Noel Coward, Lennon and McCartney, Purcell, Benjamin Britten - a wonderful source of great songs for our British cabaret that was presented at...
I am really looking forward to working as a language coach in Prague on a CD of Cole Porter songs with a wonderful soprano and a great ensemble...
What a fabulous response the Chacona, Lamento and Walking Blues programme received on Saturday May 6th at the Schwetzingen Festival! ....
Mary joined Stefan Bednarcyzk and Dale Rapely for a Weimar Cabaret as part of 'Culture and the Third Reich' a weekend of events at UCL on April 8th and 9th...
I have been devising a masterclass for the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance students. It's an interactive class looking at recording great vocals and will be presented in their studio...
A recording has been made of the material from our 60s concert and it is sounding great! The orchestrations by Richard Balcombe really make these songs shine...
Last week I had the pleasure of performing the music of James Bond - Shaken And Stirred - with The Orchestra Of Opera North in Huddersfield Town Hall and it was electric...
I love to sing!! It is very rewarding when you can pass on some of your enthusiasm to a student - whether that person is 16 years of age just finding their way or 50+ wanting to rediscover their singing voice...
This week I was involved in a recording for BBC Radio 2 to celebrate Vera Lynn's 100th birthday...
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...