What Is the Use of Music Criticism Today? Guest article by Hana Gubenko What is the use of music criticism in an era when everyone feels free to form their own opinions, to like something […]
Rebeca Omordia’s African Concert Series is returning to Wigmore Hall on 20 July 2024 with a day of concerts featuring a wide range of African art music. In the morning, African Flute Music will feature works by Joshua […]
Music In The Round: Romantic Piano Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 11 am, 23.05.2024 Schumann Gesange der Frühe, Op. 133: No. 1 (1853) Fauré Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119 (1921) Ramean Le […]
NYO Side by Side in Liverpool 42% of schools in England no longer enter any pupils for Music GCSE, and the number of pupils opting to do Music at A-Level has fallen by 45% between […]
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Euan Kemp, winner of Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year 2024 (Photo: Ian Georgeson) Euan Kemp, 17-year-old Saxophonist from East Dunbartonshire has won the Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year 2024 the […]
Ben Goldscheider Horn player Ben Goldscheider has talked in interviews about his desire to expand the instrument’s repertoire, and he has certainly been busy doing just that. So far this year he has premiered Gavin […]
Ensemble 360. Crucible Playhouse, 22.05.2024 Ravel Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré, MA 74 (1972) Saint-Saëns Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166 (1921) Adès Alchymia (2021) Messager Solo de Concours (1899) Franck Piano Quintet in F minor, […]
Alice d’Lumiere’s Trans Lady Sings Gender can seem remarkably fluid, at times, in opera despite the apparent restrictions of vocal physiology. To a long tradition of female mezzo-sopranos in trousers and tenors in frocks, we […]
Esther, mosaic from The Dormition Church on Mount Zion in Jerusalem Handel: Esther (Canons version); Solomon’s Knot; Wigmore HallReviewed: 27 May 2024 Solomon’s Knot on vibrant and vivid form in a dramatic account of the earliest […]
ROH Youth Opera in Jonathan Ainscough & Jonathan Briggin’s The Sapling in July 2023 When I chatted to conductor Nicholas Chalmers in 2019 [see my interview], one of the topics that popped up was his […]
