Fiona Maddocks
@fionahmaddocks.bsky.social
classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Just received - 50 great choices from #TomService out soon @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just received - 50 great choices from #TomService out soon @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
A radical reworking of The Makropulos Case | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Hi Fiona, I commission writers to work on features (mainly artist interviews) for the Southbank centre's website. I've a healthy list of freelancers across most art forms, but I'm short on writers who have an interest/focus on classical music if you know of anyone looking for opportunities.
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hi Fiona, I commission writers to work on features (mainly artist interviews) for the Southbank centre's website. I've a healthy list of freelancers across most art forms, but I'm short on writers who have an interest/focus on classical music if you know of anyone looking for opportunities.
Just arrived - our 6 Nov . congratulations to Hannah French
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just arrived - our 6 Nov . congratulations to Hannah French
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Delighted to receive my contributor’s copy of this new book, published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Delighted to receive my contributor’s copy of this new book, published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
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Doing an actual National Gallery lunchtime concert with the wonderful Lara Melda! 10 October, anniversary of Myra Hess’s first concert there in 1939.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
Myra Hess Festival: Lunchtime Concert 2025 - Jessica Duchen and Lara Melda | Events | National Gallery, London
Jessica Duchen, author of Myra Hess – National Treasure, joins forces with the award-winning pianist Lara Melda to tell the inspiring story of Myra Hess and her wartime National Gallery Concerts in wo...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
August 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Doing an actual National Gallery lunchtime concert with the wonderful Lara Melda! 10 October, anniversary of Myra Hess’s first concert there in 1939.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
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Everybody at Wigmore Hall is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Amelia Freedman. She was associated with the Hall for more than 60 years, and was the inspirational Artistic Director of the Nash Ensemble. We salute her legacy, and send sympathy to all who mourn her loss.
July 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Everybody at Wigmore Hall is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Amelia Freedman. She was associated with the Hall for more than 60 years, and was the inspirational Artistic Director of the Nash Ensemble. We salute her legacy, and send sympathy to all who mourn her loss.
observer.co.uk/music/classi... Fiona Maddocks | The Observer Buxton double bill and an unforgettable LSO Salome
Leonard Bernstein’s opera of suburbia | The Observer
Plus: Strauss’s ever-shocking masterpiece Salome brings the London Symphony Orchestra season at the Barbican to a close
observer.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
observer.co.uk/music/classi... Fiona Maddocks | The Observer Buxton double bill and an unforgettable LSO Salome
observer.co.uk/music/classi... Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’. On his new piece ZEBRA and other things
Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’
The composer on transcending reality, and his working-class background, through classical music
observer.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
observer.co.uk/music/classi... Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’. On his new piece ZEBRA and other things
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So grateful to @timadamswrites.bsky.social and the brilliant team @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving such prominence to my piece on libraries in Trump’s America this weekend. Will never lose the thrill of seeing my work in print - especially with Lisa Sheehan’s amazing front cover art!
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So grateful to @timadamswrites.bsky.social and the brilliant team @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving such prominence to my piece on libraries in Trump’s America this weekend. Will never lose the thrill of seeing my work in print - especially with Lisa Sheehan’s amazing front cover art!
