Advice, guides and stories on hiring musicians and planning live music for weddings and events.
Over the last four years Filthy Lucre, the alt-classical brainchild of Cambridge grads Joe Bates and Anthony Friend, has been breaking new ground in the realms of live music. Their events, which move from classical concert to gig to club night, are held together not by genre boundaries but by…
Jonny Venvell sat down with Young Musician of the Year 2014 winner Martin James Bartlett to discuss his life so far as a concert pianist, the importance of music education today, and how to bluff your way through Messiaen. Martin offers me a warm greeting as I duck out of a biblically wet London…
This week Zoe sat down with the globe-trotting conductor and oboist Toby Thatcher to discuss his origins in Oz, his love affair with London, and partying to Prokofiev! What’s the music scene like in Sydney? Is it very different to London? It’s quieter for sure. There’s less going on, but the…
We caught up today with violist Lawrence Power to talk about his upcoming West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, and why it’s one of the best-kept secrets in the classical music world. Lawrence Power is a musician who hardly needs an introduction. Since leaving the Juilliard School at 20, he has…
To mark our launch at the University of Edinburgh last week, we sat down with Amanda MacLeod, the current President of Edinburgh University Music Society, to discuss some of her most memorable moments, as well as some of her big plans for the future… What was your first ever concert as part of…
As part of our referral scheme, Aditya Chander, a tremendous violinist and formidable composer, earned himself an interview and a professional photo shoot after referring over fifty people to join Encore! None of this comes as a surprise when you consider the wide reach of this young man’s network,…
For the seventh interview in Encore’s Rising Stars series, we chatted to Ben Glassberg. Starting his musical career as a percussionist, Ben has since migrated to the front of the stage where he is quickly becoming one of the UK’s top young conductors. What’s your earliest musical memory? The first…
