by Kenneth Woods | Apr 14, 2011 | A view from the podium
You are never too important to carry bags! Peter Davison, Artistic Consultant to The Bridgewater hall explains why he started a small festival in Birkenhead and how it has affected his work in Manchester As Artistic Consultant at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, you...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 29, 2010 | cello, News and Reviews
Ensemble Epomeo has been playing Kile Smith’s beautiful new string trio, Thrice Blest, a lot this year. Kile has managed to come to a couple of our performances, including our concert at the University of Pennsylvania a few days ago. He’s written a...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | A view from the podium
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 7 Yesterday morning, all that remained (after the stack of emails) was the final 100 miles or so to the Manchester Airport, a quick flight to Philly and concert at Penn. Hah! As we pulled away from the house, I heard an ominous noise....
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo- day 5 and 6 Wednesday morning I awoke with a sense of gleeful expectation, in spite of another raft of emails. Why? If you think I was looking forward to the concert, you guessed wrong. Longtime Vftp readers may have twigged that for me,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 4 Tuesday morning- our final, main concert at St Thomas was to be a noon recital, so there was just time for coffee, lots of stressy emails, scales, packing and the drive in to St Thomas before we met Wesley and Nadja at 10:30. As...
Recent Comments