Delighted to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming French Music and Culture Study Day at Cardiff Uni Music on 10th May 2024.

Faith Thompson, Emma Kavanagh and I are very much looking forward to seeing what the French-music sphere is working on.

Afternoon tea on the train!
If you're travelling by train and wanting a treat we can box our Express Afternoon Tea so you can enjoy it on your journey.
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We are hiring! We're looking for a Deputy Artistic Director and a Marketing and Communications Manager to join our growing team, and be part of our mission to provide outstanding career opportunities to Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians chineke.org/vacancies

Probably worth saying this 'out loud' regularly: I would love for more choirs to sing my music (it's good, honest!) & commission new works, and I'd like to hear from publishers who enjoy well-crafted choral music. Visit hutchingsmusic.co.uk for scores, recordings etc. Thanks!

Music Teachers - You’re fantastic. What you do is so important and it makes such a difference to the lives of so many. Never forget that and never let anyone tell you otherwise.

Congratulations to our Principal, Professor linda merrick, who received her CBE from His Majesty The King last month.

Linda, who is also Chair of Conservatoires UK, was awarded the title for her dedicated services to music in higher education.

Very happy to share that a version of my MA dissertation has been published: this original research examines trainee instrumental/vocal teachers’ perceptions of dialogic teaching and explores how these teachers might learn to use dialogic teaching in (1/2) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Please keep sending your thoughts on the Brookes music closure to the VC and governors. A 12-month reprieve for all staff to develop new programmes would really help us. Steady stream of letters good - keep them coming.

NEW REVIEW! In case you missed it, there is a great review for the 22 Nocturnes for Chopin by Women Composers by Pianist magazine!
Amazon offers FREE delivery for the book amazon.co.uk/22-Nocturnes-C…
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How to sight-read launch
6:30pm tomorrow evening!

If you can't make it 'live' it will be recorded and if you've registered, a link will be sent out!

See you there!

Click the link to register
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Less than a week to go! Join us for what will be an entrancing and magical evening of Advent music. Brilliantly led by our guest conductor Nicholas Mulroy we are singing a mix of Renaissance and contemporary composers' insights into this season of hope and anticipation. Don't miss!

According to reports, Ralph Vaughan Williams had not embraced the '12-note school' as is apparent from this letter.
According to Michael Kennedy, RVW's biographer to whom the letter is addressed, he liked to pronounce “tone row” to rhyme with “cow.”

Many congratulations to former Truro organ scholar Carolyn Craig for being appointed assistant director of music at Wells Cathedral!
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🚨Only two days until our free webinar!🚨
Join us and Streets Mark Carr Accounts Manager John Donegan at 4pm on 22 November to learn some useful tax tips📝
Sign up here: loom.ly/GGlEOJE

Only 3wks til our Christmas Concert of
Chilcott's 'On Christmas Night': a musical celebration of the Christmas story in 8 carols of his own setting, of comforting, reflective, jubilant, swinging & folksy styles. Plus, Traditional Carols too. 🎶🎶
Tickets: iowcantatachoir.co.uk/concerts/

🪄 The Harry Potter Piano Anthology from Faber Music Publications is an outstanding publication, and with beautiful artwork from MinaLima, it’s a true collector’s item.

🎁 If you’re a Harry Potter fan, would you like to wake up to this on Christmas Day this year?

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Get ahead with your festive planning with some of these music lesson tips & ideas.
🎄 Xmas quizzes
🎄 Workshopping ideas
🎄 Listening lessons
🎄 Songwriting tips
🎄 Festive Keyboard Materials

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Today marks #WorldChildrensDay . The children we work with have often been forced to leave their homes as a result of war. To learn more about what we do, or to donate to mark this Day of Children, click here bit.ly/3OhTlk2 Thank you🧡 #childrenofwar #separatedhildren

Not long now until our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge !

Every donation made to our appeal between 28 November and 5 December will be doubled.

Save the date and watch this space!

Every year I say “never again”…but then again, I’ve been saying that since 2016 🙈😂