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.
Chinese pianist, teacher and musical activist Zhou Guangren was born in Hannover, Germany on 17 December 1928, and grew up and studied in Germany.
Returing to China after the end of World War II in 1945, she taught at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music for over fifty years, becoming known as 'the soul of Chinese piano education'. She initiated and organised China's first international piano competition.
Zhou Guangren died at her home in Beijing on 7 March 2022, aged ninety-three.