Aberdeen Art Gallery has just re-opened after a closure of almost five years, during which a major rebuild took place. I felt honoured...

King’s Place opened over ten years ago and I feel rather guilty that I haven’t been there more often. They programme over 600 concerts a...

I should know by now not to predict these things, but my new Oboe Concerto received an expectably assured performance from its dedicatee...

Kudos to Proms supremo David Pickard for inventing the ‘Proms at…’ series, thanks to which we concertgoers travel to interesting London...

I hadn’t been to Cheltenham Music Festival for years, maybe a couple of decades, and on at last returning here, I thought the town was...

Peering between clumps of terugtrapremmen in Amsterdam, it was a thrill to see posters showing some familiar names, including my own and...

Invited to this ‘Kesäkonsertti’, whatever it might be, I made my way to St Peter’s Church in Chiswick, West London, arriving just in time...

I have been visiting New Haven, Connecticut for the American premiere of In the Land of Uz, performed by Yale Schola Cantorum under our...

This was a very unusual day. Some months ago came the surprising news that Manchester University Music Society were planning a world...

On a rare free evening this week I had the unusual pleasure of dinner with two busy musician friends. We agreed that a drawback of our...