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Simon Fearn | WRITER

Simon Fearn is a final-year English Literature undergraduate at Durham University. He spends most of his time writing about the arts and occasionally sings…

PROFILE | Philip Venables | The young composer turns his hand to reinventing Bartók

By Simon Fearn Philip Venables is now considered one of the UK’s most exciting young composers after his revelatory operatic adaptation of Sarah Kane’s…

Murmuration | PREVIEW | An exhibition and concert from a mother-daughter duo

By Simon Fearn In a bar perched on the 15th floor of the St. George’s Hotel in Oxford Circus, sculptor Josie Spencer and…

The piano men | FEATURE | How Spotify playlists are bringing contemporary classical to the masses

By Simon Fearn Joep Beving, a 42-year-old Dutch composer with a bristly, pointed beard and fronds of dull blonde hair, seems born to write…

Steve Beresford | PROFILE | An interview with the virtuoso improviser

By Simon Fearn It’s a freezing November evening. Steve Beresford and I are precariously carrying a suitcase of instruments aboard a concert venue bobbing…

Ghost Variations | FEATURE | The story of Schumann’s lost Violin Concerto

By Simon Fearn March 1933. Jelly d’Arányi, great-niece of the violinist Joseph Joachim, claims to receive a message from the ghost of Robert Schumann….