When the thing you love brings about mental illness.

When I was fifteen, my mum and dad kindly let me have piano lessons. We hired a teacher. She was called Liz. She was nice. She was flexible.

We all know that we need to practice if we want to get good at something. Seems simple enough, right? But, in reality, how many of you have actually been tau...

So, your Musical Director has been nagging you, lambasting you even, with comments like “listen to your tuning”, “sort your tuning out”, or “you’re sounding ...

For the majority of you, I suspect you don’t even notice the conductor stood in front of you flapping away! But for the few of you who like to take a break f...

Conductors are so important, aren’t they? Aren’t they?! They can enthuse, and inspire; create, and craft; build and entertain. Or they can crumble people’s c...