Author Archives: Matthew Barley

Rehearsing today for The Protecting Veil, Tavener’s gigantic masterpiece for cello and string orchestra, I realised again just how much I love this piece. It is 45′ of continuous playing, […]

You can follow me now on Twitter with updates on all the goings on at the wonderful Spitalfields Festival. Last night’s concert was an amazing buzz! Reading through Mozart oboe […]

I have been invited to be Associate Artist at Spitalfields Festival, starting next Saturday June 9th with a performance/lecture called What’s Music For? I will be exploring, er, what music […]

We played the Peasant Girl programme in Bury St Edmunds last night, and got a big surprise from the venue – The Apex. None of us had ever been there […]

I’ve have always seen the Swarovski shops in airports and just thought – ‘oh, yeah, fancy shmancy coloured glass jewellery’…but, oh wow, there’s a lot more to it. At the […]