As a composition tutor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, I receive a lot of emails about competitions and calls for scores,…
As a composition tutor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, I receive a lot of emails about competitions and calls for scores,…
Improv. Why would you? Have you ever been asked to? I mean, has there ever been an audience gleefully looking…
I may well be biting the hand that feeds me but, having been given this platform I couldn’t help but have…
I know I’m always in for a treat with the British Composer Awards, because I never know quite what to…
May & June promise to be busy months for performances of Dr Robert Howard’s recent choral works. The first of…
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell is crowdfunding her exciting new album of 7 world premiere recordings, mostly of works written for her…
Our Guest Editor Joel Bell interviews Hyelim Kim, a performer of the traditional Korean taegum flute, engaged in cutting edge…
Lost, maybe found in transcription Violinist and composer, on communicating the strength and omnipresence of poetry in Arab culture…
Joel Bell writes an exclusive blog for The Sampler, looking at the ghosts who live in our musical lives. At…
Our Guest Editor Jack White interviews Composer Hafdis Bjarnadottir! What is the contemporary-classical music scene like in Iceland at the moment?…