Chorale Conversations: Jason Barry-Smith

You’re going to be performing Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams.  Tell us a bit about what this piece means to you. The Five Mystical Songs and I have a long history.  One of my early singing teachers, the…

Chorale Conversations: John Coulton

What led to you choosing the trumpet as your instrument? When I was at primary school in the 1980s my older sisters were playing Brass instruments in the school band program (Trumpet and Trombone to be exact) so I was…

Chorale Conversations: John Coulton

As a performing artist, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? As a professional musician the post COVID-19 landscape has been bleak to say the least. I’ve been more fortunate than some with my teaching work to fall…