by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2017 | News and Reviews
A nice piece in the current issue of Classical Music Magazine about the English Symphony Orchestra’s 21st Century Symphony Project. Click here to subscribe. Click here to purchase Philip Sawyers’ Third Symphony on CD Check it out on Spotify...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 2, 2017 | News and Reviews
Some very exciting news! I’m very pleased to report that I have signed with Andrew Strange for general management. Andrew has extensive experience in both artist management and orchestral touring, having spent ten years with IMG Artists Europe and subsequently...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 11, 2017 | News and Reviews
A fantastic review from BBC Music Magazine in their August 2017 issue for volume two of the Complete Piano Concertos of Ernst Krenek “All the soloists on this beautifully recorded disc deliver totally committed performances. Special praise, however, is due to...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 25, 2017 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
More international praise for John Joubert – Composer‘s magnificent Jane Eyre- An Opera in Two Acts on SOMM Recordings, this time from Classica in France. ‘The vocal distribution of this creatiòn in Birmingham is of astounding beauty. April Fredrick assumes from end...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 11, 2017 | News and Reviews
We’re delighted to note a wonderful review of Philip Sawyers‘s Third Symphony and Songs of Loss and Regret as performed at St John’s Smith Square on 28 February in the new issue of Musical Opinion – Quarterly from Martin Anderson. Both works and the Fanfare also heard...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 29, 2017 | News and Reviews, Satire
I recently attended a very enjoyable concert by a fine local student orchestra. When you think of many musical, technical and social skills one must acquire to play in orchestra, it seems implausible that it is actually possible that such a intricate and uncertain...
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