"Music News" Blogs & Blog Posts

In 1996, the Pride festival took place on Clapham Common and attracted 250,000 to party on the Common. In celebration of this, Omnibus Theatre, Clapham created its 96 Festival, a celebration of queerness and theatre. The festival returns to Omnibus f...

In June, we are presenting Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham as part of 96 Festival, its celebration of queerness and theatre. Out of the Shadows is an evening of my music, featuring two recent cantatas and a selection of my so...

'April' from the manuscript of Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr (illustration by Wilhelm Hensel)Though we might wish it otherwise, works by historical women composers often cleave to certain genres, often related to the fact that women were not encouraged to...

A lovely article in the April edition of our local newspaper, the Brixton Bugle, about our Out of the Shadows concerts in June and July. Tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Jonathan Eyers and pianist Nigel Foster will be performing a programme of...

Rebecca Saunders (Photo: Johannes List)Berlin-based British composer Rebecca Saunders has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Musica 2024 (the musical arm of the Biennale di Venezia). The award ceremony will be...

St Mary's Music School, EdinburghSt Mary's Music School in Edinburgh is the only specialist music school in Scotland, and it is also the Choir School of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. The has launched two vocal programmes, the only ones of...

Ben Goldscheider, Gavin Higgins & London Chamber Orchestra at London premiere of Higgins' Horn Concerto(Photo: Jerome Weatherald)Composer Gavin Higgins, whose horn concerto was recently premiered by Ben Goldscheider [see my review of the Lon...