Over the last year, if my reaction is anything to go by, groans have been arising from composers’ rooms around Britain and further away,...

A bonus of attending live concerts is the chance to mosey around buildings which might otherwise be closed or rushed past. Making my now...

On my second day as an Elgar-ologist, the film crew asked me to go to Malvern (fair enough) and take part in the Elgar Vintage Bicycle...

Some months ago, German documentary makers Axel Fuhrmann and Axel Brueggemann contacted me about appearing in their latest project, a...

After a long morning of VE Day music in and around Westminster Abbey – organ recital, the Band of the Welsh Guards, choral service, the...

“Absolutely mental” is not my usual reaction to Elgar’s First Symphony, but that’s what I exclaimed on exiting the National Youth...

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (a new, indoor, candlelit space at the Globe Theatre) has impressed me today by putting tickets on sale for a...