’s Medal for Music to Imogen Cooper. Recently there’s been the welcome...

In early March I attended my last live performance, which was a BBC Monday Lunchtime from the Wigmore Hall, and remarked on this blog...

‘The Wigmore’ was busy for this BBC lunchtime recital by Ruby Hughes, Natalie Clein and Julius Drake, which included my recent commission...

I love the Wigmore Hall, and for starters, who else would invite me onto a panel for a discussion titled “Schläft ein Lied in alle...

On a rare free evening this week I had the unusual pleasure of dinner with two busy musician friends. We agreed that a drawback of our...

An unusual task came my way with the announcement a year or so ago that the Schubert Ensemble would be retiring after their 35th season....

Time for some grandeur on the site. I dropped into Buckingham Palace this week to attend a reception for several charities whose Patron...

I entered the Wigmore Hall to attend the annual Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Concert, presented by the Royal Society of Musicians. The...

My wind-and-piano piece Airs from Another Planet has received the signal honour of being included in a Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary...