Having just been to see the dress rehearsal of British Youth Opera’s production of my opera The Vanishing Bridegroom (heartwarming to me,...

On a remarkably gloomy autumn weekend, I travelled to Brondesbury in northwest London to visit Queen’s Park Junior Singers, and their...

Living on the periphery of the choral music world, I’m aware that there's a lot of reasonably good singing going on in the UK. It’s an...

Monday’s concert of Masters of The Queen’s Music from Sir Edward Elgar up to myself was given in the remarkable Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,...