VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
VIDEO PODCAST: Women Composers - Our special hour-long illustrated feature on women composers includes contributions from Diana Ambache, Gail Wein, Hilary Tann, Natalie Artemas-Polak and Victoria Bond.
English composer James Francis Brown was born in London on 7 December 1969. He studied with Berg pupil Hans Heimler and at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He has written significant orchestral, chamber and keyboard works, and his music is linked with the 'Music Haven' group of British composers (which includes Peter Fribbins, Matthew Taylor, John Hawkins and Geoff Palmer).
He has also reconstructed and orchestrated sketches by Wagner, has arranged Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and has written film music.
He has been composer-in-residence at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove and at the Ulverston Festival.
CD Spotlight. An Unusual Debut - Giuseppe Pennisi listens to music by Ravel, James Francis Brown and Liana Alexandra, performed by Andrea Oliva and the Hemisphaeria Trio. '... an innovative program by a very promising ensemble.'
Ensemble. Triple Kirckmans - Bill Newman attends three events given by young musicians
Ensemble. Coming of age - Keith Bramich at the twenty-first Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts