I spent a few days in Berlin this week preparing with The Sheridan Ensemble for concerts later in the year. The programme: Chaconna, Lamento and Walking Blues is full of wonderful and varied music from Monteverdi and Purcell to The Eagles and Percy Mayfield with instrumentation including theorbo, harpsichord and vibraphone alongside flute, violin and cello. This time we are adding a baroque guitar player, Steve Player, who is also a dancer! Very exciting!
I had a wonderful time with The CBSO, Graham Bickley, Maurice Clarke and Emma Kershaw singing a programme of the best Christmas songs!
La Crosse Wisconsin was the destination for a fabulous concert on November 19th! After a great James Bond show last year I returned to work with this lovely orchestra ....
After Tassie and a brief stop off in Melbourne it was on to Perth for concerts with WASO. This was my first visit to Perth and I was blessed with fabulous weather, a spectacularly good hotel and a brilliant couple of concerts...
Two fabulous concerts with The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and a masterclass - plus some lovely weather and super Tassie food - all in all a very satisfying week...
We had a wonderful response for our shows with the RPO last week. In the afternoon we performed for the Friendship Matinee before an enthusiastic audience...
I am lucky enough from time to time to join many other great singers at London's premier recording studios like Air Lyndhurst and Abbey Road to record movie soundtracks. This month has seen the release of...
On September 21st BVox productions held a fabulous event celebrating the wealth of singing talent that exists in the music industry but which is often overlooked - The Unsung Singers...
I had the great pleasure this month of performing with the band Latin Quarter in one of the most lovely parts of the UK - Purbeck Valley, Dorset. I even got to play keyboards...!???
The last 4 weeks have included studio recordings for Disney and pop band Icarus, a Prom at The Royal Albert Hall, rehearsals for cabarets later in the year and for gigs with the rock band Latin Quarter - plus a few days holiday too! A few pics here just for a flavour
The CD 'A Crush On You' is a project that is very close to my heart. 15 fabulous Gershwin songs arranged wonderfully by my dear friend and long-time collaborator Philip Mayers for a string orchestra and piano. Here is a review...
Despite pouring down much of the afternoon the skies cleared and we had a clear, dry evening for the James Bond concert at Blenheim Palace last night...
Even though I have performed the James Bond themes many, many times I always like to revisit the original recordings and remind myself what it is that made each song special - why it was chosen to be the theme for one of the biggest movie franchises around....
Philip Mayers and I had a fabulous trip to Madrid to the Fundación Juan March to present a Cabaret show focusing on Brecht and his musical universe.
This month I'm busy with recording sessions for TV and film - and another new solo CD project which is very exciting. In mid April I join Graham Bickley, Alison Jiear and Abbie Osmon to record our 60s concert for release with the RPO.
The UK’s leading film critic Mark Kermode presented a nostalgia fest of film music from the sizzling 70s with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart....
Today saw the release a CD of Gershwin songs arranged especially for me by Philip Mayers for string orchestra and piano...
The First Ladies Of Song project is progressing with the CD due out early in 2016 and the first live promo video now available on YouTube.
I had a wonderful trip to La Crosse, WI to sing the great James Bond songs! The orchestra, directed by Alexander Platt, fully embraced the theme and the roof of the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center was...
An extraordinary evening in Birmingham with the CBSO - sadly memorable particularly for the utterly awful events in Paris that night. We were celebrating the musical world of France - Broadway songs including 'I love Paris', the show Les Miserables and a tribute to Edith Piaf...
