VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. 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.
Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth was born in Graz on 4 August 1968, and studied trumpet from the age of seven. She studied composition in San Francisco, then with Erich Urbanner at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Later she studied with Tristan Murail and worked at IRCAM. Adriana Hölszky and Luigi Nono were also important influences on her life and music.
Neuwirth's compositions, which exhibit a variety of sound patterns, constantly metamorphosing, have been featured at the Salzburg Festival, and she has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival. In 2008 she was awarded the Heidelberg Prize for Female Artists.
Ensemble. A Unique Sense of Bravado and Fun - Roderic Dunnett reviews Purcell's 'The Fairy Queen' at Longborough Festival Opera
Music's connective tissue - The story of STROMA, by Howard Smith