Coronavirus has threatened the classical music world’s very existence while simultaneously showing us how much we all need it. Can the business find ways to ...

In my previous article I described why and how this strange time might be a chance for musicians to start writing. This isn’t just an exercise or therapy but...

At a time of crisis for public musical life, performers can remain positive by practising a different way of communicating – with words. Elb

Musicians' biographies are an essential and powerful part of their careers, but they are often not effective. Here are some tips from one wh

In this article, first published at ChamberStudio in 2015, the late and much-missed first violinist of the Lindsays pulled no punches with his views about mu...

Shmuel Ashkenasi led the legendary Vermeer Quartet for nearly 30 years. In this interview, first published by ChamberStudio, he offers his advice to young qu...

The classical music world tends to focus on its young stars, but as the recent BBC documentary on Janet Baker demonstrated, our venerable figures are an esse...

The great film maker's under-appreciated musical talents are the focus of this year's 130th anniversary celebrations I'm chuffed that I have been allowed to ...

Diana Cummings comes from a musical dynasty, and her career spans solo, chamber and orchestral playing. Since 1982 has been a professor at the Royal Academy ...

Stefan Popov has been professor of cello at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama for 40 years, and before that taught at Boston University and New Engl...

Double bassist Thomas Martin studied with Roger Scott in Philadelphia and can trace a teaching pedigree that goes back to Bottesini. In a career that has com...

As research shows that young people are coming to classical music through film and club music, here‘s an article I wrote in 2018 for ISM Music Journal about ...

I’ve long since given up New Year resolutions, in the sad certainty of their failure, and I’ve certainly never shared any publicly. But I must reveal this on...

A school in one of England’s most deprived boroughs offers proof that putting music at the heart of education offers positive outcomes for entire communities...

Research on Joseph Szigeti for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review took me back to some old interviews I did when I was at The Strad, where he regularly came up in m...

I had the very great pleasure of being on Radio 3’s Record Review this morning with Andrew McGregor (thankfully pre-recorded, as I hadn’t done one before). I...

A summer festival in Silicon Valley initiates young players into the joys and challenges of chamber music and then sends them out into the world to spread th...

In June I had the privilege of being part of BE PHIL, an international amateur orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle in Berlin. Read about my experience in my ...

Musicians can generate their own publicity without spending a penny, by sending out their own press releases. Here are some of the things you need to know Ev...

The London Symphony Orchestra’s early evening concert format is a welcome development in the city’s entertainment landscape, for music lovers and novices ali...