#Words usually dictate - that is their downfall. Too often we see or hear words and act according to their instuction, or repeat them, without pausing to think about what they mean to us; what they might mean to someone else; and what the consequences might be of them being undestood differently, or taken out of context . #Music has the distinct position of being able to narrate where words fail to capture a nuance or suggestion. Music can #evoke. It doesn’t carry a prescri

As the morning arrived on the opening day of the Saint Petersburg part of the project, Alexandria, Emelia, Ugne, Jonathan and Liam had absolutely no time to think about their jet lag, or that back home in London it was barely 6am. Their minds were focused that in just a few minutes all their hard work would be scrutinised by one of Russia’s top singers and soloist of the Mariinsky Opera, Olga Trifonova in the music salon of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s apartment on Saint Petersb

Words are pretty important. The English adage – ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ – sums up their power in much the same way as Soviet-Russian writers were considered ‘engineers of the soul.’ Is not the Russian adage – ‘a word is not a sparrow, if it flies away it cannot be caught’ – uttered to calm a raging refusal on the tip of one’s tongue, the slightly more impulsive equivalent of the quintessentially English ‘can I think about it?’ Being bilingual from an early age