There are quite a few smaller place around Australia (and the world...) where I could swear that I've never played in.

My wife recently bought a full sized 88 key keyboard to be able to practice whilst she is travelling... she often has lots of stuff to learn, and sometimes being away can be quite stressful for her as

Choraleprelude VIII Transfiguration by Mark Anderson

It has been a while (a few months...) since I changed the second highest string (d string) on my Baroque Viola... it is one of these strings where the guage (diameter) of the gut is sufficiently thick

After our little mini-festival, we ended up selling a few of our loaner bows... these are the cheaper factory bows that we lend out to people who play with us as apprentices, in large ensemble festivals,

Prelude in Classic Style by Gordon Young

Unsplash Phew... honestly, one of the most stressful times in running a small music ensemble is the year planning for the coming year. As a smaller fish, you have to dodge all the big budget organisations

Ahhhh... the joys of doing Early Music. In the Baroque era, there were many different pitches all across Europe for the A reference pitch.... generally, they were just whatever the local organ was tuned

La banquet celeste by Olivier Messaien

Prelude in B-flat major by Gustaw Roguski

Choralvorspiel: Jesu meine Freude by Theophil Forchhammer

Propter Magnam by Giovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736) transcription by J.W. Elliott.

O Gott du frommer Gott op. 122 no. 7 by Johannes Brahms

Tiento de 2nd tono, por Gesolreut by Bernardo Clavijo de Castillo

Ein Feste berg ist unser Gott by Carl Friedrich Engelbrecht

Unsplash There is a bit of a buzz and consternation amongst creatives about the threat of AI on our jobs and industries, and for some parts of our sector... AI is most definitely a huge existential threat.

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Living in Australia, on the other side of the planet from Europe has certain challenges for my job... the primary problem is the lack of specialist period instrument and bow makers, and the lack of a large

Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major BWV 560 att. to JS Bach

Prelude on “INTEGER” by Walter Guernsey Reynolds