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...
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 our team in India. They met with around 40 people from 15 Representative organisations across the country, and teachers and students...
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...
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 power and magic of this unique genre. Why have these classics- often centuries old- become such a cornerstone of music?...
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,...
The Performing Arts Dispatch: Hungarian State Opera
In 1873, when the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Franz Joseph I, approved the construction of the Hungarian...
