Lecture at New Paths Festival Beverley 2023, © Matthew Johnson

Events 2026

13 January-17 February 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Michael Tippett: an introduction to his music at City Lit
   
14 January-25 March 10.30am-12.30pm: A weekly course, Beethoven’s Vienna at City Lit (taught online)
   
24-31 January Speaker and interviewer throughout the week for the String Quartet Biennale, Amsterdam
   
13 February 11am-12.30pm: A City Lit book club session on Sebastian Farr’s Death on the Downbeat (held online)
   
21 February 11am-5pm: Discovery Day, ‘La Boulangerie’: Nadia Boulanger and her unique circle in Paris, part of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, Treowen Manor nr. Monmouth
   
24 February-24 March 10.30-12.30pm: A weekly course, Florence Price: an introduction to her music at City Lit
   
12 March  6pm: Philharmonia Debates ‘Composing across Cultures’, Level 5 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall 
   
15 March 11am-2.45pm: The Story of English Song, a study event at Oxford International Song Festival, with Rosie Lavery, Anna Michels, Mark Padmore, Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale. Held at The New Space, Mansfield Road, Oxford
   
20-22 March Expert speaker for the Barbican Quartet’s weekend festival at the Castle Hotel, Taunton, for Martin Randall Travel 
   
10-12 April Interviewer and panel host for the Ludlow English Song Weekend, including conversations with Libby Larsen, Ceri Owen, Alex Jennings and Arthur Keegan
   
16 April 6.30-7pm: Pre-concert talk for the ‘Seven Deadly Sins Cabaret’ by Axelle Fanyo, Fleur Barron & Julius Drake at Leeds Song, Howard Assembly Room
   
22-29 June Expert speaker for Piano along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel
   
31 August-7 September Expert speaker for Music along the Rhine, a festival for Martin Randall Travel

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