Fresh approaches to music making. I recently decided to get back to choral singing. My musical life doesn't involve group music making

Loving what we do: I haven’t always loved playing the piano; in fact, there has been time, when the instrument that inspired me caused

Drawing out colours in jazz piano playing I spent a day last week working with jazz piano students at the Royal Academy of Music in...

Practice time as sacred. How can we best create the right environment for practice and performance?

Listening in music is a strange one. It is as elusive a concept in normal everyday communication as it is in music. When do we really...

What if we let ourselves play around with the music to find the freedom we need to be musically expressive?

When I am busy with a lot on my mind, it’s easy for my practice to suffer. Even with the best of intentions I can be off in the world of...

A young professional came for a session and his main concern was preparation. He had a lack of confidence in his own views on practice..

Can we allow our practice time to be a sacred environment where there is freedom and space to be creative?

One of the most frequent questions I am asked as a teacher is ‘Can you show me a good warm up?’

So how can we focus in our practising? What does that actually mean?

It has occurred to me this month when teaching and coaching how incredibly important practice is for the performance we give at the end...

One of the most frequent questions I am asked is ‘Can you show me a good warm up?’ When I then ask them to tell me what they think is a...

I have worked as a chamber musician and duo partner for my entire career to date and therefore I have not needed to play from memory in...

There is so much that is involved in practising a piece of music for a performance. At some stage, I will write about the nuts and bolts...

I heard somewhere that seven eighths of the world’s music is not written down. I suspect then that most of the remaining eighth is filled...