LECTURES

Robert gives regular pre-concert talks at Conway Hall, and has also given pre-concert talks at St John’s Smith Square. He lectures regularly to U3A and other groups, and has given illustrated lectures and lectures series for The Course, at the Mayfair Women’s Club, and for Divas and Scholars’ study days at Cadogan Hall.

 

Recent lectures have included:

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• Seemed as if sent straight from God: Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
   

• From accompanied sonata to three independent parts: A brief history of the piano trio
   

• Inventing French opera: Politics, power and poetry in the time of King Louis XIV
   

• Towards the creation of modern opera: Mozart and his operas