Episode 5 features a conversation with the composer/performer Neil Luck. Neil runs the performance group ARCO – a company that focuses on experimental music-theatre. I talk with Neil about his 2018 piece Regretfully Yours, Ongoing, commissioned by the London Contemporary Music Festival. This experimental composition is written for orchestra, choir, table-top soloist, solo voice, solo guitar, solo viola, and […]
Episode 4 of my podcast features a discussion with Kate Wakeling, writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra. I talk with Kate about ‘Far, Far Away’, Aurora’s series of storytelling concerts for children, which are part of the orchestra’s exploration of theatrical approaches to performing music. Kate writes the scripts for these concerts. This conversation was recorded on October […]
Here is a link to a conversation I had with Andrew Burke, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of London Sinfonietta. Andrew tells me about the Sinfonietta’s history of taking artistic risks and engaging audiences with new music and unconventional approaches to performing music, and how that fits into the current cultural landscape and funding models. This conversation […]
Here is a link to Episode 2, in which I speak with Rakhi Singh, co-founder of Manchester Collective. Rakhi tells me about how Manchester Collective originated and how it functions. I ask about some of Manchester Collective’s collaborative projects involving artists from other disciplines. We also discuss how classical musicians present themselves in performance and how they […]
Here is a link to the first episode of a podcast series that explores how orchestras are collaborating with artists from other disciplines and experimenting with how performance is presented. I talk with key players involved in exploring new performance possibilities. My first conversation is with Charles Hazlewood, Artistic Director of Paraorchestra, the world’s only large-scale virtuoso […]