People often ask how we manage to live together and work together in such perfect harmony… #harmony #easygoing 
Here is a giant teddy bear at a mixing desk….. You’re welcome!! 🧸🎶 Taken during the sessions for the album Sleep, Baby Sleep we produced for @classicfm with @rpoonline @angelstudiosuk . #recordingsession #teddybears 
Our version of #threelions. Come on England! 🏴 Is this the first classical version you’ve heard @therealbaddiel ?? . #itscominghome 
Happy Birthday to Igor Stravinsky, born this day 1882. “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it” ❤️ Has every teenager studying classical music gone through the ‘obsessed with The Rite of Spring’ stage or was that just us??? #stravinsky #riteofspring 
Today is the anniversary of the Magna Carta, signed on 15th June, 1215. Lord Denning described it as: “the greatest constitutional document of all time, the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot”. This is an extract from King John, the 3rd movement of our Cantata for Liberty written for the 800th anniversary. Poem by High Chesterman Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia Choir: Brighton Festival Youth Choir (For those who’ve forgotten, a choir is a group of people singing together-it used to be fun, uplifting, moving, excruciating at times but part of what makes us human and sometimes my job and privilege to conduct) #choirsmatter 
Haven’t totally given up hope yet of being able to have a holiday in Italy this summer but not holding my breath. 🇮🇹 Happy memories of filming this video in Venice in a beautiful palazzo on the Grand Canal. I still have the dress but not sure I can get into it after the winter lockdown- not that I have a concert to wear it at anytime soon anyway!! 🎶 Music by Vivaldi, his gorgeous aria: Sposa son Disprezzata. If you want to hear the whole track, link in bio, but available on all digital platforms and thanks for listening!!! #venice🇮🇹 #vivaldi 
Happy (official) Birthday to The Queen today. 🥳🎂 Seemed only fitting to musically #mashup Happy Birthday with some Queen for the occasion. 🎶 #bohemianrhapsody 
Today’s headache: You can record approx 4 songs in a session and we have 13 songs to record with the @rpoonline over 3 sessions for an album. 5 songs have 3 woodwind &4 horns; 3 songs are big band so need 3 extra saxes, 3 trumpets & 3 trombones but have no woodwind; 1 song has no woodwind or saxes but needs the tpts and tbns, then 4 songs have tutti (everything) but not the saxes. So… Who do you book for each of the 3 sessions so you aren’t spending more than you need to or leaving players hanging around for hrs unused? Also, due to COVID, if we end up in @abbeyroadstudios Studio 2 rather than Studio 1 due to availability, we can only have 25 players in the room at a time. 🤯🤯 Extra marks if you show your working. Haven’t even thought about the music yet… #recordproducer #brainfog 
Really looking forward to welcoming @collabro back into our studio this summer. Here they are at the Royal Albert Hall with James conducting - I’m sure many will recognise his rear view… #collabro #royalalberthall 
Started work on some new orchestrations for @bbcconcertorchestra to be featured next month on @bbcradio2 House Music sessions. I’ve got two fantastic songs from a brilliant Scottish band to work on. (Don’t think I’m allowed to tell you who yet!) 🎶 More next month… #orchestration