Wigmore Hall, Friday 16 June. Classical artists venturing into other musical styles rarely works. Listeners and critics are stuffy about classical ensembles taking on popular music, and some projects should probably never have got further than the first meeting. With

Staatskapelle Dresden once again came to China last week. The tour was led by the young Nikolaj Znaider, who is not exactly renowned for his violin or his conducting. The concerts were fair but far from brilliant, according to the

Aix-en-Provence 12th May 2011. Interdisciplinary studies have had a long tradition in music. Examples range from operas and ballets, to instrumental pieces based on a borrowed theme (e.g. Liszt’s La Campanella), to musical ideas derived from another subject (e.g. Second

Well, writing about the royal wedding – yes, the one with Will and Kate – seems a bit passé now, but I’m here to talk about the music, not the wedding itself. The day of the royal wedding, I was

The good thing about interviewing established artists is that one gets to listen to the honest sharing of their stories of success- if you are lucky enough. With Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and pianist Yehudi Wyner, it is even more exciting

If you are a fan of Mozart and you had missed the Daedalus Quartet’s live interpretation of his Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581 with Grammy award-winning clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman at the premiere concert of The Intimacy of Creativity,

“Usually I don’t like to think that I’m a clarinettist,” stated the Grammy Award-winning clarinet soloist. It may all seem surprising for Richard Stoltzman to have said so. But when you actually hear it, you know there is a profound

While some composers write their music based on concrete phenomenon, others prefer working on abstractness. In Scrudge, American composer Ted Goldman tries to balance between the two. Whilst agreeing a piece of music has an abstract self within, Ted draws