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The Seven Sins of Tango
Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony and Lust … in TANGO form ... Before summer projects loom, one…
Re-New
Easter is perhaps my favourite time of year … not for any particular religious reason, but for what…
Reinventing Opera from a Performer’s Perspective
During the production process at Mayflower Studios in Southampton, OperaUpClose asked me and soprano Ceferina Penny to sit…
Video Trailer: Where There’s A Will (Gianni Schicchi)
Here’s a new video trailer for the OperaUpClose Where There’s a Will (Gianni Schicchi) production, as the tour…
Dvořák Requiem in Cambridge
I’m in Cambridge all this weekend for two wonderful events – on Sunday 15th, the Gianni Schicchi tour…
Gianni Schicchi (OperaUpClose)
After a month or so of hibernation, the new season is about to kick off… First up, an…
No Surprises – Radiohead Reimagined
Hello and Happy New Year from the Motorway Services! We’re on our way to one of the last…
Christmas At The Movies
Look! The Christmas at the Movies disc has arrived … and you should get hold of it! It’s…
Walk My Way, And A Thousand Violins Begin To Play
A brand new Ella Fitzgerald show for this season, Ella & Friends, from the Concertante. Misty, one of…
Where There’s A Will…
One of the projects I’m most excited about this season is taking me to a different kind of…
Czardas
And suddenly … it’s September again! I have some very exciting new projects coming up this season, which…
Why Cultural Exchange Is So Important
A short piece for a Scandinavian music magazine: I’ve always believed that cultural exchange is essential. The more…
Winter (In Spring) In Guildford
2025, let’s be ‘avin you! (Guildford, April 2025)
Korngold – Serenade for Violin – from ‘Der Schneeman’
Here is Serenade from Der Schneeman by Erich Korngold (recorded in Birmingham just before Christmas). Happy New Year!…
Homeward Light
Few things in life are certain … but death, taxes and Christmas singles by Thomas Hewitt Jones are…
Great Art
Before the onslaught of the Christmas season, a precious half day of study time: I’m working on Prokofiev’s…
Antony Pitts: Requiem for the Time of the End – Lux Aeterna
Check out this extraordinary music. If you’re short on time, start with the last 2 minutes of the…
James Bond … In Ireland!
Recently I’ve been directing some of the James Bond tour for the original Candlelight Concerts people, London Concertante.…
Why Orchestra Music Will Inspire Your Children
I’m now back playing hundreds of concerts a year, and night after night I can see from the…
Theme from Schindler’s List
Here’s a snippet of the gorgeous theme tune from the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, Schindler’s List. The music…
High Tide 2024 – a music festival … FREE at the point of use!
One of the biggest projects I’m involved in this year is the 2024 High Tide Music Festival in…
Princess Turandot Needs A Therapist
Funny how repertoire sometimes comes in batches all at once. After a week of Nessun Dorma performances as…
Violin Movie Music
I’ve been working on a lot of movie music recently, for two different projects with Cambridge Philharmonic and…
The Magic of Vienna – Strauss in Guildford
Grüß Gott people of Surrey, UK! Wilkommen Sie here in the lovely Viennese town of… Guildford, where the…
Spring Violin!
I had so many projects happening simultaneously in late March and early April, that I completely failed to…
Barnes Festival 2024
The weeks before Easter are a busy time for epic choir-and-orchestra pieces. In the past few weeks, I’ve…
Shehada’s Violin
I totally forgot I’d ever recorded this testimonial! I was browsing the website of my brilliant friend Shehada…
Life is Better with Safety Vamps!
Life is better with SAFETY VAMPS! It’s not often that I play in a pit band, so I’m…
1.0 Lillibullero
The tune Lillibullero has been going round and round in my head for AGES! It’s such a lovely…
Motorway Service Spoons!
“Head north on the M1 and I’ll tell you where to intercept the van of Djembes … tomorrow’s…
🎻 Space for 2-3 new violin coaching clients in 2024 … 🎻
David and I have run a violin tuition studio in Central London for well over 10 years now,…
Time for a Christmas Party?!
My recording of Thomas Hewitt Jones‘s ‘Christmas Party’ concerto with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia has just been re-released…
4B or not 4B? A love letter to the 4B Pencil
There are few moments in a musician’s working day more joyous than when a freshly sharpened 4B pencil…
All an artist can do today is warn.
