• Media work,  Music & Memory

    Why Music? Memory and Melody

    Dear Reader, From 25th- 27th September I had the honour of being one of Radio 3’s resident experts for their Why Music? Weekend. What a fantastic event it was, held in London’s Wellcome Collection. Alongside Philip Ball (author of The Music Instinct) I contributed to a number of the live programmes including Why Music? Question Time and Why Music? Round Up both presented by Tom Service. A few months ago a fantastic Radio 3 producer called David Papp asked me if I would design a concert for the weekend with the support of principle players from Aurora Orchestra The aim of the concert was to explore why music is so powerful in…