June would normally be a very busy period for me conducting a flurry of concerts throughout the month, accompanying recitals, leading workshops, adjudicating and examining, as well as teaching and preparing candidates for diploma exams. However, this year the lockdown...
Into May and still without live concerts, recitals and teaching! Also, my invitation to have tea with Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace on 12th May has been postponed to a later date. I think this period has given many of us time to reflect on important values, and...
In this strange period of ‘lockdown’ it is interesting to see how important music and the arts are now being viewed. Teaching I hope that all my students and their families are well and avoiding this dreadful coronavirus. It is however a time when we can find real...
Teaching Several students are preparing for entrance auditions and choral scholarships to Conservatoires and Universities over this month and into the New Year. Preparations are generally very well ‘in place’ with repertoire items, but it is often the sight reading...
