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 […]
Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade – Sarah Richmond, Alexandra Urquiola, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Chuma Sijeqa, Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Sean Boylan – Irish National Opera (Photo: Ros Kavanagh) Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade: Gemma Ni Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola, Meili Li, Sarah […]
Music In The Round: Saint-Saëns; The Renaissance Man Ensemble 360 / George Morton (conductor, L’assassinat du duc de Guise). Crucible Playhouse, 21.05.2024 Morceau de concert in F minor, Op. 94 / R 203 (1887) Bassoon […]
Stuart Hancock: Pandora’s Box – London Youth Opera at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, 2023 (Photo: Nina Swann) Last December, London Youth Opera (LYO) presented Stuart Hancock and Donald Sturrock’s Pandora’s Box at the […]
