✅ First proper day done as Deputy Teacher of Composition @RCMLondon Junior Department — always such a joy and inspiration hearing the breadth/quality/imagination of these young people's musical ideas!! 😊🎵 (oblig. tired selfie)
Announcing the 2025 RPS Composers! We are excited to commission eight composers writing engaging new music for audiences nationwide. We look forward to sharing their stories and invite you to discover more of their music. 🧵
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ALT A collage of the 2025 cohort of RPS Composers, clockwise from top left: Arthur Keegan, Cameron Biles-Liddell, Amble Skuse, Emily Hazrati, Derri Joseph Lewis, Lisa Robertson, Sasha Scott and Zygmund de Somogyi.
Really happy to publish this new interview with my friend (and amazing composer) Cassandra Miller
Do check out the audio version too, which goes into more detail about other things not included in the text...
bachtrack.com/interview-cass…
It’s not often that you get to say: “How would you like to be Director of Artistic Planning for the world’s greatest classical music festival?”
I’m recruiting for this newly created @bbcproms position and can’t wait to see who applies for it:
careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London…
I've been so sad to read of every huge cut and demise in the arts world but this one is so much closer to my heart (and home) than most... more on @NLebrecht : slippedisc.com/2023/11/exclu…
Dreadful that Cheltenham Festival is the latest to feel the tswing of the axe, or, at best a close shave with it. We seem to be witnessing a terrible castration of our cultural legacy