Fran Wilson
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
Writer, publicist & concerts manager.
Actual pianist, avid foodie, Lapsang souchong drinker, Burmese cat lover, AirBnB Superhost, proud Englishwoman
🔗https://linktr.ee/Crosseyedpianist
Actual pianist, avid foodie, Lapsang souchong drinker, Burmese cat lover, AirBnB Superhost, proud Englishwoman
🔗https://linktr.ee/Crosseyedpianist
Just a handful of tickets left for @jameslisney.bsky.social’s concert tonight at the stylish & convivial 1901 Arts Club in support of The Amber Trust
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just a handful of tickets left for @jameslisney.bsky.social’s concert tonight at the stylish & convivial 1901 Arts Club in support of The Amber Trust
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
On Friday RSCM Director Hugh Morris begins an epic 25-hour organ-playing marathon.The event will be livestreamed via YouTube from Viscount Organs Bicester showroom. Here’s a selection of some of the music Hugh will play.You can sponsor Hugh to play your favourite hymn
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
On Friday RSCM Director Hugh Morris begins an epic 25-hour organ-playing marathon.The event will be livestreamed via YouTube from Viscount Organs Bicester showroom. Here’s a selection of some of the music Hugh will play.You can sponsor Hugh to play your favourite hymn
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Join the RSCM’s big organ play along this St. Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov) and celebrate this magnificent instrument, its repertoire and those who play it
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Join the RSCM’s big organ play along this St. Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov) and celebrate this magnificent instrument, its repertoire and those who play it
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
Get 'Hands on with Handel' in the RSCM big #organ play-athon on St Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov)
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Get 'Hands on with Handel' in the RSCM big #organ play-athon on St Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov)
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Reposted by Fran Wilson
‘Christmas lullaby’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones - a new release feat. the Royal School of Church Music’s Youth Choir
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
‘Christmas lullaby’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones - a new release feat. the Royal School of Church Music’s Youth Choir
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
This is great fun
Released today to all networks on VivumMusic 'A Festive Fantasia', a really fun festive medley written by Thomas Hewitt Jones for - and performed by - the Central Band of the Royal Air Force Music and Wing Commander Richard Murray🌲⭐️🎼🎧 open.spotify.com/album/2s45Oo... open.spotify.com/album/2s45Oo...
A Festive Fantasia
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is great fun
Reposted by Fran Wilson
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
James Lisney (piano) - Petits Concerts XXI - Amber Trust
Amber Patron, James Lisney is performing at the 1901 Arts Club in aid of Amber. James Lisney’s musical offerings centre upon Beethoven’s three final sonatas, one of music’s great spiritual journeys, w...
ambertrust.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Reposted by Fran Wilson
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
A Musical Offering: Celebrating the legacy of Myra Hess
For his autumn concert tour, which begins on Sunday 9 November, British pianist James Lisney places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces, not the least of w…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
Great to see this from Exeter Cathedral, fully embracing the mission of the Royal School of Church Music’s Director’s Challenge & massed organ play along this coming weekend
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Great to see this from Exeter Cathedral, fully embracing the mission of the Royal School of Church Music’s Director’s Challenge & massed organ play along this coming weekend
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
Leila Josefowicz, violinist
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
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🖼️🤔👓 Immediately after emerging from the Royal Opera’s ‘Makropulos Case’, I posted that “it managed to both demand focus from its audience & feel like a thrill-ride at the same time”.
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
“Why, I auteur…”: ‘The Makropulos Case’ (mostly), Royal Ballet & Opera, London
The latest in the Royal Opera’s Janáček cycle, this is their first production of ‘The Makropulos Case’ – and mine, too. I was excited to be seeing at last this piece that I’d read about but, …
artmuselondon.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🖼️🤔👓 Immediately after emerging from the Royal Opera’s ‘Makropulos Case’, I posted that “it managed to both demand focus from its audience & feel like a thrill-ride at the same time”.
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
A Musical Offering: Celebrating the legacy of Myra Hess
For his autumn concert tour, which begins on Sunday 9 November, British pianist James Lisney places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces, not the least of w…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
James Lisney (piano) - Petits Concerts XXI - Amber Trust
Amber Patron, James Lisney is performing at the 1901 Arts Club in aid of Amber. James Lisney’s musical offerings centre upon Beethoven’s three final sonatas, one of music’s great spiritual journeys, w...
ambertrust.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Reposted by Fran Wilson
The British Music Society has recently published Martyn Strachan’s glowing and well-informed review of Ailsa Dixon’s ‘The Spirit of Love’ CD!
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
THE SPIRIT OF LOVE: Chamber Music by Ailsa Dixon - British Music Society
The story of Ailsa Dixon is, sadly, not an unusual one. A composer of great promise, who happened to be a woman, had to be content with a scant number of performances during her most fertile period of...
www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The British Music Society has recently published Martyn Strachan’s glowing and well-informed review of Ailsa Dixon’s ‘The Spirit of Love’ CD!
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
“Ophelia plays with a natural virtuosity which never feels contrived nor forced, completely at home with Kapustin’s rhythmic vitality, and myriad harmonies and textures. She clearly loves this music…” crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/10/o...
Ophelia Gordon debuts with Kapustin’s unique Jazz-Classical fusion
Kapustin: Between the Lines Ophelia Gordon, piano Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020) occupies a distinctive place in 20th- and 21st-century music. A classically trained pianist and composer, Kapustin cle…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Ophelia plays with a natural virtuosity which never feels contrived nor forced, completely at home with Kapustin’s rhythmic vitality, and myriad harmonies and textures. She clearly loves this music…” crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/10/o...
Pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social’s UK concert tour A Musical Offering begins today in Birmingham
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social’s UK concert tour A Musical Offering begins today in Birmingham
Reposted by Fran Wilson
We continue our series of guest articles by Josie Dixon, the daughter of Ailsa Dixon. This month Josie writes about ‘Airs of the Seasons’, Dixon’s sonata for piano duet
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/airs-of-the-...
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/airs-of-the-...
‘Airs of the Seasons’: Ailsa Dixon’s Sonata for Piano Duet - What's New
Josie Dixon, the daughter of Ailsa Dixon writes about ‘Airs of the Seasons’, Dixon’s sonata for piano duet.
whatsnew.composersedition.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We continue our series of guest articles by Josie Dixon, the daughter of Ailsa Dixon. This month Josie writes about ‘Airs of the Seasons’, Dixon’s sonata for piano duet
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/airs-of-the-...
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/airs-of-the-...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
A Musical Offering: Celebrating the legacy of Myra Hess
For his autumn concert tour, which begins on Sunday 9 November, British pianist James Lisney places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces, not the least of w…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
Reposted by Fran Wilson
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
This Sunday 9 Nov pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social begins his UK concert tour with a programme which places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces by Bach, Chopin & Shostakovich
crosseyedpianist.com
crosseyedpianist.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This Sunday 9 Nov pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social begins his UK concert tour with a programme which places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces by Bach, Chopin & Shostakovich
crosseyedpianist.com
crosseyedpianist.com
This Sunday 9 Nov pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social begins his UK concert tour with a programme which places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces by Bach, Chopin & Shostakovich
crosseyedpianist.com
crosseyedpianist.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This Sunday 9 Nov pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social begins his UK concert tour with a programme which places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces by Bach, Chopin & Shostakovich
crosseyedpianist.com
crosseyedpianist.com
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
A Musical Offering: Celebrating the legacy of Myra Hess
For his autumn concert tour, which begins on Sunday 9 November, British pianist James Lisney places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces, not the least of w…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...