I took this photo at Coventry Cathedral recently. The ‘new’ cathedral was built in 1962 after the old…
New Music for November – a Snowman, a Sparrow, a Crazy Frog and the House of Love
It’s been a weirdly busy week for new releases of other-people’s-things-I-contributed-to. Have a listen here: House of Love…
Work In Progress – English-Scottish Thing
Very rough first draft (I haven’t worked out all the harmonies or instrumentation yet) of Bovaglie’s Plaid –…
Thinking of the Middle East
I am thinking of everyone who is hurting so deeply from the awfulness in the Middle East and…
New Season, New Concerts
Where did Summer go? Anyway, lots coming up including new adventures with Worthing Philharmonic, the Music Workshop Company,…
Violin Classes in June
Classes Here’s some of the repertoire for this month’s violin classes, which take place on Zoom every Thursday.…
Unboxing The Violin Player 1
we got surprises we got. yeah! what comes next?
Violin Player 1 & 2 in LONDON! May/June 2023
Hello!!! For the first time in many many years I’m back with a PROPER LIVE VIOLIN SHOW!!!! (London,…
Music for King’s New Hat Day
A small production job helping THJ with a new arrangement of God Save The King, in preparation for the…
Violin Classes in May
In this month’s violin classes, I’ll be exploring several different styles; a concerto, a quartet, some 20th century…
Doves Ascending
A short improvisation, responding to the Peace Doves at Rochester Cathedral, an installation by sculptor Peter Walker, during…
Violin Classes & Coaching
Since the pandemic, I’ve been running weekly Violin Classes on Zoom for ViolinSchool. I’m now opening up these…
Regards from Rochester
I’m looking forward to playing in this world premiere on Saturday 18th March at 7pm. The livestream will…
Showreel 2023
I’ll have a full showreel available soon. In the meantime, here are a few images of recent projects!…
Edinburgh Romance
Little brother wrote very nice tune called ‘Romance’ that seemed right to play for baby brother’s wedding in…
Hybrid Violin Orchestra
Our first hybrid orchestra concert, by no means the last. Innovating through necessity. Give it another 5 years…
Violin Orchestra – Streets of London
Pandemic? wot pandemic? this might have been Saturday 11th July 2020, not the 13th. Either way, retrictions lifted…
Session at Air Edel with Christopher White
A day in the life of an awesome composer. I love working with creative genius people like Chris…
All Aboard the ViolinBoat!
Boat + River Thames + lots of violins. This was the first of several should-have-been-first-day-of-Brexit days, if I…
Ode to Joy
JOY – EMPATHY – UNITY – PEACE. Simon and I spent a number of years between the signing…
Learning to play the violin, in three minutes
I taught BBC World Service presenter Julian Marshall to play the violin. In three minutes...
Christmas Party (THJ tinkling ivories)
We recorded this for Classic fm sometime in 2016 or 2017 after the album came out, at Holy…
Vivaldi Four Seasons
A short excerpt from a live performance, probably around 2016
Bruch Violin Concerto
1st movement of Bruch’s violin concerto with Lindsay Ryan and Harmony Sinfonia in South London, UK (Herne Hill…
Bach in Jerusalem
Eat that, reverb machines!!!!!! A snippet of Bach someone recorded on their phone at St Anne’s Church in…
Living Symphonies
I worked with James Bulley to contribute some scrapings for the fascinating Living Symphonies project, a commission by…
Baaartok with Neil in Reading
Piazzolla ‘Primavera’ Tango
Happily, I no longer own this shirt. Final runthrough before performing at the Barbican in London (2012)
Who Is My Neighbour?
Here are many quartertones, accompanying a fairly timeless story, presented, with my implicit consent, in a very Christian…
Kreisler: La Précieuse
Viennese sweetmeat + classical haircut. Recital at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester with pianist Daniel Swain.
Old City
In Easter 2007, after a week spent soaking up the sounds of Old City Jerusalem for the first…
The Violin Player
The original recording of ‘The Violin Player’ by THJ. The most bittersweet piece I know. Recorded at the Riverfront…
Early box scraping tendencies
In the late 1980s I had my own personal assistant who would place the bow on the string…