In this interview, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, Josephine Knight, Alfredo Piatti Chair and Professor of Cello...

In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, the double bass professor and Principal Bass of the Royal...

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If music has helped you through this crisis, there are many ways to show your gratitude What has listening to classical meant to you...

New generations of star players are committing to music education at the grass roots level with a focus that might create lasting change...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...