Mostly Mozart…and a bit of Britten
It's been all about singing Mozart in Hull recently. The Exultate Jubilate in the acoustically-blessed City Hall one week and a feast of Mozart Masses and Litanies in the splendidly decorated Guildhall the next. Mozart is such a gift for a soprano. Basically playing the role of Mrs Mozart you ...
New Beginnings
January is normally such a quiet month, spent in hermit's cave with spreadsheets and a log-pile of paperwork to complete for the HMRC tax return deadline on the 31st. As it happened, it has been a busy and hugely varied start to the year. I have found myself teaching singing to ...
New videos of my work
After much beavering away the last few months, I am very pleased to be able to share with you three short videos, which encapsulate the varying strands of work that I do. Many thanks indeed to Lisa Gee who skilfully filmed, recorded, interviewed and edited and a big thank you ...
The Singing Entrepreneur
Here is a website that I like called The Singing Entrepreneur, with some interesting thoughts about the classical singing industry: http://singingentrepreneur.com/
All At Sea
Here are some photos from my latest adventures singing on the high seas. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. These swarthy looking creatures were my fellow singing ship mates, the lovely Heather and Kevin Flying the Greek flag in Argostoli Kotor in Montenegro was rather lovely About to transit the ...
Easter Egg Hunt
If you can't see the Pennines, it's raining and if you can, it's about to rain. I can't see the Pennines just at the moment. My tiny tomato plants are chirping away and the sweet pea seedlings have just hatched. It must be Spring! Last month, I was in beautiful and sunny ...
The Official Two Thousand and Eleven Round-Up
Now that we have bedded down nicely into 2012 and accepted the fact that it is January, I thought I would put off doing my tax return a little longer and reflect on the many happy events of 2011, without a single mention of Wills and Kate. Aside from doing my ...
A Mexican Ear Worm
The Germans call it an 'Ohrwurm' - the familiar feeling of not being able to get a song out of your head for love nor money. I have not been able to get the song La Cucaracha out of my brain ever since I got back from my travels around ...
Have you Hurd?
So I have been at the Ulster Hall in Belfast recording The Aspern Papers, which is another opera by Michael Hurd to add to my discography. You can never have enough I think. Michael Hurd (1928-2006) wrote a lot of choral and vocal music and is probably best known for ...
