New website

Hi everyone. I’ve spent the last week refreshing the look of this website – I hope you like the result! The last site was starting to show its age a bit, and I think this one presents my images in a clearer and more beautiful way. Not everything transferred over …

Music Junction

My main reason for being at the London Chamber Orchestra’s concert ‘Joy’ was to capture images of young people involved in their Music Junction programme. Participants get to ‘experience live orchestral music-making at very close quarters’ by listening to, playing alongside and even occasionally directing the professionals. I know I’d have jumped …

Joy at Cadogan Hall

Delighted to get my first opportunity to photograph the London Chamber Orchestra in mid-May. In a concert on the theme of joy, up-and-coming conductor Oliver Zeffman took the orchestra through Bartók Romanian Folk Dances, Poulenc Sinfonietta and Piazzolla Libertango, while Robert Max conducted a new piece of music by composer Ollie Howell.

Mozart trolls his horn player

Here’s the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing Mozart’s Horn Concerto no 1 at Conway Hall in April. In the background they’re projecting Mozart’s handwritten copy of the score, complete with translations of the jokes he left for his horn playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. I love the fact we’re …