The Sixteen has announced a new strand to its Learning & Participation programme which seeks to support young singers in finding a pathway into choral music. The Sixteen Ignite features a new Academy, an extension […]
Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner International Opera Awards 2025 – (Photo: GNO/Simopoulos) ‘Tis the season for awards. Hot on the heels of the Ivors Classical Awards [see my article] comes the International Opera Awards […]
It was with Mahler and the Philharmonia that the Royal Opera’s new music director first made a mark with London audiences. His Puccini may or may not be considered wholly idiomatic but Jakub Hrůša is […]
Thibaut Garcia, Continuing the legacy of the brilliant and pioneering British classical guitarist, Julian Bream, the equally brilliant French-born classical guitarist, Thibaut Garcia, joins forces with the award-winning ensemble, Quatuor Arod, to perform the world […]
Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis, winners of the Award for Best Community and Participation Composition at The Ivors Classical Awards [Photo: Hogan Media – Shutterstock] Last night, 11 November, The Ivors Academy presented awards […]
Lighten mine eies – William Lawes: selected psalms & harp consorts; Ensemble Près de votre oreille, Robin Pharo; Harmonia MundiReviewed 11 November 2025 For their debut on Harmonia Mundi, the young French ensemble give us a […]
The National Youth Orchestra (NYO) launches 2026 with Shimmer, a three-date tour where the orchestra will be conducted by Alexandre Bloch in a programme with a distinctly Spanish theme. The evening begins with Debussy’s Ibéria and ends with […]
It is now moderately well-known that the great scientist Galileo Galilei’s father, Vincenzo was a fine musician and there have been music and music theatre projects linking the two such as Clare Norburn’s Galileo which […]
Ben Edge: Devil’s Den Last year I chatted to conductor Finnegan Downie Dear (artistic director of Shadwell Opera) and composer Isabella Gellis about Shadwell Opera’s semi-staged presentation of Gellis’ new opera, The Devil’s Den at […]
Handel: Messiah – Wild Arts at Smith Square Hall in 2024 (Photo: Steve Gregson) We caught Wild Arts’ dramatised presentation of Handel’s Messiah at the Art Workers’ Guild in London in 2023 [see my review] in […]
