At the desk/Lockdown Recording. Yesterday, Paul Pellay sent me this extraordinary, delicate suspended consolation, dedicated to Marius Skaerved, Malene Sheppard Skaerved and me ‘sempre in solidarietà’. Paul writes: ‘Think of the piece as a series of sounds unsuccessfully trying to break a silence that was always going to prevail’
September 24, 2020
Recording of basic text of this talk for the Royal Academy of Music., For those of you who were able to attend in real time today, it was great to work with you for the first time, and I am really looking forward to seeing how our ideas develop! Elliott Park brought up the fascinting […]
September 23, 2020
Beethoven and the Violin – Three sessions for the Exhale It is easy to forget that Beethoven began his professional life as a string player, working in the Bonn Electoral orchestra, justly celebrated as one of the greatest of its day. Throughout his life, his relationship with the violin remained a tactile one – his […]
September 20, 2020
This is the resource page for the talk I am presenting for ‘The Exhale’ at 630pm on the 22nd September. Details and booking here: LINK Double Stopped Harmonics
September 20, 2020
After a concert – Early Morning 20th September 2020 It’s 4am. As normal, I am awake. This has never been a problem. I fell in love with the depth of the night when I was very young, and have always relished the time and space, that not needing much sleep gives me, to read and […]
September 16, 2020
I will post here any of my responses to things on social media, which I think might be of small interest. I won’t include any information about those to whom I am responding, but maybe, some context! 16-09-2020: In response to someone posting about the baroque violin inveighing against ‘incorrect’ tuning, lack of vibrato, and […]
September 15, 2020
September 9, 2020
September 28, 2020