Planet Hugill

Blog URL:http://hugill.blogspot.com/
Blog Tags:Classical Music, Performance, Contemporary Music, Composer, CD reviews, London, Writing Music
Country:United Kingdom
Location:London

Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer, Robert Hugill; News, Views and opera reviews, CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new music.



Latest Blog Posts



Kangmin Justin Kim (Song Liling) and Mark Stone (René Gallimard) in rehearsal for the premiere of Huang Ruo's M. Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera in 2022(Photo: Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera)Four music theatre works at the Barbican this Au...

Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Photo Justin Slee)Opera North's Resonance residency programme was launched in 2017 to offer funding, space, time and technical support to professiona...

A new festival will be enlivening the City of London in October. The rather awkwardly named City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge runs from 10 to 24 October 2024 with a series of evening events from classical and jazz musicians plus free,...

Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum, Elegiac Ode; Rhian Lois, Samantha Price, Alessandro Fisher, Morgan Pearse, BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Adrian Partington; LYRITAReviewed 23 July 2024Written 35 years before his pupil Holst's Ode t...

The University of Birmingham's Elgar Concert HallThe University of Birmingham has announced its programme of lunchtime and evening concerts for 2024/24, the Barber Concerts taking place in the Elgar Concert Hall in the university's in the Bramall Mus...

Twogether Duo and Carol MainLive Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities, making live music accessible to all members of...

Gundaris Pone: La Serenissima, seven Venetian portraits for orchestra, American Portraits, Avanti!; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma, Normunds Šnē; SKANIReviewed 22 July 2024The first studio recordings of three of Gundaris Pone's...