Bridging the World with Song
In December of 1972, 50 years ago in a little hamlet in Chennai called ‘Chinnamalai’ or Little Mount, the Stop-Gaps...
How To Start Your Journey As A Classical Musician
Music has been an essential and integral part of history. If you have ever heard classical music in solitude, you...
A Life In Music
As the SOI prepares to present André Previn’s music for Tom Stoppard’s play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, we take a look at the extraordinary musicality of the man who was a prolific composer, an acclaimed conductor and an inventive...
Trinity College London Reps visit India
At the end of September 2022, Erez Tocker, Joysy John and Cheryl Kirk visited Mumbai and Chennai to meet with...
Suntory Hall Special Stage 2022: MIDORI
From 8 to 12 November 2022, Suntory Hall presents MIDORI and colleagues in a five-day programme featuring Beethoven, including the complete violin sonatas...
The Essential Piccolo
“I don’t own a piccolo,” was one of the first statements the principal flutist of a local community orchestra claimed as she watched me finding my place at the bottom end of the section and beginning to set up the...
Why Classical Music Will Never Go Out of Fashion
While some view classical music as a boring genre, it’s only from lack of experience and understanding about the true...
The Joy of Learning to Play Music, Part IV
A four-part series of reflections on the pleasures and paradoxes of learning to sing or play an instrument. For parents,...
