When I arrived in Oxford to deliver New College School’s annual ‘Holloway Lecture’, headmaster Matthew Jenkinson mysteriously led me out...

I have several times written about the Royal Society of Musicians, whose Presidency I inherited from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies a couple of...

Valvona & Crolla is many people’s favourite Edinburgh shop, an old-fashioned Italian deli which has been at the top of Leith Walk since...

With seemingly 99% of news stories focusing on the unlikely election of a new US President this year, I would like to announce that I too...

As one of the judges of this year’s (17th) BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition, I hotfooted it to the Royal College of Music...