Welcome to May’s instalment of my monthly blog! Needless to say, it’s been another fairly strange month, although probably like most folks, I’ve actually started to get quite used to the new ways of doing things… I’ve been spending most of my working day split between giving online/remote lessons to some of my students, revising/editing some of my teaching material, and getting in some practice time of my own. Obviously I’m looking forward to getting back out and about, but I have actually been quite enjoying the work I’ve been able to do from home for the time being!

February had a few routine bits on, but the highlight was a holiday to New York where my wife and I were celebrating 10 years together! There were a few musical highlights about the trip (which I’ll get to in a bit!), but before that, here’s some of the other things I’ve been up to this month…

Welcome back to the first instalment of my monthly blog for 2020! I’ve been doing these monthly updates for coming on 2 years now, so I just thought I’d start the new year by mentioning why I do all this! There are a couple of reasons really, which I’ll touch on below…