.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A Capella Summer School: work with Frances M Lynch of Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall")
Performer, composer, director Frances M Lynch, who is the artistic director of Electric Voice Theatre, the contemporary music-theatre acappella ensemble, is running an A Capella Summer School open to singers aged 18 to 35 from […]
The Engegård Quartet has been playing together for 20 years and this year its 1-2-3 Festival in Norway celebrates its 10th anniversary. For this double celebration, the quartet is presenting 1-2-3 Engegård Quartet! at Sentralen in Oslo […]
The Grimeborn Festival returns to Arcola Theatre from 16 July to 13 September 2025 for a season which includes fresh versions of classics such as Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Mozart’s Don […]
The London Sketch Club The London Sketch Club was founded in the late 19th century as a club for professional artists and illustrators. Today the London Sketch Club is still going strong and open to […]
Dr Joshua Ballance, founder of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival The High Barnet Chamber Music Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a series of concerts celebrating the world of song. Beginning on Saturday […]
Bellini: La straniera – Helena Dix acknowledging applause at Chelsea Opera Group performanceCadogan Hall (Photo: c/o Helena Dix) Bellini: La straniera; Helena Dix, Thomas Elwin, Georgia Mae Bishop, Dan D’Souza, Chelsea Opera Group, Stephen Barlow; […]
It is always fascinating to encounter concert performances of works by composers whose mature or later pieces easily hold their sway in the core repertoire of the great opera houses worldwide. It gives a chance […]
Aziz Shokhakimov’s continuing success with the Strasbourg orchestra is exemplified in this recording. Good timing, too, given the Ravel celebrations this year. Recently, we covered a live performance in Strasbourg of Stravinsky’s Rite could with […]
I have really enjoyed Domingo Hindoyan‘s recordings of less familiar, less over-recorded repertoire. His discs of French ballet music, “Venezuela!”, and the music of Roberto Sierra were really terrific. But then Onyx released his Bruckner 4, and now […]
The final program in Evgeny Kissin’s three-concert celebration of Shostakovich began with the composer’s penultimate creation, Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, a setting of words spoken by the loathsome character who affected to be a poet […]
