With the coronavirus spreading across the world, we’ve had to dramatically change our daily lives. Closure of bars, restaurants, gyms, and theaters will slow the spread of the virus, but many of the primary avenues for meeting and engaging with

Don’t you just hate what this quarantine is doing to our feelings and our minds? Our thoughts are becoming like hungry vultures circling in ever-tighter spirals above the same depressing thoughts and disheartening feelings. It’s enough to drive you bonkers.

Sitting at home 24 hours a day is seriously getting on my nerves. And in turn, I get on the nerves of everybody else in the house. Just this morning, I barked at the dog! Instinctively we know that staying

A Moderated Compendium of Influences One of the most laborious tasks for an artist; listing, comparing and rating other artists or their works. Deciding which to prefer and which to reject, which is more important and which is less. There

Call me fickle, but as with food, I go through phases in terms of what I like to listen to and what I enjoy playing. However, I do have some favourites and they are mostly from the piano repertoire. Some

There are many pieces of wonderful music that I’ve had the fortune to encounter, and still even more I’ve yet to come across. Making a list of ten of my favourites was nigh-on impossible, not least because the list would

For someone whose musical tastes change fairly regularly, it’s rather unfair to be asked to choose just ten, but there are certain pieces which remain long-time favourites. Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, K581 – II. Larghetto My father was a fine amateur