It’s the final day of our mini tour around Shropshire care homes for Live Music Now. Rachel Fright and I have had a wonderful time with so many beautiful responses from the residents we’ve met. This work is so important and so rewarding. Thanks to LMN and the Wynn Foundation!

It may still be November, but Edward Robinson and I met up today to record a Christmas concert. Live Music Now will send it on to a children’s hospital nearer the date!

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

It's Big Give week for Live Music Now with donations will be doubled up to £10,000! LMN is such an incredible organisation making immeasurable difference in the lives of people typically unable to access live music so if you are able to make a donation please follow below link!

Yesterday Rachel Fright and I had our biggest Live Music Now Zoom gig to date, streaming to 73 classrooms across Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire! The concert included Disney, Mozart, MT, plenty of Christmas songs and some really excellent questions from the students!

Returning to Royal Northern College of Music to sing the bass solos for SalfordChoralSociety’s concert of Handel’s Messiah at 3pm today with Baroque In The North. Really looking forward to this one!

Back at the The Bridgewater Hall for Be Hear Now with Beth Bishop, a lovely relaxed morning of music for children with SEND and their families. This is Edward Robinson setting up our seafaring theme. Live Music Now

The quieter I am on social media usually means the busier I am in real life and that certainly has been true for the last 5 months. Highlights include… (1/7)

Leading two, wonderful 8 week residencies in Warrington special schools alongside Rachel Fright for Live Music Now with Accent Music Hub. During the sessions we taught songs, wrote music and ended up facilitating a really joyous 45 minute performance lead by the students! (2/7)

Helping to lead jungle themed, educational workshop performances for &Piano Music Festival in Huddersfield, introducing an animal inspired, classical concert for toddlers to KS2. We had music by Finzi, Venables, Ireland and a few Edward Lear pieces too! (3/7)

I’ve also been busy singing as baritone soloist for Choral Societies across the midlands and NW. Getting to sing Haydn’s Creation again (after 6 years!) with great new colleagues in Birmingham and an electric Messiah performance in Formby have to be my spring highlights! (4/7)

I’ve also continued to run weekly primary singing workshops for Grange Park Opera's scheme Primary Robins and helped develop after school choirs at my schools. We have some exciting developments coming for the scheme in September that I will be able to share soon hopefully! (5/7)

This week I’m back with the wonderful @LeedsLieder, introducing Art Song to secondary students from Leeds schools with Rachel Fright and michellescallyclarke. It's a really lovely project and a pleasure to return! Bring on the performances next month!! (6/7)

Other highlights include a recital at The Bridgewater Hall, Musical Monday Zoom concerts for Live Music Now, some outstanding exam results by my singing students and of course, getting MARRIED!!!! (7/7)

“Each of us a single note, together we are a masterpiece” A lovely mural in the reception of Bluebell Park School where Rachel Fright & I have had a wonderful day of Live Music Now workshops! Oklahoma, Ireland, Mozart and many hilarious new verses for “The Drunken Sailor!”

Our 2023 Schools Recital Tour is off! Only two days in and we’ve already performed to about 500 fantastic students around #Kirklees & #Calderdale, who’ve all been listening and reacting brilliantly to the music that Edward Robinson, Gillian Blair & @kurisup are performing!

One thing I love about our Live Music Now concerts is the diversity of repertoire. Yesterday’s The Bridgewater Hall workshop had an eclectic mix including Ian Venables, Richard Rodney Bennett, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Edward Lear, The Beatles and Randy Newman! Rachel Fright

A lovely day of Zoom concerts for Live Music Now for students in Essex with Rachel Fright The workshops included Opera, MT, pop, sea shanties and Disney!

We’ve just finished the final week of the @LeedsLieder Festival outreach projects: 24 school visits, 13 different songs, 12 performances of Erlkönig, 6 poems, 4 singers, one poet, one pianist, one student & quite a lot of coffee! Here’s the concert info: leedslieder.org.uk/whats-on/wedne…

It’s concert day for @LeedsLieder’s outreach projects! Between us, we’ve delivered sessions to over 650 students over the last few weeks and we were so happy to perform with them all today in Morley Town Hall to celebrate everything they’ve achieved.