You all know how mad I am about fine singing and great music. This concert and new charity mean an awful lot to me; please come to our inaugural performance in just over a week! Tickets are available at brunswickvocalarts.com FANTASTIC line up of singers. Please share!

We did it! Brunswick Vocal Arts is now a thing 💪 Here I am with our superstar soloists after this week’s performance of highlights from Idomeneo. Brunswick Vocal Arts

Tickets are now on sale for BVA's second event: an aria showcase concert of mixed repertoire, featuring ten fantastic singers. Please join us! Tickets available through brunswickvocalarts.com

Not too late for any amateur singers who fancy singing some opera with us on Jan 16th (with expert help of course) - message me! Here's the rehearsal schedule (all central London): Saturdays 6th and 11th Jan, 11.00am-1.00pm Tuesday 16th Jan, 2.30-5.30pm before 7.30pm concert.

BVA's upcoming Aria Showcase (January 16th, 7.30pm, St Paul's Knightsbridge) will be narrated by the one and only Michael Portillo! Please join us for opera arias sung by ten brilliant rising opera stars. Full info and ticket sales on the BVA website: brunswickvocalarts.com/events

Post-performance smiles following the Brunswick Vocal Arts Aria Showcase last night. Left to right: Michael Portillo (narrator), Sarah Richmond, Henry Ross, Henna Mun, Ross Fettes, Hannah Bennett, Chuma Sijeqa, Madison Horman, Michael Ronan, yours truly (conductor). Bravi Tutti!

Dear friends, opera lovers and supporters of emerging vocal talent, dates for your diary! Singers, full application details will be on the BVA website soon.

Dear singer/opera friends and colleagues, the BVA applications window for next year's opera projects (highlights in concert, in central London, professionally filmed) is now open. Please share!

I jumped in to conduct Debussy’s spellbinding masterpiece La Mer in the underwater acoustics of Ripon Cathedral on Saturday, along with some Ravel (piano concerto in G with Roelof Temmingh 😍), Ysayë and Dukas. @stceciliaorchestra thanks for having me! Photo: Gerard Booth

Please come and support these brilliant young singers in September! 🤩 Tickets now on sale through brunswickvocalarts.com/events

Drunk Roman thinking about the Roman Empire in Andalucía (very nearly fell into that pool 😂)

Just over a decade ago, I joined Dame Kiri as pianist on ITV’s Downton Abbey. This led to a years-long association in which I played for many of her last recitals and joined her UK Foundation as a trustee. Please join us Opera Holland Park for this special concert!

Pleased that there are as many as 65 nerdy/curious souls out there who have followed my Instagram @Schopenhauer_the_great account. Any more takers? Reading him has had a seismically positive impact on my life and outlook 🤓

Proud of what these singers achieved in last night’s BVA concert performance of highlights from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and also of what Brunswick Vocal Arts is fast becoming. Bravi Tutti! 🤩 Don Giovanni - what a sublime score 🤤

Enjoy singing? Friendly? Like the idea of learning to sing rousing opera choruses in Italian and occasionally other languages? ( - with expert help of course!) Join BVA OPERA CHORUS! 😊 Write to them through their website:

Please come and support these stellar singers, Jan 14th! (highlights in concert performance - sung in Russian, with a linking narrative read in English) Tickets now available via the BVA website events page.

Big excitement: cabaret superstar Dillie Keane of Fascinating Aïda fame will narrate BVA’s concert next Tuesday! 🤩 Highlights from Eugene Onegin, stellar cast of singers, orchestra and chorus of BVA. Get your tickets now: brunswickvocalarts.com/events

Solo singers, singing profs, coaches - please share! BVA’s application window is open until April 20th. We’d love to hear from you! Please see the BVA website for further details and application requirements etc.

Please join us in September and support this stellar cast! Tickets on sale through the Brunswick Vocal Arts website 🇮🇹 ☀️ ❤️