Check out our blog post to learn about the brand new critical edition of the score for The Grand Duke we're permiering in our production. By Colin Jagger who has proviously produced an edition of The Yeomen of the Guard for OUP gloc.org/2023/04/24/the…

After keeping this under wraps for so long we are delighted to announce that we are the new Resident Quartet Kings Place!!! Unbelievably excited, grateful and really looking forward, next season deep diving into Dvořák late qtets, and many other surprises ✨

Have you picked up the latest BBC BBC Music Magazine yet? 📰 Not only is there a special feature on the SCO and our 50th celebrations, but you can also get your hands on an exclusive CD! 💿 #BBC #SCO #CD

Here's the fuller interview between Colin Jagger and David Sillito BBC this morning, 1:50 into the recording - do look in your attic/storage! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Hunt for lost Gilbert and Sullivan opera launched bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Hunt for lost Gilbert and Sullivan opera launched bbc.co.uk/news/entertain… Story featuring Portsmouth's resident Colin Jagger former Director of Music University of Portsmouth

Karel Čapek, author of The Makropulos Case (and so much besides - he introduced the word robot to the world in his play R.U.R.), was born in Malé Svatoňovice (Bohemia) #OTD in 1890.

Don't miss Academy pianist Vedran Janjanin who will be performing as part of our Piano Series at Wigmore Hall tomorrow 🎹 In this video, Vedran plays an excerpt from Prelude Op.11 - No.21 in B flat by Alexander Scriabin. Book your tickets here > bit.ly/41VfTfF

This is from THE WAIT, a short film from 2018, with Poppy Roe and Mike Burnside. It was written and directed by Jason McColgan. And it broke me.

📣🎟 Some tickets have been released on several performances for our previously sold-out #ONHerring run Howard Assembly Room! Snap them up👇 operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/alber…

Cherubini’s “rescue opera” Les deux journées was premiered in Paris #OTD in 1800, to a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (of Fidelio fame). Beethoven admired it so much he kept a copy on his desk; why don’t we like it more?

Fancy spending Valentine's Day eve in a blur of beautiful and passionate music? Come along to Kings Place, 6:45pm, for an hour's concert- plenty of time for a romantic tipple and dinner after if you so wish! 🥰 Tix below 👇 bit.ly/rushhourlates Anna Appleby WP!

Sunday 10th March 2024, 2.30pm, Oaklands C School. HSO will play Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain, Dvořák's New World Symphony, and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto with Joo Yeon Sir. Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/havantorchestr…

On 14th Feb, come along to our ⁦Kings Place⁩ concert at 18:45, Hall One! Fantastic new work from ⁦Anna Appleby⁩, uplifting Dvořák and spellbinding Webern… Here’s an ear-worm from Schubert too for your Tuesday morning! 🎫 Find out more bit.ly/rushhourlates

Tonight a WP of Anna Appleby’s Heart Embers Kings Place 18;45pm ❤️‍🔥 There’s nothing more thrilling than performing a work for the first time (for us anyway), it creates such a unique buzz for the performers but also the audience and composer. Guess it’s that element of jeopardy!

For more than 20 years Colin Jagger and I have been promoting a series of chamber music on Portsmouth. It's very exciting and this week we hear music by Mozart, Onslow and Huw Watkins. A varied and fascinating programme. Thanks Music in the Round

So great to hear Mark-Anthony Turnage on BBC Radio 4 and Desert Island Discs. Brilliant choices. Jazz, working with prisoners, writing pieces for birthdays; it’s all here in our commission with him in Winter’s Edge, Quartet No.4 (his mum’s 80th!) DELPHIAN open.spotify.com/track/3ZuGoNT1…

Thanks so much BBC BBC Music Magazine for the double 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review this month for our Joseph Phibbs Quartets recording!!! And the lovely inclusion of a picture too. Go have a listen if you can!! With so much thanks to RTF and Vaughan Williams Foundation Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras Kings Place Rye Arts Festival

Back to the computer, amending scores.