New music focus: Joanna Ward
Joanna Ward is a young composer from Newcastle who is already making quite an impact, with a long list of impressive commissions and awards.
30 Aug 2021
What I’m doing and what I’m thinking.
Joanna Ward is a young composer from Newcastle who is already making quite an impact, with a long list of impressive commissions and awards.
Thoughts on music during the pandemic – a world where I am both filled with good things and sent empty away.
The index to my happiness playlist: fifty happy pieces of music for troubled times
Five orchestras, five concerts, one hall and nine symphonies as I spend a heroic weekend having my soul reforged in Beethoven’s life-giving fires.
How do we justify the existence of a radio station that just 3% of us listen to, but everyone pays for? A few musings on classical music and the BBC.
My thoughts on some of the new recordings that I’ve really enjoyed in 2018. (Clickbait: some of my choices may surprise you).
Whilst on holiday in Sicily, I visited the wonderful Casa della Musica in Randazzo, museum and workshop of early music specialist Giuseppe Serverini.
The Durham Music Service Showcase event at Sage Gateshead was a wonderful opportunity for young musicians to perform, and showed just how lucky we are here in County Durham when it comes to music education.
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I sang Monteverdi Vespers, and the concert of a lifetime was followed by a rather spectacular holiday too, so this final blog post in my Vespers diary comes after a bit of time to reflect. Thank you everyone who has put up with this year’s Monteverdi obsession: here are the final words on the subject.
