Monday 27 October • Catch me playing with harpist Oliver Wass and talking about @wimbledonmusicfest.bsky.social live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune from 5-7pm with @petroc.bsky.social - festival starts on Saturday 1 November! www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk

Post-rehearsal with the fantastic Sacconi Quartet ahead of @wimbledonmusicfest.bsky.social on Monday 3 November. Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Ravel String Quartet, new work by Richard Blackford & a little surprise wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk/wimf2025-pro...

1 December, Fabric, London: I will be playing Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with violinist Agata Daraškaitė, cellist Peteris Sokolovskis & pianist James Cheung (collectively, Ensemble Mi) w/ improvisations by Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams & Maddie Ashman. www.throughthenoise.co.uk/noisenight231

Hope someone reads all these

Sibelius / Valse triste (before concert yesterday)

Warming up with pianist Antonio Oyarzabal before our concert on Saturday #liliboulanger

Recital:
Anthony Friend, clarinet
Antonio Oyarzabal, piano

Saturday 1 March, 2pm
Manoukian Music Centre, 9 Tufton St, SW1P 3QB

Alice Mary Smith
Amy Beach
Clara Schumann
Lili Boulanger
Germaine Tailleferre
Maurice Ravel
Francis Poulenc

Link: www.oldwestminster.org.uk/ow_friends/f...

It takes a month to delete Facebook?!

Reading the news and recalling this astonishingly prescient book

Though plenty of bots on here already now

Happy new year from me and this satanic lamb (sound on)

Christmas morning thoughts

We are surely not far away from music being released with a ‘Made By A Real Artist’ ad - just as food is now sold as ‘Organic’ and things are ‘Crafted’ (meaning they’re produced by someone who cares about how good it is rather than just make money). #streaming #enshittification tinyurl.com/y5k4ahe5