2019
22 May | 6:30 pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre
Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre
The Fateful Voyage
Graduate Liberal Studies is hosting a talk and excerpted performance of The Fateful Voyage, written by BBC broadcaster and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Kate Kennedy. Kennedy will be joined in the performance by pianist and Director of the Southbank Sinfonia, Simon Over, and world-renowned London tenor, James Oxley. Sponsored by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities and Graduate Liberal Studies with thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU. Read more…
27 March 2019 Talk on Walton for the LPO, Royal Festival Hall
18 January In conversation with Sir Mark Elder, Saffron Hall
25 January chairing discussion with Sir Thomas Allen, Wolfson College, Oxford
5 February 5:30pm chairing lecture by Nicola Lefanu, Wolfson College, Oxford
12 February 5:30pm chairing lecture by Errolyn Wallen, Wolfson College, Oxford
13 February 12:15pm In conversation with composer Edmund Finnis, Wigmore Hall
27 March 12:15pm In conversation, Britten Sinfonia, Wigmore Hall
27 March 6:30pm lecture on William Walton, London Philharmonic Orchestra, QEH, Southbank Centre
24 April 10-4 chairing Venus Unwrapped: A day focussed on female composers, King’s Place
9 May 6:30 lecture on AE Housman’s poetry, Glasgow City Halls
9 May 7:30 co-presenting BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert featuring Butterworth, BBC Radio 3
20 – 23 May The Fateful Voyage on tour, Vancouver
7 – 23 June Aldeburgh Festival details forthcoming
2018
6 December 6:45pm lecture with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow ‘Britten in Exile’
24 November 10 – 4pm Writing Your Life day seminar, Wolfson College Oxford
21 November 1pm In Conversation with composer Luke Styles, Wigmore Hall
11 November 6:45pm Sunday Feature: In Ruhleben Camp, broadcast BBC Radio 3
10 November 11am Lecture on Britten’s War Requiem, The Red House, Aldeburgh
10 November 6:30pm Lecture on Music’s War Poets, Saffron Hall
10 November 7:30pm The Last Letter, Britten Sinfonia, Saffron Hall
9 November 7:30pm The Last Letter, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Court, Barbican Centre
9 November 7:30pm The Fateful Voyage, Clipston, Northamptonshire
8 November 6:30pm Lecture on Music’s War Poets, St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich
8 November 7:30pm The Last Letter, Britten Sinfonia, St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich
3 November 2 – 4pm Lecturing on Ivor Gurney and Wilfred Owen, Literature Cambridge
2 November 6:30pm Performing A Terrible Beauty (poetry and music recital with tenor Robert Murray), King’s College Chapel
1 November 7:30 Sounds of Suffrage (narrator, with Berkeley Ensemble), Senate House, London
31 October 7:30 Armistice Concert, Parliament Choir, Southbank Sinfonia, Central Hall, Palace of Westminster
26-28 October Beyond Wilfred Owen conference, Wolfson College, Oxford
8 October 7:30pm Lecture and book signing, Words and Music of World War One, with Sebastian Foulks, Cheltenham Literary Festival
8 October Music Matters broadcast on Hubert Parry with Tom Service, BBC Radio 3
7 October 6:45pm Sunday Feature on Hubert Parry, broadcast BBC Radio 3
15 September 2pm Lecture on Ivor Gurney, Gloucester Cathedral
8 September 9am Elgar with Andrew McGregor, broadcast BBC Radio 3
12 August 5:30 Proms Plus discussion with AC Grayling on Vaughan Williams
12 August 7:30 BBC World Service with Georgia Mann, presenting BBC Symphony Orchestra with Edward Gardner Prom
2017
27 October LPO talk on Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony, Royal Festival Hall