As #Lockdown stubbornly persists I would like to continue to think I can continue to bring a few moments of musical inspiration to you, albeit as virtual audiences. Rather than live streaming concerts - I'm not sure my lockdown piano is quite up to being exposed to such formal judgement! - I will be posting some honest glimpses into the piano studio. I will be posting these on this blog and YouTube. If you #subscribe to these you should be able to receive automatic notifica

No cultural exchange is complete without a good get-together for some direct and honest conversations. This is why when planning for this huge project as part of the British Council's official programme of Year of Music UK-Russia began a year ago today, Dr Lidia Ader (Senior Researcher at the State Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Saint Petersburg) and myself were keen to provide a platform for musicologists, cultural historians, performers, composers and pedagogues to share experi