Month: October 2014

Every BBT award winner is offered the chance to visit Il Boscoforte, Ilaria Borletti-Buitoni’s country house in Italy, to take the opportunity to escape, either for a holiday or to work. Although I was desperate to go as soon as I discovered this at my first meeting with Susan, Debra and David back in January, it […]

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Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill spends a little of his 2014 BBT Fellowship money on kitting himself out… Does it matter what you wear on stage? Surely the important thing is what you sound like, not what you look like? I used to be amazed and slightly perturbed by the number of comments I received after […]

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“My new Recorder Concerto which I especially composed for Erik Bosgraaf has become one of my most personal and biographical works and has an enormous emotional impact.” Willem Jeths

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