I also gave an in-person masterclass for the talented students at Notting Hill & Ealing School in London in October, and an online viola masterclass for the RIAM Strings Department Virtual Open day in November. It was so exciting to meet so many budding string players at this online event!
In spite of many cancellations, my Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective friends and I have been busy recently with several live-streamed and recorded performances. We've recorded for a future Benedetti sessions project, gave a pre-recorded performance of Beach and Price piano quintets for the Roman River Festival, recorded some Elgar, Walker and more Beach for a forthcoming Oxford Chamber Music Society concert, and revisited the Korngold Piano Quintet we played at the Wigmore Hall in September for a live-streamed concert at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, alongside some Schubert and Clara Schumann. I will also make a brief appearance in wonderful tenor Karim Sulayman's Chamber Music Pittsburgh concert later this month too (November 30th).
Playing with these wonderful musicians has made me very happy over the past few months and I'm so grateful to the Kaleidoscope gang for always being such a joy to perform and work with. Watch out for our BBC Radio 3 Kaleidoscope Broadcast on December 11th! On a more sombre note, this is the day that my dad passed away four years ago, and I always find it really hard, so it will be nice to have something positive to focus on then. He would have loved the broadcast.