On the 11^th of September I will perform along with Jan Waterfield as part of the first Extrasensory: Music Festival in Glasgow. Our programme Reduction and Deconstrucion will be accompanied by divine treats prepared by ‘Rum, Egg and Muck’. To find out more about this, and further events of the festival, please follow the link:

http://www.extrasensorymusic.com/welcome/sunday-11th-september/

Very much looking forward to perform on the 14^th of May within this years Oxford Early Music Festival! Our programme Looking at the smaller picture with the wonderful Jan Waterfield on harpsichord will showcase a variety of Italian diminutions from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To find out more, please follow the link:

http://oemf.co.uk/solo-recorder/

On the 4^th of May I will appear on BBC Radio3’s InTune to introduce my upcoming performance in this years Oxford Early Music Festival. I will play my own diminutions on Madre non mi far monaca and Doulce memoire. If you miss the live performance, the broadcast will be available on the radio’s website for another month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078xl7h

What a wonderful way to finish the year! If you happen to be in Hungary, do come along on the 30^th of December to our exciting programme Bizarre Consonances which we will perform within the Fuga Baroque Festival Budapest. To find out more, visit the following link:

http://fuga.org.hu/bizarr-konszonanciak/

Very pleased to have become part of the mentoring team for Future Talent, the UK’s flagship charity supporting gifted young musicians from low income backgrounds. To find out more about the charity please click here:

http://www.futuretalent.org/

Glad to have been selected to present my paper A Game of Time: Rhythmic freedom & musical structures in the performance practice of late seventeenth & early eighteenth-century music on the 12th Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society, focusing on the performance practice, history & theory of the eighteenth century. My lecture will be held on the 10^th of October. For further details please follow the link:

http://mzzt.hu/index_EN.asp

Looking forward to a delightful concert of Henry Purcell and John Blow with Michael Chance & co. at the Stour Music Festival on the 26^th of June. For more details please follow the link:

http://www.stourmusic.org.uk/concerts-2015/duets-for-counter-tenors

Very pleased to announce that my PhD research project at the University of Glasgow will be funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council until 2018. My research focuses on behavioural attitudes in the performance practice of Italian music during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

http://www.sgsah.ac.uk/dtp/profiles15-16/headline_424644_en.html

The first edit of our recording project with countertenor Meili Li, cellist Lucia Capellaro and harpsichordist Pawel Siwczak has just arrived. Sounding great so far, we are looking forward to hear the final version. Stay tuned!

The early music ensemble Ars Eloquentiae have been selected to participate in this year’s Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artists scheme. Our programme ‘Sex, lies and violins’ is based on Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and features works by Marais, Philidor, Leclair, Corelli and Vivaldi. The performance will be held in the Latest Music Bar on the 1^st of November.