FORTHCOMING
27/02/20
Oliver Soden in conversation with David Cairns
Putney Music, Dryburgh Hall, SW15, 7.45pm
30/11/19
Book chapter: "Tippett, Eliot, and Madame Sosostris"
in The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
(Edinburgh University Press, November 2019)
31/10/19
Guest Seminar: Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
Royal College of Music, Recital Hall, 6.15pm
Tickets free but required.
26/09/19
Pre-concert talk: Tippett's A Child of Our Time
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, cond. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 6pm
20/09/19
Guest Seminar: Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
Royal Academy of Music, 11.30am
RECENT EVENTS
20/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Film screening and introduction
11am, Aldeburgh Cinema
Michael Tippett: Songs of Experience, dir. Mischa Scorer
17/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Aldeburgh voices and Jesse Flowers
4pm, Orford Church
Featuring Tippett's vocal and guitar work
Programme essay by Oliver Soden
15/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Barlines by Sarah Gabriel
4pm, The Pumphouse, Aldeburgh
An hour of readings and music focussing on Michael Tippett's
time in Wormwood Scrubs prison during the Second World War
13/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Tippett: The Biography - book signing
5pm, The Red House, Aldeburgh
06/06/19
Hay Music: Film screening and talk
From 6pm, Richard Booth's Bookshop Cinema, Hay-on-Wye
Oliver Soden with Mischa Scorer, director of Poets in a Barren Age
23/05/19
Bath Festival: "Michael Tippett in Words and Music"
St Swithin's Church, Bath, 4pm
Oliver Soden in discussion with James Waters,
with a performance of Tippett’s The Heart’s Assurance by Nicholas Mulroy and Alisdair Hogarth.
07/05/19
"Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett"
Browsers Bookshop, Woodbridge, 7.30pm
In conversation with Catherine Larner
03/05/19
Penny Lecture: Michael Tippett, The Biography
Morley College, SE1, 6pm
"Oliver Soden introduces his new biography of composer Michael Tippett
with a lecture illustrated by live performances from Morley College's students and tutors."
26/04/19
Tippett & Britten: Recitals and Readings
4.30pm, The Red House, Aldeburgh
A programme of Britten and Tippett's vocal music, with Ben Vonberg-Clerk and Dylan Perez,
and with a pre-concert talk and readings by Oliver Soden
18/04/19
Michael Tippett: The Biography - publication day
17/04/19
Tippett: The Rose Lake (programme note, O. Soden)
Barbican Concert Hall, 7.30pm, BBC Symphony Orchestra
15/04/19 - 19/04/19
BBC Radio 4: Book of the Week - Michael Tippett: The Biography
Read by Oliver Soden
with Sir Derek Jacobi as Tippett
15/04/19
Michael Tippett: The Biography - book launch
Daunts Bookshop, Marylebone High Street, 6.30pm
14/04/19
"Janet Baker: In Her Own Words", BBC4, 9pm
dir. John Bridcut; assistant producer, Oliver Soden
13/04/19
Music Matters - "Michael Tippett", BBC Radio 3, 11.45am
In conversation with Tom Service
01/04/19
Article: Oliver Soden, "Michael Tippett's Secret History"
BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, pp 52-55
27/02/20
Oliver Soden in conversation with David Cairns
Putney Music, Dryburgh Hall, SW15, 7.45pm
30/11/19
Book chapter: "Tippett, Eliot, and Madame Sosostris"
in The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
(Edinburgh University Press, November 2019)
31/10/19
Guest Seminar: Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
Royal College of Music, Recital Hall, 6.15pm
Tickets free but required.
26/09/19
Pre-concert talk: Tippett's A Child of Our Time
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, cond. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 6pm
20/09/19
Guest Seminar: Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
Royal Academy of Music, 11.30am
RECENT EVENTS
20/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Film screening and introduction
11am, Aldeburgh Cinema
Michael Tippett: Songs of Experience, dir. Mischa Scorer
17/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Aldeburgh voices and Jesse Flowers
4pm, Orford Church
Featuring Tippett's vocal and guitar work
Programme essay by Oliver Soden
15/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Barlines by Sarah Gabriel
4pm, The Pumphouse, Aldeburgh
An hour of readings and music focussing on Michael Tippett's
time in Wormwood Scrubs prison during the Second World War
13/06/19
Aldeburgh Festival: Tippett: The Biography - book signing
5pm, The Red House, Aldeburgh
06/06/19
Hay Music: Film screening and talk
From 6pm, Richard Booth's Bookshop Cinema, Hay-on-Wye
Oliver Soden with Mischa Scorer, director of Poets in a Barren Age
23/05/19
Bath Festival: "Michael Tippett in Words and Music"
St Swithin's Church, Bath, 4pm
Oliver Soden in discussion with James Waters,
with a performance of Tippett’s The Heart’s Assurance by Nicholas Mulroy and Alisdair Hogarth.
07/05/19
"Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett"
Browsers Bookshop, Woodbridge, 7.30pm
In conversation with Catherine Larner
03/05/19
Penny Lecture: Michael Tippett, The Biography
Morley College, SE1, 6pm
"Oliver Soden introduces his new biography of composer Michael Tippett
with a lecture illustrated by live performances from Morley College's students and tutors."
26/04/19
Tippett & Britten: Recitals and Readings
4.30pm, The Red House, Aldeburgh
A programme of Britten and Tippett's vocal music, with Ben Vonberg-Clerk and Dylan Perez,
and with a pre-concert talk and readings by Oliver Soden
18/04/19
Michael Tippett: The Biography - publication day
17/04/19
Tippett: The Rose Lake (programme note, O. Soden)
Barbican Concert Hall, 7.30pm, BBC Symphony Orchestra
15/04/19 - 19/04/19
BBC Radio 4: Book of the Week - Michael Tippett: The Biography
Read by Oliver Soden
with Sir Derek Jacobi as Tippett
15/04/19
Michael Tippett: The Biography - book launch
Daunts Bookshop, Marylebone High Street, 6.30pm
14/04/19
"Janet Baker: In Her Own Words", BBC4, 9pm
dir. John Bridcut; assistant producer, Oliver Soden
13/04/19
Music Matters - "Michael Tippett", BBC Radio 3, 11.45am
In conversation with Tom Service
01/04/19
Article: Oliver Soden, "Michael Tippett's Secret History"
BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, pp 52-55