Just because it wouldn’t be Italy without gelato.

Out and about in Anghiari with this week’s guest tutor, the fabulous Lucasta Miller.

Pizza night! Our chefs hard at work.

Dinner out in town.

Probably eaten my body weight in pasta by now- but suuuuuuch good pasta!!!!!!

Magical fireflies - points of light all around us in the castle grounds.

All ready to plunge into 474 pages of book! Deep breath before I start on the audiobook recording of _Cello - A Journey Through Silence to Sound_. Hope I’ll have a voice left at the end of it all Bloomsbury Books UK Oxford Life-Writing #cello

And we’re off! Help us to win back Dorothy Howell’s rightful place in the repertoire: donate now to our crowdfunder to make a premiere recording of her fantastic String Quartet and Adagio and Caprice. More here crowdfunder.co.uk/p/dorothy-howe…

Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the Royal Festival Hall tonight - a monumental monster of a work - don’t miss Lucy Crowe, Will Thomas, Dom Bevan, Simon Over and Southbank Sinfonia smashing it out of the park!

with Sinfonia Smith Square in William Walton’s garden on the island of #Ischia. Possibly one of the most gorgeous concert venues, definitely the only one where the chorus of frogs in the ponds are as loud as the orchestra.

They’re here! First copies arriving, ready for publication on 15th August. Pre-orders on Amazon. Bloomsbury News & Events Bloomsbury Books UK Wolfson College, Oxford Oxford Life-Writing English Faculty Library (EFL) Faculty of Music

Tonight, join me and Martin Handley in the BBC box for Proms - my favourite piece of all time - Elgar's Cello Concerto, and a Proms first by Holst, The Cloud Messenger. Unjustly neglected, or... not? Let's see! Royal Albert Hall martin handley BBC Proms @bbcradio3

It’s filling up! A feast of Elgar and Holst this evening. Listen in on BBC Radio 3. Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms

Beach reading! #cello

Times review of my new book - read and retweet - '[A] strikingly original book’ of the ‘most obviously carnal of instruments’ The Times and The Sunday Times Faculty of Music Bloomsbury Books UK Wolfson College, Oxford thetimes.com/article/13ba09…

🎻Join us to celebrate Kate Kennedy's wonderful new book (Bloomsbury Books UK) with a unique performance blending new music, spoken word, and visuals. Don't miss "Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound" at Wigmore Hall.🎻Tickets: shorturl.at/OfpuE Faculty of Music Faculty of English

I was interviewed by Gramophone about my new book 🎻 #cello Oxford Life-Writing Faculty of Music