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Feb 17, 20214 min read

Internal Music in Film

Composer and Professor Timothy Blinko met me online to talk about his contribution to the feature film Euphony, written and directed by...

Continuing Where Mozart Left Off: An Interview with William Drabkin

Luka Lah

Dec 12, 20205 min read

Continuing Where Mozart Left Off: An Interview with William Drabkin

Upon the new Music Haven release of the completion of three late sonata fragments left by Mozart, I sat down with Professor Emeritus William

David Braid

Mar 2, 20165 min read

David Braid on Reconstructing Harmony

Composer / guitarist David Braid writes about 'Post-post-modernism' - the (re)construction of harmony following the institutionalisation...

Frances Wilson

Dec 13, 20155 min read

Guest Blog: Frances Wilson - Thoughts from a reviewer's desk...

Frances Wilson responds to Tom Hammond's recent article on music criticism for the Music Haven Blog: I read with interest Tom Hammond's...

Tom Hammond

Dec 10, 20153 min read

Tom Hammond: What's the Point of Reviewing Concerts?

Conductor Tom Hammond ponders the efficacy of music criticism, and wonders why - with the growth of online reviewing platforms - there...

David Matthews

Sep 23, 20153 min read

David Matthews: Real Art

Composer David Matthews ponders the parallels between the zeitgeist of art and music in our time.

Tom Hammond

Sep 18, 20152 min read

Tom Hammond on Sibelius and The Tempest

Conductor Tom Hammond writes about his performance with the Hertford Symphony Orchestra next May. They will perform Sibelius’s little-kno...

James Francis Brown

Aug 27, 20154 min read

In a space of its own – The Presteigne Festival

James Francis Brown gives a composer's view of a much-loved contemporary music festival.

Rob Edgar

Jul 2, 20153 min read

Discovering Music: Aesthetic Foundations

Rob Edgar ponders the aesthetics of music aimed at children, how they may have changed over the years, and what the effects of this chang...

Frances Wilson

Jun 24, 20154 min read

Guest Blog: Frances Wilson on The Power of the Programme

In a guest article for the Music Haven Blog, our friend Frances Wilson from the Cross Eyed Pianist Blog writes on how a sensitive concert...

Q&A: Tom Hammond on Amateur Music Making Part 1

Rob Edgar

Jun 18, 20153 min read

Q&A: Tom Hammond on Amateur Music Making Part 1

In a two-part blog Rob Edgar, questions conductor Tom Hammond and composer James Francis Brown about the world of amateur music-making.

Q&A With James Francis Brown on Amateur Music Making Part 2

Rob Edgar

Jun 18, 20154 min read

Q&A With James Francis Brown on Amateur Music Making Part 2

In a two-part blog Robert Edgar, questions conductor Tom Hammond and composer James Francis Brown about the world of amateur...

William Drabkin

Jun 3, 20153 min read

Historically Informed Composition

On the launch of Music Haven's new publication of a completion of Mozart's oboe concerto, K.293, William Drabkin considers the issues of...

Alan Mills

Jun 3, 20154 min read

Our Musical Heritage in London

Alan Mills writes about the treasure trove that is the British Library, and the benefits it bestows on all of us; from the student, to...

Peter Fribbins

May 28, 20153 min read

The Qualities of Chamber Music

Peter Fribbins writes about the virtues of chamber music from his perspective as a composer and as the Artistic Director of the London...

Two-Part Blog: How to Teach Music (Part 2)

Tom Hammond

May 21, 20153 min read

Two-Part Blog: How to Teach Music (Part 2)

Following on from from his previous article, conductor Tom Hammond writes about the best methods of teaching music.

Two-Part Blog: Music, Education and the Future (Part 1)

Tom Hammond

May 20, 20152 min read

Two-Part Blog: Music, Education and the Future (Part 1)

In the first of a two-part blog, conductor Tom Hammond ponders the future of music education in this country, and suggests a workable...

Rob Edgar

May 14, 20153 min read

Comment: A Shostakovich Casebook

In light of Lewis Owen’s new play Like Chemist from Canada, Rob Edgar writes aboutA Shostakovich Casebook, a collection of essays on the...

James Francis Brown

May 6, 20153 min read

A Day for the Record

James Francis Brown writes about the recording process from the composer's perspective: Most of us support the motto ‘keep music live’....

Report: Le tombeau de Rachmaninov World Premiere

Rob Edgar

Apr 29, 20152 min read

Report: Le tombeau de Rachmaninov World Premiere

Rob Edgar writes about the recent world premiere ofLe tombeau de Rachmaninov, a new work from Music Haven: The composers are back from a...