🎂🍾THIS SATURDAY will be DAVID MATTHEWS 80th BIRTHDAY DAY at the Little Missenden Festival. Film, talk (with me) + concert featuring Carducci Quartet & Clare Hammond. Maybe a little offering by me too! Faber Music Composers LtMissendenFestival Tickets: little-missenden.org

April 1996: Sir Alec Guinness visits Tower Records in search of some Richard Rodney Bennett and comes away empty-handed. Wise Music Classical British Music Society The Symphonist Christopher Austin

Remembering W.H.Auden on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

Today our Governing Body is delighted to announce that it has accepted the largest gift in the life of the College – £30 million from Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones KBE (1965, Modern Languages). Find out how this will transform Worcester on our website worc.ox.ac.uk/about/news/wor…

Such sad news. May he Rest in Peace.

A lovely day with Scottish Opera in Glasgow. They played through the Overture & Jig from my new opera and sounded yummy. #newopera

I've known Andrew Trinick since we were kids. His love for music and his expertise in concert planning and production is outstanding. A brilliant appointment!

Beautiful deuxième of my Missa Brevis this morning at StPaul Knightsbridge directed by Joseph Fort. And thanks to Presteigne Festival for commissioning it!

🍾 Cheers to the Presteigne Festival and all it does for music and composers. Another superb year! George Vass Roxanna Panufnik Wise Music Classical The Choir of King's College London Edition Peters

A day of King’s College Missa Brevi at Presteigne Festival today. Mine this morning, Ed Nesbit this afternoon. Superb perfs by The Choir of King's College London and Joseph Fort

TOMORROW! We The Choir of King's College London head to Presteigne Festival! Saturday sees the premiere of Adrian Williams’s ‘The Innocent Fields’, conducted by George Vass, with the festival orchestra. Sunday morning Eucharist includes the premiere of our new Missa Brevis by Thomas Hyde,

The score for Cydonie Banting's 'Introit' for organ, commissioned by Choir & Organ in partnership with The Choir of King's College London and supported by PRS for Music, is available to download and perform until 31 August 2023 gramophone.co.uk/choir-and-orga…

Choral Music premieres at #PrestFest23
Adrian Williams cantata 'The Innocent Fields' for baritone, chorus and orchestra, James B. Wilson 'Last words of those long dead' Thomas Hyde Missa Brevis - loads for The Choir of King's College London to get their teeth into!
Details presteignefestival.com/2023-festival-…

Sad to announce that all my teaching from September will be undertaken by an AI generated Barbie version of myself. Cheaper & apparently nicer to look at say HR. I asked for more Ken Widmerpool or Leighton, but got this. Typical.

Good to see this on its way. Dodgson's centenary will fall in 2024. Oliver Chandler & I have edited a small volume about him coming soon. Includes my essay 'What to do with a 1920s Boy?' Watch this space! SOMM RECORDINGS Faculty of Music StephenDodgsonTrust King's Music

The index for Joan Collins 'My Unapologetic Diaries' is glorious. It's a mini opera, and I'm the chap to set it. 😂

Lovely evening with my King's Music colleagues post-Exam Board saying a BIG thank you to Andy Fry who has been our inspirational HofD. Now the baton passes to my office buddy Dr Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺. It is a special dept full of wonderful colleagues & students.

Found my old programme of Stephen Oliver's 'Timon of Athens' (ENO 1991). Laughed out loud at the glorious 'but he went to school and university after the manner of his kind' in his biog note. I'm going to use this. 😆👋

Getting ready for the new Tippett film tonight. Here he is on Wogan in 1985 talking about his love for TV series Dallas. Hence the hat. Oliver Soden Schott Music Michael Tippett Music

Lovely dinner last night for departing music finalists at Worcester College, Oxford with Jen Walshe & yours truly. The traditional photo ...