The Times
Interviews and features
Golda Schultz: ‘People don’t like change. I’ve had to be a gladiator’ (9 June 2023)
‘Some conductor are like HR people.' Interview with violinist Daniel Pioro (12 May 2023)
Why Don Giovanni needs the #MeToo treatment (2 March 2023)
How the heartbreaking story of Rosemary Kennedy became an opera (13 January 2023)
Abel Selaocoe: ‘The cello was key to a life out of the township’ (17 September 2022)
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra: ‘our music is our gun’ (21 July 2022)
The Swansea soprano soaring to stardom (10 June 2022)
Ethel Smyth: the lusty suffragette whose opera will finally be heard (3 March 2022)
Reviews
2023
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Karabits (20 December 2023)
CBSO/Yamada (14 December 2023)
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (8 December 2023)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s Pierrot Lunaire (4 December 2023)
Trip the Light Fantastic at Bristol Beacon (1 December 2023)
Rossini’s Cinderella at ETO (9 October 2023)
Berlioz’s Les Troyens at the Proms (4 September 2023)
Pygmalion/Pichon at the Proms (8 September 2023)
Ainadamar at WNO (11 September 2023)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (18 September 2023)
I Fagiolini’s Monteverdi (2 October 2023)
Manchester Collective (7 October 2023)
Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih (11 October 2023)
LPO/Canellakis (30 October 2023)
BCMG/Kazboni (30 October 2023)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu (20 February 2023)
LSO/Antonio Pappano (13 February 2023)
The Sixteen/Julian Joseph (28 January 2023)
Hermes Experiment (27 January 2023)
Hallé/Chauhan (26 January 2023)
CBSO/Madaras (12 January 2023)
2022
The Hound of the Baskvervilles (21 December 2022)
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 (12 December 2022)
Abel Selaocoe and the BBC Singers (5 December 2022)
Discovering George Walker (28 November 2022)
Handel’s Messiah at Coventry Cathedral (25 November 2022)
Handel’s Alcina at the Royal Opera House (9 November 2022)
Philharmonia/Santtu-Matias Rouvali (4 November 2022)
Philharmonia/Osmo Vänskä (31 October 2022)
Australian Chamber Orchestra at Milton Court (28 October 2022)
Quatuor Ebène at Wigmore Hall (26 October 2022)
Mahler Symphony No. 8 at the Royal Albert Hall (24 October 2022)
Orpheus at Opera North (17 October 2022)
Xenakis at Queen Elizabeth Hall (10 October 2022)
Haydn’s The Seasons (6 October 2022)
Philharmonia/Marin Alsop (30 September 2022)
English Concert at Wigmore Hall (28 September 2022)
Aida at the Royal Opera House (26 September 2022)
In This Brief Moment at Symphony Hall (26 September 2022)
The Makropulos Affair at Welsh National Opera (19 September 2022)
Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House (14 September 2022)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason at Bold Tendencies (2 September 2022)
BBC Music Magazine
Features
WNO in Prague: Czech mates
Year of Wonder: Wonder Woman (October 2023)
Female Opera Composers: Opera Heroines (September 2023)
Fanny Mendelssohn: A song in her heart (August 2023)
Building a Library: Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata (June 2023)
Interview with Dalia Stasevska (June 2023)
Manchester Collective (RPS Awards) (March 2023)
Music about love (February 2023)
Interview with Diana Damrau (Christmas 2022)
Hélène de Montgeroult (December 2022)
Music about the night (November 2022)
Women symphonists (August 2022)
Interview with the Pavel Haas Quartet (June 2022)
Composer of the Month: John Luther Adams (February 2022)
ENO Breathe (November 2021)
Reviews
Peter Donohoe’s Chopin and Rachmaninov (2023)
Igor Levit’s Fantasia (October 2023)
Romance and Counterpoint (October 2023)
Emilie Mayer String Quartets (September 2023)
Mozart recital (September 2023)
Sibelius piano works (August 2023)
Liszt Consolations (August 2023)
Bacewicz (July 2023)
Songbird (July 2023)
The future is female, Vol. 3 (2023)
Beethoven (2023)
Stephen Hough plays Mompou (21 February 2023)
Schubert, piano works, vol. 6, Barry Douglas (27 December 2022)
Arc II, Orion Weiss (24 January 2023)
Transcriptions, Paul Wee (24 January 2023)
New Paths, Mari Kodama (27 December 2022)
The Future is Female, Vol. 2 (1 December 2022)
Rebecca Clarke and William Busch, complete piano music (9 September 2022)
Andrea Tarrodi: Four Elements (9 September 2022)
Neo, Oda Voltersvik (11 August 2022)
Prism IV (11 August 2022)
Limelight
Features
Ruth Slenczynska: Notes from a Long Life (May 2022)
En Famille: Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason (June 2022)
Reviews
Sarah Connolly sings Mahler (November 2023)
Sibelius Symphonies Nos 3 & 5, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (December 2022)
Handel Coronation Anthems (September 2022)
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1-9, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (September 2022)
Shostakovich Jazz and Variety Suites, Andrew Litton (August 2022)
Chopin and Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas, Jean-Guihen Queyras (July 2022)
Verdi La traviata, Lisette Oropesa (July 2022)
Classical Music
Blending genres (Spring 2023)
How the cost of living crisis is impacting venues (Winter 2022)
Anna Patalong: a powerful voice (Autumn 2022)
Programme and booklet notes
I have recently written programme notes for the Edinburgh International Festival, Kings Place, London, the Barbican and the BBC Proms. Recent booklet notes include for cello-piano duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianists Ruth Slenczynska and Maurizio Pollini, and male soprano Samuel Marino.