Winter 2025

Winter 2025

It has been a busy but varied few months! This time of the year can be a challenging one for self-employed musicians: there are more bugs around and we are fearful of catching them because of the likely impact on our work. Having been well pretty much all year I...
Summer 2024

Summer 2024

England finally has some long-awaited summer sunshine as I write my latest blog! In April, I was invited to play for a wedding open day at beautiful Brympton House, a nearby venue. These events can be unpredictable: you perform for several hours in the hope that...
Spring 2024

Spring 2024

I write during a rather chilly spell in the UK. It has been a rewarding term, not least giving piano lessons to children and adults of all ages and at different levels. Exam preparation is omnipresent in my world: this term I have been preparing pupils for Grades 1,...

Winter 2023

Most of the weddings that I am asked to play for usually take place during the warmer months but this year was unusual, with a flurry of activity in the latter part of the year – two in September, two in November and one in December. I had the privilege of...

Summer 2023

And so, yet another academic year has flown by…. I had never played a Fortepiano before but in April I was afforded the opportunity to play such an instrument at Forde Abbey, near Chard in Somerset, a former monastery dating from the 12th century.  This...