I so much enjoyed speaking to clarinettist Livia Frankish in the third week of Lockdown 2. Our conversation was full of laughter and...

Lene Sahlholdt, a Danish soprano of enormous range and versatility, talked to me on Zoom in the second week of Lockdown 2. I asked her to...

I talked to Sally Mortemore, an actor of conviction and intensity, on Zoom on the first Monday of Lockdown 2. She looked comfortable and...

I chatted to guitarist, singer-songwriter, music producer extraordinaire and, dare I say it, philosopher Eyal Pik on Zoom on the Monday...

I caught up on Zoom with Abigail Dance, a violinist, violist and educationalist of enormous passion and energy, on a rainy Tuesday in...

'There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen' Rumi This is how our upcoming February concert (information and booking details at...

Music is a mystery. What is it exactly? Music is sound certainly, but all sound is not music. It seems that the defining characteristic...

In 1934 the American theologian Karl Reinhold Niebuhr, began to end his sermons with a short prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept...

It was in early 1841 that the 31 year old Robert Schumann composed his first symphony. He had, the previous year, married 21 year old...

We are strange creatures, we humans. On the one hand we do not do so well on our own. We are bees in a beehive, each of us contributing...