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HAPPY BIG BIRTHDAY, TASMIN LITTLE! Tasmin Little: the birthday girl! Photo by Paul Mitchell A violinist whose musicianship can make ...

What I've been writing this week.  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/28/why-male-domination-of-classical-music-might-end

Over at Independent Towers there's a certain pride in this piece. A few years back, when Josh Bell did his famous busking-in-the-Wash...

Tasmin Little has just learned that she's both Artist of the Week all this week on Classic FM and Artist of the Week all next week on...

It's BBC Children in Need again and Radio 3 is pitting girls against boys as their competitive star turn. So here are the girls. Singe...

* Hungarian Dances yesterday at the St James Theatre Studio was a fabulous experience. A treat, a privilege and a joy to perform with amazi...

Tasmin Little has been speaking at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education and sends these vital words about just how loudly w...

It's a bumper year for classical music and opera in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for the Diamond Jubilee. As if perhaps someon...

As you know, it's International Women's Day - a concept I'm not all that mad about, since it implies that the men get the other ...

We had a high old time on Saturday at the London premiere of Roxanna Panufnik 's Four World Seasons . It's a far-flung take on the F...

Hooray for music's powerful women!  1. JUDITH WEIR AND EMMA BELL ON  MISS FORTUNE Judith Weir 's latest full-length opera is h...

CLASSICAL MUSIC , the magazine of the music business, is offering JDCMB readers free access to its online digital edition until 31 August ...

Before I hand you over to today's Independent for my piece about Fiona Shaw and The Marriage of Figaro , I have to tell you a little abo...

Tasmin Little's Proms Plus literary talk with Anne McElvoy was broadcast in the concert interval on BBC Radio 3 yesterday, with extracts...

Stop-press news: I'm reliably informed that my novel HUNGARIAN DANCES  is to feature as one of Tasmin Little's  chosen books in the ...

Our host site was down all yesterday and there's a lot to catch up on now. (Is the John Lewis warranty system also powered by Blogger? T...

Music education in the UK is facing a shaky future due to financial cutbacks. Despite an apparently positive response from central governmen...

Everyone else is busy writing about Elgar now. His birthday isn't until next weekend, but here's conductor Sakari Oramo in The Guard...

Apparently Nigel Kennedy was heard discussing Tasmin's little excursion with Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's 'In Tune' yesterday ...

I spent part of Tuesday afternoon standing under the Waterloo railway bridge watching Tasmin Little playing Vivaldi and shouting "Give...