We are all familiar with certain pieces of music, but what actually makes up the music we know and love? What makes “Away in a Manger” so very different from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”? Read More…

Hanon piano scale exercises practised with a metronome inevitably means that a large chunk of time is carved out of your day - every day. So why bother?


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Three days apart and yet whole worlds apart: From the extreme drama of Verdi to the purity of Fauré - all in the life of an amateur chorister. Read More…