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Please share this new bursary scheme, set up to help singing students at the beginning of their journey: Royal College of Music Royal Academy of Music Guildhall School of Music & Drama Royal Northern College of Music Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Today is a very sad day for Folkestone & MUSIC. The Chambers ceases to trade after 26 years. This week has been packed: we're now realising what we're going to miss: one of the best grass-roots music venues in the UK. Chris & Liz are legends & we'll forever be in their debt.

Sooooo excited to be joining London Sinfonietta for the first time next year, performing my beloved Berio Folk Songs in a programme that also includes a UKP from Hannah Kendall and a WP by my pal Laurence Osborn! April 3 at Southbank Centre 🖤 londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/hidde…

Happy New Year A big year for song and singing in Folkestone We are very proud of what we will be putting on this year. Luxon Armit singing Bursary Tosti International Singing Academy Folkestone International Song Festival We hope to see you!! soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/fo…

So happy to see Musical Opinion’s review of my Us, the most fleeting of all, premiered by Clare Hammond at Cheltenham Music Festival. They described it as “elegantly rhapsodic” with “a compelling reading of numinous intensity.” Royal Philharmonic Society

Composer Mark Simpson and writer Melanie Challenger discuss their opera, ‘Pleasure’. 7pm Thursday 23 January Folkestone New Music Kollectiv 69 The Old High St, Folkestone CT20 1RN

The 2025 Folkestone New Music season kicks off this Thursday 23/1 at kollectiv, the new arts hub in F'stone, with @johnwoolrich2 at 6pm talking about the new season & at 7pm Mark Simpson & Mel Challenger will talk about their very well-received 2016 opera 'Pleasure'.

Oh dear! People I respect tell me I should have left here already & certainly should not be X-ing; whilst people I try to persuade to come to bluesky push-back, saying we should stay here & resist. The answer must be to do both - for a while; but Bluesky is the future. Join now!

The string quartet weekend was such a success - thank you to everyone who braved the conditions to come and listen to such talented first year college students - the viola player blew us away with his other talent ….

highlight of my year so far - discovering young talent for the first time is so wonderful - especially as he left his guitar on the train and we had to track it down

Music people, it's really time to make the eXodus to bluesky We need to make this new space our own - it's definitely safer than what is happening on X, with its sanctioned collapse into ethical decay & philistinism. We can make it really special & useful there. Be a pioneer!

Betsy Jolas is 100 next year! You can hear Betsy's Musique pour Delphine (written in memory of her friend, the actress Delphine Seyrig): David Juritz (violin) and Adrian Bradbury (cello) 7.30pm Thursday 6 February Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone

Stephen Plaistow 1937-2025 BBC producer, pianist, writer and friend to new music.

All these remarkable, world class talents will be coming to Folkestone on Song this year to teach, sing, play, think, inspire… Lucky Folkestone. Very lucky me..

Hans Abrahamsen is probably Scandinavia's most highly-regarded contemporary composer. You can hear his Horn Trio, introduced by Hans Abrahamsen himself, at 7.30pm on Thursday 13 March Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone tickettailor.com/events/folkest…

"If I had stars to award, I would give all five in glowing gold!" Geraint Lewis in Gramophone on Tippett's New Year from BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra NMC Recordings. gramophone.co.uk/review/tippett…

An Apple Music playlist of all the music for next weekend’s Luxon Amit Singing Bursary. music.apple.com/gb/playlist/lu…

one of my favourite humans, one of my favourite pieces. Lucky Lotte. HARAWI this Thursday 6.30pm Balham

Huge thanks to all who voted for Julius Drake and myself, we won BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award! Chandos Records and Jonathan Cooper, we love you!

This is the beginning of something I have been working very hard on for the last few months, and which couldn’t happen without the help, support, enthusiasm of lots of others..together we are building something brilliant, I am sure. Please join us in whichever way you can!