Amazing to get 500 people listening to our Palestrina concert on Sunday. “Fantastisk kvalitet och perfekt balans”, wrote Heidi Korhonen-Björkman in HBL. The past two evenings we’ve toured the same programme to Hämeenlinna and Turku. Bit tired now.

Back in Finland with sun and ice, which means it’s Aurore Festival time. Such a joy to be part of this!

This evening Arte Minima Ensemble from Portugal gave a stunning performance, and tomorrow the festival concludes with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.

My short-lived new-year phase of being a felt-tip artist came to an end with this, seen here in its final resting place on a friend’s bookshelf.

I wonder what I’ll become next new year.

This is just so beautiful.

The wonderful Daniel Kidane with also-wonderful Manchester Camerata in rehearsal.

It’s been a fantastic Focus Day so far here @wigmore-hall.bsky.social So rare to get a set of events so concentrated on one composer. Looking forward to this evening’s performance!