Thank you SO MUCH to A) amazing Ligeti Quartet for being so ace B) everyone who came to see us C) Bang on a Can for having us—total honour to be on this lineup D) all the other amazing composers & performers. Ive heard/met so much amazing music/people on this trip

Tonight's Italian postwar avant-garde fest Barbican Centre by BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus et al was exhilarating & beautifully played throughout. Seen live second time, Berio's remarkable Sinfonia felt overlong, but rest of programme dazzled, especially Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ in great Maderna Oboe Concerto #3

How fantastic to be reminded yesterday of the sheer quality of this music - composers of such technical brilliance & artistic bravery. Thank you BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus BBC Singers Guildhall School of Music & Drama #MartynBrabbins, Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ Tom Lessels #AnnaDennis #JohnFindon Jonathan Cross Harriet Boyd-Bennett !!

We are delighted to announce that Angela Dixon Angela Dixon is set to become the new Chair of the Royal Philharmonic Society, following the exceptional term of John Gilhooly. Read our full story here: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news…

Bristol now has two of the best halls in the UK: my old friend St George's Bristol and the wonderfully renovated Bristol Beacon It was a joy to play Brahms last night with Sir Mark and The Hallé Off to Anvil Arts today

We’re delighted to be collaborating with Black Lives in Music on Classically Black, a one-day event at Kings Place on Sat 19 Oct celebrating the contribution of Black and underrepresented musicians & composers within classical music. 🎟️Now on sale: kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/black…

Best news of the week: COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS Season Two is out. If you love this show already I admire your taste; if you’re yet to discover it I admire your luck theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Trump fought the law and the law won.

Hail the day, hail the hour ❤️ #White Hands Choir opening up a new dimension of Fidelio with ⁦LA Phil⁩ ⁦Deaf West Theatre⁩ ⁦Gustavo Dudamel⁩ ⁦Barbican Centre⁩

Don't bother working late, it makes you less productive. (Unless you are very passionate about your work.) All this and more useful workplace stuff in the Financial Times Working It newsletter, every Wednesday on.ft.com/3xf4wV5

St Magnus Cathedral Cathedral looking suitably ethereal for the opening concert of St Magnus Festival Festival featuring the #WorldPremier of alasdair nicolson spine-tingling #StormRunes cello concerto. Wonderful playing from musicavitae #bravo #StMagFest

HENO! // TONIGHT!

"The river is no longer an object, it is something in which we are engulfed" V moving to see Annea Lockwood's Southbank homecoming being marked. Lovely interview here with Rebecca Franks thetimes.com/article/486a9a…

Awesome José Maceda Music for Five Pianos tonight 19.30 QEHall Southbank Centre beautiful strange music…

I almost cried at this appointment… Makes you realise how starved we’ve been of decency.

When I asked Piers Connor Kennedy to write an arrangement of Caroline Shaw’s lush choral piece ‘and the swallow’ for choir & strings, I knew he’d come up with something gorgeous. I hope you’ll agree that he didn’t disappoint… Shout out Ben Tomlin for beautiful work on the vid 🙏

🎼His Majesty The King has appointed Errollyn Wallen CBE as Master of The King’s Music; the first appointment to this role of his reign. Click the link for further information about the Master of The King’s Music role: royal.uk/news-and-activ…

This is truly wonderful! 😍

Very sad indeed - I feel so lucky to have sat in his lectures, and then interviewed him several times for @bbcradio3. Julian Anderson paid beautiful tribute to him on In Tune BBC Radio 3 this afternoon.

What I think is astonishing about JEG is how, yet again, he’s pushing the boundaries of music-making. I never thought I’d see him in this repertoire but here we are…. youtu.be/HnTdVzUWC_Y?si…