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Sam Taylor | WRITER

Sam Taylor is a London-based arts journalist who recently graduated with an English degree from UCL. He writes film and music reviews for the Financial Times,…

L’Orfeo | PREVIEW | A production of Monteverdi’s opera with singer-operated puppets and masks

By Sam Taylor Death is a great leveller – unless you’re dealing with puppets. ‘Puppets die better than anybody else’, explains stage director Thomas…

Dani Howard | PROFILE | The basketball player-turned-composer on her modern musical retelling of Robin Hood

By Sam Taylor ‘I was winging it,’ admits Dani Howard, reflecting on her first full-length opera. Most of the 25 year-old composer’s music lasts less…

Hugo Ticciati | PROFILE | The St Paul’s alumnus who set up a cross-arts ensemble and played violin to Himalayan monks

By Sam Taylor At 19 Hugo Ticciati left England and became ‘Hugo the hermit’, hidden away in the isolated forest fringes of Stockholm. Until…

The Nutcracker and I by Alexandra Dariescu | PREVIEW | A new, multimedia take on the Christmas classic

By Sam Taylor In 2009, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sarah Kaufman described The Nutcracker as a Christmas ‘chore’ that ‘casts its long shadow over the…

Héloïse Werner | PROFILE | soprano and founder of The Hermes Experiment

By Sam Taylor At 18 and against her teachers’ advice, soprano Héloïse Werner deferred her medicine degree to cross the Channel and study Music…

National Youth Orchestra | REVIEW | The NYO’s annnual Prom delivered adventurous modern music

Royal Albert Hall, London By Sam Taylor Delivering a programme of intense, adventurous modern music, the National Youth Orchestra’s annual Proms performance was one…

Nina and I | REVIEW | A one-woman show about Nina Simone

Young Vic, London By Sam Taylor Josette Bushell-Mingo’s one-woman show invokes the radical spirit of Nina Simone’s music and activism to produce powerful, tense…

From Arctic glaciers to an Aberdeen bus | FEATURE | The world’s wackiest music venues

Volcanoes? Glaciers? Multinational furnishings giants? Sam Taylor takes us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the most outlandish venues to have embraced music-making. 1….