Engaging in music performance It’s a tricky one that I find myself exploring a lot. It is so easy to lose focus and concentration when...

It’s always refreshing to go to hear another country’s resident orchestra on home ground, and hearing the Concertgebouw orchestra in...

The BBC made a documentary on the Chinese pianist Lang Lang a few months ago, and it was fascinating watching. Lang Lang has become...

Thoughts about how classical music concerts can lack passion and how good it is when there is passionate performing.

The similarities between listening to people in every day conversation and listening in music. Can one impact the other?

It only takes a period drama on television to remind us of how far society has moved in a relatively short period of time. I watched the...

How does someone who wins a talent show survive out in the demanding professional world?

What are the good and bad sides of the child prodigy phenomenon?

How difficult it is when jobs disappear in the classical music sector and what can be done.

How to share chamber music with passion, vitality and colour with more people.

Last night, I found myself gripped by a really vibrant, moving performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony at the BBC Proms. It was on...

How much is possible to teach a 14 year old in a 2 week period? With a positive mindset, quite a lot!

Why is it that some performances leave us cold and yet others can move us to the core?