This year’s Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert, organised by the Royal Society of Musicians, proved to be a great success on Monday (6 April) with Roderick Williams and Susie Allan presenting a wonderful programme of song, “Love Flows as the Brook Flows” at the Wigmore Hall. Framed by songs from Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin in
I am so pleased to be back with Oxford Sinfonia for its concert in St Mary the Virgin, Oxford on Saturday 28 June at 7.30pm. It’s a really exciting programme for a summer evening opening with Smetana’s brilliant overture to The Bartered Bride followed by Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. We are delighted to welcome cellist Gerard
On 31 August, Robin Ireland put on a wonderful concert in St Andrew’s Church in Sheffield to celebrate his 70th birthday. Involving many friends and colleagues from his days in the Lindsay Quartet, from his work at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and his long career as a chamber musician, the concert included a great mix works
I was so pleased to be asked by Michael Bochmann to play a recital for his Lenthall Concerts series in Burford. The recital on 11 October, proved to be a most rewarding project in combining a full programme with pianist Charles Matthews and a workshop and performance by the Grendilla Double Reed Ensemble directed by
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford Friday, 28 April 7.30pm I am looking forward to collaborating with composer and conductor, Gregory Rose, to perform his new Oboe Concerto with the Jupiter Orchestra on 28 April. The concerto is a most exciting work, inspired by bird calls heard on Oxford’s Shotover during lockdown. The 10-minute work contains brilliant acrobatics
My third concert with the wonderful Radcliffe Orchestra will take place at 7.45 pm on Saturday 7 March in Tingewick Hall at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. John James returns to play Strauss’ 2nd Horn Concerto and we are performing Brahms and Sibelius to frame this. Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture will open, followed by Sibelius’ Swan
I am looking forward to playing Bach’s G minor Concerto with the Oxford Bach Ensemble tomorrow, 13 January at 7.30. Conducted by Edward Higginbottom in St Margaret’s Church (where I was a member of the choir all those years ago), the concert includes Part VI of the Christmas Oratorio, Jesu Meine Freude and Der Gerechte
I am very much looking forward to playing two Bach works this Saturday (18 March) in the Lady Chapel of St Albans Abbey. I will be joined for the Double Concerto for violin and oboe by James Clark, violin, and for the Cantata Ich habe genug, by baritone Julian Godlee. The concert will also feature