Notes from the podium

Sir David Bintley on the Matthew Hindson Ballets

Published on 8th July 20238th July 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

May 1st 2023 David Bintley joined Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet after graduating from The Royal Ballet School in 1976....

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John Andrews on Dame Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald

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(Photo: Katharine Andrews) 31st May 2023 John Andrews is Principal Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and...

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TÁR Review: It’s a Masterpiece

Published on 8th July 20239th August 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(updated 9th August 2023) Introduction The TÁR zeitgeist may have come and gone, but an in-depth review of this...

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Issue 24: Turn of the Century Women

Published on 4th April 20234th April 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Public Continue reading

Leokadiya Kashperova Image: courtesy of the Russian National Museum of Music with thanks to Mikhail Bryzgalov and Olga Kuzina […]

Odaline de la Martínez on Dame Ethel Smyth

Published on 4th April 20234th April 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Public Continue reading

Image: Malcolm Crowther 26th January 2023 Since the 1990s, Odaline de la Martínez has enjoyed a demanding conducting schedule, […]

Tiffany Chang on Puccini’s Tosca

Published on 4th April 20234th April 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Public Continue reading

Image: Tanya Rosen-Jones 1st February 2023 Taiwanese-American conductor Tiffany Chang helps musicians feel valued, seen, and fulfilled, while guiding […]

Chris Hopkins on Kashperova’s Piano Concerto in A minor

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7th March 2023 Equally at home on the concert stage as in the pit, conductor and pianist Chris Hopkins […]

Issue 23: The Overlooked

Published on 9th January 20239th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Public Continue reading

Welcome, and Happy New Year. There is something for everyone in this issue: it includes conversations with three phenomenal […]

Sir Roger Norrington on Schumann’s Symphonies

Published on 9th January 20238th November 2025 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

28th November 2022 For fifty years Roger Norrington has been at the forefront of the movement for historically informed...

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Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey on the orchestral music of Afghanistan

Published on 9th January 202310th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(Photo: Oliver Oppitz) 27th October 2022 Orchestral conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey is emblematic of the 21st century’s newest vanguard of...

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