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I had a good, if slightly busy, weekend. Saturday I went to a concert: the London Gallery Quire were singing and playing at Newington Green Unitarian Church. That's only a short bus ride away from where I live so I went along to listen. I was pleased with what I heard: the performance was lively and enthusiastic, with all members of the quire clearly enjoying themselves. As they rehearse...

Monday was good: it had the first Arranging class. We have a different lecturer for this module this year, and I'd been a little nervous about whether lessons would be as well-organised and straightforward as last year. I needn't have worried: the module leader (who taught us last year) has put together a little booklet for us that lays things out quite sensibly, and the lecturer seems to have...

Induction Week at Trinity is over. I'm all, er, inducted. The course handbooks are on USB keys this year. This makes them easier to lose, but more useful in other ways as there's 900MB free on the things.I'd grown rather accustomed to having the place mostly to myself over the summer. I'm not used to having to queue for a cup of tea, or actually seeing other students around. I'm sure it will...

September already!What does September have in store? Flanders and Swann say mist and mud, enough to chill the blood, but I'm rather looking forward to this month.Well, there's the concert a day after tomorrow. I'm really hoping we'll get some audience. I've been at a bit of a loss as to how to promote it efficiently: the location is pretty much ideal for someone who works in the Square Mile and...

Concert tomorrow, informal, 10.30am, St. John on Bethnal Green. As I haven't played a 'proper' self-organised concert in some time this is a good step back into performing. I've just been printing off some programme notes that Anna wrote, and starting to get a bit excited.We did figure out a name for the trio, in the end: we're now the Lichtental Trio, after the part of the forest where Brahms...

The International Music Score Library Project is back! Opening letter and dedication here. I can hardly wait to get my teeth into this; I've spent far too much on sheet music that ought to be public domain, in the past few months.

Just another quick flypast post!I'm playing movements from the Brahms Horn Trio on Saturday, 10.30am, at St. John on Bethnal Green. I'm very much looking forward to it. Whether we play the final movement or not does rather depend on how rehearsals go this week...The summer is mostly flying by faster than I'd like it to. I'm starting to get some chamber music organised, but it's slow-going: the...

I'm still finding it difficult to carve out the time for posting here, I'm afraid.My current daily schedule runs something like this:7.00-8.00 The Joyous Commute (not actually too bad)8.00-10.00 practising10.00-10.30 check e-mail and put out any drastic fires found therein10.30-11.00 physio11.00-12.00 composing or arranging12.00-13.00 lunch13.00-14.00 errands (in practice this is actually a spare...

Apologies for the recent radio silence. I've been very busy doing all sorts of things, some of which I do intend to document in the near future. I have a backlog of at least five posts waiting to be written, on topics as diverse as copyright issues, my Year 4 project, a local community performance venue I'm likely to end up helping out with, a shiny new instrument that isn't quite what I thought...

I appear to have purchased, on eBay, an old piston horn. I had been wanting to do this in order to play the Dukas Villanelle in my final recital next year, but couldn't quite justify buying an instrument for one piece of music. I had a chat with my teacher about this at my lesson on Thursday, and as it happens, I don't have to buy the piston horn and only use it for piston horn pieces... I don't...