🇸🇬🇵🇭 a special Thursday at #Singapore Embassy in Manila. #AmyBeach, #ClaraSchumann, 🇵🇭 Buencamino Sr and 🇸🇬 NDP song Home as encore. It was my joy and honour to curate a programme that was both fun and great music but also culturally significant for the times and the place!
a wild Ning amidst the orchids
First (mini) performance of 2025 ✅
What an immense honour it was to be part of a special evening at the @RCMLondon reception in Singapore!
Unbelievable that we are still experiencing Lili #Boulanger firsts: tonight, the first performances of both Pie Jesu & Vieille prière bouddhique at the @bbcproms. People tell me she’s standard repertoire- not quite
It’s publication day for The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership and I’m officially an author! 🥳 My chapter is entitled Sites of Empowerment: Fin-de-Siècle Salon Culture and the Music of Cécile Chaminade. https://t.co/FveeIxSslc
Clara Schumann on opening night of the Proms makes perfect sense—
She was the headline performer for dozens of the original “Popular Concerts”—the precursor to the proms—at the Crystal Palace.
Really proud to have launched @rosielperkins book that we co-authored 📖🤩 It’s a privilege to share our knowledge on the impact of music on parental mental health, alongside so many other experts! 🎶
@RCMLondon@Daisy_Fancourt @AdlingtonRCM @davecamlin
A new report from Donne, Women in Music reveals a disturbing stagnation and regression in the diversity of global orchestral repertoire signalling an urgent need for change in the classical music industry.
Full report HERE: https://t.co/KcrLl6hy1y #DonneReport2024
It’s World Maternal Mental Health Day, a topic close to my heart. Delighted that my new edited book on Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing will be published next month, covering lots of ways music can support parents’ mental health. Check it out here:
https://t.co/ARhfUhiz1F
the ultimate multitasker 🎹🪶💄 — practise (only one octave), write a letter, and do your makeup at the same time
German octave virginal c1625-50 @HornimanMuseum
New policy. Every time a company announces a season with no women composers, they also have to publish a statement explaining why they have decided to omit half the population from their programming. Because by this stage a woman-free programme really is a choice.