Chief Executive introduces The National Youth Choir of Scotland. Find out a little more about this organisation which is very much more than 'just a choir'.

meet the National Youth Choir of Scotland

Jonathan Cohen and Patricia Hodge appear in cabaret at St Andrews Voices Festival. We caught up with Jonathan at home in London prior to this special appearance...

JONATHAN COHEN at St Andrews Voices Festival

Tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist James Baillieu appear at St Andrews Voices, October 2015. We talked to them in London before their appearances when they reveal their secret fantasy jobs of air traffic controller and zoo keeper...

John Mark Ainsley and James Baillieu at St Andrews Voices

Tomasz Lis presents a lecture recital in the stunning surroundings of Leighton House on Tuesday 10 November at 7.30pm, as part of the Music At Unique Venues series.  He will perform Chopin Preludes from Op 28 and Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. Paintings on the evening will be by Corot, Turner and Shishkin. For more details see www.musicatuniquevenues.com

Music used in this podcast is Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu Op 66 played by Tomasz Lis from his "IMPROMPTUS" CD
and October from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Tomasz Lis LANDSCAPE IN ART AND MUSIC at Leighton House

Welcome to Lammermuir 2016. Co-artistic director, James Waters introduces this year's festival. 

photo credit Amelia Jacobsen 


Jane Church's Album

Welcome to Lammermuir 2016

Film composer, Laura Rossi talks about her Somme100 FILM project in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums. Laura was commissioned to write a new soundtrack to the truly iconic 1916 Battle of The Somme film, and this year, Laura is co-ordinating 100 screenings of the film with live, orchestral performances of her score all over the UK and abroad. 

Hear more about it and how to get involved if you are part of an orchestra or have a venue...

www.somme100film.com 
www.laurarossi.com 
Photo of Laura in WW1 trench at Imperial War Museum, London by Tas Kyprianou  www.taskyprianou.com

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