E15 Jo Cheung: Fixing Music Education’s Access Problem
Jo Cheung is director and founder of Olympias Music Foundation, a Manchester charity championing diversity in music – from violin lessons for children on free-school meals, to community choirs for vul...
1 Jun 202154min
E14 Raymond Yiu: Forming a Creative Identity
Raymond Yiu is a Hong-Kong born, London-based composer, jazz pianist, conductor and writer on music. Originally trained as an engineer, Yiu was self-taught as a composer until he undertook his DMus un...
1 Mai 202157min
E13 How to Write Music for Dance w/ Lara Agar
Lara Agar is a composer, violinist, and collaborator who recently caught my eye with a credit on Shades of Blue, a dance piece performed at Sadler’s Wells and broadcast on the BBC. We talk about how t...
1 Apr 202139min
E12 A Classical Marketing Masterclass w/ Aubrey Bergauer
Aubrey and I geek out about marketing in the classical realm. Why classical’s core product will always be live music Why we shouldn’t be streaming whole concerts for free Plus Aubrey gives her advice...
1 Des 202053min
E10 Shruthi Rajasekar’s Fascinating Position
Shruthi Rajasekar is a composer from Minnesota USA who straddles the worlds of Western contemporary music and south Indian Carnatic music from a truly unique position. Having grown up in the US with p...
1 Okt 202044min
E9 Good Habits: Captivating an Audience
or Picking Weird Enough Instruments That People Can’t Look Away Cello/singer–accordion duo Good Habits perform live for us all the way from New Zealand. We chat musical storytelling, capturing attenti...
1 Sep 202043min
E8 The Vijay Iyer Interview: Deconstructing Classical Music
⭐ Revolutionary alternatives to tokenistic diversity programmes ⭐ Deconstructing boundaries between jazz and classical and freeing yourself to make the music you want to make ⭐ Methods for sneaking im...
1 Aug 202047min
