Enliven your Sunday afternoon at our next concert, 18 Feb at 3pm: Award-winning musicians Robert Folkes (tenor) and Daniel Silcock (piano) will perform Handel, Schubert, Bacharach, and more. Stay for afternoon ☕️ with homemade 🍰. £10 on the door (students £5) #ChiswickW4

Our fragile musical instruments being looked after - not.

Ryanair, Blue Handling - absolutely appalling customer service.

To think the amount we paid for you to take them…

Day 4⃣:

👉 Our Young Artists have arrived! They're taking over our Instagram Stories, and you can learn more about them here: leedslieder.org.uk/leeds-lieder-2…

👉 We relocate to Leeds Conservatoire as masterclasses get underway, with Graham Johnson OBE & Susan Manoff delivering today's.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, on the BBC, is not afraid to tell it how it is. Bravo! Thoroughly Good Neil Fisher James O'Brien Nicholas Collon

Remember folks, classical music is for life, not just for coronations. 🎶

Lovely picture of a lovely bunch after a lovely afternoon of music! So thankful to these guys - Michael Temporal Darell, Sophie Benfield, and Lily Bravery - for asking me to play for their fab programme of Italian opera last week at Royal Academy of Music 🎶🇮🇹🥂.

My congratulations to all of the people whose ovens and microwaves are now displaying the correct time, having been wrong for the last six months. For those of you where it’s the other way round, it’ll be October before you know it!

Spotted on Blackpool North Pier 😂

German composer Max Reger b 150 years ago today!
Wise thought: 'Bach is the beginning and end of all music.'
And more - er - earthily (sorry), to a critic:
'I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.'

Lovely couple of days in Durham performing with Emily Mitchell. Thanks to LiveMusicNowScotland for opening the opportunity to present John McLeod’s songs inspired by traditional mining communities. Live Music Now

#newmusic #ClassicalMusic #accompanist

New: #MassOfTheDay w. BBC Singers
Has anyone noticed the remarkable resemblance between BBC thorn-in-side Gary Lineker and Tudor political irritant, composer William Byrd? Try emergency ep #WeAreTheBBCSingers from choral podcast #ChoralChihuahua play.acast.com/s/choral-chihu…

Brilliant programme + £5 for students / under 35s!

If your cat sits on your computer keyboard half way through an online shop, always check the basket when checking out.

Is opera elitist? NO. Is opera accessible? YES. Does it deserve to be properly funded as a sector? YES. Do young people love opera if they’re exposed to it without the prejudices of adults getting in the way? YES.

👀 Michelle Donelan MP Department for Culture, Media and Sport Darren Henley CBE Arts Council England

🎵 Recently, we had our half-termly Royal Academy of Music Concert where Samuel Stopford and Daniel Peter Silcock performed a beautiful opera followed by a Masterclass.

#Concert #Excellence #royalacademyofmusic

thick boi (Scriabin)

The letters 'ough' can be pronounced at least 8 different ways in English.

How did that happen?!

Sir James MacMillan, has come together with Nicola Benedetti to call for BBC Radio Scotland to reverse their decision to axe Classics Unwrapped and other ‘specialist' music shows from the schedule. Please support and add your voice to the petition here: chng.it/DXbt5yDJyj.

in response to the highly annoying practice of abbreviating composers’ names (“Tchaik” “Shosti” “Rach” etc) I am going to confusingly start referring to Messiaen as “Messi”

No-one watching the Queen's funeral can fail to have been moved by the power of #music and the skill of the performers and composers.
Can we now please stop treating music as an optional extra in UK music education?